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also see upgrade info/tips [forums.mozillazine.org]
Nothing big, since the Mozilla rev number is correct, but seems like they missed out on this one ;-)
intuitive tab navigation
I'm sure there are all sorts of ways to customize this thing, but I didn't want to get into hacking.
Not sure that's quite fairest wording. Isn't very specific customizing a big asset?Yes. I probably should have said I used mostly the defaults and played only with the settings in the options.
My favorite two are Things they left out (more options) [texturizer.net] which has a feature to make .gifs animate only once and then stop (I had a tool for this in IE, its great) and this is an absolute must:the Web Developer extension [chrispederick.com] which is like having a hundred IE favlets/bookmarklets in one little designer package.
I assume you are using ZoneAlarm? Firefox doesn't require 'server rights' despite what ZA might claim. The only rule I made for it (using a different firewall) was to allow outgoing tcp connections on port 80.
>>Why should it want to phone home to momma..
There's an auto-updater built into this build I believe. You can disable it or block it if you don't need it.
intuitive tab navigation
mouse gestures
spell check in form fields
all the passwords I've already set up in Opera ;)
customizable toolbar placement
customizable toolbars (ala Opera)
simple sidebar switching
page source editor choice
simple switching on/off of images/java/javascript/plug-ins/css...etc
Intuitive tab navigation? Not sure what you mean, but try getting the MiniT extension. Also try setting your General preferences to always show the tab bar.
For mouse gestures, get the All-In-One Gestures extension. I've found that even more customizable and useful than Opera's mouse gestures.
Spell Check in form fields, sorry, don't think there's a way to do that in FireFox.
Your Opera passwords might be able to be imported into FireFox. Not sure, but I know some Opera settings can be imported.
FireFox has very customizable toolbar placement, particularly if you get the Toolbar Enhancements extension. This one even allows you to move the buttons to either side of the tab bar or the status bar.
Opera-style customizable scrollbars are kind of possible. You can drag and drop the buttons wherever you want them to be, but you first have to right-click and choose "Customize" to get the customize window.
Simple sidebar switching is possible via the Sidebar Orientation extension. A restart is required after making adjustments, but I think things like that are going to be polished a bit before 1.0.
Page source editor choice is possible with the Mozex extension.
Simple switching on/off of images, javascript, etc. is possible with another extension, I believe it has Preferences in the title but I don't remember the full name just now.
Can someone explain what the "Display Resolution" setting does?
I'm not sure about that - I monitor connection requests pretty carefully, and firefox hasn't done anything untoward that I've seen, although I did disable autoupdates so maybe that accounts for the extra requests?
Other than that ZA can sometimes be rather overzealous with its reporting of 'attacks' which might have something to do with it.
Incidentally, I've noticed Firefox using ID strings like {bc45630f7-c70a-468f-9b5e-13a3a9e97564} when you click links to mozilla sites within the browser menus (e.g. tools>>extensions>>get new extensions ).
Re lack of intuitive tab browsing, that's available in
'tab browser extensions', just don't use the feature to cache the pages for reload on crash, that's the only option that I've found that slows down page loads and performance.
Since the word 'intuitive' is extremely subjective, you can create a setup that is intuitive for you specifically, there are tons of options in tab browser extenstions, although there is some debate about that extension due to stability questions, but I can't reproduce them, with the exception of the above problem with caching.
Or for a less feature packed set of tab options, use the one mathewhse recommended, I tried that but it didn't have enough features for my taste.
though it doesn't disable flash ads
Try the FlashBlock [texturizer.net] extension which lets the Flash engine run, but not display any flash graphics until you click on the replacement graphic, if you want to see something in particular.
gotta love the web developer tool...nothing beats that...! :D
i can't wait till 1.0 is released. will be much better and more customisable i hope. especially putting save session as a default optional feature, that would be nice.
Unfortunately, all of these improvements will probably be stolen by MS when longhorn comes out.
all of these improvements will probably be stolen by MS when longhorn comes out
Let's hope so ;) Life would be much improved by MS supplying their customers with a browser this good.
all of these improvements will probably be stolen by MS when longhorn comes out.
Then I went to install the web developer extension - silly me, thinking it would work on NT. :(
Then I went to install the web developer extension - silly me, thinking it would work on NT.
The developer, Chris Pederick, will answer your email if you send him a problem report, but testing on NT is pretty hard to do, there aren't a lot of those installations readily avialable, most I assume are sitting in offices somewhere, almost nobody uses that os so it's hard to debug and test on it I suspect, too bad though.
spell check in form fields
There is a form spell checker available for Firefox (and the Mozilla suite). It hasn't been actively developed for a few months now, but, with a little prodding, you can get it to work.
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[edited by: tedster at 11:05 am (utc) on June 19, 2004]
* First, uninstall Firebird
* Grab the stuff you want from my old profile (bookmarks, etc -- which is still in a Application Data folder labeled Phoenix if you are upgrading from 0.8), and then delete the profile
* Download Firefox 0.9 zipfile not the installer. I've heard that some people have had problems getting this extension working with the installer version
* Unzip and place the Firefox files from where you plan on running Firefox from. Your install should have the composer.xpt file in the components directory.
* Start Firefox
* Install spellcheck.xpi from: [ftp.mozilla.org...]
* Shut down and restart Firefox
* Install spellcheckerfe0_4_0.xpi from: [cgi29.plala.or.jp...]
* Shut down and restart Firefox
* Download your dictionary of choice from: [downloads.mozdev.org...]
* Shut down, restart Firefox, and go spell check something
On another note, for those that can never have enough toolbar buttons, check out these extra toolbar buttons you can add with this extension [forums.mozillazine.org] and this one that lets you put the icons next to the menu items [aaronspuler.pngresource.com].
Thanks the for the spellchecker tips. I wish it didn't need the uninstall step, I always seem to lose something when I have to uninstall it :(
(Please don't hurt me for having Windows 98, it is a work computer and apparently, 'they' are in the process of building my machine, I would have prefered to do it myself.
