K, one more then.

Now that that little issue is resolved, it seems that it opens BOTH a new tab AND a new window with the link now...

wtf?

MPEDrummer

Did you do both my fix and SM70's fix? It is possible that they are interfering. Try just one or the other.

Also, with TBE, I highly recommend setting Window Mode to "Use multiple browsers only when I open them".

Actually, I don't have TBE, I have TBP...perhaps I should switch then?

MPEDrummer

K. It was something weird between MouseGestures and Tabbrowser Preferences.

I switched to TBE, and now everything is happy and joyous.

MPEDrummer

Okay, firefox is pissing me off.

My right click menu changes, and it doesn't always have the options I want. Wassup wit dat?

Right now, in this window, I have cut, copy, and paste available. In the other tab I have open, I'm trying to copy and paste some pics from apartment guide.com to a word doc. My rightclick menu has:
View Image
Copy Image Location
Save Image
Send Image
Set Image as background
Block Images

Then bookmark choices.
I know my keyboard shortcuts to copy and paste, but where are they on the menu? I'm betting I can add them, but I don't know how.

Also, when typing in this window, firefox keeps the cursor on top of the last letter I type. It's annoying. I can't see the right half of the letter I'm typing. If I puase typing on the letter "l" for example, the cursor COVERS the "l" completely!

Additionally I'm tired of websites telling me that Netscape users can't view this video because of blah blah fucking blah. Every time I want to watch a news clip I end up using IE just to have that ability.

Finally, where in the living hell are the directions for mouse gestures? I've got it, and I've figured out how to go back an forth pages, and enlarge/decrease text size. Somewhere there has to be a users manual, and somehow I've managed not to find it.

THANK YOU.

I've been finding this version to be buggier than the last. I can't add bookmarks by Ctrl-D or by selecting "Add to Bookmarks." I have to open the manager or bookmark sidebar.

It doesn't seem to handle the Titty Board well, or any pages with many pictures.

Sometimes it doesn't let me copy an image to something else, I have to open up IE to do it.

Has crashed several times to the point where XP can't even close it.

SecretMethod70:

Thanks so much for this link. I haven't liked Mozilla browsers in the past, I think Netscape ruined it for me. But I do like this FireFox so far. I will try it for a few days, but it is already starting to grow on me.

"Copy Image on Context Menu": they added this in the current nightlies, but the nightlies are a little squirlly (IMHO) at the moment. They usually are for a few weeks after a release, since they are trying out new stuff.

"Titty Board": there's some issues with GDI usage on Windows machines, as well as cache files building up but not releasing. There's been a good amount of chatter on the bug forums, I think they are closing in on some fixes for that.

I just have one tiny, insignificant niggle with it, I can't download files with my download manager any more. How do I stop FireFox from downloading?

Request: Download manager intergration; Mockup provided - MozillaZine Forums; some people have some workarounds to achieve this in this thread.

Is it possible to configure Firefox so that when I click a link in an email in Outlook, it will open it into a new Firefox window, and not to whatever window/tab is currently active?

Firefox Help: Tips & Tricks gives you two ways to do this; one for a new window, and one for a new tab in the current window.

Two great links today for you Firefox fans:

God Chooses Firefox
and
MozillaZine Forums: Help with suring porn needed

Strange issue with the fox:

When I open multiple tabs, say when I'm browsing the TB, the whole computer gets very, very slow. Also, it takes forever to get the tab to change. Bits and pieces of the current tab's display will slowly become overwritten with the newly selected tab's stuff until the screen finally swaps tabs. It does this much more with graphics than text. Tabbing FARK doesn't do this much. However, it's not the CPU load that goes up much. In fact, it'll sit at under 20% but the screen won't catch up.
Furthering my certainty that this is Firefox issue is the fact that I can open dozens of windows in IE and this does not happen. I can open damn near the whole TB in IE and no big deal. If I open even 5 tabs in Firefox, I might as well ctrl+alt+del. Happens even quicker if one of the posts is huge.

Even opening one tab is annoying because for about five seconds while the new tab is loading, in the background, the foreground is frozen. I don't remember this happening at all when I first loaded the fox.

Any ideas?

I think what you're describing is a known bug and is working on being fixed.

Yeah, I noticed that as well sometimes. Hopefully it can be fixed up soon.

There have been some GDI-type fixes to the nightlies recently that help out with tabs; download from this page, which also has some nice descriptions of the current significant regressions that you might run into, as well as how to work around them.

- AutoFill -

I finally installed Firefox today and I am testing it out to see if the better security outweighs the rendering problems. There is one feature that I loved from IE that I would like to have in Firefox. In IE, I had the Google Toolbar and it had a feature called AutoFill. It was totally sweet and I would like to have it for Firefox. When I buy stuff on the web, it can aut-fill the fields that it highlighted for me. I never used the credit card fields, but it was pretty sweet with all the Demo stuff. Can any of you experts help me? Thanks in advance.

There is a Googlebar for Firefox, however, AutoFill is not a component of it.

Firefox does store formfield data already; however, you have to start typing in each field to see the possible matches.

Thanks RedLemon. This is a huge bummer and something that made forms so much easier. - one click and it was done. I installed the Google toobar extension and I was hoping to find one that did this too. I can't seem to move the google toolbar though. I would like to shrink the address bar and put it next to that since I don't use all of the buttons on it and then I would have more space on the screen.

The middle click thing could make it very difficult to use any other browsers from here out though. . . nice feature. Oh yeah and the CRAZY adblocking stuff may mess up formatting some, but it even gets those annoying ones that are not pop-up windows but they are something else (flash?).

thanks - i just switched from mozilla after reading this thread

it's lovely!

Did you right-click on the toolbar and choose Customize? You should be able to move everything with that. I don't use the Googlebar, so I don't know about that one specifically.

OK, I have a new answer for this, and it works in EVERY browser. Go to the following page, fill it out, and save the resulting JavaScript as a bookmark. It works really well, from my limited testing.

And, in Firefox, you can assign a name to the bookmark (I use 'fill'), so when you reach a page, type Ctrl-L to hilight the URLbar, type in 'fill', hit enter, and everything is filled in for you! Much fun.

----edit
I am a moron, and the page is here: AutoFill

And the "following page "would be? ;)

See above, this time for sure!

And stay tuned for Firefox 0.9, coming to you in about a week! The new extension manager is very nice, and will be even better once all the extension writers update their extensions to work with it. Also, there's a new theme; don't complain ;).

...Since you asked so nicely, I won't. :mad: I will, however, promptly install a different one.

All right! Works well in my brief testing. Thanks a lot. It was really nice of you to keep your eyes open like that for me.

I love firefox. I simply couldn't imagine using anything else.

So I just installed the release candidate for Firefox 0.9, and I seem to have lost all my bookmarks. It overwrote them with the ones from IE. Drat. You might want to back up your bookmarks before you install the new version. Unless someone knows a fix.....

Which OS, and which version of Firefox did you have before (was it a 0.8+ nightly, or the 0.8 official release, or something else)?

There is hope.

Heck, let's do this the easy way. Search on your hard drive for "bookmarks.html".

In Fx 0.9, the profile directory has been moved to a new place. On WinXP, that is:
c:\Documents and Settings\[me]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox

Previously, it was in
c:\Documents and Settings\[me]\Application Data\Firefox

and before that,
c:\Documents and Settings\[me]\Application Data\Phoenix

(They never made one with Firebird.) The old bookmarks should be in one of those two other locations.

That did it. Thanks. For reference, it was Win2k with the offical release of 0.8. I found the old bookmarks burried in ~/application data/Phoenix/Profiles/default/vvjeg5e8.slt/

Appreicate the help!:D

Yep, I just had to pull the same thing. Not a hard fix, but had me worried there for a minute. I hope they fix that for the full release of 0.9.

I love Firefox and cannot wait for 0.9! keep up the good work :)

like 0.9... but how do i setup the user.js file settings... i copied my 0.8 one to 0.9 and it doesnt seem to be working...

Well, the user.js file goes in the profile folder, and the profile folder moved. You might be dropping it in the wrong place? It is now in ~\Mozilla\Firebird .

'about:config' allows you to change a lot of the settings in user.js file. It also has a very handy filter..

I just downloaded Firefox today. It's seems great, except when I'm on TFP. It keeps showing these scroll things:

http://reelrage.com/photos/firefox1.jpg
http://reelrage.com/photos/firefox2.jpg
http://reelrage.com/photos/firefox3.jpg

I'm using Mac OS 10.2. The same thing happens with Mozilla 1.6 and Camino 0.8. Anyone know what's up with this??

I like the tabbed browsing, except when I click the wrong X by accident and close about 10 pages!

There should be a warning dialog if you try to close the browser with more than one tab open.

Mine asks for confirmation if there's more than one tab open. I don't know how you turned it off, I always thought it was default.

I've got a new problem in the new version. For some reason when I click an email link, it opens up Yahoo! Email instead of Thunderbird, which I prefer. I can't see anywhere to change this though.

You can't attach PDF files as images, but I already know what you are talking about. Could you convert them to JPEG for the rest of the class?

These show up on my Mac Firefox, but not my Windows Firefox. They are very annoying, and sometimes obscure the post text. This is the only site that I use Safari for when Mac surfing.

The Mac version is still a bit behind the others, but Ben Goodger still intends to get the Mac version working well. It is just on a lower priority. See the Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Roadmap for more details.

It is also possible that the upcoming upgrade to vBulletin 3.x will make the problem go away. I'm hoping...

browser.tabs.warnOnClose is defaulted to 'true'. I think there's a standard Options preference to change this, but I can't find it right now. Type 'about:config' in your URL bar to find that preference and modify it.

Sorry about that. I just switched them to JPEGs.

Thanks for the info. Hopefully the problem will get fixed soon. I can't stand using two different browsers, so for now I'll stick to Safari.

I just posted a note in TFP Support about this, since I'm not the only one.

Ah ha! FIgured it out. Actually I was using 0.8; I didn't know that 0.9 is out. I just upgraded to it and it now has that feature which is activated by default. Very cool! :)

Weird. Now I've downloaded different themes for Firefox and I don't see those scroll things anymore. They only seem to show up with the default theme. Of course with these other themes there is no scoller (is that what you would call it?) in the scroll bar to the right. I have to guess where it is and move it around. I'll have to read back in this thread and see if you guys already covered that. :)

I'm going to back to .8. I've been having problems with the latest release. Many others have too. Hell, maybe I'll just go back to MyIE2. THat's some hot shiat right there.

It's almost advisable to wait until 0.9.1 (which I imagine they'll have as there seems to be some problems).

I just emerged it from gentoo's portage.. and it came up really nicely.

When I tried to install it at work.. it segfaulted nonstop.. until I disabled the "TalkBack" module. Then I got a window up, at least eheh.

Yeah, 0.9 was pretty squirrily. The extensions manager was NOT ready for public consumpiton.

And... firefox/releases/0.9.1 is now available. Actually works again. Post your questions!

I've been using Firefox since it was Phoenix 0.1, but I'm ready to uninstall 0.9 and go back to an older version. This never happened until 0.9, but about once every 2 days, the whole browser hangs taking up all the CPU time, and I have to kill the process, of course when I have 5 windows with 5 tabs in each window. It would be nice if there was a setting to at least make each window a seperate process so I don't lose all of my browsing when it decides to hang. 0.9.1 didn't fix it. Even Internet Explorer is much more stable.

Actually, I think I've figured out the cause of the crashes, it's something to do with the ads on Slashdot of all places. I blocked the domain ads.osdn.com and it seems to have stopped crashing.

Doesn't anybody know of an extension that'll perform like Linky?

The "download links" feature has been disabled in the latest release and I used that often.

I finally made the switch. Tabbed browsing is awesome!!!

Two questions:
1) How do I get links to open up in a new tab instead of a new window?

2) I am having trouble with plugins. After I installed Firefox, I installed Quicktime like they said, but the plugins were not beign recognized?!?

It REALLY should be built-in, but for now you have to use extensions. There are three main extensions:

Tabbrowser Extensions, aka TBE. This is huge, and can slow Firefox down in certain circumstances.

Tabbrowser Preferences, aka TBP. I use this one. Doesn't have all the features of TBE, but I use 3 other extensions to pick up those details.

Window-Q. I haven't tried this one.

I'm pretty sure it is built in. Right-click on the link and select "Open in New Tab," or just middle-click on it.

Some mouse gesture extensions will let you right-click on the link while dragging up. This saves a surprising amount of time.

Oh, right, I was answering a slightly different question than the one that was asked. Oops.

My answer was to the question "how to I prevent links from opening in new windows and force them into tabs?". That's the part that should be in the core, rather than an extension.

Anyone running Firefox on Windows 2000? I have it running here at work and its crazy unstable--on my XP box at home though, its rock solid. No good :(

Oh okay.

The methods I mention also allow you to do that if you're dealing with a plain HTML link, although they aren't a catch-all.

allright, I'm reviving the general Firefox thread...

1. to keep things neat.

2. because I'm giving it another try.

so far, after a couple hours of using it, I'm quite pleased.
My mouse gestures are working and things open in new tabs...still looking for a good theme though. (found one on deviantart, but was having problems with the jarfile, invalid or corrupt?).

anyways - 2 Q's for the moment:

1. I've got coloured text in my sig (using a hex code) and it shows in IE and Opera, but not in Firefox. Why?

2. IRC protocol links - opens them with IRC fine, (which was one of my issues with Opera)...but does not copy the pack info to my clipboard like IE does.
any way to fix that?

regarding the color in your sig, that is odd. It's odd because I use Firefox exclusively and used to see it, and now I don't. :confused:

Aaron Spuler makes some pretty nice themes. You can find his site
here. I really like the "Smoke" theme. There is one for Firefox, as well as Thunderbird (if you use that too).

SMeth - yeah, it is weird.

I'd made an edit to my sig, adding the last line, so I checked to see if I f'd up my vB code then...
Nope.

I've got pink text now, by using color=pink and not color=some6digithexcode and it's showing up fine for me.

but I also double-checked, the hex works fine in Opera, not FFox.

No huge problem, just kind of odd - I haven't checked to see if all vB color tags using hex are rendered inoperable in FFox, but that would be silly if that were the case.

@ Obtuse - thanks for the link, I too am trying the Smoke theme. All of his others were way too big/colorful/childish for my taste.
I like streamlined, smooth, small, sexy.
Smoke is still a bit too big (yes using small icons w/o text) - w/Opera, I was using Breeze, which is nice and small and sleek. The FFox version of Breeze is what I was trying to, and failing to install @ deviant.
size-wise, if I could just trim the top/bottom of the icon/address row, and shrink the tabs a couple px shorter, it just might not be so bad.
/me wonders how hard it is to edit themes ...

...and something happened to my search box. the one to the right of the address box in the navigation toolbar. It was google, now it's ebay.
if I did it, it was an accident...and I cannot figure out how to get it back to google.. :cries:

Click the icon on the left in the search box. It will drop down a menu. Click google's icon.

Anyone want to give a quick explanation of firefox "safe mode"?

Quick explaination is that it's firefox with all of the extensions disabled and with the default settings(?).

This is useful so that you can trouble shoot if one of your extensions is causing a problem.