Firefox 2.0

Also, I hope this launch goes better than Netscape 2.0 did

this extension will force yr old ones to be compatible:
http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/nightly

*quits firefox*

also adding a close button on every tab is retarded! i hope you can switch that off

*quits firefox*

*Install Preferential extension*

*Restart Firefox*

*Go to Tools -> Advanced Preferences*

*Go to browser -> browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing"

*Set boolean value to 'false'*

*Reminds everyone that this solution can be found by a simple web search*

Blame the Firefox user base

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"Put close buttons on the tabs. This makes it a lot easier to close tabs with the mouse. People weren't seeing the close box in the usability test. It's also out of the way and not connected with what's actually being closed. Mindful of stealing space from the tab strip when there are many tabs, the close boxes on inactive tabs are hidden when the tab width falls below a certain minimum value."
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i hope you can switch that off

No Tab Close Button extension

Also, auto-spellcheck? Feck off. I hate programs forever rudely telling me I dont spell in American. Grrrrr.

But for Gran, I can see the value I suppose (Ctrl + W is an even better idea for closing tabs!). That really shouldn't require an extension to turn off imo, but I guess the future of Firefox is inevitably going to be extensions to remove feature bloat. At least the option is there.

hmm. whadda ya know. Oh yeah I have no scroll wheel at work. So...there? Spellcheck is worthless to me always.

Ctrl + Click = open in new tab (background)
Ctrl + Shift + Click = open in new tab (focus on)
Ctrl + W = close tab

Ctrl + Shift + Click = open in new tab (focus on)

I'm totally happy about this. It was the one UI in Safari that I miss in Firefox.

ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=4881575 == http://ilx.thehold.net/thread.php?msgid=160

-- Euai Kapaui (tracerhan...), October 24th, 2006 6:48 PM. (tracerhand)

50MB?! Are you FUCKING KIDDING?!

-- Portable Dorkness (butt.dickas...), October 24th, 2006 9:10 PM. (Dick Butkus)

previous version was 46MB..OMG 4 MORE MB

don't get there too fast el tomboto, lol

lol

still nothing new but the crashes here. must be some karmic payback for me never having any problems at all with Vista.

Are you using Safari 4, Tom? Shit be faast

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord

Western Sahara and French Guiana didn't pull their weight, i notice...

Boo, Svalbard And Jan Mayen! (East of Greenland and North of Norway) Even Greenlanders managed 482 downloads!

I had an update recently but it still says I'm using version 2.x

someone explain this shit to me

was it like 2.0.0.15? i got that cos i'm too lazy to upgrade :(

Does anyone know how to stop it flicking out of the tab you're reading to ask if you want to accept a cookie? It's very irritating!

tools - options - privacy - accept cookies from sites (but not third party cookies) and keep until they expire

is how my settings are, at least

I like it.

Seems exactly the same to me!

I had an update recently but it still says I'm using version 2.x

someone explain this shit to me

Apparently running an upgrade in 2.x will only upgrade you to the latest version of the 2.x tree. You need to download 3.0 directly.

Using FF3, when I log into gmail, it opens the page scrolled part way down. Does this happen to anyone else? It's hardly a big deal, but it is annoying.

Thanks StanM, I'll give that a try.

Didn't work unfortunately.

why does 3.0 not remembering my cookies? having to log into gmail every damn time. and yes i have accept cookies and third party cookies enabled, and no i don't have cookies ticked in the 'clear private data' settings.

wow, FF3 on windows looks like a heap of ass. any good, simple themes?

Hated it myself at first, but it grew on me.

But there's always https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6898

ahhhh

Why does French Guianans hate the Firefox?

Firefox 3.5 is released later today. Supposed to be much faster, thanks to a new JavaScript engine.

Downloaded the release candidate. It does seem a lot better with js-heavy pages. And the start up time seems to have improved too.

Bah, fuck this. Keeps crashing as type a search into the search bar.

It's still slower in tests than the webkit ones, by quite a way, too. Though pure js speed doesn't matter quite as much as they make out: GMail feels like it loads quicker on FF, despite being js-tastic.

They can take my life, but they can't take my AutoPager.

Phew. Official 3.5 release crashed me all the time too, but resetting toolbars to the default set seems to have fixed it. Hello again 3.5.

0 problems here. Everything just feels faster, it's true.

I missed the whole 2.0 revolution and have been rocking 1.5 forever. Finally decided to upgrade today and am more than pleased.

I don't know if I believe the map, sometimes there's downloads from the middle of the ocean where no islands are nearby (do they count ships?) - also, wake up australia!

http://downloadstats.mozilla.com/

Sorry Azores and Seychelles. So THAT's where you are. :-(

wow, google maps is hella faster

I'm running this now, not noticing significant more speed, but that's okay. What I really hope for this version to do is to stop crashing on me every once in a while when I try to download something (.doc, .rar, .whatevs).

If you have plugins that it doesn't want to install, here's a trick you can try (it worked for the two I had it refused to install at first) :

1. download the .xpi file (save it on your hard drive)

2. rename it from pluginname.xpi to pluginname.zip

3. unzip it & edit the install.rdf file with notepad

-> maxversion 3.0.* -> change that to 3.5.* and save the file

4. zip everything back into pluginname.zip and rename that to pluginname.xpi

5. open and install in FF 3.5

6. profit!

(ok, maybe not step 6. Disclaimer: YMMV, but it's worth a try if you don't want to wait until your fav. plugin is updated)

this is how it looks in that install.rdf file (don't worry if it's all unix end-of-lines/squares, just search for maxversion, edit and save) :

<em:maxVersion>3.0.*</em:maxVersion>

and you can try to change it to this:

<em:maxVersion>3.5.*</em:maxVersion>

Man, I haven't changed in three years. I need to get a new sense of humor right now :-(((

The minimise to tray add-on isn't working! Waaaaaah!

1. download the .xpi file.
2. rename the .xpi file to .zip
3. unzip
4. edit the .rdf file: change maxversion=1.5.0.x to 2.0.x
5. zip again
6. rename the .zip file to .xpi
7. in Firefox: file - open - install
8. profit

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:45 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark

much easier way to get around that: go to about:config, right-click, choose "New Boolean", call it extensions.checkCompatibility, set to FALSE and restart.

Kick @ss! thx!

They've made the icons on the bookmarks toolbar smaller or closer together or something - anyway you can get more on there - so that's it for me, sold!

What does that do Stet? Will it simply never check for compatibility but the extensions keep working anyway?

My del.icio.us extension wasn't compatible but works like a charm. Imageshack toolbar though, not so much...

(would insert jamesvanderbeekcrying.gif right now but I can't reach it!)

It never checks for compatibility -- most times extensions are fine after an update, but yeah sometimes they break. I prefer it not checking because at least it'll have a go at running them instead of just plain refusing.

Agreed. Will try, thanks.

Sorry, Firefox, you might as well give up, Microsoft has an unbeatable offer.

Microsoft is so the Nickelback of the interwebs.

3.5.1 y'all. Fixes a slow startup thingy on some windows systems and some kind of security issue.

> some kind of security issue

the security issue that they told everyone about in their public bug tracker...

from the dfa thread:

If you use Firefox it's fairly simple to "download" songs direct from Hypem by playing the track and then copying it from your cache.

how can i access the cache? mine seems to be encrypted. would this trick work with embedded videos in sites like bbc.com that hide the vid url in the source data?

there's a handy CacheViewer extension that'll show you everything in there.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2489

brilliant, thank you