The main thing I like about it is the search bar, but I guess that's redundant now, eh. :) It does need updating with all my new links and the removal of some old ones, though. I guess I'll go with that.
Also, what skin is that you're using?
IE7 eats memory, Opera works very bizarrely with Gmail and Firefox is missing functions. Can anyone recommend anything else? Currently I'm thinking about going back to IE6.
IE6 + an IE shell - a 'browser' that uses Microsoft Internet Explorer's engine, but adds lots of features.
Like, Maxthon:
[url]www.maxthon.com/[/url]
which is what I use. Even though I do use the IE7 engine.
Firefox is missing what kind of features?
Firefox ftw. Any missing features can easily be remedied with extensions.
I kinda liked MYIE2 though, sort of like Firefox, but less user friendly.
Because sometimes there's occasions where pressing Enter isn't the ideal situation. And most of the time I don't want to open existing links in a new tab, I was to create a fresh one - in both Opera and IE7 there's a button for this. In Firefox I have to press Ctrl+N (I think). It's ridiculous.
EDIT: Okay so I went back into Firefox and changed the preferences so that now the tabs bar shows constantly, which means it's a lot easier to add a new tab - before if I only had one open, it was a pain, now it's a right-click then a click. Are the any extensions out there that'll enable me to have a button for a new tab?
Clicking the mouse wheel works if you have a link to click on. If I'm already browsing VGChat in one tab but I want to open another to check my email, there's no button to open a new tab immediately - I have to rely on a keyboard shortcut (which I now realise is Ctrl+T).
Another issue I have with it is that it tends to open new windows from other applications - say if someone sends me a link in Messenger, if I click it and have Firefox open, it'll still open a new window and not a new tab.
Well that's an option. I guess I'm used to my makeshift solution that I had from an old version of IE - I click Home and then I have a load of 88x31 banners for random stuff:
The main thing I like about it is the search bar, but I guess that's redundant now, eh. :) It does need updating with all my new links and the removal of some old ones, though. I guess I'll go with that.
Also, what skin is that you're using?
It's called iFox Smooth. Very nice.
And I like what you did with your Google homepage, I've never actually seen that before. Mine is just a random collabaration of stuff I may or may not care about.
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/2758/untitled1lm1.png
...it's not a Google homepage. It's just a local HTML file with a table in it.
I had a glance around and ended up grabbing the iFox Graphite one. This is something I shall have to investigate further. :)
Haha, that Graphite one's tabs were ugly. I did find one that emulated IE7, though. Take that!
IE7 looks ugly.
Ah, thanks.
[quote]Or that there's no execute button on the address bar.
Have a look in the screen shot of Sean Fury's Firefox browser - that small dot between the address bar and the Google search bar is the equivalent of Internet Explorer's "Go" button. This dot can change appearance based on the theme you choose to use on your Firefox browser, but there is a button, for arguments sake. No need to press enter if you don't need though (despite that I cannot think of a time where enter is not idea in a situation).
[quote]Another issue I have with it is that it tends to open new windows from other applications - say if someone sends me a link in Messenger, if I click it and have Firefox open, it'll still open a new window and not a new tab.
Firefox's own tabbing preferences allow external links to automatically open within a new tab inside the current window, as opposed to opening an entirely new browser window itself. Look around in your browser preferences and options sometime, you'll be pleasantly surprised how many people create unnecessary add-ons to do the functions that were always available.
Tools > Options > Tabs
New pages should open in:
* a new window
* a new tab
It does work with links from other applications, it is how I have had Firefox operating from day one. I use version 2.0.0.1 at the moment.
[quote]Clicking the mouse wheel works if you have a link to click on. If I'm already browsing VGChat in one tab but I want to open another to check my email, there's no button to open a new tab immediately - I have to rely on a keyboard shortcut (which I now realise is Ctrl+T).
In the same location as mentioned above, you can instruct Firefox to always display the tab bar, regardless of whether you have multiple tabs open or not. When you need to open a new tab, simply double click on the bar to open a new tab or right-click on the bar and select 'new tab' from the menu. To be honest with you, Firefox doesn't rely on keyboard shortcuts at all - Mozilla designed their browser to be functional for those with shortcut experience/desire as well as users who aren't as advanced and perform most, if not all, of their functions with a mouse. They aren't hidden, they don't make it hard to perform, people simple choose not to see what is actually there before they complain. If it's not there immediately, without a setting being selected, it was never there at all and that's a really poor attitude to carry, in my opinion.
I've already done all that you suggested - I didn't realise that double-clicking on the bar relinquished a new tab, though. Thanks.
And yeah, I don't know what was up with me thinking there was no 'go' button - there clearly is, even on the default skin. What I'm more annoyed with, though, is the fact that when you click and drag on a portion of the address bar that's selected, it becomes a moveable object rather than selecting the text from where you clicked.
I'm not a fan of extra clicks, basically. But it's a minor issue.
[quote=Wings]What I'm more annoyed with, though, is the fact that when you click and drag on a portion of the address bar that's selected, it becomes a moveable object rather than selecting the text from where you clicked.
I am desperately trying to produce the same issue with my address bar that you are experiencing but I am having no luck. No matter how hard I try, no matter where I click or begin to drag, it does nothing or merely highlights the address already in the address bar. Unless you are clicking the icon, just before the text, which is their way of quickly allowing you to create a shortcut that can be placed in a folder, on the desktop or in your quick-launch bar - anywhere you want to put it, really. Move your cursor just a little bit after the address icon and you should be able to begin highlighting the text. Alternatively, Control and A will highlight all of it. You can also single click in an empty space address bar and it will automatically highlight the entire address for you.
Okay, you're nearly there. Click the address once. It'll all highlight. Now click and drag at any point to select one portion of it.
See what I mean?
So place your cursor at the start of the portion you wish to copy and when you go to click the address, click and drag over the text instead and stop wherever you wish. Custom text highlighting! :O
get firefox with the adblocker plus extension, ftw.
In this example, I will use this threads address and copy the "showthread.php?" portion of the address only. Place your mouse cursor (which should look like an I when hovered over the address bar) at the beginning of the word showthread - after the / and before the s. Click, holding the mouse button down as you drag the mouse cursor to the ? and release the mouse button. It should then have selected showthread.php? and would look like this:
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v346/RavenWriter/selected.jpg[/IMG]
Okay great. Now do all of that, but before doing anything, click the address bar once so that all the text is highlighted. Now try to click and drag to select part of the text without clicking again. It treats it as a movable object.
This is why I carefully stated that you should click, keeping the mouse button down and dragging your cursor, then releasing the button when reaching the end of your selected text. Otherwise, I would have said, "click the address bar, then click and drag the cursor..."
It's really not that hard.
YES I UNDERSTAND. MY PROBLEM IS THAT YOU CANNOT DO THAT WHEN THE TEXT IN THE ADDRESS BAR IS ALREADY SELECTED.
Why would you want to?
Because sometimes that happens.
Look, I didn't mean to turn this into an epic discussion, I just mentioned you couldn't do it and then Trigger got all confused.
So when the entire address bar becomes selected in its entirely, click again and then click and drag.
Seriously, the only reason this thread is such an "epic discussion" is because you're a picky bastard who doesn't know how to use a simple browser. These browsers do everything that you ask for, so quit being whiney about having to click the mouse button one more time or having to press enter, or having to double click a tab bar or use a keyboard shortcut.
If using a computer and its simple functions is really that much of a hassle for you, perhaps you shouldn't be using one at all.
Stop downloading porn.
And my ***, Firefox is simple to use, and contains everything you need. It is superior to every other browser that I've used.
