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So check out that page for keyboard shortcuts!
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Yoz Grahame <yoz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Faster access to pinned tabs
You can create pinned tabs by dragging them left. (I know, not very
easy to find right now.) Now you can just hit ctrl-1 to jump to the
first pinned tab.
> Faster access to the bookmarks in my bookmark bar
The search will still find your bookmarks, but won't indicate that
they're bookmarks quite yet. But perhaps when there's customization of
the dashboard area, it'll somewhat act like what we have with the
bookmarks bar now.
> Hide/move Firefox icon
I've been thinking about hiding the icon completely if you're not
moving the pointer. So if you're watching a full screen HTML5 video,
the icon will just fade away.
> a Function key or similar, rather than the Ctrl-L combo
Are you looking for a keyboard combo to toggle Home Dash? As you
pointed out, you can hit ctrl-l to activate it. Hitting escape will
get rid of the dashboard.
> this causes major perf issues if the update is costly
I think this might be related to the recently added thumbnails. Before
history searching felt much faster. But indeed, searching through tabs
and history on a timeout might be needed.
Ed
Tips and Troubleshooting for Home Dash 1 (and 2)
http://mozillalabs.com/prospector/2011/01/27/tips-and-troubleshooting-for-home-dash-1/?and-2
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... but if you have a "top match", I suppose that gets tricky. Maybe
there should be an override like holding "shift"?
Pro-tip! Hit cmd-l twice to get the current location filled in, so you
can edit the path/query/etc. :)
Ed
Until then, you could use Home Dash 2 with the alt-ctrl-shift-d soft
toggle to restore the Firefox UI including ScriptBlock.
Ed
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Kevin Dangoor <kdan...@mozilla.com> wrote:You should be able to just type in the url that you want and hit enter.
> One comment: I couldn't find a way to go to a URL directly (short of
> being one of those people that does a google search for yahoo.com :)
... but if you have a "top match", I suppose that gets tricky. Maybe
there should be an override like holding "shift"?
Pro-tip! Hit cmd-l twice to get the current location filled in, so you
can edit the path/query/etc. :)
Are you looking for a keyboard combo to toggle Home Dash? As you
pointed out, you can hit ctrl-l to activate it. Hitting escape will
get rid of the dashboard.
But I just thought of a great hack for Home Dash 2 users! You just
need to _ask_ for the site you want. ;)
So instead of "yahoo.com", use "yahoo.com?" :)
Ed
> using the keyboard to switch search engines would be good
Pointing at the search engines should show a keyboard shortcut. It
should be what you would have used to activate the search box
(ctrl-k). You can press it multiple times to cycle.
Or alternatively in the next release, if you've had muscle memory to
do "ctrl-l then tab" or "ctrl-t then tab" to get to the search box,
that'll work in addition to cycling through the engines:
https://github.com/mozilla/prospector/issues/closed#issue/80
> When I mouse-over I get the content of the "Title"
Actually, it's the alt tag, but that reminded me that I forgot to
check for "title" ;)
https://github.com/mozilla/prospector/issues/issue/83
> wouldn't the url be much more appropriate?
Only if urls mean anything to you. :) But I'm thinking for those that
really do want it, they could perhaps hold shift to see the full url.
No prefs!
https://github.com/mozilla/prospector/issues#issue/67
Ed
Ed
I've opened an issue here:
https://github.com/mozilla/prospector/issues/issue/93
Ed
> - it's a major security hole!
What kind of situations would these be? Home Dash already lets you
know if you're about to switch sites or stay on the same site. And
Firefox has built in blocking of "bad" websites. But even with the
full url, how does that help you avoid a rick roll? ;)
Click me! https://github.com/mozilla/prospector/commit/d9bf
Just kidding ;) That's a fix that lets you hold shift to show the full
url when pointing at a link. It'll be in version 3.
Ed
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> Choosing the position of the logo and how the tab notification expand
> (bottom-up, left-right…) would be great
That could be useful, but one issue is that the status text appears
next to the Firefox logo. So that only really leaves two locations:
top-left and bottom-left. (Assuming left-to-right text.) And then if
it was in the bottom left corner, how would that affect the layout of
the rest of the Home Dash interface?
Ed
> 2. a possibility to fast cycle trough all tabs (tab names + favicon)
Version 4 will have a way to cycle through tabs without needing to
activate the whole Home Dash interface.
> 3. a possibility to use the back button for going back x pages
For now, you can right-click the page and select the first item to go
back a page. You can also go forwards, reload, and stop from the
context menu as well.
> 4. optionality: view one toolbar with: back, forward, all pinned tabs,
> scrollable tabs, tab group button (optional), addon buttons (optional)
I've been thinking about ways to show these buttons
(back/forward/pinned tabs) without needing to show the whole Home Dash
interface. It would be pretty silly to need to activate Home Dash to
then click another button just to go Back. Showing a toolbar could be
one way but regresses on being able to give the whole page to the web
content.
> 5. the possibility to specify which tabs are shown in the bottom area
I'm assuming you're referring to the area with 24 thumbnails of your
top sites? Yeah, there'll be a way to customize and save your changes
in the future.
> 6. maybe tab group integration
If you're referring to Panorama tab groups, Home Dash should already
only show the tabs of the current Panorama tab group. However, it
doesn't provide a way to switch to different Panorama tab groups.
There's an issue filed for this:
https://github.com/mozilla/prospector/issues/#issue/72
Ed
However, there are various "magic numbers" picked out that might work
well as preferences. For example in version 4, there'll be a concept
of "related tabs" where one metric is to consider tabs opened soon
after another to be related. Right now a magic value of 30 seconds is
used. Providing a preference to adjust that could be useful for people
to trying out a different value and reporting back what works better
for them (and maybe for other people too!)
Ed
> I get different behavior if I additionally hold CTRL through the operation.
What happens when you press forwards? Do you see a list of thumbnail
previews or does it just switch to some page? If you press forwards
multiple times, do you see a new page being previewed? And if you
press back, does the larger previewed thumbnail move back left?
How does holding Ctrl change the behavior exactly?
Ed
I removed the ability to "wrap around" when switching "left" of the
first page and "right" of the last page. This means it'll be easier to
get back to the first page if you scroll left from the Firefox icon
after scrolling right a bit; no need to worry that you'll overshoot
and end up on some random page. (It did seem kinda odd that there was
such an easy way to jump to "the most unused tab that isn't related to
the current tab" with a single swipe to the left.)
I suppose that means your Back button won't switch any tabs either.
But this also means you have an easy way to view your current page
context.
Ed
> the context popup only shows you what will happen on the immediate next
> press of TabRight; no indication on what comes up on TabLeft
With version 5, you won't run into the issue of Forward then Back
going to different places as Back won't actually go anywhere. So as it
did in version 4, there is no context of what will happen with TabLeft
as you can no longer TabLeft from the first tab. However, if you
TabLeft from the middle of a list (while holding Ctrl), the larger
preview should move left.
How did you map your Back and Forward buttons to Ctrl-PgUp/Ctrl-PgDn?
Is it a Firefox extension or is it a separate application that you
tell what keypresses you want it to simulate?
Ed
Browser_Back::Click WheelUp 20 40 2
Browser_Forward::Click WheelDown 20 40 2
Those will make it as if you scrolled the mouse wheel twice at
coordinates 20, 40 (relative to the current window). It does leave the
pointer above the Firefox icon though.
Ed