Topic: Firefox 2.0 (Read 7406 times)

BizB · « **on:** November 03, 2006, 12:28:37 PM »

I can't believe they used ALT-S for History. Now, I can't use it for posting messages on forums like this one. Feh.

Is there a way you can change the accesskey="s" to accesskey="p" or something?

ivan · « **Reply #1 on:** November 03, 2006, 12:31:20 PM »

That screws me up too.

Other weird things happen as well, like occassionally losing the ability to use CTL-V in the URL field.

BizB · « **Reply #2 on:** November 03, 2006, 01:50:29 PM »

Fix found

http://forums.livingwithstyle.com/337588.html

12AX7 · « **Reply #3 on:** November 03, 2006, 05:14:28 PM »

Alt + S is "save"? I've always used cntrl+S . . . and cntrl+a, cntrl+c, cntrl+v, cntrl+z, etc. Hmm, this opens a whole new, ALTernate world for me.
Heh.
Eh heh.

What's seriously screwing me up now is the "Fn" key (function?) on this laptop. It's in the lower, left hand corner - right where I usually go for the Cntrl key... which is the next one over.

ivan · « **Reply #4 on:** November 03, 2006, 05:56:40 PM »

I still have 3 or 4 of these kicking around. I occasionally plug one in just to relive the glory days.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #5 on:** November 03, 2006, 06:04:36 PM »

I use one of these on my desktop machine.

ivan · « **Reply #6 on:** November 03, 2006, 06:33:51 PM »

Touch-type or die.

hackess · « **Reply #7 on:** November 03, 2006, 09:43:54 PM »

Fsck. Alt+S is Save in our CMS at work. I'll have to fix it when I finally install 2.0 -- thanks for digging up the workaround, Biz!

Cyber_Sniper · « **Reply #8 on:** November 04, 2006, 04:54:23 AM »

Quote from: ivan on November 03, 2006, 05:56:40 PM

I still have 3 or 4 of these kicking around. I occasionally plug one in just to relive the glory days.

Oooo I bet it makes a lovely clicking noise when typing...

pbsaurus · « **Reply #9 on:** November 07, 2006, 01:09:12 AM »

I just started using Safari yesterday after I set up my new 20" iMac.

Socrates · « **Reply #10 on:** November 07, 2006, 08:05:17 AM »

Quote from: Cyber_Sniper on November 04, 2006, 04:54:23 AM

Oooo I bet it makes a lovely clicking noise when typing...

A programmer here uses one of those keyboards on purpose. You can hear him typing from the other side of Cubeville.

Anyanka_was_framed · « **Reply #11 on:** November 07, 2006, 11:43:32 PM »

Quote from: pbsaurus on November 07, 2006, 01:09:12 AM

I just started using Safari yesterday after I set up my new 20" iMac.

I find I prefer Firefox to Safari. How are you finding it?

pbsaurus · « **Reply #12 on:** November 08, 2006, 04:34:46 AM »

It's kinda slow to update. Plus it won't let me leave karma in this site. I guess I'll DL ol firefox for this new box.

Oh and where do I put the hosts list for a mac? And what's the linky to that site with the cool hosts list?

Leonidas · « **Reply #13 on:** November 24, 2006, 02:57:17 AM »

Quote from: ivan on November 03, 2006, 05:56:40 PM

I still have 3 or 4 of these kicking around. I occasionally plug one in just to relive the glory days.

I think I still may have one of those things lying around my house somewhere.

Chris · « **Reply #14 on:** November 27, 2006, 03:15:06 PM »

While on the subject of Firefox, or at least we were on the subject of Firefox, has anyone else ran into problems with Firefox and the latest version of Shockwave? Nearly any page with flash embedded makes Firefox lock up.

BizB · « **Reply #15 on:** November 27, 2006, 04:08:04 PM »

Yes. And I'm pissed off about it.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #16 on:** November 27, 2006, 04:23:07 PM »

Flash works fine in firefox for mac.

Chris · « **Reply #17 on:** December 11, 2006, 11:16:48 PM »

I glanced over this. It was a pretty interesting read.

Of course, as more and more people begin to use Firefox, there will be more and more exploits out there for it.

As much as Firefox likes to lockup on me, I don't plan on using IE again anytime soon.

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #18 on:** December 11, 2006, 11:32:14 PM »

Most of those myths are no surprise to me, but I'm sticking with Firefox for most things. I've never once experienced a problem with it and it suits me fine. Opera is superior in a lot of ways but I have this crippling allergy against things that cost real money. Hehehe...real money, what an oxymoron.

Chris · « **Reply #19 on:** December 11, 2006, 11:33:12 PM »

Opera has been free (and ad free) for some time now. It's actually pretty good now. You should give it a try if that's why you were holding back.

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #20 on:** December 12, 2006, 08:58:49 AM »

O RLY? Serves me right for listening to a guy who pronounces it 'Oprah' and blabbers endlessly about 'UBS' cables...

BizB · « **Reply #21 on:** December 12, 2006, 09:00:34 AM »

check out the options supported by opera on another page at that same site...

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/FreewareBrowsers.html

Demosthenes · « **Reply #22 on:** December 12, 2006, 11:44:58 AM »

In order to get Firefox to do the stuff I'm used to in Opera, it takes a butt-ton of extensions.

And in my experience, the more extensions you add in Firefox, the less stable it becomes. It also increases the resources FF eats up just to run.

I use Firefox as a backup browser in case I run across something that doesn't work in Opera, but I have to admit that that doesn't happen very often. Whenever I do give Firefox a try, I'm always struck by how slow and cumbersome it is by comparison.

I want to love Firefox... I really do. But it still seems so kludgey and half-assed in so many ways. I will simply have to wait until it matures a few more versions, apparently.

ivan · « **Reply #23 on:** December 12, 2006, 12:48:47 PM »

That's it.

I'm installing Opera.

BRB

ivan · « **Reply #24 on:** December 12, 2006, 01:22:45 PM »

Hey, not bad.

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