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See also LastTab. I used the ctrl-tab functionality with preview until I adopted a Chrome-style workflow. LastTab with only the "Focus last tab selected when current tab is closed" option + Tabs Open Relative.

I'm not a fan of extensions that do a million different things.

See also LastTab. I used the ctrl-tab functionality with preview until I adopted a Chrome-style workflow. LastTab with only the "Focus last tab selected when current tab is closed" option + Tabs Open Relative.

I'm not a fan of extensions that do a million different things.

The only way to download a movie from one of these is to pretend you're their branded flash player and siphon the data stream... very few sites let you get the FLV file URL from the page source or any other casual means

If you use Firefox there's a number of different add-ons you can use to grab and save FLV files. And that's true for other video formats as well.

Falcon

The only way to download a movie from one of these is to pretend you're their branded flash player and siphon the data stream... very few sites let you get the FLV file URL from the page source or any other casual means

If you use Firefox there's a number of different add-ons you can use to grab and save FLV files. And that's true for other video formats as well.

Falcon

Yegawds, lemmy introduce you to Screengrab:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1146

For tree tabs in FF, you have "Tree Style Tab" one of my favourites FF extensions: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890

I guess they will have to fix the xmlns, as there is not only XUL anymore. :-)

The problem with Firefox is that the Gecko codebase is messy and prone to a lot of security problems. It is, if you will, the BIND 8 or Sendmail of the 2000s. In 2009 alone there have been eight critical security holes reported. Yes, Firefox patches these quickly, but having to update a program more than once a month to keep it secure is a real pain in the butt.

Firefox has a very short update lifecycle for a given update of Firefox; if you want to use an older release of Firefox (think enterprise desktops where any software update has to be approved; think live CD or embedded distributsions), you have no choice but to place yourself at risk.

Modern HTML + CSS + ECMAscript is so complicated that we can't have someone come forward and write a browser that is security-aware. Safari isn't much better, since it needed two updates already this year, and Opera has had an update this year with a couple of security problems fixed.

So, yeah, to keep a modern browser secure requires running on the update treadmill. I hope HTML + CSS + ECMA stop being constantly updated, new web Acid tests are no longer made every couple of years, and the standards calm down so that browser developers don't have to rush to add new features to their browsers all the time, allowing browser developers to take the time to write secure code.

I think Adobe (PDF and Flash) are the biggest nuisance to computers. I hate it when PDFs in firefox freeze the browser.

Check out the FF add-on PDF Download. When you click on a link that goes to a PDF it prompts you and asks if you want to open it in the browser, save it to disk, or open in with Adobe Reader (outside the browser). No more FF lockups on PDFs for me.

Yeah, it does.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

Give it a whirl and let me know if it runs after you tell QuakeLive that you're really running XP SP3 and Firefox 3.

Have a look at the Tree Style Tab extension for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890 - as a tab junkie, I've used this for some months and it works pretty well - tabs go down the side and are easily organised into trees, with new tabs by default going under the page where you opened them from. It has some annoyances when used with Tab Mix Plus but the biggest issue I find is that >100 tabs cause stability issues with Firefox on Linux.

Also, have a look for the Tab Hunter extension - lets you search for an open tab based on string in title. Needing this extension is a sure sign that you have too many tabs, of course...

I don't understand where we're going here ... If we group tabs, that lets us have MORE of them. The biggest problem with web browsing is that we have too many tabs, not that we lack space for them (that's the next problem!).

Like many people, I tend to leave tabs open for months on-end, as a sort of bookmark with slightly more immediacy. This doesn't need to consume resources:

I'd like to see a second level of caching; tabs ignored for long periods of time (default=12h?) just cache a PNG screenshot of each old tab and reload it (from disk cache or a deeper level of disk cache) when the user clicks on that screenshot. This would be especially useful for restoring sessions (no more password prompt!).

With this second level of caching, extra tabs can be afforded, and things like tab grouping, tab trees, and multi-row tabs become feasible.

I don't understand where we're going here ... If we group tabs, that lets us have MORE of them. The biggest problem with web browsing is that we have too many tabs, not that we lack space for them (that's the next problem!).

Like many people, I tend to leave tabs open for months on-end, as a sort of bookmark with slightly more immediacy. This doesn't need to consume resources:

I'd like to see a second level of caching; tabs ignored for long periods of time (default=12h?) just cache a PNG screenshot of each old tab and reload it (from disk cache or a deeper level of disk cache) when the user clicks on that screenshot. This would be especially useful for restoring sessions (no more password prompt!).

With this second level of caching, extra tabs can be afforded, and things like tab grouping, tab trees, and multi-row tabs become feasible.

I don't understand where we're going here ... If we group tabs, that lets us have MORE of them. The biggest problem with web browsing is that we have too many tabs, not that we lack space for them (that's the next problem!).

Like many people, I tend to leave tabs open for months on-end, as a sort of bookmark with slightly more immediacy. This doesn't need to consume resources:

I'd like to see a second level of caching; tabs ignored for long periods of time (default=12h?) just cache a PNG screenshot of each old tab and reload it (from disk cache or a deeper level of disk cache) when the user clicks on that screenshot. This would be especially useful for restoring sessions (no more password prompt!).

With this second level of caching, extra tabs can be afforded, and things like tab grouping, tab trees, and multi-row tabs become feasible.

Hmmm, as another posted pointed out, there is an add-on for that...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890

Must try it out.

Have you seen the "Tree Style Tab" addon? I just found it the other day, and I'm not sure how I lived without it.

This provides tree-style tab bar, like a folder tree of Windows Explorer. You can collapse/expand sub trees, etc.. Very nice.

Thank you for the link! I'm not sure why I have never searched for this, but I just installed it and can see that it will make my life much easier. I Typically have multiple browser windows open with numerous tabs in each. Currently I have 8 windows open with 5 to 23 tabs in each. This is a much better way to group and navigate the tabs. Thanks again.

Have you seen the "Tree Style Tab" addon? I just found it the other day, and I'm not sure how I lived without it.

This provides tree-style tab bar, like a folder tree of Windows Explorer. You can collapse/expand sub trees, etc.. Very nice.

Try read it later. I thought I wanted it as a means to manage what I was doing with tabs, but instead I found myself using it as intended. It's a middle ground between tabs and bookmarks: not quite so quick as tabs, but quicker than bookmarks and more easily managed than either.

It's a useful tool to managing time: the short and must-read articles go in tabs, longer stuff suitable for later goes on the reading list (bookmarks are for repeat reference). I get through my news site roundup much more quickly and have a pool of interesting articles to read whenever I feel like it.

Try the Firefox "Showcase" plugin. (I did a quick search here, and didn't see it listed yet). https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1810

Also, the All-In-One Gestures and FireGestures addons will do this for Firefox.

Default behavior for these is that an initial down-roll opens the tab's history, and up-roll opens the tab list.

Also, the All-In-One Gestures and FireGestures addons will do this for Firefox.

Default behavior for these is that an initial down-roll opens the tab's history, and up-roll opens the tab list.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6535

Sounds like what they are looking for. I use it to manage my large list of tabs. All they need to do is add optional grouping.

I use Tab Mix Plus and Colorful Tabs.

More than 200 CPU and memory hogging bugs in Firefox

Mozilla Labs seems a little like Microsoft: They want to change things that don't matter, rather than fix the huge, serious bugs, like the CPU and memory hogging bug. There are more than 200 CPU and memory hogging bugs listed in Bugzilla. There are more than 200 CPU hogging bugs, but Mozilla Labs only allows you to see the first 200.

If Mozilla doesn't allow visitors coming from Slashdot to see the bug list directly, put this URL into your browser: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org, simply enter CPU into the "Find a bug" field, and click on "Find".

Yesterday I had a few Windows and tabs open, but my computer seemed very slow. I discovered that Firefox was taking 89% of the CPU, doing nothing! I first reported the CPU hogging bug in version 1.9, perhaps 7 years ago. My experience is that CPU hogging in Firefox has become much worse since version 3.0.5, and worse than that in version 3.0.10.

Firefox, the laptop killer

The first component in a laptop to fail is often the fan. Usually a replacement fan is expensive to buy and install. Firefox's CPU hogging causes laptop fans to run much more often, and thus reach their end of life sooner.

In my experience with hundreds of programs, Firefox is the only one that consistently hogs the CPU.

I use Tab Mix Plus and Colorful Tabs.

More than 200 CPU and memory hogging bugs in Firefox

Mozilla Labs seems a little like Microsoft: They want to change things that don't matter, rather than fix the huge, serious bugs, like the CPU and memory hogging bug. There are more than 200 CPU and memory hogging bugs listed in Bugzilla. There are more than 200 CPU hogging bugs, but Mozilla Labs only allows you to see the first 200.

If Mozilla doesn't allow visitors coming from Slashdot to see the bug list directly, put this URL into your browser: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org, simply enter CPU into the "Find a bug" field, and click on "Find".

Yesterday I had a few Windows and tabs open, but my computer seemed very slow. I discovered that Firefox was taking 89% of the CPU, doing nothing! I first reported the CPU hogging bug in version 1.9, perhaps 7 years ago. My experience is that CPU hogging in Firefox has become much worse since version 3.0.5, and worse than that in version 3.0.10.

Firefox, the laptop killer

The first component in a laptop to fail is often the fan. Usually a replacement fan is expensive to buy and install. Firefox's CPU hogging causes laptop fans to run much more often, and thus reach their end of life sooner.

In my experience with hundreds of programs, Firefox is the only one that consistently hogs the CPU.

I use Tab Mix Plus and Colorful Tabs.

More than 200 CPU and memory hogging bugs in Firefox

Mozilla Labs seems a little like Microsoft: They want to change things that don't matter, rather than fix the huge, serious bugs, like the CPU and memory hogging bug. There are more than 200 CPU and memory hogging bugs listed in Bugzilla. There are more than 200 CPU hogging bugs, but Mozilla Labs only allows you to see the first 200.

If Mozilla doesn't allow visitors coming from Slashdot to see the bug list directly, put this URL into your browser: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org, simply enter CPU into the "Find a bug" field, and click on "Find".

Yesterday I had a few Windows and tabs open, but my computer seemed very slow. I discovered that Firefox was taking 89% of the CPU, doing nothing! I first reported the CPU hogging bug in version 1.9, perhaps 7 years ago. My experience is that CPU hogging in Firefox has become much worse since version 3.0.5, and worse than that in version 3.0.10.

Firefox, the laptop killer

The first component in a laptop to fail is often the fan. Usually a replacement fan is expensive to buy and install. Firefox's CPU hogging causes laptop fans to run much more often, and thus reach their end of life sooner.

In my experience with hundreds of programs, Firefox is the only one that consistently hogs the CPU.

I use Tab Mix Plus and Colorful Tabs.

More than 200 CPU and memory hogging bugs in Firefox

Mozilla Labs seems a little like Microsoft: They want to change things that don't matter, rather than fix the huge, serious bugs, like the CPU and memory hogging bug. There are more than 200 CPU and memory hogging bugs listed in Bugzilla. There are more than 200 CPU hogging bugs, but Mozilla Labs only allows you to see the first 200.

If Mozilla doesn't allow visitors coming from Slashdot to see the bug list directly, put this URL into your browser: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org, simply enter CPU into the "Find a bug" field, and click on "Find".

Yesterday I had a few Windows and tabs open, but my computer seemed very slow. I discovered that Firefox was taking 89% of the CPU, doing nothing! I first reported the CPU hogging bug in version 1.9, perhaps 7 years ago. My experience is that CPU hogging in Firefox has become much worse since version 3.0.5, and worse than that in version 3.0.10.

Firefox, the laptop killer

The first component in a laptop to fail is often the fan. Usually a replacement fan is expensive to buy and install. Firefox's CPU hogging causes laptop fans to run much more often, and thus reach their end of life sooner.

In my experience with hundreds of programs, Firefox is the only one that consistently hogs the CPU.

The Tree Style Tabs addon does exactly that. It rocks.

Tab Mix Plus. Don't let the "last updated" date fool you.

Tree Style Tab

Color me ignorant, but what exactly does Adblock do that Noscript doesn't

It is possible that a website will serve ads off of their local server too in addition to the usual suspects (i.e. the well known ad servers). In such cases AdBlock employs regular expression like rules to further identify and eliminate advertising content. NoScript blocks entire scripts on a per domain basis whereas AdBlock can be adjusted to target just the ads. In the case of an ad server there is really no difference between blocking scripts from the whole domain or just blocking the ads, but this is not always the case with scripts from domains which are not primarily about serving ads.

Should they perhaps run in conjunction for best results?

Defense in depth is never a bad idea. For example, I also run Flashblock, in addition to NoScript, so that if I want to watch some flash content in a domain but not all of it then I can allow the script in NoScript and then select with a fine degree of granularity exactly which flash objects I want to allow. I like to customize my browsing experience and Firefox + Addons allows me to do that.

Color me ignorant, but what exactly does Adblock do that Noscript doesn't

It is possible that a website will serve ads off of their local server too in addition to the usual suspects (i.e. the well known ad servers). In such cases AdBlock employs regular expression like rules to further identify and eliminate advertising content. NoScript blocks entire scripts on a per domain basis whereas AdBlock can be adjusted to target just the ads. In the case of an ad server there is really no difference between blocking scripts from the whole domain or just blocking the ads, but this is not always the case with scripts from domains which are not primarily about serving ads.

Should they perhaps run in conjunction for best results?

Defense in depth is never a bad idea. For example, I also run Flashblock, in addition to NoScript, so that if I want to watch some flash content in a domain but not all of it then I can allow the script in NoScript and then select with a fine degree of granularity exactly which flash objects I want to allow. I like to customize my browsing experience and Firefox + Addons allows me to do that.

How is Google's javascript engine in terms of loose coupling? Mozilla uses a javascript engine called SpiderMonkey which has all sorts of uses beyond web browsers. In fact, it's a really really good way to use JavaScript as a language for application extension/scripting. (Forget what you know about "JavaScript sucks" ... the things you hate are all browser/DOM related; the language itself is elegant and beautiful.) I'd hate to see this nice piece of embeddable code fall into disrepair.

99% of what we do on the web happens instantly (if you have a low latency connection) on all browsers if we stop the ads from loading.

Although I count myself among the AdBlock + NoScript users, a big part of the slow page loads with ads are the completely under-powered and over-subscribed servers employed by the Ad serving companies because they are too cheap to upgrade and pay for bandwidth. In effect, they are burning out the clutch trying to tow an 18-wheeler with a Honda civic and a make-shift trailer hookup. To all of the advertisers out there: stop being a bunch of cheapskates and get the bandwidth and server muscle that you need in order to meet the demands on your ad severs.

BTW: I have personally introduced dozens of my non-tech friends to AdBlock and they are completely stunned by the speedup that comes from dumping ads. It is like night and day and once their eyes are opened they will never be go back. AdBlock is the next killer app waiting in the wings; the advertisers should think about that when they waste our time with slow servers and annoying interstitial ads that go dancing around the screen and shouting about some product that 99.999% of people couldn't give two shits about. The more annoying and difficult they make ads, the more incentive people have to try and find a "solution" and any Google search concerning a "solution" to ads is bound to turn up AdBlock.

Stylish is an extension that lets you set up style rules on a per-site basis. Problem solved.

I'm sure it won't.

I tried upgrading to Leopard on my G4 iBook. Tried it for a couple months, then downgraded back to Tiger.

Some of the UI decisions they made in Leopard, like folders in the Dock that display as all of their contents stacked in a pile instead of a folder icon, were completely brain-dead. There was enough public outcry (and third-party workarounds) that Apple added options to fix the behavior in newer versions, but they still go with the stupid options by default. Did they forget to do usability testing, or did they simply ignore the results? Did it not occur to them that when you've got four dozen items in your Applications folder, making the folder look almost like the Address Book is confusing? Or that a distant star shining through a transparent menubar looks like something's wrong with your screen?

Other problems I noticed:

• CUPS browsing is disabled by default
• Editing multiple items in iCal is more awkward; they fixed part of it, but the details appear in a popup instead of a sidebar so they're always in a different part of the screen depending on what you're editing
• Spotlight's "Show All" function doesn't group the results by categories
• The selected tab in an application like X-Chat turns gray whenever another window has focus, so you can't see which tab was selected

Also, I think getting rid of the rounded corners was a terrible choice. I found a hack that brings them back if you want.

I also ran into driver issues - I couldn't get my Canon scanner to work, and couldn't communicate with my Nokia phone over Bluetooth. It reminded me of Vista users complaining about their driver woes.

Then there are UI problems with Tiger that Leopard simply left unchanged:

• FTP still doesn't work (try ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ for example)
• Windows like Spotlight's "Show All" search results window aren't associated with any application, so Cmd-Tab won't switch to them; in Leopard the "Add Printer" window has this problem too

I don't see how Snow Leopard could be worse.

Check it out -- http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11906

I have actually created this add-on, it is available from Mozilla! -> http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11906/

Posting to /. is supporting it.

If everybody stopped posting, do you think people would visit just for the ads and the summaries? Hint: nobody reads the summaries, so it would just be for the ads.

And, not only do I use Adblock Plus and NoScript, I also use Stylish to reformat pages to make them more useful. For /. it means there is no useless (to me) left navigation bar, and the comments fill the whole width of the page. Since that navigation bar scrolls off the top when I get to about the 5th comment, all it does is provide completely useless whitespace to the left of my browser, so it's gone. It's my browser, and it's going to display what I want, damn it.

If I didn't care what my browser displayed, I'd use IE and leave my homepage set to the default, never use any search engine but the default, and never manually type in any web page location, because unless it's linked to by Microsoft, it must not be important.

Yes, I just spotted that option too. I've been visiting (and posting and metamoderating) for years, so it's nice they've added that in recognition that the comments are really what make slashdot what it is. That said, I've also been running adblock plus and easylist and easylist privacy and the element hiding adblock helper for a good long time anyway, so it wasn't like I saw seeing most of the ads or the whitespace automatically anyway. Now, if the ads hadn't always been so US centric, I might not have blocked them in the first place...

But anyway - thanks slashdot!

What I want is a block-list that blocks the annoying ads (e.g. flash ads that cover the page) but doesn't block un-annoying ads (e.g. demure text-ads).

I found one for you!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1939

This should be a standard feature in FF. I don't know what loss there is and who wouldn't benefit from it.

Firemacs
Vimperator

or if you want to go the full monty: Conkeror
(unrelated to a famous red squirrel)

I suggested something similar on ubuntuforums a couple of years back and got shot down instantly. But the idea behind flux/ribbon is actually really good. Hide buttons that you arn't using at the moment and give the document more space.

Menubar:Replace the main menubar with a menubutton, use this to show all menu bar buttons that aren't shown by menu buttons that are spread out at the appropriate ends of the main toolbar (help)

Buttons: you are likely only interacting with one thing at a time, if define usage cases narrowly enough to put all the relevant tools on a toolbar but widely enough that there are only a few settings, then you can save space (or give more space to just the relevant tools).
*Some Actions can be done from any of the states Copy/undo stick this outside of a "container"
*Bind keys&buttons (automatically based on selection?) to toggle whats in the "container"
*Imo the container should be editing text/ editing pictures/layout(including columns & tables)/document(changing setting /print/save/open/new) and read (auto-hide the entire toolbar, giving 100% of screen estate to the document)
|Menubutton(s)|permanent buttons|toggles:relevant buttons|help|

Customizations:Make the whole thing customizable (if the relevant buttons are to big to fit in the provided space that section should be the first to loose space (be it only showing the 1st few and adding an arrow or allowing scrolling though the relevant buttons)) and allow users to define thier own usage cases, with repeated buttons (looking at you kde3) and thier own triggers (some people want to go straight to the text editing menu as soon as they select text others dont).
Make the whole look changeable (companies may want to replace the default menu button with a company logo? or make the whole thing bright pink?)
Allow the different sections to be separated (so you could give the relevant buttons an entire tool bar underneath)
Allow different toolbars to use different sized icons
Providing too much customization is not a bad thing as long as most people can use the defaults.
|Menubuttons|_____toggles_____|help|
|permanent buttons|relevant buttons|

Themes:Provide an easy&safe way to save/share a theme.
Provide sane defaults and get it out there, during the next release cycle look at which themes popular (you'll probably find there to be a few popular themes, classic, ribbon, office, geek, flashy) and ship them with the next release. There is no point in doing research designing what you thing is a good compromise for the work load that office/home users put their suite through, when you can just put a version out there and see what people do with it.

Linkification is pretty useful plugin.

I use the gmail one, works great. Every time I have a browser open, it automatically checks for me. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1264

Firefox, assuming Easy DragToGo installed:

Step 1: Triple click to highlight
Step 2: Drag in chosen direction for chosen action - open in this tab, open in new tab, save link as ...

but it is the choice of 4 different searches for a piece of highlighted text that really makes the extension worthwhile.

Uuuhhhh...because web browsers also need to work on mobile devices which are more concerned about power usage than having a large epeen CPU? I mean on the desktop, sure, I am building big fat multicore XP boxes as fast as I can get the parts delevered. Most folks want the big and bad even though 99.999% of the time with the tasks they are doing the CPU is sitting there using 1% resources and twiddling its thumbs.

But more and more of our computing is going mobile, and that means low power. Folks who I frankly thought would NEVER go mobile like my 67 year old luddite dad now have laptops. Add to the laptops the netbooks, the ARM based netbooks and phones, etc and I can see how this could turn out to be the wrong direction to take. MSFT doesn't care because they use a completely different IE on WinMo than they do on the desktop. But with Mozilla one of the best things about it IMHO is I can fire up Firefox or Seamonkey and have the same experience be it on desktop, laptop, netbook, ARM, etc.

If it goes to a multithreaded model I can see how we could end up with a fractured market, where things like extensions work on some version of Firefox and not others. I for one would rather have one Firefox that works wherever I want it to be, without having to worry about which versions works with what. Whether they will be able to pull that off and go multithreaded, I guess time will tell. But I like the fact that i can use the Firefox browser perfectly fine on this 1.1GHz Celeron and when I put together my new AMD dual core next week I simply import my bookmarks and everything "just works" the same on both machines.

WSJ gives free access to premium content if you are being redirected from google, facebook, digg etc. Here is a dirty little secret. The entire content on WSJ is available to you for free, if you can trick WSJ into believing that you have been directed to their webpage via digg.com!

Step1) Use firefox
Step2) Install refspoof http://refspoof.mozdev.org/
Step3) Install greasemonkey https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748
Step4) Install this script in greasemonkey http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/42134
Step5) Profit!!

WSJ gives free access to premium content if you are being redirected from google, facebook, digg etc. Here is a dirty little secret. The entire content on WSJ is available to you for free, if you can trick WSJ into believing that you have been directed to their webpage via digg.com!

Step1) Use firefox
Step2) Install refspoof http://refspoof.mozdev.org/
Step3) Install greasemonkey https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748
Step4) Install this script in greasemonkey http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/42134
Step5) Profit!!