Firefox II

Lost Soal · Post by **Lost Soal** » 2006-10-25 10:16pm

Let me rephrase what I said. I had just installed Close Button in 2.0, so I don't get why it told SPC Brungardt it wasn't compatible.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2006-10-25 11:39pm

So does FF2 still randomly eat bookmarks, or has that finally been resolved?

Lost Soal · Post by **Lost Soal** » 2006-10-25 11:42pm

Never been a problem for me. Only time I lost them was when I reformatted. Which was to be expected really.

Archaic` · Post by **Archaic`** » 2006-10-26 12:05am

Lost Soal wrote:The addons page is down at the minute so I can't check, but I believe the one your looking for is Close Button.

I prefer Tabbrowser Preferences myself. Quite a lot of extra functionality in there. Tab Mix Plus is a good one too, for people wanting even more functionality, including a session saver.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2006-10-26 03:57am

Oberleutnant wrote:Just download 2.0 from mozilla.org and run the install program. No uninstall is necessary.

It was for me. FF1.5 to FF2.0 made firefox a horrible fucking mess that didn't work in the slighest. Uninstalling FF first helped.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2006-10-26 04:12am

nickolay1 wrote:Another feature I found annoying is that tabs are no longer squeezed in on one window. Instead of previously easily managing 40+ tabs, I have to fucking scroll through if there are more than 20 or so.

Go to about:config, edit browser.tabs.minwidth

Netko · Post by **Netko** » 2006-10-26 06:15am

nickolay1 wrote:Another feature I found annoying is that tabs are no longer squeezed in on one window. Instead of previously easily managing 40+ tabs, I have to fucking scroll through if there are more than 20 or so.

On the other hand, at some point (when it couldn't squeeze each tab any more) it would bug and start throwing them into the ether to the right, never to be seen again unless you use keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures, and the close button would overlay that, so often you had a 50-50 chance of hitting close or the underlying tab - not very good. I would prefer to have the current system, but with the universal close button.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2006-10-26 06:24am

nickolay1 wrote:Another feature I found annoying is that tabs are no longer squeezed in on one window. Instead of previously easily managing 40+ tabs, I have to fucking scroll through if there are more than 20 or so.

Actually, having on more than one occasion had some many tabs open that even squeezed they were off the far side of the window I'd say that isnt such a bad thing.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2006-10-26 02:47pm

Most annoying issue ever...

I opened up four tabs automatically.

In old Firefox, the URL window would automatically adjust for that, and typing in new URLs in new tabs would cause the new tab to load, just as if it were its own instance.

Now it does no such thing. I tried running SDNet, Nova Southeastern, Wikipedia. and GMail.

In the end, I got Google and three empty tabs.

Anyone feel like compiling a list of all those issues and stickying them?

Adrian Laguna · Post by **Adrian Laguna** » 2006-10-26 03:01pm

I'm not having problems. Ctrl+t then type in new url. The only issue I have is that I liked the design of the old tabs better.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2006-10-26 03:44pm

Step by Step (Damn Engineering!)

Old Firefox:

I would open up a new tab. Type in the URL whilst the new tab was open, and the new website would appear in the new tab.

New Firefox:

I would open up a new tab. Whilst inside the new tab, I would type in the URL in the same place as the old one. (In fact, the entire sequence, bar the finish, is the same.) But instead of loading up a new page in the new tab, it automagically changes the original tab instead of the new tab, thus defeating the whole purpose of opening a new tab.

Anyone else have this problem?

Lost Soal · Post by **Lost Soal** » 2006-10-26 03:51pm

Xenophobe3691 wrote:
Anyone else have this problem?

Just tried and no, not a problem.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2006-10-26 04:33pm

Lost Soal wrote:
Xenophobe3691 wrote:
Anyone else have this problem?
Just tried and no, not a problem.

Meh, it might be just me using a Tablet PC, but everything gets shunted through the first tab. The rest of the tabs don't even do anything but take up room. I can't even open a link into a new tab.

Time to tear through Firefox's online dev help

EDIT: Never Mind, closed all programs, reinstalled, and it's fixed.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2006-10-26 06:49pm

To be honest, FF 2.0 was amazing in and of itself. Then I downloaded a whole bunch of extensions...

My browser has turned from a portal into the Static HTML/AJAX of the web, into a device that allows me to control the music I'm listening to, tells me movies, removes the need for a separate "Downloads" box provided I'm not downloading too much at once, allows me to clip off certain sections of pages and bookmark them for friends (ESPECIALLY useful since I have a tablet), allows me to see the CSS behind all pages...

This thing's like crack...

ThatGuyFromThatPlace · Post by **ThatGuyFromThatPlace** » 2006-10-26 09:31pm

true, anyone surfing wihtout FF+extensions is missing like 90% of the internet without even realising it.

Netko · Post by **Netko** » 2006-10-27 02:31am

If you really want to go gugu gaga on it and have some programming skills, install Greasemonkey. It lets you use JScript to manipulate any page (you define the scope in the script). Its just insane what you can do with it and there are tons of scripts by other people for popular sites.

Don't like Gamespot's idiotic image viewer? No problem, install a script and the images open directly in a new tab.

Or, like me, run into a webcomic that you would like to follow the story from the beginning but don't feel like scrolling past a ton of crap and enlarging the image for every page? Whip up a little 10 line script up and cut all that crap out and have the image autoenlarge.

Very very cool.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2006-10-27 09:22am

All is well with Firefox 2.0... fun note however, the Spell checker while quite helpful has some odd things about it.

For example try typing Firefox, a mispelled word eh?

Anyway Firefox 2.0 is fine for me but that close button download is VERY handy, I keep clicking the little tab by default forgetting my close button is no longer there.

CorSec · Post by **CorSec** » 2006-10-27 11:09am

Adrian Laguna wrote:The only issue I have is that I liked the design of the old tabs better.

Me too! And true to form, there's always a way to do what you want with Firefox.

Start Firefox.
In the Address Bar type "about:config" and press Enter.
Right-Click and select New->Integer.
A box requesting the Preference Name will popup and you should enter "browser.tabs.closeButtons" (without the quotes). Press OK to continue.
Now you need to select the type of close button you want: 0 - display a close button on the active tab only, 1 - display close buttons on all tabs, 2 - don’t display any close buttons, and 3 - display a single close button at the end of the tab strip (Firefox 1.x behavior). After entering the value corresponding to your preference press OK again.

CorSec · Post by **CorSec** » 2006-10-27 11:17am

Lagmonster wrote:The only thing I don't like - possibly because I can't figure out how it works - is that 1.5 allowed me to type anywhere on screen and it would do a search of the page to go to the word I wanted. The new one does this...but lacks the 'find next' buttons of 1.5, meaning I can only jump to the first instance of a word on the page.

I can't be sure I experienced the same thing, but after installing 2.0, I discovered a "Find as you type" box that needed checking.

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2006-10-27 02:31pm

There's only one thing I miss after the upgrade... I used an extension which allowed HTML files to be saved with the title (the <TITLE> tag). Unfortunately, the extension isn't supported in 2.0 (although I hope it'll updated).

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2006-10-27 02:54pm

Mange wrote:There's only one thing I miss after the upgrade... I used an extension which allowed HTML files to be saved with the title (the <TITLE> tag). Unfortunately, the extension isn't supported in 2.0 (although I hope it'll updated).

If the underlying code is the same, you can modify the extension's expiration date manually. Xpi's are renamed zips, there should be a main file (can't remember the name...) in the folder that has the name, author and compatibility information. Just bump it up to 3.0, repackage and maybe it'll run.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2006-10-28 02:51am

I seem to have this problem where if a low priority process (say folding@home) runs in the background on Linux, Firefox becomes extremely unresponsive (but this affects only Firefox). Anyone else experience something like this?

Jason von Evil · Post by **Jason von Evil** » 2006-10-28 04:17am

Did they bother loading the spellchecker with any words? I just had to add "victimless" to its dictionary. o_O

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2006-10-28 04:19am

Jason von Evil wrote:Did they bother loading the spellchecker with any words? I just had to add "victimless" to its dictionary. o_O

You can download dictionaries yourself. I guess they'll get better over time as new versions are released.

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2006-10-28 04:06pm

Bounty wrote:
Mange wrote:There's only one thing I miss after the upgrade... I used an extension which allowed HTML files to be saved with the title (the <TITLE> tag). Unfortunately, the extension isn't supported in 2.0 (although I hope it'll updated).
If the underlying code is the same, you can modify the extension's expiration date manually. Xpi's are renamed zips, there should be a main file (can't remember the name...) in the folder that has the name, author and compatibility information. Just bump it up to 3.0, repackage and maybe it'll run.

Thanks for the tip! However, I did find another extension which worked fine.

EDIT: The Swedish version of FF 2.0 has changed the search plugins. From Yahoo! USA to Swedish Yahoo! and Amazon.com to Amazon.co.uk etc. (I wonder whose "brilliant" idea it was to make those changes from 1.5.0.7). The Swedish Yahoo! site is poor and I use Amazon.com far more than British Amazon. Is there a way to modify the plugins?