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Since I was still using Alpha1, it was an automatic update. They made it look prettier/shinier, an added a few handy features. Tabs are handled a little better, and there's a built-in spellchecker, which is always handy. The settings page is completely revamped and sexy. They're definitely moving in a good direction! :)
Bad things: they screwed up alt-s as a shortcut. I sent in a bug-report about it, I hope they fix it, I hate submitting posts by clicking on "Post" :(
Tab Enter is how I do it.
Thanks for posting, iago. :)
They call it Beta 2 on their website. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b2.html
That's because silly iago uses the Canadian alphabet that starts where alpha follows beta :).
Well, they went from Alpha1 to Beta 2. Shut up :P
Next it'll be gamma. Ahahaha, Joe made a funny!
Interesting though, that gamma is a computer term as well. :)
Yea... you need to put down the crackpipe iago...
It was clearly Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 according to this slashdot article from July: http://slashdot.org/articles/06/07/11/1228248.shtml
Then again, it might have just been you using some Alpha version.
Alpha is like the Beta form of a Beta (at least with Firefox), isn't it?
It uses too damn much bandwidth.
Reply from 72.14.205.104: bytes=32 time=257ms TTL=239
Reply from 72.14.205.104: bytes=32 time=208ms TTL=239
Reply from 72.14.205.104: bytes=32 time=1561ms TTL=239
Reply from 72.14.205.104: bytes=32 time=1935ms TTL=239
Reply from 72.14.205.104: bytes=32 time=983ms TTL=239
Reply from 72.14.205.104: bytes=32 time=372ms TTL=239
Reply from 72.14.205.104: bytes=32 time=257ms TTL=239
It didn't raise above 500ms before while browsng the forums.
Wow, the search box drops down an auto-completes to common searches. I'm not entirely sure where the info comes from, or if it's a privacy risk (does it save my queries? I don't know...). Either way, it's really cool, I put in "HandleGOTD" and it filled in "font download". "javaop bot" and "javaop battle.net" are there.
I'm going to search it for "x86 clan rules" -- can somebody else on FF2 try searching that? I'm curious if it gets saved.
Also, it's Google that suggests searches, not FireFox, which means I know who to blame is this is a privacy thing:
GET /complete/search?output=firefox&client=firefox&qu=rul HTTP/1.1
Host: suggestqueries.google.com
[.....]
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
[......]
The actual search code is gzip'ed, so I didn't bother posting it here.
You can get your own suggestions by filling in the query here:
http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?output=firefox&client=firefox&qu=x86
Quote from: iago on August 31, 2006, 10:34:46 PM
Bad things: they screwed up alt-s as a shortcut. I sent in a bug-report about it, I hope they fix it, I hate submitting posts by clicking on "Post" :(
I hate web page shortcuts. If I press Alt+E, I want to use the Edit menu, not go to the "S
earch" box on Wikipedia. And no, I didn't want to "
Delete" the page from my MediaWiki either (on a plus side, at least IE doesn't automatically navigate to the "delete" page when I press Alt+D), I wanted to go to the address bar.
I think that it's the worst "feature" ever to come across into browsers.
Address bar is F6, silly :P
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Quote from: iago on August 31, 2006, 10:34:46 PM
Bad things: they screwed up alt-s as a shortcut. I sent in a bug-report about it, I hope they fix it, I hate submitting posts by clicking on "Post" :(
I hate web page shortcuts. If I press Alt+E, I want to use the Edit menu, not go to the "Search" box on Wikipedia. And no, I didn't want to "Delete" the page from my MediaWiki either (on a plus side, at least IE doesn't automatically navigate to the "delete" page when I press Alt+D), I wanted to go to the address bar.
I think that it's the worst "feature" ever to come across into browsers.
Hah, you're probably right. Although I probably wouldn't make a shortcut to something dangerous like Delete :P
And Rabbit's right, the addressbar is F6 :)
Quote from: iago on September 05, 2006, 08:52:46 PM
Quote from: MyndFyrex86] link=topic=7227.msg90461#msg90461 date=1157500588]
Quote from: iago on August 31, 2006, 10:34:46 PM
Bad things: they screwed up alt-s as a shortcut. I sent in a bug-report about it, I hope they fix it, I hate submitting posts by clicking on "Post" :(
I hate web page shortcuts. If I press Alt+E, I want to use the Edit menu, not go to the "Search" box on Wikipedia. And no, I didn't want to "Delete" the page from my MediaWiki either (on a plus side, at least IE doesn't automatically navigate to the "delete" page when I press Alt+D), I wanted to go to the address bar.
I think that it's the worst "feature" ever to come across into browsers.
Hah, you're probably right. Although I probably wouldn't make a shortcut to something dangerous like Delete :P
And Rabbit's right, the addressbar is F6 :)
I don't know if Alt-D doesn't work in Linux (I think it does), but it's A&ddress in Windows, so the accelerator key for it is Alt-D. :P
Quote from: MyndFyrex86] link=topic=7227.msg90475#msg90475 date=1157507042]
I don't know if Alt-D doesn't work in Linux (I think it does), but it's A&ddress in Windows, so the accelerator key for it is Alt-D. :P
If you're talking about IE, that doesn't run on Linux anyways.
If you're talking about FireFox, alt-E brings up the "&Edit" menu.
On Mozilla 1.7 Alt+D is the address bar. So, it's true on linux for my standards.
Quote from: iago on September 05, 2006, 10:19:08 PM
If you're talking about IE, that doesn't run on Linux anyways.
If you're talking about FireFox, alt-E brings up the "&Edit" menu.
Alt+D works for FireFox and IE both for the Address bar. Alt+E brings up the Edit menu for both. But on Wikipedia, for instance, they have the "S&earch" box so Alt+E doesn't work there, and they have "&Delete" accelerated too, for Alt+D.
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Quote from: iago on September 05, 2006, 10:19:08 PM
If you're talking about IE, that doesn't run on Linux anyways.
If you're talking about FireFox, alt-E brings up the "&Edit" menu.
Alt+D works for FireFox and IE both for the Address bar. Alt+E brings up the Edit menu for both. But on Wikipedia, for instance, they have the "S&earch" box so Alt+E doesn't work there, and they have "&Delete" accelerated too, for Alt+D.
Ah, Alt+D works fine here. Blame that on some form of dimentia on my part.
Another thing that is bothering me about this version: they got rid of the backspace shortcut to go "back".
I wish they would allow all user-defined shortcuts for everything, from back/forward/submitting the current form/etc. That would be my ideal solution to all of this.
GOOD!! I fucking hate backspace being back. Firefox (Windows and Slack) and IE both randomly go back a page when I hit backspace when typing in a message in a textbox or textarea somewhere. It pisses me the hell off.
Quote from: iago on September 06, 2006, 06:25:39 PM
I wish they would allow all user-defined shortcuts for everything, from back/forward/submitting the current form/etc. That would be my ideal solution to all of this.
Opera. :)
Quote from: Newby on September 06, 2006, 07:58:40 PM
Quote from: iago on September 06, 2006, 06:25:39 PM
I wish they would allow all user-defined shortcuts for everything, from back/forward/submitting the current form/etc. That would be my ideal solution to all of this.
Opera. :)
Yeah, Opera has some pretty nice features.
Among those:
- A built in Bit Torrent client (acts like any other download)
- A 'site preferences' feature allowing you to disable specific plugins, change java script rules, change pop-up rules, change cookie rules and so forth for specific websites.
- A block content feature ... although Firefox has an AdBlock extension
- Widgets
- Thumbnail preview for tabs (so you can just hover on a tab to see what it is)
You can see all of Opera's features here: http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/
Things Opera doesn't have:
- SOCKS support ... shame on them >:(
It does have other types of proxy support...just not SOCKS.
I prefer adblock to Opera's "Block Content"...
Quote from: nslay on September 06, 2006, 08:20:18 PM
Yeah, Opera has some pretty nice features.
Among those:
- A built in Bit Torrent client (acts like any other download)
- A 'site preferences' feature allowing you to disable specific plugins, change java script rules, change pop-up rules, change cookie rules and so forth for specific websites.
- A block content feature ... although Firefox has an AdBlock extension
- Widgets
- Thumbnail preview for tabs (so you can just hover on a tab to see what it is)
Sorry, but I have to put down Opera, even though I do occasionally use it :P
Bit Torrent -- I don't like my browser having stuff like that. I can see it being useful for certain downloads, I suppose, but I'd rather have BitTorrent run as its own program.
Site Preferences -- Neat, but probably not terribly useful
Block Content -- AdBlock owns it :)
Widgets -- I don't know what those are, so they probably suck :P
Thumbnail preview sounds like a lot of overhead, and I don't think many people have dozens of tabs open at once, likely..
I still like my FireFox :)