It installed seamlessly and quickly and everything works, except, I can’t find the spell checker anywhere. Not in any menus, nothing in Options.
It may be right in front of my nose, but I can’t see any way to find and use the much-touted spell. I went to extentsionsand found the US dictionary, but it says you have to load Spellbound. Went there, and there is no check button for FF 2.0 at all, just earlier versions.
I posted on the FF newsgroup, but it must be so loaded down, now can’t open my post there, or any of them, just times out.
The spellchecker is automatically installed and activated, as far as i can tell.
Try typing a message into the “Reply” section of an SDMB thread. If you spell a word incorrectly, it will automatically appear with a red underline.
Right now, as i type this post, the words “spellchecker” and “SDMB” are both underlined. If you right-click a word that is flagged, the context menu will give you an option to add it to your dictionary so it won’t be corrected in future. I just added SDMB to my dictionary.
After installing, I shut FF down and opened again, but that item was not in Options. I just rebooted, and it is there now, checked.
mhendo, thanks for mentioning the underline too. When I first tried it, it was so faint I did not even notice it, so thought it was not working. Happy to say, now everything works fine.
Wow, this is a bit unnerving… I made the transition from IE a long time ago, and was happy happy happy. But this upgrade leaves me a little unsettled. Mainly in the tabs, I think.
The one thing I was able to fix was putting the “Close Tabs” box back where it was. I went to Tools>Options>Display Options, then changed “show tab closure buttons” to “on the tab strip.” I have Tabbrowser Preferences 1.3.1.1., if that makes a difference.
Now, the problem that will make me find version 1.5 again (is downgrading possible?!) is multiple tabs. Between research, projects, news and the dope, I frequently have lots of tabs open at once. Knowing where they were, I was able to move back and forth with relative ease. But now? Oh, the humanity! The browser only opens ten or so before it starts scrolling!
Dear lord did I hate XP for doing me a “favour” by grouping programs in the task bar. It was one of the first things I tweaked. Now, Firefox seems to be following the “helpful” path and… and… and causing me to hyperventilate. OK, enough with the melodrama – anyone know how to get the darn tabs to just get smaller and smaller ad infinitum and NOT scroll?
Oh… and any news on colourful tabs? I installed it on a whim, thinking it was a silly, froofy extension. Boy, do I miss it already.
Well, the great thing about Firefox is that, with a bit of investigation, you can usually fix this sort of thing yourself. In the couple of years that i’ve been using the browser, i’ve become much more confident and adept at changing settings in about:config, and i think i’ve found the solution to your problem.
If you don’t want your tabs to scroll, do this:
Type about:config in to the address bar and press enter. You’ll get a whole long screen full of settings.
Scroll down until you get to the setting marked browser.tabs.tabMinWidth
Right-click on that entry, and in the context menu, click Modify.
When the dialog box pops up, the default value should be 100 (at least, it was in my browser). Change that value to a very small number (i selected 10).
Now, instead of 100 pixels, the minimum width of a tab before they start scrolling is 10 pixels, allowing far more tabs to pile up in the window. If you wanted to ensure they never scroll, i guess you could set a value of 1 or 2.
Ahhh… restart Firefox! I’d found under Tool>Options>Tabbed Browsing>Display Options the choice of minimum pixel size (and one for tab + close button). But it didn’t work, so I posted my post. I saw mhendo’s post and it hit me to try restarting – and with just the tool’s menu change it worked. Thanks for the suggestion!
Hmmmm…I’ve encountered a very strange bug…occassionally, when clicking a link (or middle-clicking one), instead of acting on it, the page gets scrolled up to the top.
Nanodo, Mhendo: Thanks! I had no idea that config business existed. How nifty. My damn close button is back! That was the one thing that was consternating me.
Wow, the spell check is pretty cool.
Nice threadshitting. I don’t think anyone here cares if you want to try Firefox again or not.
Install couldn’t have been easier. Love the spell checker. I was a few revs back so this is a huge improvement. It may be my imagination but it seems like web pages, and not just the SDMB, are loading more quickly. This is great.
Really? I feel like I’ve been using Firefox for more than 2 years … it was under a different name the first time I downloaded it, but I don’t remember that one now. It was two name changes ago, IIRC.
But in all seriousness, if you were trying something which wasn’t called Firefox, you were trying a very different creature to the current offering. Phoenix and Firebird were names in use until version 0.7.1, to give some (meaningless) perspective on how much the software has moved on.
I don’t mind the little red X’s in the corners of the tabs but it’s rare that I ever have more than three tabs open at any one time.
I would love it if people would suggest some of their favorite plug-ins and why you like them. Maybe I could learn about something new that I would enjoy.
One thing that bugged me about the last version that I was using (and may yet still be an issue on this version) was that I would get a little box every once in a while telling me that there was an update available and then when I checked it would always be for the Yahoo tool bar. I fucking hate the Yahoo tool bar. I hope that that nonsense is gone for good.
