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Firefox 3.6 and the behavior of Command-/CRTL-clicked links

Michael — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:45:41 +0000

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.

My Top 10 Apps of 2005

Michael — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 03:59:10 +0000

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?

It’s time to do the foxtrot

Michael — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 15:50:45 +0000

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.

Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 3 is available

Michael — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 06:44:14 +0000

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.

Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 2 is available

Michael — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 07:21:07 +0000

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.