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.

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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?