DAMMIT FIREFOX

[jazzfish]

Likely to be an ongoing list.

1) To move the tab bar below the nav bar WHERE IT BELONGS: right-click somewhere in the top of the window that isn't on another control and clear the "Tabs on top" check mark.

2) "Open link in new tab" is now the first option in the right-click menu; "Open link in new window" is the second option. This is the reason I keep opening links in new browser windows. I appreciate the usability reasons for this change but it'll take me awhile to get used to. (Yes, yes, Cmd/Ctrl-Click opens links in new tabs. I have multiple workflows depending on how I'm feeling at any given moment.)

3) To stop having the middle chopped out of links (that is, to bring back the status bar): first, View > Toolbars > Add-on Bar. Then install Status-4-Evar.

ETA 4) To go back more than one page, either click-and-hold the Back button (annoying) or right-click the Back button. Stupid Firefox.

Comments

[rbandrews]

Is it still slow and crappy on OS X?

[jazzfish]

Less so now. I'm not seeing the purported 6x speed increase but it does feel less sluggish.

[rbandrews]

I like Firebug better than Chrome's Javascript console, but I like every single other thing about Chrome better than Firefox.

On the other hand, Firebug really is just that good, so I will probably take a look at it.

[marcmagus]

I really like Chrome, but it's sandbox is just too restrictive to be able to run the sort of UI-improving extensions I rely on in Firefox effectively. [vimperator, mostly; chrome equivalents are too kludgy to work well]

[rislyn]

This is silly. But I do not like that one of my tabs is all the way over to the left. I want my bookmarks to hit my menu bar. When that first tab is above my bookmarks, I cannot see it. AND I do not like that the tabs I'm not on are greyed out. I can't *see* them.

"Meh" was actually my response to my brother last night when he asked how it was.

[jazzfish]

Eh? ... oh, you mean with the "bookmarks" pane open. I don't use it very often; my fingers just Know the keyboard shortcuts to open the Bookmarks menu. But when it's open, having the tabs run all the way to the left is pretty seriously annoying. It's just WRONG. The metaphor is that they're tabs of the viewable space, not tabs of the whole application!

And now that you've mentioned the greying-out thing I can't not notice it, and it /is/ very slightly obnoxious. Did FF3 not grey out inactive tabs?

[rislyn]

It really is wrong. I do *not* like that. A sidebar is supposed to be just that - a *side bar*. Not a bar with stuff above it. Excel doesn't even do that.

Sorry. :-) As far as I remember, it didn't. I still have FF3 at home, so I'll check, but I definitely remember it being more noticeable when I had a different tab open and my inbox had a message pop up. They may have greyed it out before, but it was not nearly as dark as it is now.

[silmaril]

No, FF3 just makes the active tab title font bold and the others stay normal. At least on Windows XP.

From what I've been reading/seeing of FF4, I think I'll stick to 3.16 for at least a few iterations and until they implement the "we give up, here, we'll look like Firefox 3 instead of Chrome" option.

[jazzfish]

Ah, okay. I can understand not wanting to do that; makes the active/inactive tab have a consistent number of characters. The fading thing may or not have been a good replacement.

Staying away from FF4 is probably for the best. So far my reactions to its interface changes have ranged from "...huh" to "ugh."

[shadowsong]

aha! i was looking for that last night. i figured out the add-on bar relatively quickly, but it took me forever to get foxclocks left aligned and forecastfox right aligned. firefox no longer respects the alignment specified by the add-on. :P i'll have to install status-4-evar when i get home.

[jazzfish]

I was hoping I could get away without installing it... but only turning on the Add-on Bar just meant that the hover-hyperlinks appeared slightly higher up the screen. Not exactly the effect I had hoped for.

[shadowsong]

yeah, with the add-on bar enabled, the hoverlink data did the opposite of not taking up screen real estate.

[tam_nonlinear]

I have no help for you, but I have a totally unrelated question to ask- what settings did you adjust to have DW import comments on new posts in LJ?

[jazzfish]

I do it manually. :7 There's an open feature request for an auto-importer but it hasn't been implemented yet. So, every so often I go in and Import Comments, from the same place I imported entries however many moons ago.

[tam_nonlinear]

Thanks!