Drag a link want to drop excess baggage of visible package

[David McRitchie]

When I drag a link, or a tab, the Title affixes itself to the cursor in Fx3 and
it interferes with movement and placement of dragged items.

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Firefox Custom: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm

[captjlddavis]

On 7/5/2008 12:47, David McRitchie wrote:
> When I drag a link, or a tab, the Title affixes itself to the cursor in Fx3 and
> it interferes with movement and placement of dragged items.
>

David,
Very interesting indeed.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906
Firefox/3.0 ID:2008052906

You can turn off the "tips" entirely:
config editor - filter on:

browser.chrome.toolbar_tips

set it to "false"

Normally,it appears to go off after a short time.

But I can not find any setting for the time.

HTH

regards:captjlddavis

[Roland de Ruiter]

On 5-7-2008 21:47, David McRitchie wrote:
> When I drag a link, or a tab, the Title affixes itself to the cursor in
> Fx3 and
> it interferes with movement and placement of dragged items.
>

<http://kb.mozillazine.org/Nglayout.enable_drag_images>
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Regards,

Roland

[David McRitchie]

"Roland de Ruiter" <roland.d...@example.invalid> wrote in message news:CrWdnf5hHtjMe_LV...@mozilla.org...

Thanks Roland exactly what I wanted, I would not want to give tooltips
as I rely on them and that leaves them intact. I can see why I had so much trouble
with this as the pointer on the mouse is not as accurate as I thought it was, but when
you can can hardly tell where the tip is, it makes things so much worse, and
it is so annoying to look at in any case.

There were a lot of complaints when it was added to Fx3 Betas but I never saw any
solution, and even searching on the answer nothing in newsgroups but a few
mentions on web forums but not until middle of June after Fx3 actually came out.

Added reference to my mouse.htm so I won't forget. Thanks again.
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David McRitchie, http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm

[Ron Hunter]

You might want to check out this experimental extension.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7103

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Ron Hunter rphu...@charter.net

[David McRitchie]

"Ron Hunter"

> You might want to check out this experimental extension.

> [ Patch For Library 4.4 (9KB) by White Alice0775 ]
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7103

Never seen an extension like that, that fixes a lot of problems that
I have no idea of whether I have or not, and would not be able to
tell if I have such problems or not.. I spend most of my time in
Nightlies and at least some are marked as fixed or are duplicates
of something fixed so those are probably already there.
Are they hot fixes -- can you turn them on or off by enabling/disabling
the extension. Most items of interest to me are fixed, and I create
very few bookmarks with tags, and from reading
bug: 429350, am glad I don't. use tags much. The two bugs for
dragging are fixed much better by eliminating the ghostly image entirely.

This thread -- Re: Drag a link want to drop excess baggage of visible package
(so anyone can quickly access a link, or use Linky extension to bring all up at once)
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=raadnZoVO8QXuu3V...@mozilla.org

Patch For Library :: Firefox Add-ons
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7103
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=659682

Bug 312852 - Tooltip should not appear during a drag (e.g., dragging favicon results in tooltip, blocking part of the bookmarks
toolbar)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312852

Bug 399944 - Work around tooltip covering bookmarks bar while dragging proxy icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399944

Bug 409704 - copied tags containers do not live update correctly
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409704

Bug 418141 - The Library should persist expanded details pane status
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418141

Bug 419324 - Places needs to unescape URLs in the UI (library tree/edit, bookmark tooltip/status, etc)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419324

Bug 429350 - Unable to delete tags from column list
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429350

Bug 430580 - User defined Saved Search should be editable
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430580

Bug 432766 - Middle click bookmarks folder in Library replaced current tab.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432766

Bug 433317 - Renamed title of saved search folder isn't updated outside the Library until Firefox is restarted
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433317

Bug 435742 - Cant drag-and-drop a page to the last folder in a folder on the bookmarks toolbar
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435742

Bug 435845 - DragDrop Indicator broken in menupopup of folder on Bookmarks Toolbar placed on toolbox,when restart Firefox.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435845

Bug 437616 - suppress select events while selecting pasted bookmarks
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437616

Bug 438252 - Tag edits do not save when editing bookmark address at the same time.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438252

[Ron Hunter]

I really don't know the details, but since adding it, I have found it
much easier to drag and drop URLs onto my bookmarks toolbar without it
being so fiddly. I'm happy. I will assume that when another release
comes out, I can disable that extension.

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Ron Hunter rphu...@charter.net