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Pie-Menus in Mozilla

Posted by Hemos on from the get-the-new-features-on dept.

pronik writes "The Optimoz project on MozDev had two main development branches. While the first one, Mouse Gestures have been a success, we had to wait for the second, also very promising one: PieMenus. Now the wait is over! First implementation of PieMenus for Mozilla - RadialContext - is available for installation and testing!!!"

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  1. Re:wow by leviramsey · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    That being said, yay for Mozilla. A browser that actually runs without a 50 MB footprint and supports actual standards. That and you can get all kinds of silly do-dads on them like pie menus. (Yeah, I just glanced at pie menus briefly so maybe I've missed some really useful part of pie menus.

    This is the obligatory Opera advocacy post.

    Opera supports the same standards Mozilla supports, and definitely fits in a footprint smaller than 50MB, with mouse gesture support.

  2. Pie-nis in Mozilla? by mrscorpio · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did anyone else think that the subject is what the title of this article was? Say it with a long e *snickers*

    Shit, I need to go to bed.

    Chris

  3. Re:ATTENTION MODERATORS by coryboehne · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And you sir? Surely realize that I'm very serious, and I'm most happy to see this. Your interpretation of my post as a troll only shows your underlying mentality of assumption that everything is sarcastic.

  4. slashdotting by tabby · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How long before someone tries to sue slashdot for DDOS. Perhaps the default link to sites should point to the google cache (they are at least prepared for this sort of bandwidth). Or automatic caching of the site by slashdot - this would at least be responsible.

    --
    I've experiments to run, there is research to be done on the people who are still alive.
  5. Mod me as a troll... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    but someone has to say it.
    Mozilla is a great browser, but it's damn big and slow. Even if I use the much lighter Galeon, the underlying Mozilla engine is still a bit too heavy.
    Someone (Opera, Links) showed us that writing fast and small browsers isn't impossible at all.

    IMO, what Mozilla really needs is:

    1- Optimization. Stop adding new features for at least six months and srink the code as much as possible.

    2- Completely rewrite the user interface.
    The Netscape approach is old and way less functional than ..say the Opera or the Galeon one.

    3- Rethink the installation process. The default installation and setup must -not- include the composer and the mail/news client. Tabbed browsing must be turned on by default, popups must be disabled by default (just put a reminder that alerts the user about that during the installation process).

  6. Pies Menus in Mozilla. by cying · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You say that like it's a good thing. *shakes head*

  7. Re:wow by thesolo · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Opera supports the same standards Mozilla supports, and definitely fits in a footprint smaller than 50MB, with mouse gesture support.

    While it is true that Opera tries to support the W3C DOM, the Opera engine does not do it nearly as well as Mozilla. Opera also has a weird interpretation of Javascript, making some sites which work in Moz choke in Opera.

    Mozilla's support of CSS is unparalleled, I prefer Moz's mouse gestures to Opera, and Mozilla's smart popup-blocking (block only popups which I *didnt* request) is a million times better than blocking all or no popups. Also, since Mozilla doesn't allow switching user-agents in the GUI, it shows up as Mozilla in web logs, not as IE or something else. (I really dislike User-Agent spoofing, especially since it falsely increases IE's percentage of use.)

    That said, if there were no Mozilla, I'd be using Opera; it is a sweet, small, fast browser and a joy to use. And while I don't like MDI in a web browser, it's still better to use than IE or Konqueror.