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More gushing
Monday, Nov 15, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller After playing with my new Firefox browser a bit more, I am still happy as I can be. One annoying thing about “tabbed browsing” is that the point of view would automatically shift to whatever new page I had clicked. That’s a bit of a pain when I’m pulling up a bunch of websites at once from, say, my media page. With Safari and Internet Explorer, I always opened the new screens behind the main window and then looked at them later. Yesterday, discovered that by holding down the “command key” while clicking on a link, the new page would open in a tab but I’d still be looking at the same page that I clicked from. Cool. Not sure if that works with Safari’s tabs because I never really played around with tabs too much until now. Firefox also works with my fax company’s website. Safari wasn’t compatible, so I was stuck using IE for that one task. I am now IE free. And thanks to the anonymous poster who led me to the neat little
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- ShigTheNewt - Monday, Nov 15, 04 @ 4:52 am:
Just to let you know, you can make Firefox always open links in a new tab, but the new tab won’t be on top. Go to Tools > Options > and in the “Advanced” menu under
“Tabbed Browsing” un-check the “Select new tabs opened from links” and “Select new tabs opened from Bookmarks or History”. Now when you open something in a new tab, you still stay on your current one! Firefox is so cool.
- Anonymous - Monday, Nov 15, 04 @ 8:10 am:
On behalf of most of your readers, fans, supporters and even the tinfoilhead wingnuts, I wish I knew what the F*%#@ you were talking about. The GRod position on gaming is clearer?
- Anonymous - Monday, Nov 15, 04 @ 12:47 pm:
You might want to check out this extension for blogging:
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/blogthis
- Rich Miller - Monday, Nov 15, 04 @ 1:38 pm:
Not clear? I get that all the time.
- Anonymous - Monday, Nov 15, 04 @ 2:26 pm:
I just downloaded firefox, which I had heard about for a while
but never tried. Beating Safari, which I love almost as much as my old 500 mhz dp g4, will be tough. Now if only I could download for free
a new 17″ 1.5 mhz g4 powerbook with bluetooth, 2 gigs of ram, an 80gb internal hard drive, and every other amenity. Add to that an external 500gb lacie firewire drive and I’ll be in business. Too bad bit torrent doesn’t allow
you to download free computers.
Macd00d
- Rich Miller - Monday, Nov 15, 04 @ 2:55 pm:
There’s always Santa Claus
- Rich Miller - Monday, Nov 15, 04 @ 2:57 pm:
I did find one glitch today, however. I can’t enter text in this box if it is opened in a new tab. Only if it’s opened in a new window.
- Anonymous - Monday, Nov 15, 04 @ 4:06 pm:
Hey Rich - could you confine your “Blog Technology” discussions to your other Blog “Miller’s TechnoGeek Blog” so the rest of us idiots can focus on what we’re here to read about: politics and public policy??
Your killing us!
- Anonymous - Monday, Nov 15, 04 @ 4:23 pm:
A helpful commenter on Zorn’s firefox instruction page points out that if you have a wheel mouse, you can put the cursor on a new link, click the wheel and the page opens in a HIDDEN tab. So when you’re on a front page — say realpolitics.com — you can go down, wheel clicking the columns you wnat to read, and they open up in the background for you.
Firefox Forever!
- Rich Miller - Monday, Nov 15, 04 @ 8:33 pm:
Hey, anonymous, if you don’t like the techno stuff, scroll past it. Simple.
- Milton - Monday, Nov 15, 04 @ 10:05 pm:
I have been with firefox for about a year. It is great!
Shalom,
—Leland Milton Goldblatt, Ph.D. ®
Distinguished Professor
http://www.prof.faithweb.com
http://drgoldblatt.blogspot.com/
“How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?” asked the headline of the Daily Mirror in Great Britain, and the underlying assumption is undeniable. By any objective standard, you had to be spectacularly stupid to support Bush.