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Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.5

equalsabracket said:
Is anybody else having the problem of having a small light-yellow box appearing next to the cursor at random moments? I can't catch a screenshot of it unfortunately, but it's annoying that it keeps happening all the time.
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Yes, and it's actually starting to become very annoying. I've searched everywhere for any information on what this is but cannot find anything. It started with 3.5 - no new add-ons, etc.

Update: I tested disabling add-ons one by one and it turned out to be Google Toolbar. I uninstalled and yellow box disappeared. Unfortunate, as I really like Google Toolbar. May have to live with this annoying UI glitch...
 
Until Safari gets a system that utilizes tags and comes close to replicating the Awesome Bar, switching is not even a thought in my head. Some Firefox extensions are almost indispensable to me as well (ScrapBook, Linkification, Numbered Tabs, Undo Closed Tab Button, TagSifter), but I could work around losing them for a browser that is dramatically superior to Firefox. But there is no replacing the tags and location bar, especially now that it is infinitely configurable.

I like Safari 4 and I use it for some things, like I will keep it open on one monitor to keep an eye on Facebook and news sites will work in Firefox on another monitor, but it just doesn't offer enough to me entice me into making it the default browser. To each his own, of course. We all want something different from our browser and personal preference will always trump load times and ACID3 tests.
 
ThunderLounge said:
Unfortunately for me, with enough tabs open to fill the tab bar, it is causing the tabs to vibrate back and forth pretty rapidly. :(

Looks like I'll have to find another alternative.
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I had to switch back to the default theme to fix this, which I wasn't thrilled about, but now I am getting used to. It really isn't too awful. I think I may try Dark Angel's hint and remove the plus tab button and see if that fixes the vibrating issue.
 
jive turkey said:
To each his own, of course. We all want something different from our browser and personal preference will always trump load times and ACID3 tests.
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me too, FF just "feels" better to me. No real scientific data to support it and that is all that matters
 
FF has one plug in that I use. But I'd rather use Safari. It looks better, feels smoother, and I can run around in it no problem. FF doesn't make me feel that way.
 
For those of you complaining about the look try the Camifox theme.
 

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Anyone know how to turn off/disable underlined links in 3.5? Or how to get rid of that annoying outline that appears around the link once you've clicked on it? There doesn't appear to be anything in preferences, so it's obviously not an option. :( Underline links and outline boxes are just so...Windoze. Yuck! :p

If there isn't an app or an add-on that would do it, are there any scripting gurus out there who could rustle up a script to take care of this extremely annoying problem? I'm sure a hell of a lot of people would thank you for it. :rolleyes:
 
ThunderLounge said:
Unfortunately for me, with enough tabs open to fill the tab bar, it is causing the tabs to vibrate back and forth pretty rapidly. :(

Looks like I'll have to find another alternative.
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If you were using one of the GrApple themes, this problem has been fixed in the latest update. :)
 
shoosh said:
Anyone know how to turn off/disable underlined links in 3.5? Or how to get rid of that annoying outline that appears around the link once you've clicked on it?
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to remove underline links, you will need to use greasemonkey.

to remove the border around clicked links. open your browser, type "about:config" into urlbar and press enter.

find the entry "browser.display.focus_ring_width" and double click it, change its value to "0"
 

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Hi dear friends,

First out was Opera, and then WebKit (which Safari and some other web browsers are based on), to pass the Acid3 test.

I Should Firefox wait with a release till it gets better Acid3 score, query Selector All support etc? Will Microsoft ever come close to catching up?

Thanks
 
Does someone know a way to set Firefox's font rendering to be exactly the same as Safari/Mac OS X?

Firefox is a pretty nice browser, and I would like to try it but the font rendering keeps me on Safari.

Edit: there is one more thing that bugs me alot:
jq5y


This is not done in a Mac application if you ask me. This looks like friggin' Windows 95. :confused:
 
luisemogan said:
Hi dear friends,

First out was Opera, and then WebKit (which Safari and some other web browsers are based on), to pass the Acid3 test.

I Should Firefox wait with a release till it gets better Acid3 score, query Selector All support etc? Will Microsoft ever come close to catching up?

Thanks
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Hi dear friend

go read something about acid3 in depth and figure out firefox does just as good as safari, if not better in standard support.

if a number on a screen is dealbreaker for you, please do stick to whatever browser you are happy with.

Thanks
G-Force said:
Does someone know a way to set Firefox's font rendering to be exactly the same as Safari/Mac OS X?

Firefox is a pretty nice browser, and I would like to try it but the font rendering keeps me on Safari.

Edit: there is one more thing that bugs me alot:
jq5y


This is not done in a Mac application if you ask me. This looks like friggin' Windows 95. :confused:
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no, if its dealbreaker for you, stick with safari.

Font rendering is not an option that can be easily changed. It might involve projects outside firefox.

widget are mostly aqua now, there is occasionally looks of old fashion. I think it worth a bug report.
 
Regarding the apparent "slow" launch time in Firefox. I just went through my about:config preferences (I actually opened the prefs.js file to make it easier) and deleted all entries related to extensions that I no longer use. I probably cut the file size in half, and now Firefox opens up lightning fast. For those of you having problems with several icon bounces before Firefox is ready to use, you may want to clean out the prefs file. When you uninstall extensions they leave all the preferences behind, and Firefox still reads them all upon launch, it seems. Deleting the preferences of removed extensions makes an enormous difference.

As a side note, I also restored defaults to all those performance tweaks that are supposed to make browsing faster (pipelining, inital layout, etc), and browsing is faster now, too. I don't know if that is a coincidence or what, but after reading about these enhancements at the Mozilla forums, I decided to go back to defaults, and I am glad I did.
 
Firefox Tweaks

Yeah for me Firefox 3.5 is painfully slow and unresponsive with the Not Responding text constantly appearing at the top when I have more than around 5 tabs open. Also, it seems to take a lot of memory because when I had 12 tabs open for examining code it would take up 500MB of RAM.


But I found several tweaks you can try by typing about:config and then modifying the page. Make sure you take a back up copy just in case something goes wrong. Here are some of the hacks for the experimantally oriented.

Step one: Type about:config in the address bar and hit enter

Step two: Make the following modifications to the file by typing in the values on the respective fields to get the desired result (feel free to experiment)

1. To enable/disable Single Click Select URL of address bar

browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll = True

browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll = False



2. To auto Complete URL while typing in the address Bar

browser.urlbar.autoFill=True



3. To set the number of auto complete URL in the address bar



browser.urlbar.maxRichResults = #

(# indicates the number of auto complete URLs shown. The default is 12)

4. To disabler Browser Toolbar Tip

browser.chrome.toolbar_tips = False



5. To paste copied content by clicking the center button on the mouse

middlemouse.paste = True



6. To disable blinking text

browser.blink_allowed = False



7. To create a single close button to for all Firefox Opened Tabs.

browser.tabs.closeButtons = 3



8. To increase number of recently closed tabs.

browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo=15



9. Right click view source in your editor

view_source.editor.external=True

view_source.editor.path= Path of Editor



10. To enable fast scrolling across tabs

toolkit.scrollbox.scrollIncrement =75

11. To stop displaying website icon in address bar and on the tabs

browser.chrome.site_icons = False



12. To enable spell check in text fields

layout.spellcheckDefault = 2



13. To speed up the browser

network.http.max-connections 30 to 96

network.http.max-connections-per-server 15 to 32

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 6 to 8

network.http.pipelining false to true

network.http.proxy.pipelining false to true

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 30 to 8

network.http.pipelining.ssl false to true

network.http.proxy.pipelining false to true



14. To disable annoying browser behavior

Change the followowing values to 'false'

dom.disable_window_open_feature.titlebar



dom.disable_window_open_feature.menubar





dom.disable_window_move_resize

dom.disable_window_open_feature.toolbar



15. To show more tabs on single window

browser.tabs.tabMinWidth = 75



16. To display search results in new tab

browser.search.openintab=True.



I have used many of the above about:config hacks with Firefox 2 before and it is working for the new version as well. If some thing goes wrong after applying these changes, restore your about:config to older setting.

Enjoy
 
jive turkey said:
Regarding the apparent "slow" launch time in Firefox. I just went through my about:config preferences (I actually opened the prefs.js file to make it easier) and deleted all entries related to extensions that I no longer use. I probably cut the file size in half, and now Firefox opens up lightning fast. For those of you having problems with several icon bounces before Firefox is ready to use, you may want to clean out the prefs file. When you uninstall extensions they leave all the preferences behind, and Firefox still reads them all upon launch, it seems. Deleting the preferences of removed extensions makes an enormous difference.

As a side note, I also restored defaults to all those performance tweaks that are supposed to make browsing faster (pipelining, inital layout, etc), and browsing is faster now, too. I don't know if that is a coincidence or what, but after reading about these enhancements at the Mozilla forums, I decided to go back to defaults, and I am glad I did.
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nice, im going to turn pipelining back to how it was.
how did you access the pref file.
i have so many extensions that i have deleted. i mean like 20-30.
 
benlangdon said:
nice, im going to turn pipelining back to how it was.
how did you access the pref file.
i have so many extensions that i have deleted. i mean like 20-30.
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I opened it with the free Text Wrangler program. Prefs.js is located in your Firefox profile at ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/[whatever profile you are using]. The two rules appear to be to make a backup copy and to make sure Firefox is closed when you edit it, or else the changes won't stick.

Most of the old extensions of mine were easy to spot by name or abbreviation. Just highlight and delete entries of extensions you aren't using and save when you are done. Reopen Firefox and enjoy! Hopefully it works as well for you as it did for me.
 
I agree slackpacker. FF still seems a little "bloated" to me, and I only have a couple plug-ins. Safari just feels faster so I'm sticking with it, on both my iMac at home and my Windows machine at work.
 
Until Safari has support for something as simple as adding www. and .com it can render pages as fast as it likes.

Safari might load faster, but overall it makes surfing slower because its just such a pain to use.
 
windywoo said:
Until Safari has support for something as simple as adding www. and .com it can render pages as fast as it likes.
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Type "apple" or "microsoft" or "amazon" into the Safari address bar.

You'll find it adds www. to the start and .com to the end.
 
elppa said:
Type "apple" or "microsoft" or "amazon" into the Safari address bar.

You'll find it adds www. to the start and .com to the end.
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No it goes to some other site first which corrects your error for you. I've had issues with Safari in the past where it simply went to the address without the www. and .com and because those sites had not registered for common misspellings it didn't take me where I wanted.

Try typing mplex without the www and .com and see if it works for you. Currently I am using OpenDNS which seems to correct errors for me.
 
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