Firefox 3 winnage

Jul 08, 2008 04:12

I got Firefox 3 a while ago, and while I haven't really used the most-hyped features yet, there are a lot of little things I like ( Read more... )

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timprov July 8 2008, 08:45:56 UTC
Unfortunately, you still have to jump through hoops to get favicons (those little website icons) in your bookmarks toolbar.

Weird. Mine has always worked right out of the box, back to whatever 1.x version I started with.

The feature I'm loving most is saving tabs when you close the browser.

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aliothsan July 8 2008, 08:56:31 UTC
Whoops, I meant on a Mac. Doh. Editing time.

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rivenwanderer July 8 2008, 14:28:47 UTC
On my linux partition, the favicons behave weirdly on the Personal Bookmarks Toolbar--if I click the bookmark to the site, and then follow a link from that page to another domain, the second page's favicon displays on the toolbar.

Other than that, FF3 is awesome :)

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skuffle July 8 2008, 21:14:01 UTC
The only options I have when I right-click a tab are boring "New Tab, Reload Tab, Reload All Tabs, Close Other Tabs, Bookmark This Tab, Bookmark All Tabs Undo Close Tab (okay that's cool), Close Tab." How'd you get the other ones?

Also, I didn't have to do anything to get favicons in my Bookmarks folder. "They Just Work."

(On a Mac here, like you, I believe.)

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aliothsan July 9 2008, 00:56:21 UTC
Huh. I don't know. I had an addon called "New Tab From Here", or something like that, that gave you those options from right-clicking anywhere in the page (not just on the tab) -- but it said it wasn't compatible with FF3. That's the only difference I can think of.

The favicons thing might be because you had a non-default theme in FF2 and retained it in FF3. I had a non-default theme in FF2 but it wasn't compatible with FF3 so I found a new one.

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qiihoskeh July 9 2008, 03:53:27 UTC
I don't know what version of Firefox I have. I never use it because it's massively inferior to IE6 -- it doesn't even handle CSS.

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aliothsan July 9 2008, 06:04:40 UTC
*blink blink*

Yes it does.

Seriously, give FF3 a try. Yes, older versions had problems; no, FF3 is still not perfect. Just give it a try.

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qiihoskeh July 9 2008, 06:38:05 UTC
I can't. It won't run on my computer. Anyways, version 1 definitely doesn't handle most CSS.

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