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Mmmm FireFox 2.0

Hanazawa

Hanazawa

Would Like To Play a Game
I just glossed over some of the "updates" it offers, and it looks like it wants to be Opera. I'll note specifically
Improved tabbed browsing: By default, Firefox will open links in new tabs instead of new windows, and each tab will now have a close tab button. Power users who open more tabs than can fit in a single window will see arrows on the left and right side of the tab strip that let them scroll back and forth between their tabs. The History menu will keep a list of recently closed tabs, and a shortcut lets users quickly re-open an accidentally closed tab.
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...you wouldn't be getting accidentally closed tabs if you didn't put the close tab button on the tab itself. :( Hopefully it will be OPTIONAL and/or someone will make a mod available to revert it to "old style" tab closure.
I do like the default new tabs instead of new windows. I hate things that try to open in new windows. Urg.
 
Rhainor

Rhainor

Rawr.
Uh, regular Firefox has an option to control where "new window" links open...

Tools > Options > "Tabs" section:
Code: 
[ ] Force links that open new windows to open in:
     ( ) the same window/tab as the link
     ( ) a new tab
(The [ ] is a checkbox, the ( ) are option buttons.)

It's not turned on by default, but it's there.
 
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Aikon

Member
The inline spell checker is the only reason I'm using it over IE 7, which is the only noticeable difference I see.
 
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Aikon

Member
^^ Yeah only took 'em this long to do it though :p
 
Myr

Myr

Big Dragon
I stopped using FireFox when some brilliant person decided to link the Find function to the ' key. I have all sorts of trouble typing on some forums and into some forms because of that stupid hotkey. I can't find a way to disable it either. I was happy with CTRL F and they had to go ruin things by assigning ' to the same thing. :(

Opera > FireFox > IE

Btw - Did FireFox ever fix the gif problems?
 
Bokracroc

Bokracroc

Bokra, come out to pla-ay
gif problems?
 
TORA

TORA

Banned
Banned
I am using Firefox 2.0, but I must have downloaded something wrong (probably the survey toolbar), as it crashes sometimes. Very frustrating.
 
A

Arshes Nei

Masticates in Public
Six tips:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=184
 
robomilk

robomilk

fruit bat at large
Bokracroc said:
gif problems?
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If it's what I think it's on about then I get it too.

My new animated avatar on the main site always freezes about a second in... :?
 
CyberFoxx

CyberFoxx

Wait, what?
Meh, I'm waiting till it hits ~x86 in Gentoo Portage till I try it. For now it's hardmasked, and I trust the Gentoo Devs have a good reason for that.

Improved tabbed browsing: By default, Firefox will open links in new tabs instead of new windows, and each tab will now have a close tab button. Power users who open more tabs than can fit in a single window will see arrows on the left and right side of the tab strip that let them scroll back and forth between their tabs. The History menu will keep a list of recently closed tabs, and a shortcut lets users quickly re-open an accidentally closed tab.
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Oh, so they integrated the Tab Mix Plus extension. Well, that's one less extension I'll have to have loaded...
 
Rhainor

Rhainor

Rawr.
For anyone who upgraded to Firefox 2.0 and doesn't like having "Close Tab" buttons on each tab, here's how to change that without any extensions or whatnot:

  1. In Firefox's address bar, put in about:config (alternatively, you can push Alt-C or go Help > About:? > about:config)
  2. Scroll down until you see the entry browser.tabs.closeButtons
  3. Right-click that entry and choose Modify. A value of 1 is default. Other possible values are 0, 2, and 3:
    • 0 = Close button appears on active tab only
    • 1 = Close buttons appear on every tab (default)
    • 2 = Close buttons do not appear at all (close tabs by middle-clicking, right-clicking and choosing "close tab" from the menu, or Ctrl-F4)
    • 3 = Close button appears in classic postion (far right of tab bar, behind the pull-down button)
  4. Changes take effect immediately upon applying the new value, so you can easily see which you prefer.

Regardless of which you choose, the alternate close-tab methods will still work.
 
yak

yak

Site Developer
Administrator
... still waiting for an official release, which has been put on their public FTP but not announced yet.
and by comparing the source tree of RC3 and the release, i found no differences. Go FF, and all that jazz. I'll await that announcment.

[edit]
scratch that one, it's offical. yay? definitly yay!
 
Hanazawa

Hanazawa

Would Like To Play a Game
Gmail seems to think that Firefox 2.0 is a lower version than Firefox 0.8. I only switched to 2.0 because gmail was giving me grief with 1.5 - in short, Gmail sucks.

(ETA: found a link to get around this problem, in case anyone else is having it: http://mail.google.com/gmail?nocheckbrowser )
 
yak

yak

Site Developer
Administrator
Rhainor said:
Yeah, Firefox 1.5 had some pretty nasty memory leaks, at least if left running for a significant length of time.

Firefox 2.0 RC3 has no--or close to no--memory leakage.
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It's not a bug, it's a feature!
Unless they have rewritten the rendering engine in Firefox 2.0, the memory leaks are going to stay. And they're not really memory leaks, i have read somewhere. Well, i developed a habbit over time to close and re-open the browser once in a while. It usually takes up ~75-150 Mbytes of my 512 Mbytes RAM, so i'm good.
 
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uncia2000

Member
260 megs here, with no more than 60-70 current tabs... not so good.
Not really my favorite "feature" to be honest and debateable as to whether FF actually needs to keep a hold of absolutely everything that it does.

Having said that, FF >> IE, IMHO. ;)
 
Dragoneer

Dragoneer

Site Developer
Site Director
Administrator
Hanazawa said:
Improved tabbed browsing: By default, Firefox will open links in new tabs instead of new windows, and each tab will now have a close tab button. Power users who open more tabs than can fit in a single window will see arrows on the left and right side of the tab strip that let them scroll back and forth between their tabs. The History menu will keep a list of recently closed tabs, and a shortcut lets users quickly re-open an accidentally closed tab.
Click to expand...

...you wouldn't be getting accidentally closed tabs if you didn't put the close tab button on the tab itself. :( Hopefully it will be OPTIONAL and/or someone will make a mod available to revert it to "old style" tab closure.
I do like the default new tabs instead of new windows. I hate things that try to open in new windows. Urg.
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CTRL-W -- it closes whatever window you're on, tabs included. :) Who needs a lil' X in da corner?
 
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