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Firefox 6? Really?!?

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Ichinisan said:
You think it's faster to position your mouse on a tiny little square portion of the screen?

I never even use the min/max/close buttons on a window. I right-click the title bar and press c,x,r,n with my left hand. No time wasted positioning the mouse when my left hand always stays on the keyboard.
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If your left hand is always on the keyboard, then Ctrl-T far surpasses double clicking for a new tab.
 
MTDEW said:
Im still waiting on stuff like my Garmin Communicator plugin to be updated to work with FF5.
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Is this for Garmin Forerunner? I run FF5 on my Mac and it wont upload via the web unless i restart FF in 32 bit mode. In fact, FF/Garmin's does a toolbar option to restart in 32 bit.
 
LOL I'm still been hitting "Ask Me Later" for the FF5 update that's been nagging me.

I had to format a few months ago and I remember getting FF4 as it had just came out like the day I reinstalled. So kind of surprised FF5 came this quick.
 
Ichinisan said:
You think it's faster to position your mouse on a tiny little square portion of the screen?

I never even use the min/max/close buttons on a window. I right-click the title bar and press c,x,r,n with my left hand. No time wasted positioning the mouse when my left hand always stays on the keyboard.
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That's why I'm all about mouse gestures. I use keyboard shortcuts a lot but if I'm just sort of being lazy and browsing the web, then my hands probably aren't on the keyboard but I can still open/close tabs, open links in tabs, switch tabs, with a few flicks of the mouse.

One thing I really found useful since I started using them is 'Scroll to top of page' and 'Scroll to bottom of page'. Instead of taking the damn scroll bar to the bottom or top, it's just a flick of the mouse .
 
Mike Gayner said:
LOL people are still using Firefox.

Firefox is the new IE.
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Not really.

All the major browsers (Firefox, IE, Chrome, Safari, Opera) are just fine for me. This isn't 5 or 10 years ago where it made a big difference what browser you used. Unless you are a user with a crazy amount of tabs open or an old computer with low RAM, it all comes down to non-essential extra features/addons.

Firefox Nightly works well for me. It renders everything just fine, it doesn't crash, and whatever millisecond difference in speed it has versus any other browser doesn't matter to me. Unless it's significantly less secure than Chrome or IE, I am sticking with it for now.
 
JujuFish said:
If your left hand is always on the keyboard, then Ctrl-T far surpasses double clicking for a new tab.
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I also do that literally hundreds of times per day at work and home (yes, I open a LOT of tabs and I have bookmarks that accept parameters and function as lookup commands).

I don't know the specific circumstances when it's handy to double-click the blank space, but I know I've frequently annoyed when I can't do it.
 
lol yeah it's getting out of control. I thought IE was bad. 7 8 9 and 10 is coming out soon all these versions within a few years. Though the problem with IE is that each release breaks stuff, because they can't be bothered to follow W3C standards and make up their own standards as they go and arn't even consistent about them. At least a site will look and work the same in all versions of Firefox, Opera, Chrome etc because all of those browsers actually follow standards.
 
Ichinisan said:
That's actually one thing that irritates me about Chrome, even in Windows. I want to double-click the blank space to the right of the tab to quickly create a new tab...but the new UIs aren't providing an easy way to do that. I can do it in FF4 if I set the menu bar to be always visible, but I don't want that because it wastes more screen space than necessary.
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I fixed that issue by making the Bookmarks Toolbar always visible. I use it anyway for my most frequently used links. But it also makes it so you can double click anywhere on the tab bar to open a new tab, without having to show the menu bar.
 
Red Squirrel said:
lol yeah it's getting out of control. I thought IE was bad. 7 8 9 and 10 is coming out soon all these versions within a few years. Though the problem with IE is that each release breaks stuff, because they can't be bothered to follow W3C standards and make up their own standards as they go and arn't even consistent about them. At least a site will look and work the same in all versions of Firefox, Opera, Chrome etc because all of those browsers actually follow standards.
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Heh no kidding. Coworker designed and built a website. It worked fine in IE7, IE9, Firefox of various versions, and Chrome. But it was totally borked in IE8 for some dumb reason 🙄
 
Sid59 said:
Is this for Garmin Forerunner? I run FF5 on my Mac and it wont upload via the web unless i restart FF in 32 bit mode. In fact, FF/Garmin's does a toolbar option to restart in 32 bit.
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No its for my nuvi.
The Garmin communicator will not even let me install it, it just simply says Garmin Communicator could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox 5.0
 
SparkyJJO said:
Heh no kidding. Coworker designed and built a website. It worked fine in IE7, IE9, Firefox of various versions, and Chrome. But it was totally borked in IE8 for some dumb reason 🙄
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I've lost count of the number of hours and instances colleagues and mysel have spent troubleshooting for IE.
 
Sid59 said:
sucky =(. Maybe try and get an old, portable version of FF4 for use solely for your Nuvi?

I dont know if FF3.6 will work for you but it's available as a portable.

http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable
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I was actually thinking of uninstalling Firefox, then installing an older compatable version, then install the Garmin Communicator and update to FF 5.0 and see if it works anyway.

It worked just fine updating FF all the way up to FF 4.0 for me even though the Garmin Communicator didnt actually list FF4 as being compatible.

I just built this Z68 rig and did a clean install and went straight to FF5, so maybe it would work anyway if i just installed the Garmin plugin first then updated.

Anyway, im pretty patient with this since its just GPS map updates and its not like i use it everyday, but when i go on a trip and i'd like to know its gonna work and i have the latest map updates so i dont get lost..LOL
 
MTDEW said:
Just clicked your link, Nice! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
I'll try that instead, thanks alot.
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no problem =D.
I love portables, let's you use a different version while preserving the most current version. Just remember to exit whatever FF running before you use another one. FF launches which ever version is open, no matter which directory/version EXE you choose. Does that make sense? lol
 
I really dislike Chrome(ium). It might be the Webkit engine, cause I don't like Midori either. I've been using Opera more lately, but I still consider Firefox to be my preferred browser.

Opera really shines as a portable app. It has a lot of crap built in, so you don't have to use a lot of room to get full functionality. I have a 256mb thumb drive, with Opera as my browser, and mail client, 7Zip, VLC, and a Tetris game. In ADDITION to that, I have SliTaz installed as a full O/S if needed, and it all fits pretty well.
 
Firefox 1.5 - November 29, 2005
Firefox 2.0 - October 24, 2006
Firefox 3.0 - June 17, 2008
Firefox 3.5 - June 30, 2009
Firefox 3.6 - January 21, 2010
Firefox 4.0 - March 22, 2011
Firefox 5.0 - June 21, 2011

wikipedia said:
Future versions
A draft roadmap indicates that Mozilla hopes to release versions 6 and 7 in 2011 following the release of Firefox 5 in June 2011. These versions will be smaller incremental updates, primarily focusing on improving speed, stability and security.[71]
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See, Chrome had fun with the version numbers because they meant jack shit to them. Mozilla took nearly 7 years to get from version 1.0 to 4.0, and now they throw that way with "smaller incremental updates." Sorry, small updates shouldn't warrant a full version release, especially when it breaks addons.

I only use Firefox sparingly lately, I've switched to chrome quite a while ago, and I've had a better browsing experience because of it. I'd venture to say that I actually use Internet Explorer more often than firefox now.
 
alfa147x said:
Why do people still use Firefox
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Enabled Extensions: [27]
- Adblock Plus 1.3.9
- Always Ask 1.1
- CacheViewer 0.6.3
- Clone Window 0.2.9
- CookieCuller 1.4
- Delete Site History 1.2
- DictionarySearch 4.0.1
- DownloadHelper 4.9.3
- Extended Copy Menu 1.6.1
- FireFTP 1.0.10
- FxIF 0.4.3
- Greasemonkey 0.9.6
- History Submenus 2.10
- IE View 1.4.5.1
- Image Zoom 0.4.6
- Java Console 6.0.24
- Lazarus: Form Recovery 2.2
- Linky 3.0.0
- MR Tech Toolkit 6.0.4
- oldbar 1.2
- OpenDownload² 3.1.0
- Pearl Crescent Page Saver Basic 2.7
- ReloadEvery 5.0.0
- Show Go! 1.0.3
- Show Picture 2.5
- Update Notifier 0.1.5.5
- URL Link 2.04.0Lots of extensions for it. 🙂


(Arguably, some of these should be built-in features, but still, there's a lot of fun stuff there. Maybe this thing is accurate.
Also, thanks goes to the Mr Tech Toolkit extension for generating that list, in BBCode, no less.)
 
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