well who likes it... compared to safari, camino, opera omniweb. etc... I personally don't like the previous page button, what about every one else?
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who like the new Beta for Firefox?
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I like the keyhole button, but there's a few things that annoy me.
1. When i press in either the address bar or the search box it should be one click = imput flasy thing, triple click = select all. not one click select all, that's windows, not mac.
2. Still no pdf support. This is just a little demented at this stage.
3. Little thing, but i use find quite often, it looks much better in safari where it's at the bottom, it tells you how many instances it's found and the highlight is much nicer.
But then again, it allows you better proxy server use and multiple password storage. Don't think i could go back from those two. (well i know i can't from the proxy, got access to all online journals and news papers with that!).
1. When i press in either the address bar or the search box it should be one click = imput flasy thing, triple click = select all. not one click select all, that's windows, not mac.
2. Still no pdf support. This is just a little demented at this stage.
3. Little thing, but i use find quite often, it looks much better in safari where it's at the bottom, it tells you how many instances it's found and the highlight is much nicer.
But then again, it allows you better proxy server use and multiple password storage. Don't think i could go back from those two. (well i know i can't from the proxy, got access to all online journals and news papers with that!).
It is screaming fast and I generally like it.
On my Windows machines, I'm still sticking with version 2, I've heard there are some pretty nasty memory leaks, although I've yet to come across one.
On my Windows machines, I'm still sticking with version 2, I've heard there are some pretty nasty memory leaks, although I've yet to come across one.
And i nearly forgot, firefox doesn't automatically finish your web address. God i used to hate that in safari...
about:config
double click to turn browser.urlbar.autoFill to true
about:config, turn browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll to false
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=617305
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take a look at my screenshot above
just type in "about:config" in firefox's urlbar and press enter.
for your amusement, you can try
about:
about
luginsabout:cache
about:robots
about:mozilla
as well, some of them are very funny
Sorry for being so stupid, where do you find the chrome folder?
Thanks for the address bar thing though. That was driving me crazy
Now this is getting really nice, find bar up on the top and nice shadowed results, progress bar integrated with address bar, proper selection like apple should be... I owe you one... In fact, i owe you several
well, since you use find function very often, here is my bonus tips
1. goto preference->advanced->general, check "search for text when I start typing". This allows you to just "type and search" without press any key to invoke the search function. The search bar will appear automatically when you type.
2. since you already find the chrome folder, go into there, create a txt file called userChrome.css (or just rename that userChrome-example.css to userChrome.css), open the file with text editor, add this line
This is to force quickfind toolbar show the full featured "previous, next, hihlight" buttons, restart of firefox is needed for this to take effect.
3. goto about:config, change accessibility.typeaheadfind.timeout to a longer time (unit in ms) since quickfind toolbar has a short timeout after which it will go away.
Not sure if this will have any conflict with what you have done through that mozillazine post (it shouldn't). but its easy to reverse what I just mentioned in case you need to.
1. goto preference->advanced->general, check "search for text when I start typing". This allows you to just "type and search" without press any key to invoke the search function. The search bar will appear automatically when you type.
2. since you already find the chrome folder, go into there, create a txt file called userChrome.css (or just rename that userChrome-example.css to userChrome.css), open the file with text editor, add this line
Code:
#FindToolbar > * {display: -moz-box; }
.findbar-container>* {display: -moz-box !important;}This is to force quickfind toolbar show the full featured "previous, next, hihlight" buttons, restart of firefox is needed for this to take effect.
3. goto about:config, change accessibility.typeaheadfind.timeout to a longer time (unit in ms) since quickfind toolbar has a short timeout after which it will go away.
Not sure if this will have any conflict with what you have done through that mozillazine post (it shouldn't). but its easy to reverse what I just mentioned in case you need to.
I like it, especially now that adblock works. I am having a few problems with some forms on javascript sites but apart from that, its pretty good.
I prefer FF for the functionality of the addons/extensions, which give a lot more flexibility, personally speaking for myself.
EDIT: I KNEW that clevin (the smart ass ) would reply with a more detailed response before me!!
EDIT: I KNEW that clevin (the smart ass
) would reply with a more detailed response before me!!
How do you tell which beta version you're running? I downloaded it last night and it just says version 3.0pre.
u are probably running a nightly build, not a released beta version
EDIT: I KNEW that clevin (the smart ass
u are probably running a nightly build, not a released beta version
Well which version is newer/better? I just downloaded it from the link in one of the Firefox threads here and I do believe it's the latest nightly build.
your nightly is newer, but nightly might have this or that problems since its basically internal test version. released beta normally is more stable.
also nightly will ask for update everyday unless u turn off auto update, thats why its called "nightly"
but since now its getting very close to firefox 3 final, the nightly is quite stable. you should be fine. just remember to download RC1 when its out.
The biggest annoyance for me is when I find a new desktop picture and right click then select "Save Image As..." if I rename it I have to remember to type in .jpg at the end. If I do not it saves the file without an extension making it unusable until I manually add one later.
I also could not use the online bill payment for one of my creditors. I did not get one of those IE only warnings it just would freeze on loading the page. Firefox 2 works fine though.
Personally I love the 1 click selects all in the address bar. I always hate it when I click and paste a hyperlink I have to remember to jab the mouse like crazy until everything is selected.
What I like most though is how the browser does not freeze up for a few seconds when saving a pic like FF2 does when you have a large cache.
I also could not use the online bill payment for one of my creditors. I did not get one of those IE only warnings it just would freeze on loading the page. Firefox 2 works fine though.
Personally I love the 1 click selects all in the address bar. I always hate it when I click and paste a hyperlink I have to remember to jab the mouse like crazy until everything is selected.
What I like most though is how the browser does not freeze up for a few seconds when saving a pic like FF2 does when you have a large cache.