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Firefox 4

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brotkasten

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Page loading and scrolling feels slower in FF, but I need my plug-ins. GAF without smileys, user styles and YouTube Me isn't the same. :(
 
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feel

Member
Yeah, having the websites just disappear into the windows taskbar at the bottom makes me uneasy, plus I like hovering links so a bottom status bar like I've always had was one of the first things I went looking for. That addon also allowed me to have a decent progress bar appear inside the url bar while a page loads until the Fission guy or someone else gets a better looking version up for FF4.

After tinkering with it for longer than I'd like to admit trying to get it as close as possible to how I had FF3, I think I'm satisfied enough with it:

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This thing is very fast, I'm liking it.
 
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Souldriver

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Cday said:
"Recently Closed Tabs" is practically buried now.
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I'm looking for an extension that's basically a drop-down menu (or something to that effect) of all recently closed tabs. I have one for Chrome, but can't find a FF equivalent.
 
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Souldriver

Member
brotkasten said:
Page loading and scrolling feels slower in FF, but I need my plug-ins. GAF without smileys, user styles and YouTube Me isn't the same. :(
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All browsers scrolling behavior suck ass, except for Opera. I have extensions for scrolling in both Chrome and FF.
 
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AndyD

aka andydumi
Souldriver said:
I'm looking for an extension that's basically a drop-down menu (or something to that effect) of all recently closed tabs. I have one for Chrome, but can't find a FF equivalent.
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Tab mix plus does this. You can add a toolbar button for recent tabs and one for windows.
 
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feel

Member
No extension, Firefox is just using my Windows color scheme and the button icons get carved into the window (instead of being on the buttons that pop out) when you move them to the tabs bar.
 
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Hot Coldman

Banned
I miss FoxyTunes. :( (I know, I know, it'll get updated eventually.)

Really liking Firefox 4. It's near enough spot-on with my Firefox 3 experience, except moves at a faster clip and cleaner UI. S'all good.
 
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sotodefonk

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Letters said:
No extension, Firefox is just using my Windows color scheme and the button icons get carved into the window (instead of being on the buttons that pop out) when you move them to the tabs bar.
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Now I see. I like the tabs at top, but anything below the tabs gets white background :S
 
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Korey

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This sucks. You used to be able to double click on empty space on the tab bar to open a new tab. Now, since it's also the window bar, double clicking it resizes the window.
 
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CrookedRain

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brandonh83 said:
What theme is that FatalT?
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Just turn off Tabs on Top and you pretty much have his theme. The only thing that really seems to be changed is the Firefox button which is transparent instead of orange.
 
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eznark

Banned
Korey said:
This sucks. You used to be able to double click on empty space on the tab bar to open a new tab. Now, since it's also the window bar, double clicking it resizes the window.
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Why not just click once on the plus sign?

I dropped Firefox like a year ago. Looking forward to trying it out and seeing if there are any good add-ons.

Is there a way to sink firefox with my google account?
 
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rsam87

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Firefox 4 is pretty nice.

How do I move around the Firefox button? I want it to line up with the tabs on top bar, but right now its a row above it.

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vs

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FatalT

Banned
brandonh83 said:
Ohh. Yeah see I've been using Chrome and Opera a lot so I'm new to the newer versions of FF. Thanks.
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CrookedRain and sotodefonk got me covered. Yup, it's just the default theme with the transparent Firefox button and tabs on bottom. It's just taking my Windows 7 transparent windows theme to make it look all purdy.
 
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CrookedRain

Member
Korey said:
This sucks. You used to be able to double click on empty space on the tab bar to open a new tab. Now, since it's also the window bar, double clicking it resizes the window.
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Ctrl+T is your best friend.
 
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feel

Member
Korey said:
Not if I want to surf only with my mouse it's not


Aiming for things sucks vs click anywhere
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get "tab mix plus", then in the options make it open a new empty tab when you double click (or triple click if you have double in use by another function) any of the open tabs
 
Meohsix

Meohsix

Member
How i set up mine.
5IG13.png


used App button clear to make the orange firefox button transparent.
used Omnibar to merge url & search bar.
pinned gmail as app tab.
used roomy bookmarks to hide bookmark names.
and moved the bookmarks bar to the navigation toolbar.

i like it =)
 
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krzy123

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Had the fuzzy fonts but then i unchecked hw accel. and than turned it back on again and it seemed to clear it up. Not sure if that was the solution.
 
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Korey

Member
CrookedRain said:
You could just click the + in the tab bar. Otherwise, this should restore your old behavior...
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=575248#c27

Read comment #27.
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Damn, tried it, doesn't work. Thanks though.

Letters said:
get "tab mix plus", then in the options make it open a new empty tab when you double click (or triple click if you have double in use by another function) any of the open tabs
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An ok work around I guess...I keep clicking on the empty space though. They really should put that in as an option setting.
 
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CrookedRain

Member
Korey said:
Damn, tried it, doesn't work. Thanks though.


An ok work around I guess...I keep clicking on the empty space though. They really should put that in as an option setting.
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Did you try it with removing ":not([tabsontop="true"])" from that line? Sorry, I'm at work, so I can't really test it out right now.
 
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alr1ght

bish gets all the credit :)
Korey said:
This sucks. You used to be able to double click on empty space on the tab bar to open a new tab. Now, since it's also the window bar, double clicking it resizes the window.
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works with the classic view. Tick the menu bar (View>toolbars>menu bar).
 
Jinfash

Jinfash

needs 2 extra inches
I'm loving it so far, but there's one last thing that's keeping me from quitting chrome and going back to FF4: I love setting the most-visted / recently-closed page as my new tab / homepage AND having the option to show my bookmark toolbar only on this page. I can't stress how important and useful the latter is.

I'm still going through some add-ons trying to find one that emulates this simple task, and I found some doing a great job at recreating the former but not the latter. Any tips?
 
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lexi

Banned
Loving Firefox 4. I say this as someone who installed the beta a few months ago and hastily returned to my previous browser.

The addons are awesome, it's extremely quick, and I like customizing the layout to the n'th degree.
 
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Korey

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CrookedRain said:
Did you try it with removing ":not([tabsontop="true"])" from that line? Sorry, I'm at work, so I can't really test it out right now.
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Yea I did. I have tabs on top and it doesn't work. Tabs on bottom works though.

#navigator-toolbox > #TabsToolbar {
-moz-binding: url("chrome://global/content/bindings/toolbar.xml#toolbar")
!important;
}

My guess is that they changed some id names around since that solution was posted?
 
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Souldriver

Member
Originally posted this in the FF Beta thread, but I guess I can post it here as well:

I was wondering: is there a FF equivalent to the Chrome extension called Hover Zoom. Whenever there's a thumbnail of a picture, or there's an URL redirecting to a picture, you only have to hover your mouse over said thumbnail/URL to get a popup of the picture in original resolution. It's immensely useful, but I can't find a good working FF equivalent.

Same thing with Google Quick Scroll. When you search for something on Google (like say "neogaf I peed my pants"), and you click on a relevant search result, there will be a pop-up on the down-right of the window, and when you click it, the page will scroll automatically to the part where someone said "I peed my pants". It's very useful, so you don't have to scroll the pages searching for something, or use ctrl+f for it.
 
Jinfash

Jinfash

needs 2 extra inches
George said:
How i set up mine.
5IG13.png


used App button clear to make the orange firefox button transparent.
used Omnibar to merge url & search bar.
pinned gmail as app tab.
used roomy bookmarks to hide bookmark names.
and moved the bookmarks bar to the navigation toolbar.

i like it =)
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You're missing one tweak: "hide search engine name" from omnibar's options. ;)
 
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CrookedRain

Member
Korey said:
Yea I did. I have tabs on top and it doesn't work. Tabs on bottom works though.

#navigator-toolbox > #TabsToolbar {
-moz-binding: url("chrome://global/content/bindings/toolbar.xml#toolbar")
!important;
}

My guess is that they changed some id names around since that solution was posted?
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Yeah, I guess that's possible. Sorry. Double clicking should work for tabs on bottom even without that little snippet so you should just go ahead and remove it. It should only be a matter of time until you can change the behavior using an extension like Tab Mix Plus.
 
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Threi

notag
rsam87 said:
Firefox 4 is pretty nice.

How do I move around the Firefox button? I want it to line up with the tabs on top bar, but right now its a row above it.

9eF6H.png


vs

VjGwp.png
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AFAIK it only goes beside the tabs if you maximize it, same as Opera.
 
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vocab

Member
The font seems smaller even though its the same font size, and the display of links in the bottom left corner is kind of dumb.
 
Maximus.

Maximus.

Member
Official version feels better than all of the other releases for sure, but after switching to Chrome after the laggy feeling betas, its hard to justify to come back. I like how I can move the bookmark bar up and i like the Google Chrome touches, but it just doesnt feel as slick as Chrome.
 
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Tunesmith

formerly "chigiri"
Korey said:
Not if I want to surf only with my mouse it's not


Aiming for things sucks vs click anywhere
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Have a mouse-wheel or middle button? Click it anywhere in the tab bar to open a new tab, also works for closing tabs.
 
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Doopliss

Member
Korey said:
This sucks. You used to be able to double click on empty space on the tab bar to open a new tab. Now, since it's also the window bar, double clicking it resizes the window.
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Middle click on the tab bar opens a new tab. Works with tabs on top as well.

Edit: Got beat :(
 
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