Actually, it was only confusing until I figured out what was happening. I prefer the new way once I break old habits.
The new themes, sorry “Personas”, mechanism is pretty cool. You get live previews of the theme at the website, and if you like what you see you can activate it imediately, no FF restart required.
I always found themes a little clunky in the past and ended up sticking to the default, but in 3.6 they seem pretty slick.
I haven’t looked to see if it can be changed, but now when I right click on a link and open in a new tab, it opens immediately to the right of the tab I’m in, instead of opening as the last one on the right. It doesn’t do it consistently either. I’m sure there’s a rhyme or reason I haven’t figured out yet, but it never did that before the update.
I looked through them but I still see no point. They all seem to make Firefox slightly prettier and a lot less functional.
That was already mentioned above, though I have to wonder why you don’t just middle click. Do you not have a scroll mouse?
The logic is basically that related tabs should stay next to each other, so when you close one, you go back to the other, instead of having to look up and find it. But I can understand preferring the other way. It’s easier to keep track of which tabs you’ve already seen, for one.
To switch it back, you have to go under the hood. Type about:config in the Awesome (URL) bar. After pressing Enter, click the “I’ll be careful” button. Use the search field on top to find tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent, and double-click on that to toggle the option. When it’s set to “false,” tabs should open up on the far right again.
How do they do the latter? All they do is add background images to the toolbars and stuff, right? Do they prevent you from using customized buttons or something?
Awesome! That’s exactly what I was looking for.
I just noticed another annoying little thing in Firefox 3.6 that maybe someone will know how to change. In my older version of Firefox, there was a little down arrow next to the Back and Forward buttons in the toolbar, that when clicked would show a whole list of recently visited pages. I don’t see that in 3.6.
Mine has it.
No not really. They just make everything look really bad. Let’s just say, to me, they’re a distraction.
I understand where you’re coming from – I don’t like screen savers or wallpaper or any pointless eye candy, and I found in previous versions of Firefox that Themes would sometimes cause problems such as slightly misaligned toolbar buttons, and perhaps sluggish response, although I could have been imagining that. But having become used to the nicer look of Firefox under Windows 7, it does look awfully plain in Windows XP. So I tried the Personas, and I have not noticed any glitches this time. They seem to work more smoothly than before.
You do have to be choosy about which themes you use. Approximately 95% of them are garish sci-fi hellscapes.
Probably the easier way to fix it would be to get the Tab Mix Plus extension and set it in there. It is working fine with 3.6 on my system.
I am having one issue. When I go to a site that reloads to update stories, it is adding pages rather than just reloading the one page over and over. If I stay on a site like that for long, I get a long list of links in my drop down history list. This is annoying.
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I remember reading the post, but when I posted, it must have complete slipped my mind.
I have a laptop, so no mouse, and my external scroll mouse doesn’t click on the wheel.
I’ll look into that. I have messed around in the about: config, but I prefer to make only permanent changes there. I can see the use of next-to tab opening AND far-right tab opening depending on my use. For me, I find it easier to change preferences in add-ons than to remember the value and field in about:config.
I was doing some work online and having to open and close a lot of new tabs while I had two work tabs open that I didn’t close and having the related new tab open next to the matching work tab was nice. But sometimes I open a bunch of things in tabs to read later, so when they don’t open up at the end, it messes up my order. Decisions, decisions.
I haven’t noticed any differences other than that. It does seem to be hanging up a little less, but it could just be my system.
You’re right, it *is *there! It’s just smaller and off to the side so I didn’t notice it at first.
IE Tab won’t work with Firefox 3.6, but there’s a pretty decent substitute.
Coral IE Tab works exactly like the original version. In addition, your cookies and AdBlock Plus settings will be synched to the IE view, so you can stay logged into sites and keep all ads blocked.
3.6 isn’t opening links or spawning tabs/windows properly for me, sometimes - for example, I clicked on the links in this thread and nothing happened at all. I typed firefox not opening links in the search bar and clicked the glass icon, nothing happened. I minimised the window and double-clicked the firefox icon on my desktop to open a brand new window - nothing happened.
And in those occasions where I used to get 'firefox is already running…" error messages, when trying to open a new session after closing all the existing firefox windows, I now just get nothing - Firefox won’t launch, and won’t tell me why it’s not launching.
I think I might go back to 3.5.
Since you’ll have to reinstall anyways to get back to 3.5, why don’t you do a complete reinstall of 3.6 first? There’s plenty of other stuff you can try, too, if your interested. There’s no reason Firefox should be doing that.
Yeah, I’ll probably give that a try - thanks.
How do you change the size of the Location Bar?
I’ve looked everywhere and apparently it looks like it can not be changed.
Or I’m missing the point.
Position your cursor to the right end of it, between it and the search bar. The pointer will turn into a double-headed arrow. Then just move it to the right or left to change the size.