Firefox RANT!

where are my keyboard shortcuts?

[chewy]

Hi - new FF ... Hooray sort of.

More like "Mozilla, we have a problem"...

I use Alt to load the standard menu - of course the habit is so ingrained, I have no idea what even to call this menu.

ALT + B would load bookmarks, and a "W" would move me to the WebmasterWorld bookmark, and an Enter would then get me to WebmasterWorld.

I do this keystroke chord hundreds of times per week for many many many shortcuts.

And now, it DOESN'T work - and of course FF's help pages say that ALT loads the menu.

And it doesn't anymore. Anyone else missing their keyboard shortcuts?

Of course this applies to Win7 starting today.

And it was a "feature" in Ubuntu and I always thought it was a bug - but maybe now we don't have this keystroke
shortcut anymore?

Anyone know who to ping to get this on their priority list?

[chewy]

Seems to still work on an older machine - may be some sort of configuration error on my part - how does one control the appearance of the "File, History, View, Bookmarks, Tools, Help" menu?

What is this menu even called? It works with Alt + F for File, Alt + B for Bookmarks etc.

Works great when it works - when it isn't there, it is really annoying!

[engine]

Something's up - where'd my bookmarks button go!

[chewy]

Took me forever (well, half a morning) to figure this out - i have no idea what I did to enable to non-full screen.

surely there's a place where one edits preferences like this.

Ain't it fun?

[Samizdata]

What is this menu even called?

I would guess that you mean the Menu Bar.

It appears to have become unfashionable lately (off by default in IE).

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[engine]

No, its no fun, chewy.
I'm also having no fun with the latest android update.
So much of this is a backward step, imho.

[chewy]

Right, certainly a menu bar is what we call it - but how does one set the appearance of said menu bar?

The only way I found it was by randomly clicking around and eventually randomly right clicking around - and as the bookmark toolbar was also missing, there was no place to click!

For Firefox, is there a literal menu option that includes this?

It seems there used to be. Is there another hidden options / preferences menu somewhere?

Good luck with the Android stuff. Not my area.

[Samizdata]

how does one set the appearance of said menu bar?

Read The Firefox Manual:
[support.mozilla.org...]

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[tangor]

Right click the window title (the top of the screen) and check mark Menu on or off, same with the bookmark's bar.

I suppose getting rid of these is a step toward more screen real estate for mobile devices.

[inbound]

If you think it's bad for someone who has seen the incremental updates, spare a thought for my situation...

Having only just returned to using a browser in anger in the last week (following years of on/off hospitalisation) I'm astounded by how dumbed down they have become.

I've had to figure out how to stop it "helping" me whenever I try to do a simple task. Clearly if I specify a valid URL (minus the protocol preamble - needed to change to that as using h t t p : / / messed up the post) browsers feel the need to decide whether I really know what I'm talking about.

What has happened to user control? Are we victims of catering for the masses? I am not impressed. As for mobile... don't get me started.

[Samizdata]

What has happened to user control?

While you were in hospital the animated paperclip won the war.

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[engine]

Welcome back inbound

What's extremely frustrating about this is these little changes is that it just goes away - there's no option. I have to spend time putting it back! grrr

As for the latest android update on my tablet computer - it's made it very difficult to use!