Firefox

Lunar Jesty · **Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:15 am

firemarc924 wrote:

Firefox used to be the thing that made people able to say, "I dont follow the man I play by my own Internet rules! Firefox is faster, cooler looking, and it is beter! IM not afraid to change!" But then Linux came, a free Operating sever with Internet in a cool package, and can look like anything. I am sorry that firefox users cant say the man cant bring them down.

...er, you know Linux has been around for almost ten years, is not the internet, and has nothing to do with Firefox besides being open-source? (?)

firemarc924 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:18 am

-Hides under a rock for ten years-

minib198 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:48 am

Oh yeah! I can't wait for Firefox 2 to come out! *waits patiently*

Jello B. · **Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:36 am

Lunar Jesty wrote:

er, you know Linux has been around for almost ten years

Correction: 15 years.

Neurario · **Joined:** Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:13 pm **Posts:** 267

minib198 wrote:

Oh yeah! I can't wait for Firefox 2 to come out! *waits patiently*

There IS the beta, you know. (refers to own posts on this thread, check the middle of Page 2)

ready for prime time · **Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:02 am

a personal favorite of mine is the search page function. not that it has it, but i like the way it searches for the letter as soon as you press the key, so you know that it's not there after a couple of letters, or you find it after a couple of letters.

oh, yeah! when it blocks popups, it says so at the top of the screen, so you can open it if you want to. with the toolbars that you *ahem* have to get for IE to block popups, they usually don't even say that it blocked a popup.

Neurario · **Joined:** Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:13 pm **Posts:** 267

Uh, I don't think the Windows Live Toolbar thread is this one.

ready for prime time · **Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:27 am

yeah, it's the firefox one. what's your point?

Neurario · **Joined:** Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:13 pm **Posts:** 267

Sorry, it's just I haven't encountered these features in Firefox. Is this an extension?

ready for prime time · **Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:03 am

no, press ctrl + F.
at the bottom of the screen, a search page bar.

Neurario · **Joined:** Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:13 pm **Posts:** 267

Ohhhh, you mean that. I thought you meant the actual search bar. Whoops!

Yeah, that IS a cool feature. I use it to find some GameGenie cheats when I'm playing Mario.

ready for prime time · **Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:17 am

good point.
intergrated search bar.

racerx_is_alive · **Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:41 pm

After years of using vi, Firefox has the absolute most natural search in the world. You don't have to press Ctrl-F, you can just press the '/' key and start searching.

I'm excited that in FF2, it will search within textboxes.

Jello B. · **Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:30 pm

racerx_is_alive wrote:

I'm excited that in FF2, it will search within textboxes.

Holy crap, really? I've been wanting this feature forever!

On a related note, I'm currently using Minimo, the Mozilla browser for Windows Mobile/CE, and it's SO much better than the Internet Exploder that comes with it.

StrongRad · **Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:57 pm

racerx_is_alive wrote:

After years of using vi, Firefox has the absolute most natural search in the world. You don't have to press Ctrl-F, you can just press the '/' key and start searching.

I'm excited that in FF2, it will search within textboxes.

I don't hit Ctrl-F when I do searches, I just type.
There's that option in Firefox 1.5.0.6

ButtdanceHR · **Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:59 pm

In firefox, when I go to sign in at this forum, it doesn't and stays at the same page, even though it says it has loaded. When I unclick the automatically log me in thing, it does the same thing, but takes longer. Any suggestions?

ramrod · **Posted:** Wed Sep 13, 2006 12:16 am

ButtdanceHR wrote:

In firefox, when I go to sign in at this forum, it doesn't and stays at the same page, even though it says it has loaded. When I unclick the automatically log me in thing, it does the same thing, but takes longer. Any suggestions?

Hmm....try clearing your cookies and cache. That's usually the solution to a lot of FF problems.

Neurario · **Joined:** Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:13 pm **Posts:** 267

Noticed this and thought I would share it.

http://www.worldfirefoxday.com/en/

Quote:

You chose Firefox for a reason.

You made an informed decision about the way you want to use the Web. You’ve become part
of the movement on which Firefox relies – a community that is restoring balance to the
Web.

Starting on July 15, the day that the Mozilla Foundation was created, we ask that you
tell just one person who doesn’t use Firefox why you think they should, why you do.

Share Firefox with a friend. If your friend downloads Firefox before September 15,
you’ll both be immortalized in Firefox 2.

EDIT: Excuse me while I dance to my 100th post. :eekdance:

Sarge · **Posted:** Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:47 pm

Hey guys: Firefox 2.0 Release Candidate 1 is out now.
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla ... es/2.0rc1/

Neurario · **Joined:** Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:13 pm **Posts:** 267

Just downloaded it.

Pretty...kinda. ^^

cyco · **Posted:** Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:26 pm

Ok, sorry for the large bump, but I have a firefox question.

When it saves form information, like a subject box, how do I get rid of it without getting rid of everything else saved?
Like if I spell my email address wrong in one, and it comes up every single time before the right one, how can I delete it without getting rid of the stuff I want?

racerx_is_alive · **Posted:** Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:53 pm

It doesn't appear to me that there is a straightforward way to do that. If only they had a "View Saved Form Data" button like they do for passwords. I'll search around and come back if I find anything good though.

EDIT: Looks there used to be a "View Saved Form Data" button in Sept 2001. I wonder if it can be brought back through about:config or something.

EDIT: formhistory.dat is in your profile. I'm not sure what the format is, as I haven't ever turned on saving Form Data, so it doesn't show up for me.

formhistory.dat can be converted to xml using the dumpAutoComplete tool at http://www.foundstone.com/resources/freetools.htm. I'm still figuring out how to go back though. Perhaps a comparison of the xml output with the dat will allow you to figure out what needs to be deleted in the original.

LAST EDIT: I'm now reading that you can highlight the entry in the autocomplete list and hit Shift-Delete and it will remove it from the list.

Sarge · **Posted:** Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:15 am

Check http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla ... /releases/ for the latest release candidate (which at this point is RC3). There may or may not be an RC4 before it goes RTM.

Sarge · **Posted:** Sat Oct 21, 2006 7:05 am

Latest rumor is that Firefox 2.0 will go RTM next Tuesday. Cannot confirm at this time.

extremejon09 · **Joined:** Mon May 10, 2004 10:28 pm **Posts:** 4675

What I want more then anything else in Firefox: A hotkey to insta-switch between tabs.

Phlip · **Posted:** Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:22 am

extremejon09 wrote:

What I want more then anything else in Firefox: A hotkey to insta-switch between tabs.

You mean like Ctrl+Tab? The same shortcut key as that's used to switch tabs in almost any program that has tabs?

extremejon09 · **Joined:** Mon May 10, 2004 10:28 pm **Posts:** 4675

Phlip wrote:

extremejon09 wrote:

What I want more then anything else in Firefox: A hotkey to insta-switch between tabs.

You mean like Ctrl+Tab? The same shortcut key as that's used to switch tabs in almost any program that has tabs?

HOARRAY!

Chris Bad · **Posted:** Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:34 pm

fire fox is the best amn

Neo · **Posted:** Sun Oct 22, 2006 2:55 am

I caved in and downloaded firefox. [s]But I have a problem. Firefox seems inable to log me into the forum. Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone know how to fix it?[/s]

Edit: I got it to work!

I just clicked on the log-in button instead of using the log in bar at the bottom of the page. No clue why that worked but it did!

Code J · **Posted:** Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:05 pm

OMG FIREFOX TWO OUT NOWWWW!!!

BUILT IN SPELL CHECK, AWESOME NEW SEARCH DEALIE, TAB BUTTONS AND A LOT MORE. AIIIII!!!!

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