Author Topic: firefox 4 (Read 1715 times)

Jeff · « **on:** March 28, 2011, 10:01:24 pm »

so far i like it

fishpharmer · « **Reply #1 on:** March 28, 2011, 10:20:46 pm »

I'll give it a try. Went from firefox 3.6 to IE 8. Maybe back to firefox.

Warbird · « **Reply #2 on:** March 29, 2011, 12:50:43 am »

I hate it because it broke something at work.

tyb525 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 29, 2011, 12:52:15 am »

I went from firefox 3.6 to Chrome. I was skeptical, but I like Chrome much, much better. It's faster (imo), and takes up much less viewing space, among other things.

Jeff · « **Reply #4 on:** March 29, 2011, 01:07:51 am »

I didnt like chrome

Warbird · « **Reply #5 on:** March 29, 2011, 10:47:30 am »

I didn't like Chrome either but in all honesty, I didn't give it much of a chance. FF is a great browser. I just wish vendors would have their specific applications/products ready for the newest versions of browser by the time it is released.

tyb525 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 29, 2011, 01:18:14 pm »

It took some time to get used to chrome, but now I like it. Maybe it's because it is a lightweight browser, and I personally prefer that over a heavier one with lots features.

I also haven't tried chrome on a windows machine, so there could be difference. (I'm using Ubuntu 10.04)

Jeff · « **Reply #7 on:** March 29, 2011, 01:24:43 pm »

ff4 may be lighter than chrome now. definitely fast.

tyb525 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 29, 2011, 01:25:14 pm »

I'll have to give it a try

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #9 on:** March 29, 2011, 04:48:47 pm »

Jeff do you notice your navigation buttons all out of arrangement? My "Noscript" is up with it and not down in the status bar. I checked over the preferences, but I don't see where you can fix the navigation bar. Like I have the stop/reload icon in the URL field with the add bookmark icon on the far right in the field and the home icon is over on the far right end by the Google search add-on.

Magicman · « **Reply #10 on:** March 29, 2011, 04:57:39 pm »

The tabs got moved. Panic time when I couldn't find them. If it doesn't work, I can do a System Restore.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #11 on:** March 29, 2011, 05:04:09 pm »

Mine got put up top, so under "View/Toolbars" I unchecked "Tabs to Top" If you don't see Tabs, then Tools/Options/Tabs and select "Always show tab bar".

I fixed the nav bar, I had to go into View/Toolbars/Customize and drag and drop the icons. I see an annoying status bar thingy though, that has to go.

Jeff · « **Reply #12 on:** March 29, 2011, 05:54:02 pm »

watch the ff whats new video. it explains the rearrange. I like it.

clearcut · « **Reply #13 on:** March 30, 2011, 12:10:54 am »

A good article about how to change some of the interface elements in Firefox 4:

http://lifehacker.com/#!5784783/how-to-fix-annoyances-with-firefox-4s-new-look

One of the advantages of Firefox is how customizable it can be.

Using the Stylish Add-on and editing the userChrome.css file can make Firefox look and do pretty much what you want.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #14 on:** March 30, 2011, 07:37:12 am »

I downloaded the add-0n to bring back the status bar. I didn't like that new link window on the bottom. Zappo, gone.

Ironwood · « **Reply #15 on:** March 30, 2011, 09:09:16 am »

I thought ya'll were talking about skinning out pigs and rendering fat

I thought Foxfire 4 had been out fer years, I wondered why it had came "back up".

The discussion on "Chrome" gave it away, no mention of chrome in ANY of my Foxfire's.

Ironwood

Magicman · « **Reply #16 on:** April 03, 2011, 08:51:55 pm »

I really like the little search window in the top right that sends me directly to Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Ebay, etc.

northwoods1 · « **Reply #17 on:** April 04, 2011, 01:19:07 pm »

Where did they put the refresh button?

Jeff · « **Reply #18 on:** April 04, 2011, 01:30:06 pm »

Its clear to the left, but you can put it anywhere you want. I moved my home button and the refresh button to the left, just to the right of my back button. I also put my tabs below as I did not like them above the address bar.

To move the buttons location, go to view/toolbars/customize Remove the button you want to move by dragging in and dropping it in the customization box, then add it back to where you want it by dragging it out of the customization box to the new location.

DouginUtah · « **Reply #19 on:** April 04, 2011, 02:21:52 pm »

Hmmm. My refresh button is to the right--just to the right of the star (Bookmark this page).

Jeff · « **Reply #20 on:** April 04, 2011, 02:34:51 pm »

you are right. I meant my other right. I'm a bit dull minded still. The instructions are still correct though for moving it. I THINK.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #21 on:** April 04, 2011, 04:52:52 pm »

All I did was right click on one of the navigation buttons and select "customize" in the drop down. The customize window comes up, but I just ignored that. Then I just left click on any of the navigation buttons and hold and drag it where ever and let go. Done.

Magicman · « **Reply #22 on:** April 04, 2011, 07:38:35 pm »

Well, that was easy enough. I've kinda gotten everything where I want it now. I wanted that stuff over on my 'other" right next to the back button. Thanks.

northwoods1 · « **Reply #23 on:** April 04, 2011, 08:08:27 pm »

Quote from: Magicman on April 04, 2011, 07:38:35 pm

Well, that was easy enough. I've kinda gotten everything where I want it now. I wanted that stuff over on my 'other" right next to the back button. Thanks.

Ha ha, yes exactly. Thanks Swamp & Jeff I got it back on the other right side now. I guess old timers like me can't handle change when it comes to fast

isawlogs · « **Reply #24 on:** April 22, 2011, 08:01:38 am »

Computers !!!!

Bear with me ....

Before this ff4 , when I closed my computer it asked if I wanted to save my open windows or something like that , wich I always said yes too. Then when I opened this box, all that I was looking at was right there. That was real good for me and my tweety bird memory, now I need to write all that down before closing so I can go back to where I was and continue the searches I was doing ...
Question : Is there a way to get this FF4 to save my windows and open them back up like the old one and if so is there a way of doing this easily ( easily for me )

Jeff · « **Reply #25 on:** April 22, 2011, 09:30:15 am »

History/ Restore previous session

Raider Bill · « **Reply #26 on:** April 22, 2011, 11:38:28 am »

I switched from Chrome but now my bookmarks are all messed up. It appears every website I ever went to is now a bookmark. Theres thousands of them.
Looks like I'm going to be going through them this weekend.

isawlogs · « **Reply #27 on:** April 22, 2011, 08:03:18 pm »

Merçi mon capitaine

Warbird · « **Reply #28 on:** April 23, 2011, 01:25:00 am »

Quote from: Raider Bill on April 22, 2011, 11:38:28 am

I switched from Chrome but now my bookmarks are all messed up. It appears every website I ever went to is now a bookmark. Theres thousands of them.
Looks like I'm going to be going through them this weekend.

You shouldn't be browsing those sorts of sites anyway!

Raider Bill · « **Reply #29 on:** April 23, 2011, 08:17:29 am »

I do research all day it's a lot of sites!

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #30 on:** June 13, 2011, 05:40:27 pm »

A nifty add-on to Firefox (since V 3.6), if your updating software and it's large, is to use "Downthemall". I am on dial-up and these updates often times require an over night download, but sometimes can timeout. Well it timed out 3 times this weekend updating ArcPad 10 before I went exploring for a Download Manager. A Download Manager allows you to pick up where you left off if a connection is lost or it times out, or you loose power. There are a lot more features as well.

Link to DownThemAll: http://about.downthemall.net/2.0/index.en-US.html

You'll see a donate button on the website and on the software, but it's free, no need to donate unless you want.

Now when you click a link to download the file a new line appears in Firefox's 'Downloads' window where you can choose to use 'DownThemAll' with a radio button to it's left.

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