Holy moly. I just installed Firefox on my linux box at work. Usually, installing software when you don’t have root access on linux machines is a hassle of editing configuration files, but not this time. Smooth as silk.
Now I have it running and it looks great. I’m loving the new features. You rule, Tentacle Monster!
I just got Firefox about a week or so ago, based on another thread here. os far, I like it. I’ve been playing around with changing the “throbber” (the little animated Activity Indicator). You can replace it with nearly any appropriately-sized animated GIF (to show activity) and a similarly-sized static image (to show the browser is stopped). There’s also a large number of configurations options to be found, if you point the address bar to about:config.
Damn, you’re right! Thanks, Moon-Watcher!
How’s the Star Child doing these days?
Holy moly! That RULES!
I use Firefox at home and Mozilla at work. I’m totally addicted to “Block images from this server”. I’ve never even needed to install the AdBlock extension, that command in the right-click menu on an image has always worked fabulously for me. I used MouseGestures until I got a Wacom tablet.
I had to switch to Mozilla at work, because of one teeny tiny feature that Tabbrowser Extensions has - but I couldn’t get it to work (the whole extension, not just the feature I want) on my new machine at work. For some reason, a seemingly random collection of configuration options in the Tabbrowser preference settings won’t actually change. I click on the radio button for the option I want, click on Apply, and the radio button for the default gets selected. Unfortunately, one of the options it does this for is the single reason I installed it in the first place, so I switched to Mozilla with Multizilla installed.
You read my mind, Tentacle Monster. I was just thinking yesterday about starting a thread on this topic. I installed Firefox on my new computer as soon as i set it up, and the only time i ever use IE now is to test webpages that i’ve written to make sure they work on Explorer.
Actually, for me, one of the greatest things about Firefox is directly related to my time on the SDMB. I’m sure you’ve all had those times when you’ve composed a nice long post and hit “Submit,” only to get the dreaded white screen and lose your carefully-constructed message. This is an inevitable consequence of the Dope’s occasional server problems.
But, with Firefox, when it can’t find the server, it doesn’t give you a stupid white screen. Instead, it pops up a small dialog box saying that it can’t find the server, and keeps your message on the screen. Hence, no more lost posts. Awesome!
And the extensions are awesome!
I have an extension that adds a ‘open link in IE’ option the right click menu. This lets me only open the exact page I want in IE, and not have to go through whatever page IE has allowed some spyware to make its homepage.
I love FireFox too, but there’s one thing that bugs me: Whenever I open a particularly long page (say, the MPSIMS page), I can’t open a link until the entire page is finished loading. Maybe the MPSIMS thing isn’t a good example because it usually affects document links, such as MS Word documents or MPEGs or something. But I have to wait until the entire page is finished downloading (which doesn’t take too long because FireFox rules, but still…). Any way around that?
Not completely sure, but this may be of some help to you, DooWahDiddy.
I’m a complete Firefox lover. Customization is a big deal to me, particularly when it’s as easy as the browser extensions…though I have been known to go in and tweak a bit of Firefox’s code, too (e.g. when I type words or phrases in my address bar, a relevant Google search page comes up; originally, my version of Firefox was written to take you to the first result’s page immediately).
One of the more random things I discovered in my searching for browser extensions was StumbleUpon, a button to make the Internet both more and less random. Interesting and fun concept. 
See my SU page here.
Another recent convert to Firefox here, I don’t know how I coped with IE for so long! I’ve used Thunderbird email client for ages but never really bothered with Firefox as I thought ‘it’s an internet browser, how different can it be?’. I was wrong, tabbed browsing makes life so much easier, and combined with mouse gestures makes browsing several sites a dream.
However, one problem I’ve found is you can’t change tabs if another window is open in one tab. For example, if you use the ‘Insert Hyperlink’ button on the SDMB, you cannot switch to another tab to copy the link from the address bar.
Oh, and here is a link you may find useful for speeding Firefox up a bit.
Everything about it is cool. But to me the killer feature is tabbed browsing. IE still doesn’t have that, right? If I was microsoft I’d implement that now before anything else, because it seems to be the biggest force forcing people to switch. Having to open 15 different windows on the task bar with no way to tell them apart is just impossible. Even n00bs can see that.
I am trying to get into using the firefox browser. I do like it, and tabs rock, it’s just a lot of years of habit often make me click IE first, without thinking. One thing that I don’t like, and I’m sure it’s just a settings issue, is that every link opens in a new tab. I want it so that links to the same site open in the existing tab(so that if I am, say, looking at a series of photos, each one doesn’t get a fresh new tab), while links to a different site open in a new tab. I went to Tab >Tabbrowser extention preferences>Usetab>Links, and I have “Links in browser” set to “open in current tab” and “Links which refer to other sites” set to “Open in new tab”, which should be exactly what I want, but everything opens in a new tab still. Can anyone help?
I thought I had finally found a place to answer this question, and I kill the thread. :smack: Does anyone know the solution to my question above?
If I’m reading your question correctly (which is doubtful) you can open links in the same browser by pressing the left mouse button and open links in a new tab by clicking with the middle button.
I’m not 100% sure on what you’re trying to do though.
Alright, I’ll give you an example. Say I am at this website, looking at funny pictures. I click the link for the first picture, and it opens in a new tab. I look at it, then click the “next” button for the next picture, and that opens in a new tab, and so on and so forth until I have seventy jillion tabs open, all of them a series of pictures from the same website, which kinda lessens their usefullness, y’know? I want them all to open in the tab I’m currently using.
Dave, my Firefox behaves that way by default, so maybe something got messed up. Navigate to about:config, and type tab in the Filter field. Any settings in bold have been changed from the default. I’m not entirely sure which one(s) might be the culprit here, but I’d try restoring browser.tabs.loadOnNewTab or browser.tabs.opentabfor.windowopen to the default setting first.
This sounds like exactly what I need to know, except this part:
I don’t understand what you mean. Could you explain further for an idiot like myself?
Gulp. Based on all the raves here, I’m going to download Firefox and give it a try. Might as well.
Type about:config into the address bar and it’ll load a config page where you can adjust some settings.
Okay, for some reason the board is putting an underscore where I didn’t type one.
Ignore the underscore, Dave.