After downloading and installing Firefox 3.6, I went back to my learned browsing behavior and opened tab after tab. But when I opened a link, using the beloved Command-/CRTL-click, I was irritated and at first couldn’t find the newly opened tab. While previous versions of Firefox opened these links in a new tab after all existing tabs, Firefox 3.6 now opens thes links in a new tab right next to the active tab.
Since it’s always hard to unlearn learned behavior, I looked for a way to fix it and looked at the configuration (“about:config”). There I found the parameter “browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent”, which is set to “true”. Changing that value to “false” switches Firefox back to behaving like it used to. I’m not sure which behavior I’ll use in the future but at least now I know that I have a choice. That’s what I love about Firefox.
Published on
December 29, 2005 in
Firefox and PHP.
Molly E. Holzschlag asks the inhabitants of the blogosphere about their three most used apps in 2005. Here they go:
- Firefox
- Entourage
- TextWrangler
If anyone’s interested in the next few in my ranking to make “My Top 10 Apps of 2005″ complete, here they go:
- Adium X
- Spamfire
- iTunes
- Cyberduck
- Eclipse
- Vienna
- Paparazzi!
Of course I should also mention DragThing, which in my opinion isn’t really an application but an extension of the UI, or else I’d have to say that Finder, Dock and Dashboard are my three most used apps of 2005.
How about you?
Last tuesday, Mozilla Corporation pulled the curtain off Firefox 1.5. Of course I was among the 2 million users who downloaded it on the first day. I love it just like the previous versions, mainly because of the following reasons:
- It’s not from Redmond
- It’s getting closer to standards compliance
- It’s extensible
- It’s a kick ass browser
Since there is still the issue that some extensions haven’t been updated yet, I’ll soon post a list of the extensions I use, which work with version 1.5.
On the same day Mozilla also opened the doors to Firefox’s and Thunderbird’s new home.
Published on
November 19, 2005 in
Firefox.
Four days after RC2, the people at Mozilla released RC3 of Mozilla Firefox. As many of you might already know this is supposed to be the last release candidate before the official release of Mozilla Firefox and includes two bugfixes. Let’s hope that 1.5 will be out soon.
Published on
November 13, 2005 in
Firefox.
Earlier this week (Nov. 10th) the second release candidate of Firefox 1.5 was released. Almost perfect timing, since the one year anniversary of Firefox was celebrated just the day before. Further information can be found over at mozillaZine. Unfortunately it still doesn’t pass the Web Standards Project’s Acid 2 browser test, so I guess it’s still based on the same Gecko version.
