Help with minor niggles.
Mean_Chlorine
I've made it default browser, and haven't missed IE 6 yet.
However, I have a few minor problems I'd like to hear how to fix. I'm
sure it's just a question of configuration, but I can't find it in the
help.
1) Inline autocomplete. How do I enable this?
I get the dropdown scroll-menu which I can select from, but no inline
autocomplete.
2) Deleting entries in the address bar. Is it possible to delete
erroneous entries? Example, out of habit I typed "zoop" and pressed
return, as I'm so used to IE inline autocompleting this to
"www.zoopet.com". Now I have a dummy "www.zoop.com" entry in the
scrollbar list - can I delete it somehow without also deleting all
other entries?
(Alternatively, wouldn't it be great if attempts to connect to an URL
which resulted in a "not found" error were never entered into the
history to begin with?)
3) I get the impression there's a 0.3 (or so) second delay whenever
pressing a button in Firefox. Small, but noticeable, in e.g. menus.
Standard windows XP has this too, in order to show animations and
whatnot, but I've turned the delay off, and find the small delay in
Firefox annoying. Can it be shortened/turned off somehow?
4) The password import from IE 6 to firefox doesn't appear to work?
I've tried four different password-protected sites which had the
password stored by IE6, and Firefox didn't know the password for any
of them.
5) Is it possible to get the Favorites sorted a la windows standard?
That is, with folders first, alphabetized, and then individual files,
alphabetized? It is a very minor thing, but it disturbs my sense of
order to have folders scattered among files.
Mean_Chlorine
OK, found two more:
6) Is it possible to enable tripleclick to select whole lines, as is
windows (and Mac) standard?
7) Can I somehow get Firefox to STOP telling me I'm entering/leaving a
secure page? There's a checkbox to have it continue telling me, which
I've never checked, but it keeps telling me every time I enter or
leave a secure page anyway...
Jim Berwick
news:6a0d745b.04063...@posting.google.com:
> 6) Is it possible to enable tripleclick to select whole lines, as is
> windows (and Mac) standard?
I have this behavior already, what does a triple click do for you?
Mean_Chlorine
Nothing at all. Double-click marks a word, triple click doesn't do
anything, not even unmark the word. If I want to mark a line, I have
to drag-select with the mouse.
Try in the address bar: first click selects entire line. Second click
deselects it. After that, if you do a triple-click, you will not get
the entire line.
Mean_Chlorine
Update to myself: I had to do a system rollback for other reasons, and
when I reinstalled Firefox this particular feature worked as expected,
ie now triple click selects whole lines.
Btw, kudos to Firefox for NOT implementing "select whole words as
default" like Internet Explorer!
Mean_Chlorine
functionality.
E.g. I wanted to download the quicktime movies here:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/video/terrain.html
in order to see them at a higher resolution than the postage-stamp
size the plugin insists on, but Firefox can simply not download a
registered media file, only play it. I had to fire up Internet
Explorer to download the movies for local viewing.
Jim Berwick
news:6a0d745b.04070...@posting.google.com:
Right click the link, save link as... Or open it inside firefox, and then
file, save as...
Both do the same thing.
Mean_Chlorine
> Right click the link, save link as... Or open it inside firefox, and then
> file, save as...
>
> Both do the same thing.
Hmm... Not very intuitive. I thought that saved the _link_.
Rod Engelsman
That's interesting. I use Mozilla and the wording is:
"Save Link Target As..."
which is more informative and intuitive. Is Firefox different? Would be
a simple enhancement I would think. File an RFE.
R
... Work like you don't need money, love like you've never been hurt,
and dance like nobody is watching.
Mean_Chlorine
Solved one of my niggles, this one:
> 3) I get the impression there's a 0.3 (or so) second delay whenever
> pressing a button in Firefox.
Browsing through the
http://texturizer.net/firefox/tips.html#appearance page in an effort
to find a way to disable the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder, I found this:
" Speed up page rendering
By default, Firefox doesn't try to render a web page for 250
milliseconds, because it's waiting for data. If you add the code below
to your user.js file, Firefox immediately tries to render the page,
even without complete data. The drawback is on slower machines where
doing a "reflow" may actually cause the total page load time to be
longer.
// This one makes a huge difference. Last value in milliseconds
(default is 250)
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0); "
As noted above, this will probably only make a difference on fast
machines with fast connections.
Jim Berwick
news:FMydnTBw8c7...@news.ruraltel.net:
> That's interesting. I use Mozilla and the wording is:
>
> "Save Link Target As..."
>
> which is more informative and intuitive. Is Firefox different? Would be
> a simple enhancement I would think. File an RFE.
Firefox has "Save Link As...". I don't really see how it is worded poorly.
Save link as can't really mean much other than save whatever this links to.
What would it mean to save the link itself? Just the text?