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viscousmemories
09-21-2004, 05:01 AM
I just downloaded and installed it, and I'm writing this post in it. I haven't committed to it yet, but I'm definitely leaning in that direction. Head over there (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/) and get you some.

JoeP
09-21-2004, 01:39 PM
Does it have mouse gestures (like Opera and Maxthon)? Does it have popup and content filtering? Does it do multiple tabbed windows (like Opera and Maxthon)?

If it does, and is not too much of a resource hog, I'll try it

Scotty
09-21-2004, 02:17 PM
You can add features as you like with Firefox, so if somebody makes mouse gestures or tabbed browsing add-ins, you can just put in what you want, thus leaving the browser small and fast.

You have to go see what is available to add to it.

-Scott

viscousmemories
09-21-2004, 05:28 PM
Does it have mouse gestures (like Opera and Maxthon)? Does it have popup and content filtering? Does it do multiple tabbed windows (like Opera and Maxthon)?

If it does, and is not too much of a resource hog, I'll try it
Yup, as Scotty said it's all about "extensions". It has some features like pop-up blocking, a find bar (do ctrl-f and get a find bar at the bottom of the screen instead of a find pop-up), and Google search built in. I've added:

Adblock - to block ads
Image Zoom - to zoom on images
Tabbrowser Preferences - to extend tab functionality quite a bit. For example to configure it - as I have - to open external links in a tab.
Mouse Gestures
BugMeNot - to right click on a membername field at Websites that require free registration and have it filled in automatically.
Context Highlight - lets you highlight selected text from the right click menu
Copy plain text - will let you copy text from a webpage in plain text

That's it so far, but there are many other extensions too. :)

Godless Dave
09-21-2004, 06:10 PM
I'm pretty sure tabbed browsing is built in, but the extension TabBrowser Preferences gives you more options. Mouse gestures are available with an extension. Previous versions of Firefox and Firebird had these features as well.

Shake
09-21-2004, 07:06 PM
"Preview Release"? What do they mean by that? I'm running the 0.9.1 version (IIRC) currently. Should I wait to upgrade, or do you think it's safe to do so now?

Also, IIRC, I have to uninstall the previous version and then install the new software right?

Thanks in advance.

viscousmemories
09-21-2004, 08:08 PM
I don't think you have to uninstall and reinstall, Shake. I didn't, anyway. I just installed this right on top of 0.9.3 (which is the latest in the 0.9 lineup). I'm pretty sure this 1.0 preview release is basically a beta of 1.0 but one they're so confident about (as a result of all the 0.9's leading up to it) that they don't wanna call it a beta. That's just a guess, though.

viscousmemories
09-21-2004, 08:25 PM
Another cool feature I just noticed is the search field in the toolbar that lets you search Google, dictionary.com, amazon, ebay or Yahoo! (as well as add engines). Cool stuff.

dave_a
09-21-2004, 08:48 PM
apparently BugMeNot isn't compatible with 1.0. Shame, that. The plug in I mean, not the service itself.

JoeP
09-21-2004, 08:50 PM
Does it have maxthon's ability to customise quick searches? Ie you type a single letter plus search words and it passes them to the search engine of your choice. As well the obvious (and default) g for google, I have d for dictionary.com, i for imdb and w for wikipedia.

OKOK, maybe I'll try it anyway.

viscousmemories
09-21-2004, 08:56 PM
apparently BugMeNot isn't compatible with 1.0. Shame, that. The plug in I mean, not the service itself.
That's odd. I installed the plug-in last night and it seems to work fine.

viscousmemories
09-21-2004, 08:57 PM
Does it have maxthon's ability to customise quick searches? Ie you type a single letter plus search words and it passes them to the search engine of your choice. As well the obvious (and default) g for google, I have d for dictionary.com, i for imdb and w for wikipedia.

OKOK, maybe I'll try it anyway.
oooo... that sounds really cool. I don't know if it has that, but I'll look for it. Let me know if you find out if it does it or if you find an extension for it.

dave_a
09-21-2004, 09:19 PM
apparently BugMeNot isn't compatible with 1.0. Shame, that. The plug in I mean, not the service itself.
That's odd. I installed the plug-in last night and it seems to work fine.

Yeah, I just got it to work for me also. What happened was I had .3 installed with .9x. When I upgraded to 1.0 it said the BugMeNot plugin was not compatible with 1.0. I clicked on "update" and it installed what was supposed to be the latest version, but then errored and said .3 not compatible. So, I just downloaded it manually from the web (.6) and it works.

viscousmemories
09-21-2004, 09:50 PM
Ohhh... right, right. I had to go through that same thing. I'd already forgotten. :doh:

Godless Dave
09-23-2004, 01:36 PM
1.0 has the same problem as .9x - some themes do not work correctly with Mac OS X, at least on my Mac. The scroll bars are not visible in the Pinball theme. Previously I had the same problem with Pinball and Orbitz themes. So for now I'm stuck with the default theme, since there are only four themes available so far and too of them are variations of Doodle. I'm not a Doodle kind of guy.

Corona688
09-24-2004, 03:23 AM
1.0's giving me stability problems... pop windows sometimes crash instead of being blocked, it seems.

viscousmemories
09-24-2004, 03:31 AM
1.0's giving me stability problems... pop windows sometimes crash instead of being blocked, it seems.
Hmm. Strange.

I recommend you try to limit your perusal of porn sites until this is resolved. :P

Seriously, though, I haven't had any crashing problems at all on Win 2k. What OS?

Godless Dave
09-24-2004, 01:07 PM
It turns out OS X scrollbars are a thorn in the side of every Firefox theme developer and that's why there are so few (three, including the default) that work with OS X. I got a nice reply from the developers of the Pinball theme explaining this.

I do almost all my web surfing on my PC anyway so it shouldn't bother me too much. But on the rare occasions I do want to browse on my Mac (to download software or GarageBand loops mostly) I will be confronted with the default Firefox theme in all it's colorful ugliness.

Corona688
09-24-2004, 05:05 PM
I recommend you try to limit your perusal of porn sites until this is resolved. :P

Seriously, though, I haven't had any crashing problems at all on Win 2k. What OS? linux. My OS is actually native 64-bit amd64, but it can also run 32-bit apps interchangably, so I'm guessing the problem extends to ordinary vanilla x86 boxes as well. I've let it automail an event report whenever it crashes on a different site, and with all the people using firefox, I'm sure they'll get all the info they need to fix it shortly. I hope.

viscousmemories
09-24-2004, 05:18 PM
I hope so too. I still haven't crashed yet but I'd obviously prefer to have known stability.

Socratoad
09-24-2004, 10:01 PM
I have win98se on my machine, plus the latest Mandrake10 Linux system. Although I use firefire from time to time I just cannot warm to it. I use the Maxxon browser and MYie2 before it. This is not, for me a claim that my choice is better or worse but rather having found a browser that , at least for the foreseeable future has every bell and whistle I need or want. Oh yes from time to time I try out new versions of Opera.

And what pray tell is the above gibberish about? Nothing really, except to say that with my present security firewalls and other security programs all works very smoothly.

viscousmemories
09-26-2004, 05:08 PM
I just found the bbcode extension (https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=128&vid=575), which sealed the deal for me. I'll never leave Firefox now that I can format my posts with right-click options. Never. :)

JoeP
09-26-2004, 06:14 PM
I have win98se on my machine, plus the latest Mandrake10 Linux system. Although I use firefire from time to time I just cannot warm to it. I use the Maxxon browser and MYie2 before it. This is not, for me a claim that my choice is better or worse but rather having found a browser that , at least for the foreseeable future has every bell and whistle I need or want. Oh yes from time to time I try out new versions of Opera.

And what pray tell is the above gibberish about? Nothing really, except to say that with my present security firewalls and other security programs all works very smoothly.
I used Opera 5 and then 6 happily. Opera 7, though, was just too much work - they released it without all the features and the response to everything was "install the next release". I'm a techie but I get fed up with having to apply updates so often. I'll give Firefox a try one day, but will probably carry on as you describe.

livius drusus
09-30-2004, 10:07 PM
I got Firefox over the weekend and although I like many of the cool features (tabbed browsing, the dictionary/wiki/amazon search, other stuff), I can barely stand the way it loads threads. It hovers on the top post of the page for a year and then finally snaps to the most recent. Long threads take so long to load I can barely believe I'm on high speed.

Is anyone else noticing this?

viscousmemories
09-30-2004, 10:38 PM
I notice it too, and I'm gonna look into it.

Another thing I noticed ;) is that when you click a smilie it always gets inserted at the bottom of a post instead of wherever your cursor is. I've just uploaded a patch from Jelsoft that's supposed to fix that. Testing now.

Grrr. Nope. Still broken.

Corona688
10-01-2004, 03:45 AM
I notice it too, and I'm gonna look into it.

Another thing I noticed ;) is that when you click a smilie it always gets inserted at the bottom of a post instead of wherever your cursor is. I've just uploaded a patch from Jelsoft that's supposed to fix that. Testing now.

Grrr. Nope. Still broken. I never noticed that anybody had ever fixed that, on any browser, at all, ever. :eek:

viscousmemories
10-01-2004, 06:26 PM
I notice it too, and I'm gonna look into it.

Another thing I noticed ;) is that when you click a smilie it always gets inserted at the bottom of a post instead of wherever your cursor is. I've just uploaded a patch from Jelsoft that's supposed to fix that. Testing now.

Grrr. Nope. Still broken. I never noticed that anybody had ever fixed that, on any browser, at all, ever. :eek:
Here's (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112990) the relevant thread over at Jelsoft's site. The fix apparently works in 3.0.0 and 3.0.3, yet we're using 3.0.1 (though of course heavily hacked) and it doesn't seem to be working.

viscousmemories
10-01-2004, 06:30 PM
I got Firefox over the weekend and although I like many of the cool features (tabbed browsing, the dictionary/wiki/amazon search, other stuff), I can barely stand the way it loads threads. It hovers on the top post of the page for a year and then finally snaps to the most recent. Long threads take so long to load I can barely believe I'm on high speed.

Is anyone else noticing this?
Based on my own independent testing it seems that the problem isn't that Firefox renders the threads slower than IE, it's just that IE does it in the background while presenting a blank page, and Firefox shows you the thread as it's loading. Or so it seems to me, anyway.

BTW another fantastic feature of Firefox that I found this week is Sage (http://sage.mozdev.org/), the integrated RSS aggregator. It's nice to have a column on the left side of my browser window in which I can instantly see the latest posts in all the fora I frequent that have RSS feeds. Like the Freethought Forum (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/external.php), for example. :)

Now if I could just figure out how to get our RSS feed to update more frequently, I'd be much happier...

Shake
10-15-2004, 08:15 PM
Sorry. Just wanted to say thanks for answering my question. I've had 1.0 PR up and running for a few weeks now with no problems!


Kick ass!

Godless Dave
10-15-2004, 08:17 PM
BTW another fantastic feature of Firefox that I found this week is Sage (http://sage.mozdev.org/), the integrated RSS aggregator. It's nice to have a column on the left side of my browser window in which I can instantly see the latest posts in all the fora I frequent that have RSS feeds.
Or even blogs with RSS feeds, like www.truthspeaker.org/truth.xml (http://www.truthspeaker.org/truth.xml) Just as an example.</pimp>

dave_a
10-16-2004, 04:26 PM
hmmm, sage doesn't find any RSS feed on FF for me :(

viscousmemories
10-16-2004, 07:29 PM
hmmm, sage doesn't find any RSS feed on FF for me :(
You have to point it to http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/external.php

dave_a
10-16-2004, 07:54 PM
hmmm, sage doesn't find any RSS feed on FF for me :(
You have to point it to http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/external.php

I get some kind of xml parse error, nothing more specific as to the problem

viscousmemories
10-16-2004, 08:14 PM
I get some kind of xml parse error, nothing more specific as to the problem
Huh. Well I don't know why that would be. It works on my desktop with no problem, and I just installed it on my laptop with no problem either. :?

Godless Dave
10-19-2004, 04:33 PM
I get some kind of xml parse error, nothing more specific as to the problem
That usually means Sage doesn't recognize the page it's been sent to as an RSS feed. Do you have the latest update of Sage? Did you reinstall it after upgrading to Firefox 1.0PR? Are you sure you gave it the right URL?

FF's RSS feed works fine on Sage for me.

dave_a
10-19-2004, 05:26 PM
I get some kind of xml parse error, nothing more specific as to the problem
That usually means Sage doesn't recognize the page it's been sent to as an RSS feed. Do you have the latest update of Sage? Did you reinstall it after upgrading to Firefox 1.0PR? Are you sure you gave it the right URL?

FF's RSS feed works fine on Sage for me.

There is clearly something wrong with my installation. I have the latest version and didn't install it until after the upgrade to 1.0. The reason I say there is something wrong with it is becase Sage saves bookmarks and when I click most, but not all of those bookmarks I get the actual code rather than a formatted page. If I use the Sage utility where it has the refresh and search functions on the page it will buld links and clicking those links works fine.

dave_a
10-19-2004, 05:31 PM
Well, I uninstalled and reinstalled and it behaves the same.

When I point the browser to the URL VM gave I get a page that looks like this:

-
<rss version="0.91">
-
<channel>
<title>Freethought Forum</title>
<link>http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum</link>
-
<description>
The F

Socratoad
10-19-2004, 05:34 PM
Sage? :?

viscousmemories
10-19-2004, 05:54 PM
If I use the Sage utility where it has the refresh and search functions on the page it will buld links and clicking those links works fine.
That's how Sage works, dantonac. You can't just go to the bookmark using your browser directly or you'll see the actual XML (the equivalent of looking at the source of a web page). Sage will translate that XML into web pages but you have to use the links in the Sage bar on the left.

viscousmemories
10-19-2004, 06:21 PM
Sage? :?
Sage is an RSS aggregator extension for Firefox. Many websites provide "rss feeds" for their content. For example a news site might provide a feed of the days headlines, or a forum (such as this) a feed consisting of the titles of the latest new threads. Sage provides a column on the left-hand side of your browser that shows a list of all the feeds you have configured, and when you click on each feed name it updates the info from the host website.

All vBulletin 3.0+ forums have this functionality by default. Hence you can configure Sage to deliver the latest new thread titles from the FF, IIDB, or any other vBulletin 3.0+ forum. It's a very convenient way to keep track of new threads on multiple forums without having to surf to each forum, log in, search for new threads, etc. I would personally get more value out of it if it worked for new posts instead of threads, but c'est la vie. That's the default action.

dave_a
10-19-2004, 06:30 PM
If I use the Sage utility where it has the refresh and search functions on the page it will buld links and clicking those links works fine.
That's how Sage works, dantonac. You can't just go to the bookmark using your browser directly or you'll see the actual XML (the equivalent of looking at the source of a web page). Sage will translate that XML into web pages but you have to use the links in the Sage bar on the left.

I believe you, but have to question why Sage builds bookmarks for the sites then since using those bookmarks produces just the XML code.

Anyway, when on FF regardless of whether I go the the external link or the normal link when I use the Sage bar to search for feeds it doesn't find any. If I put the URL into the Sage bar directly it says Error:XML Parse Error and nothing else.

Not a big deal, it's not like you have to help me fix it, I just don't understand what could be wrong since it's a brainless install and it works for others.

Godless Dave
10-19-2004, 06:36 PM
Check the options for Sage to tell it what Bookmarks folder to use and also where to render the RSS feed. When I reinstalled it for 1.0PR it didn't list topics by default.

Socratoad
10-19-2004, 06:43 PM
Sage? :?
Sage is an RSS aggregator extension for Firefox. Many websites provide "rss feeds" for their content. For example a news site might provide a feed of the days headlines, or a forum (such as this) a feed consisting of the titles of the latest new threads. Sage provides a column on the left-hand side of your browser that shows a list of all the feeds you have configured, and when you click on each feed name it updates the info from the host website.

All vBulletin 3.0+ forums have this functionality by default. Hence you can configure Sage to deliver the latest new thread titles from the FF, IIDB, or any other vBulletin 3.0+ forum. It's a very convenient way to keep track of new threads on multiple forums without having to surf to each forum, log in, search for new threads, etc. I would personally get more value out of it if it worked for new posts instead of threads, but c'est la vie. That's the default action.

Thanks :wave: Sounds like something I better check out. Being a Maxthon user the only sage I had heard of was strategic air guidance something or other, being an old flyboy and all. Oh yes, sage as a poultry seasoning :P

But seriously I better check this out, Firefox may yet convince me to desert my favourite browser

viscousmemories
10-19-2004, 06:44 PM
If I use the Sage utility where it has the refresh and search functions on the page it will buld links and clicking those links works fine.
That's how Sage works, dantonac. You can't just go to the bookmark using your browser directly or you'll see the actual XML (the equivalent of looking at the source of a web page). Sage will translate that XML into web pages but you have to use the links in the Sage bar on the left.

I believe you, but have to question why Sage builds bookmarks for the sites then since using those bookmarks produces just the XML code.

Anyway, when on FF regardless of whether I go the the external link or the normal link when I use the Sage bar to search for feeds it doesn't find any. If I put the URL into the Sage bar directly it says Error:XML Parse Error and nothing else.

Not a big deal, it's not like you have to help me fix it, I just don't understand what could be wrong since it's a brainless install and it works for others.

I don't mind trying to help, and sorry if I came off sounding curt in my last reply because I didn't mean to. I just thought you might not understand how RSS aggregators work. To be honest I'm not sure why it creates bookmarks that don't work like normal bookmarks. I agree that it is counterintuitive.

I'm not sure what you mean about the putting an address into the "Sage bar" directly. Are you referring to the feed search bar? Because I think that only searches for known feeds that are registered somewhere. The only way to see the FF feed (that I'm aware of) is to use Options --> Manage Feed List --> New Bookmark to configure a bookmark to the FF's external.php file, then click on the new link that's created in the left hand menu to see the feed.

viscousmemories
10-19-2004, 06:47 PM
Thanks :wave: Sounds like something I better check out. Being a Maxthon user the only sage I had heard of was strategic air guidance something or other, being an old flyboy and all. Oh yes, sage as a poultry seasoning :P

But seriously I better check this out, Firefox may yet convince me to desert my favourite browser
Glad to be of help, Socratoad. :)

You may want to PM JoeP for his opinion of Firefox or wait to see if he comments here. He's a longtime Maxthon user who recently gave Firefox a trial run, so he could probably offer a better contrast than I could.

dave_a
10-19-2004, 07:08 PM
The only way to see the FF feed (that I'm aware of) is to use Options --> Manage Feed List --> New Bookmark to configure a bookmark to the FF's external.php file, then click on the new link that's created in the left hand menu to see the feed.

Ah, OK that works. Other sites such as livejournal sites I just go to the site and hit the search thing and it finds and lists the feed.

Following the above instructions it works fine. Thanks! :bow:

Socratoad
10-19-2004, 07:10 PM
I have win98se on my machine, plus the latest Mandrake10 Linux system. Although I use firefire from time to time I just cannot warm to it. I use the Maxxon browser and MYie2 before it. This is not, for me a claim that my choice is better or worse but rather having found a browser that , at least for the foreseeable future has every bell and whistle I need or want. Oh yes from time to time I try out new versions of Opera.

And what pray tell is the above gibberish about? Nothing really, except to say that with my present security firewalls and other security programs all works very smoothly.
I used Opera 5 and then 6 happily. Opera 7, though, was just too much work - they released it without all the features and the response to everything was "install the next release". I'm a techie but I get fed up with having to apply updates so often. I'll give Firefox a try one day, but will probably carry on as you describe.

Geez Joe , this getting old is a bitch (slow typing). I just sent you a PM as per advice, only to come back here to read your post, plus new onnes have been posted since :peek:

PS: I too had the same experience as you with Opera. Too bad as I really want Opera to thrive.

viscousmemories
10-19-2004, 09:18 PM
Following the above instructions it works fine. Thanks! :bow:
Cool. Glad to be of help. :)

JoeP
10-19-2004, 09:46 PM
Thanks :wave: Sounds like something I better check out. Being a Maxthon user the only sage I had heard of was strategic air guidance something or other, being an old flyboy and all. Oh yes, sage as a poultry seasoning :P

But seriously I better check this out, Firefox may yet convince me to desert my favourite browser
Glad to be of help, Socratoad. :)

You may want to PM JoeP for his opinion of Firefox or wait to see if he comments here. He's a longtime Maxthon user who recently gave Firefox a trial run, so he could probably offer a better contrast than I could.
Lies! Lies!
I have never used Maxthon. I have never given Firefox a trial. I don't even know her (I did not have a trial relationship with that software :innocent: ).

As you :toad: know by now, I am a long-time and still occasional Opera user. I may have given the impression that I use Maxthon, but in fact I use myIE2, the former version. I haven't installed Maxthon yet; I don't like to upgrade software too often. Even windows updates for security only piss me off; I'm sure one of the recent updates has mucked up my ability to redial if my line drops.

I have considered putting Firefox on trial. When I do, I'll be sure to report here.

viscousmemories
10-20-2004, 09:08 AM
Huh. That's really bizarre, Joe. Where the hell did I get all these incorrect notions? :?

JoeP
10-20-2004, 12:46 PM
Beats me. (Or is that Livius? :spank: )

Goliath
10-21-2004, 12:12 AM
I've tried Firefox v. 1.0 PR, and I think it's mostly worthless. Whenever I try to view any type of webpage other than .htm or .html (eg .php...there's another example that I can't think of right now), Firefox won't run it. It'll essentially say "Sorry, I'm a stupid fucking program, and I have no clue what-so-fucking-ever what to do with this webpage!"

So, I promptly uninstalled it. I'll stick with IE until something better comes around.

livius drusus
10-21-2004, 04:33 AM
Um... FF is a php site and I have no problems viewing it in Firefox. :eh?:

dave_a
10-21-2004, 06:09 AM
I've tried Firefox v. 1.0 PR, and I think it's mostly worthless. Whenever I try to view any type of webpage other than .htm or .html (eg .php...there's another example that I can't think of right now), Firefox won't run it. It'll essentially say "Sorry, I'm a stupid fucking program, and I have no clue what-so-fucking-ever what to do with this webpage!"

So, I promptly uninstalled it. I'll stick with IE until something better comes around.

I don't have that problem. Not sure what's going on there. With most things if Firefox can't view it, it's because a plugin is needed (like quicktime) and it automatically suggests what I ought to download.

Megatron
10-21-2004, 08:17 AM
Um... FF is a php site and I have no problems viewing it in Firefox. :eh?:
Yeah, most message boards in general are php, and I haven't had any problems with Firefox on any of them... (using it as we speak, actually.)

Godless Dave
10-21-2004, 01:05 PM
Um... FF is a php site and I have no problems viewing it in Firefox. :eh?:
Me neither.

Godless Dave
10-21-2004, 01:05 PM
Um... FF is a php site and I have no problems viewing it in Firefox. :eh?:
Me neither. Did you install the latest stable release, or one of the nightly builds?

livius drusus
10-21-2004, 01:11 PM
I've got 1.0 PR, I believe, the same as Goliath.

Godless Dave
10-21-2004, 01:17 PM
Actually my question was for Goliath. Sorry for the misunderstanding. I have Firefox 1.0PR and it has no problems with .php or any other web files.

Goliath
10-21-2004, 03:09 PM
I had Firefox 1.0 PR, and it couldn't display this board. At all. Strange that it's working for you guys...

:chin:

Scotty
10-21-2004, 04:29 PM
Maybe firewall software is not letting that program do anything?

I wouldn't put it past microsquish to screw with it that way. I would suspect something on your machine is keeping it from working properly, or it didn't install properly the first time.

-Scott

dave_a
10-23-2004, 08:09 PM
I am liking the dictionary plugin (https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=302&vid=908) .

Highlight a word on a page and right click. The context then has "define: word" as an option. In the options you can choose from a range of dictionary servers to use, some of them will suggest alternate spellings if the word is misspelt. I am forever copying words from pages and then typing define:<paste word from clipboard> to see the definition of a word, this is just way easier.

I am also liking linkification (https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=190&vid=869)

This one simply wraps url tags around plain text that is a url. Don't you hate it when someone types a URL in plain text and then you have to cut and paste it into the address bar? Now these are automatically presented as clickable links.

Editted to add another I like close tab with double click (https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=18&vid=398) This one is for exceptionally lazy people like myself who find right clicking and then selecting from a context and left clicking to be too much work. Just double click on any tabbed page and it closes. Sweet

viscousmemories
10-23-2004, 11:23 PM
I love the dictionary plugin and the close tab with double click, but I got fucked by the latter when I was working on a big post and switching between tabs to get links, and (because of the stupid laptop trackpad) accidentally closed the tab that held the post I was working on. :madrant:

dave_a
10-24-2004, 12:02 AM
I love the dictionary plugin and the close tab with double click, but I got fucked by the latter when I was working on a big post and switching between tabs to get links, and (because of the stupid laptop trackpad) accidentally closed the tab that held the post I was working on. :madrant:

Oh I can definitely see that happening. I do my best to avoid the touch pad thingies.

JoeP
10-24-2004, 09:38 PM
I love the dictionary plugin and the close tab with double click, but I got fucked by the latter when I was working on a big post and switching between tabs to get links, and (because of the stupid laptop trackpad) accidentally closed the tab that held the post I was working on. :madrant:
Does firefox have a 'reopen last (accidentally) closed tab' feature? I've used this in myie plenty of times!

Does your interest in firefox have anything to do with its useful abbreviation FF?

Corona688
10-24-2004, 11:33 PM
Does firefox have a 'reopen last (accidentally) closed tab' feature? I've used this in myie plenty of times! It looks like someone was thinking the same thing, 'cause there's a firefox extension just for that: Reopen-Last-Tab Extension (http://mozilla.dorando.at/readme.html). I'm gonna install that when I get home!

viscousmemories
10-25-2004, 12:32 AM
It didn't five minutes ago, Joe, but it does now. Thanks Corona. :)

Corona688
10-25-2004, 12:47 AM
Blimey, it works! In the right-click menu there's now a 'undo close tab' option that does what it says. Woot.

dave_a
10-25-2004, 02:59 AM
Blimey, it works! In the right-click menu there's now a 'undo close tab' option that does what it says. Woot.

I swear Firefox is such the bomb. I forget who turned me on to it, but it was someone here, possibly Farren? I forget who it is that is always talking smack about Microsoft, but in any event thanks. I love this browser *heads off to get that undo close extension thingy*

Scotty
10-25-2004, 03:03 AM
Blimey, it works! In the right-click menu there's now a 'undo close tab' option that does what it says. Woot.

I swear Firefox is such the bomb. I forget who turned me on to it, but it was someone here, possibly Farren? I forget who it is that is always talking smack about Microsoft, but in any event thanks. I love this browser *heads off to get that undo close extension thingy*

I still hate MicroSquish, does that count?

-Scott

dave_a
10-25-2004, 03:13 AM
Blimey, it works! In the right-click menu there's now a 'undo close tab' option that does what it says. Woot.

I swear Firefox is such the bomb. I forget who turned me on to it, but it was someone here, possibly Farren? I forget who it is that is always talking smack about Microsoft, but in any event thanks. I love this browser *heads off to get that undo close extension thingy*

I still hate MicroSquish, does that count?

-Scott

Damn, I knew I was getting that wrong. Thanks Scotty for showing me the error of my ways. :bow: