firefox kicks serious ass

[Derek Makekau]

okay, like really. i just realized you can set your homepage to be a ton of tabbed windows, so that when you launch firefox, it pulls them all up automatically.

call me retarded, but i just haven't messed with it that much yet. any other sick features i should know about?

[Walruz996]

Have you downloaded any themes yet? I love me some nice lookin themes. Noia Extreme is my favorite.

[Walruz996]

Can't forget Pimpzilla.

https://addons.mozilla.org/images/previews/pimpzilla-3.jpg

[Jeff.Liu]

okay, like really. i just realized you can set your homepage to be a ton of tabbed windows, so that when you launch firefox, it pulls them all up automatically.

call me retarded, but i just haven't messed with it that much yet. any other sick features i should know about?

how do you do it?

Opera just fucked up on me after I downloaded a patch for it

[BART]

one thing that drives me nuts is that when i have a firefox window open, then open a new window, i want the new window to duplicate the content already open window. IE does this by default. However, a new window in firefox just opens to my homepage.

[didj prophet]

yeah i hate that, i use ctrl+N about a thousand times a day and i get really sick of having it default to my homepage

and that is sick about the tabbed home page, i have been using firefox for about 8 months and i haven't played with it's features at all, i'm really slacking on this shit

[Rockporter9]

Yeah it does, Opera is pretty sick too

[Black Chris]

just use a new tab instead of a new window. gays

[BART]

new tab doesn't do what i'm asking for

[Derek Makekau]

yeah that's bothered me as well. if they would just make a right click, copy tab or something that would be great too, just some way of duplicating the current window without copying and pasting the address.

to set multiple home pages, just open them all up and click use pages. you can type them in manually too, seperated by the "|" deal.

[Aaron Peluso]

I dont really get tabs... I would rather just have new windows so I can see it all in the taskbar... no???

!!! <--4derek

[WOODOO]

any other sick features i should know about?

my fav feature is that if you see a hyperlink in a window you can click on it with your scroll wheel and it will open a new tab

[keensab]

I dont really get tabs... I would rather just have new windows so I can see it all in the taskbar... no???

!!! <--4derek

I usually can have between 5-8 browser windows open at once, and then various programs running which just kills the taskbar, so having all my browser windows in one taskbar line in tabs really helps keeps things organized.

[jhooligan]

derek..how do you make the page selection permanent? i set the pages i want and it works fine until i close outta firefox but then when i load it up again, it has the gay firefox update page as my homepage

[BART]

I dont really get tabs... I would rather just have new windows so I can see it all in the taskbar... no???

!!! <--4derek i really prefer tabs, it's a lot easier to keep track of the screens, especially when browsing different links off an index. a little hard to adjust to at first, but if try them for a while, i doubt you'll go back.

[Derek Makekau]

!!! <--4derek

haha!!!!

i didn't know about the scrollwheel click, that's pretty sick. !!!!

[BART]

oh man scroll wheel discovery just made my day

[ZapBulletRider]

DUDE drek, check out Tools > Javascript console

so sick.

[BART]

ahahah "drek".

i like that. 4evrskm::drek

[Aaron Peluso]

i tried using tabs, I hated that I could never find what I was looking for... my taskbar is normally a triple decker so its all there (+24" screen).

[Aaron Peluso]

i will try it again for you though Bart.



for you....

[Skim4L!fe]

Im confused on this whole shpeal...

[Skim4L!fe]

ok, lets say im looking at this website then i want to go to a different one, how do i open that one in a new tab instead of replacing this site?

[jhooligan]

file -> new tab

[ZapBulletRider]

ok, lets say im looking at this website then i want to go to a different one, how do i open that one in a new tab instead of replacing this site?

your best bet is to just give up.

[Skim4L!fe]

thanks jhooligan.

[ZapBulletRider]

what about me? prick.

[WOODOO]

yea wheel click pretty much owns

[Skim4L!fe]

What happens to all those files that are usually in temporary internet files? I looked and i didnt see anymore in there. Are they in the same spot or no?

[Walruz996]

Ctrl+Shift+Delete clears all of your private data, so if your being chased by the feds it's a useful tool.

[tcmarkley]

Wait until you see Safari.

[Nuke561]

file -> new tab


or CTRL N or click wheel on the link or right click the link -->open new tab

[Derek Makekau]

ctrl + t is new tab.

drek is dumb. so you are dumb, bart. ouch.


and peluso is too old school for tabs. or just old.

[Skim4L!fe]

firefox rocks, just because I dont have to type my password for myspace anymore. Ohh yeah boi.

[Jasen]

how do u manage that?

also, myspaces security is very slim, the way that they have their login, someone with a simple virus under your name could get your passcode very easily, because it is encrypted(not well) on the url, as you login

they have websites which you type in someones URL and it spits out the passcode :)

yes i have fucked with a couple of my friends

[ZapBulletRider]

myspace is a perfect example of how poorly written code doesn't scale well. I hope they're redesigning it as we speak, cause it's BAD. I honestly have never seen a large scale web app perform that badly, EVER.

[ZapBulletRider]

And I love this shit: "an error has occurred. an email has been sent to myspace technical group." Can you imagine how many emails they must get (if they haven't already turned off that functionality)? Somebody tell these guys about custom application logs.

[Nuke561]

then again all of myspace was originally designed by one guy, Tom. they werent prepared for the mass population that came to it. then fox bought it thats why you see that xmen shit all over the login page. so i think fox has hired a tech group to work on the errors and the server functionallity

[Aaron Peluso]

and peluso is too old school for tabs. or just old.

is this where stop copying everything I do Derek? How nice to see you developing your own personality...

[jake]

myspace is a perfect example of how poorly written code doesn't scale well. I hope they're redesigning it as we speak, cause it's BAD. I honestly have never seen a large scale web app perform that badly, EVER.

i REALLY hope myspace goes the way of xanga, livejournal.. real popular until *poof* gone

and i doubt they will be redesigning

[ZapBulletRider]

then again all of myspace was originally designed by one guy, Tom. they werent prepared for the mass population that came to it.
That's my point. He should have designed with scalability in mind, but hindsight's 20/20. These days I think every good developer keeps scalability in mind because you see it happen so often, little apps gain a fast-growing user base and they can't support it, have to outsource for a redesign or something. There's no reason it can't be done right the first time, from a coding standpoint. But yeah, myspace is bad. I get an error, I refresh immediately and it comes up, images are always coming up as red x's, comments not getting posted, all kinds of weird shit. I know it can't all be blamed on code but something's going on back there that isn't what it should be.

And jake, I wouldn't put a redesign out of the realm of possibility. As big as myspace is, it's not just going to disappear.

[nukka-cp]

Wait until you see Safari.

I love me some safari.

[Derek Makekau]

is this where stop copying everything I do Derek? How nice to see you developing your own personality...

"is this where you"?

oh boy.

[Icej]

The new internet explorer has tabs like firefox.

[ZapBulletRider]

"is this where you"?

oh boy.

the brain is the first thing to go.

[Logan]

peluso has part-timers

[Derek Makekau]

ohhhh i looooove chocolate. but i can't eat it, cause it'll make me fat.