Anarky
10-27-2006, 03:23 PM
Hello there, ladies and gentlemen
Firefox 2 is out. Yes, everyone's favourite browser's gotten a major update and is now better than ever. So get your update now.
But, and here's the main reason for this thread, it proves to have some disadvantages. And some people actually don't know how to use FF properly and what it can do. Also, I feel that if something everyone uses gets an update, a thread on it is a useful thing.
#1 - The ALT+S issue
On most forums, as you might know, you can post a message by pushing ALT+S after you've written it. When you push ALT+S in FF2, the History-menu opens up. If you want to send the message, you have to push ALT+SHIFT+S, which is quite annoying. You can fix that. And here's how.
Go to your about:config (just enter about:config where you enter all the adresses)
Change the value ui.key.chromeAccess in 4 to 5
Change the value ui.key.contentAccess in 5 to 4
Now you have reversed the two things. If you want to access the History-menu, you push ALT+SHIFT+S.
#2 - Manually installing a plugin
Now most of the plugins you had need an update to work with FF2. Remember which ones you had and then get them again. Now maybe the official site doesn't have the plugin itself, but a link to where you can find the update. Of course you can't install the update as you're used to doing it (click "install" and wait). Here's what happens:
You get asked if you want to download the file. Of course you want that.
Open the folder where you downloaded your file to
In FF, go to Tools-->Addons
Drag and Drop your downloaded plugin into the addon window. From there you should know how it goes.
#3 - The theme
As incredible as it sounds, there still are people out there who don't know that you can actually change your FF's theme. A theme is a skin that lets the whole program look differently. You get themes on the official site and installing is basically the same as with Extensions. Also the manual installing is just the same.
#X - Useful extensions
There's a billion of extensions available for FF. Some are good, some aren't. This hopefully evolves into a collection of the best extensions and into something that really helps people.
Tab Mix Plus: It adds a lot of extra tab options and it lets you restore tabs upon closing. This is really useful when you accidentally close a tab.
Fasterfox - Precaches links on pages and makes your FF a lot faster-
Open Image in new tab - For some reason I find this extension really useful.
DownThemAll - Downloads every link on a page you told it to download. Really useful when you're raiding picture galleries.
If you have more to add, I'll be glad to add them to this list (if you can't do it yourself). The same goes for problems. If you have a problem with the new FF, ask here and the local tech geeks will try to answer them for you. The solution will find its way into the compendium up there.
Firefox 2 is out. Yes, everyone's favourite browser's gotten a major update and is now better than ever. So get your update now.
But, and here's the main reason for this thread, it proves to have some disadvantages. And some people actually don't know how to use FF properly and what it can do. Also, I feel that if something everyone uses gets an update, a thread on it is a useful thing.
#1 - The ALT+S issue
On most forums, as you might know, you can post a message by pushing ALT+S after you've written it. When you push ALT+S in FF2, the History-menu opens up. If you want to send the message, you have to push ALT+SHIFT+S, which is quite annoying. You can fix that. And here's how.
Go to your about:config (just enter about:config where you enter all the adresses)
Change the value ui.key.chromeAccess in 4 to 5
Change the value ui.key.contentAccess in 5 to 4
Now you have reversed the two things. If you want to access the History-menu, you push ALT+SHIFT+S.
#2 - Manually installing a plugin
Now most of the plugins you had need an update to work with FF2. Remember which ones you had and then get them again. Now maybe the official site doesn't have the plugin itself, but a link to where you can find the update. Of course you can't install the update as you're used to doing it (click "install" and wait). Here's what happens:
You get asked if you want to download the file. Of course you want that.
Open the folder where you downloaded your file to
In FF, go to Tools-->Addons
Drag and Drop your downloaded plugin into the addon window. From there you should know how it goes.
#3 - The theme
As incredible as it sounds, there still are people out there who don't know that you can actually change your FF's theme. A theme is a skin that lets the whole program look differently. You get themes on the official site and installing is basically the same as with Extensions. Also the manual installing is just the same.
#X - Useful extensions
There's a billion of extensions available for FF. Some are good, some aren't. This hopefully evolves into a collection of the best extensions and into something that really helps people.
Tab Mix Plus: It adds a lot of extra tab options and it lets you restore tabs upon closing. This is really useful when you accidentally close a tab.
Fasterfox - Precaches links on pages and makes your FF a lot faster-
Open Image in new tab - For some reason I find this extension really useful.
DownThemAll - Downloads every link on a page you told it to download. Really useful when you're raiding picture galleries.
If you have more to add, I'll be glad to add them to this list (if you can't do it yourself). The same goes for problems. If you have a problem with the new FF, ask here and the local tech geeks will try to answer them for you. The solution will find its way into the compendium up there.