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Wow really? I could not even think of anything more annoying. It annoys me even thinking about it. Ugh.
Uugghh.
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God yes, I spent so long in the options trying to get it to do this, and couldn't find a solution.
Also, anyone have a way to cycle through tabs by putting the mouse cursor over the tab bar and using the mouse wheel? I can't believe how used to doing that I had gotten but it's driving me crazy that I can't do it anymore.
What's wrong with this?
http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/12/655/
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Nothing. The problem is the only version 3 compliant mouse gesture add on (that I've found, and he's using the same one) doesn't let you do this. I can't even get it to open a tab by gesturing over the tab unless I highlight it first, or begin the gesture on the link, which prohibits opening multiple links at once.
It is because I do not manage my bookmarks very well and they are all irrelevant.
Also I heard that the history comes before the bookmarks and this is not always the case.
I'm loving FF3 RC, The awesomebar (which I didn't even realize was completely revamped and a big feature) is really awesome and I only have to type forum and it brings up G&T as the first result. gm brings up Gmail, ma brings up Yahoo! mail. Once it learns where you go often (if you don't use bookmarks but type most of your addresses - since bookmarks just plain bypass the address bar) from a few visits it really does quicken browsing.
I don't like it either - if you go into about:config there's a setting called browser.urlbar.maxRichResults that I set to zero so it doesn't show them anymore. I would rather just have the option not to include bookmarks and non-typed URLs, but for now oh well.
Used to be I could just type one letter to go to the webpage I wanted, but now it will give me a youtube video with that letter included in the garbled letters section.
Situation: I only remember one word in the title of the page that I recently visited.
SOLUTION: Type it in the address bar, and it's right there at that top.
MAGIC!
It's still really disorienting though - I will type a letter and expect to see things that at least start with that letter, and receive a list of things that contain that letter randomly throughout the address and title (which I usually don't pay attention to).
For instance "d" -> forums.penny-arcade.com/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=60835
But no longer can i just type "f" to get the forums, (forums.penny-arcade.com/forumdisplay.php?f=15) n go get the ones over at neogaf ( neogaf.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=2 ), 'giz' to get to gizmodo, 'red' for reddit, 'di' for digg, and so on, and so forth. Sure, I could set that all manually, though the use of keywords, but I like how it is now, having it done automatically and so naturally because i visit these sites so often.
The awesomebar is a great idea, but it needs some kind of sorting.. the way it searches so haphazardly doesn't make sense. it should be giving a precedence to URLs, and specifically from the front of a URL, and then to titles, from the front of a title. The way it works so randomly at the moment just doesn't work for me.
The rest of the improvements though, are :^: :^:.
Well, aside from the theme in XP. Ewwww. But then, it fits with the default playskool theme that so many people still use, so I can't fault them there. I'm definitely going to d/l the Vista theme next week.
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Eh? That behavior works just fine for me in this extension. I drag up over a link and it opens it in a new tab. If there's no link where I'm dragging up, it just opens a blank tab. It won't work for opening multiple URLs with one gesture though, you're right.
Edit to add: Regarding the Awesomebar, my experience is that the sorting kind of sucks for the first week or so, but once you've started using it and it's not weighting your entire history at the same level, you can start typing things in the way you're used to and the things you want will come up first.
I'll try this at work (where I am using FF3.) When I searched all I found was the original Mouse Gestures which does not work with 3.
Edit: Apparently this add-on is not for OSX.
edit2: BULLSHIT! It does work with OSX. They lied. But anyway, thanks. This is great.
i've been using ff for close to 6 years now and aside from the memory thing, have never really seen anything wrong with it
Awesome, I didn't see this one. Thanks :^: I just set RU for opening multiple links, so that'll work.
That's one problem down.
I see FF3 and the awesomebar similar to Vista. At first, it may seem slower and clunkier to work with, but it's learning your habits. If I type f into the bar now, it does bring up the Penny Arcade forums because it's the main thing I type f for. I'm sure it will learn your habits soon.
What is that, 17 exabytes? I want your computer.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=549476&highlight=17179869180
Apparently you aren't the only one having trouble with that memory thing. It's not Firefox, it's Ubuntu and XGL.
(I cannot wait for June 22)
There has to be a cache. I bet your read speeds are horrible.
What's happening June 22?
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I'm using TMP 0.3.6.1.080416 right now on FF3 RC2 using Nightly Tester tools.
It's my birthday of course!
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
I get unjailed and don't have to wait 150 seconds between posts. I went to post that one and had to wait about 120 seconds first. Plus there have been multiple times I've had posts in a row or something I wanted to edit and can't.
I like the awesomebar and the in-page search is much faster, but I can feel the heat from my poor old CPU burning in my face.
Could be some add-on going haywire, I had to reinstall flash for some reason here.
Try disabling all your add-ons, if that fixes it then enable them one by one to see the culprit.
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
I just started using Opera 9.5 - it's faster because, at least for me, Fx 3 has that bug (I can't find the report at the moment) where, if one tab hangs, the rest hang. Opera generally browses at the speed I expect for my internet connection. Browsing in Fx makes me feel like I'm on dial-up.
On the other hand, I had about three dozen identical tabs open in both Fx and Opera to compare memory usage. While they were the same tabs, Opera only had the final locations (Firefox had all the googling still in its history). Fx lagged a little, but used about 90-100 megs. Opera lagged about the same amount, if a little less, and used 200 megs. Mind you, that could be because Fx crashed every three hours and so I had to restart it.
The awesomebar is definitely the best thing about Firefox for me. No other browsers has anything near as awesome as the awesomebar and Places, so I don't keep 3,600 bookmarks in any other browsers (IE has two bookmarks and Opera has a couple of dozen). I am also deeply appreciative of the fact that they recently fixed it so that Unfiled Bookmarks (I prefer how the OSX version calls them Unsorted Bookmarks - less liable to be misread as "Unified Bookmarks") get exported in the HTML file, too.
Oh yes, and userChrome and userContent FTW!