Yes, I’m still a Firefox snob — with so many lovely extensions, how could I not be?
Well, Firefox 2 was released to much fanfare and there are a few improvements that have been catalogued by folks much more qualified than myself — which I am enjoying.
Perhaps the most helpful is being able to close my tabs without having to right click –> close.
The anti-phishing elements, auto-completion feature, persistent sessions are all splenda on the cake as far as I’m concerned; it tastes ok, but its not really all that filling — or appropriate for my tastes (or uses).
The most annoying? How tabs don’t automatically shrink, but the tab line “scrolls” with arrows the more you open up. There’s a way around this, but I’m too lazy to implement it right now.
Actually, I’m sorry. Its not THE most annoying thing about firefox.
The most annoying feature of Firefox is that I am still running into memory leak problems; its not uncommon that the footprint STILL balloons out to consume all available RAM on this poor aging behemoth of a PC.
Moreover — in the “new” annoying feature category – in the two weeks since I’ve installed it, Firefox has crashed at least 5 times.
Five times!
It seems like there are yet other issues with Firefox 2 — including a denial of service bug; other people seem to think that an awful lot of kool aid is going around as well.
(If anyone has a solution to the memory leak issues I’d love to hear it.)
November 3rd, 2006 at 1:01 am | Permalink
About closing tabs: you could also use middle-click on the top of the tab to close it. And middle-click also opens a link into a new tab.
As for the memory footprint - yeah it’s still a hog. But it hasn’t crashed on me yet. Maybe it’s a problem with an extension or two?
November 3rd, 2006 at 1:06 am | Permalink
Know what else I discovered?
control - pageup / down scrolls between tabs.
It was like NIRVANA when I discovered that! :D
(is that new? Or did I just say a noobie thing?)
Anyway — could it be an extension problem?
I guess.
But the random shutdowns of my browser (RSomB?) haven’t yet reached the point where the annoyance of that > the annoyance of disabling all of my extensions, then re-starting firefox one by one.
God, what a nightmare that would be.
Thanks for stopping by — love “mooiness” the blog.
Cheers
t @ dji
November 15th, 2006 at 4:46 am | Permalink
Firefox changed our (mine and FooFoo’s) world and gave us a true reason to be ashamed at Microsoft for not having abolished Internet Explorer…
With that said, we recently upgraded to FireFox 2 and were no longer able to find anyway in which to make our Middle-Click open a link in a new tab and are curious whether Microsoft have gone and botched things up…
Before we confuse anyone, we would like to just point out that the reason we blame Microsoft for our latest FireFox problem is because we are using (even gold-fishes’ use mice) a new fancy Microsoft Cordless Mouse and feel that that is the most probable reason why we cannot get our middle-click to open links in new tabs…
At the moment, all it (middle-clicking) does is minimize the window and show the one behind it (which we have quite sneakily started to have as another version of FireFox).
Is there anyone out there who can help us…?
December 20th, 2006 at 5:21 pm | Permalink
Ok, I love firefox, but I have three MAJOR gripes about it:
1. I have javascript links, e.g. i will have a link to dictionary.com and when I click on it it pops up with a window asking me to enter a word to look up, it then (and only then) goes to that website. I used to be able to middle click it, and it would open a new tab and the box would pop up. Now it doesn’t, it just opens blank.
It’s quicker if you want to see if you have spelt a word correctly, rather than go to the website (wait for it to load) then search (wait for it to load) and get your result. My links go straight to the result.
2. The tabs, as has previously been mentioned. I don’t want to scroll to find tabs, I just want them to shrink.
3. When I read a page, I often shoot off to part of the page I want to read (say half way down), I then scroll down by using the middle mouse button (not the scroll bars) and scroll down at the speed I read (as it is smooth). Now, when I middle click it shoots off to the place where the cursor is (usually at the top).
Firefox, sort this out pronto. I’ve installed IE7, thought it was a rip off of firefox, and went back to IE6 (I use IE when I want pop ups to appear, or when I search but want to del all my cookies).
;)