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HoboBen
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Getting used to Firefox 3 |
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Ubuntu notified me that I had 49 updates yesterday, for various libraries and software packages. I didn't notice that Swiftfox (an optimized version of Firefox, for Linux, that is incredibly fast) had an upgrade from v2 to v3 beta in there (firefox 3 just left alpha and has now hit beta) So there I was, surprised with the new version of Firefox, which I didn't particularly want yet. But I stuck with it, and I'm growing to get used to it. Most my extensions were broke for not officially supporting v3, so I had to add these two values into about:config extensions.checkCompatibility = false extensions.checkUpdateSecurity = false I thought seeing as this might end up crashing things, to disable the non-important ones. There's some neat new features: The URL bar contains a lot more information in the history, and searches titles as well as URLs:  It took me a while to get used to, and I didn't like it at first, but it makes it a lot easier to find articles that I can't remember the URL to. Any bookmark folders don't instantly close when you open links inside them - this is great because now when a bookmarked RSS feed shows more than one result, I don't have to repeatedly open the folder. I can open multiple new posts in one go instead.  A plugin manager  There's some more fancy stuff like giving your bookmarks tags, but I don't care for that. There's better native UI integration. It feels faster. (At least on Linux) Full tooltips/titles - I can now read XKCD comics without having to view the source code!  But on the downside, there's still some issues (it's Beta release 1, after all) - my File/Edit/View bar sometimes stops working, the drag + drop of bookmarks in folders is inaccurate (though an improvement - v2 in Linux didn't let you do that at all - you had to go through the manage bookmarks tool) and a lot of my RSS feeds aren't parsed properly by Firefox. Also, some very large pages are quite sluggish. So.... anyone else jumped aboard and started using it yet? |
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| Sunday, 09 December 2007, 19:12 | |
Jayenkai
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I gave it a go a couple of weeks ago, but decided to go back since I couldn't live without my Google Toolbar  Now I know I can disable the check I might bother to try it again. 
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| Sunday, 09 December 2007, 19:13 | |
HoboBen
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Remember if it breaks, there's always Firefox safe mode. 
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| Sunday, 09 December 2007, 22:15 | |
power mousey
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Hobo, I'm surprised you don't have the Adblock plug in. Maybe you do...but just in case if you don't. Also, others here may like to know too. The Adblock plug in..... adblock.mozdev.org/ |
| Monday, 10 December 2007, 15:03 | |
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HoboBen
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Yep, I couldn't live without AdBlock Plus - always the first thing I install.
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