TSGL: Firefox annoyances--is there an answer?

[Craig]

Hey Don,

Yeah, I couldn't get the tab bar at the bottom either. As far as the 
TabMix Plus goes, try these settings:
You can find the TabMixPlus options, right? If so, in the 'Links' tab, 
chg to 'new tab' the top 2 options. next...

In the 'events' tab, make sure that 'open tabs from' has all the 
possibilities checked...plus whatever your other preferences are. The 
rest of the 'events' tab is pretty much up to the individual. Note, tho, 
that under 'tab features', definitely check the 'enable undo close tabs' 
...very handy -right clicking on the tab shows cool options.

Questions: Isn't your bookmarking problem solved if you display the 
techsites folder in the sidebar? That is, using the 'customize' feature 
by right-clicking on the toolbar to add buttons for history, bookmarks, 
etc...?

Craig
 



Don Penlington wrote:
> At 05:45 PM 5/9/2008 -0700, you wrote:
>   
>> I have TabMixPlus set so that every single click opens in a new tab>
>>     
>
>
> Ok, I installed the Tabmix addon as you said. Then closed and re-opened 
> Firefox.
>
> It's set to open new links in tabs. But no, Firefox still stubbornly 
> refuses to do tabbed browsing when left-clicking.  I still have to go back 
> and forth one page at a time using the back button when googling, for example.
>
> I tried centre-clicking links as H Davis has suggested, and that produces 
> tabbed browsing. I suppose I could get used to centre-clicking links, 
> though it feels a bit strange at first. I guess I can learn to live with that.
>
> Is that what everyone else does?
>
> Meantime, the tab bar has gone back to the top again.
>
> Thanks to H Davis for his tips on bookmarking etc. But I still find 
> bookmarking rather clumsy in Firefox. I can get a folder into the links 
> bar, but can't get it to open as a folder---the cascading form is too 
> inconvenient. I checked out the bookmark addons, but nothing much useful there.
>
> For example, let's say I have a bookmarks folder named "Techsites" in IE 
> Favourites containing 50 links.
>
> With Maxthon, I can open that (or any other folder) with one click on the 
> numeric keypad, then open any link from there. I'd like to do the same in 
> FF, though I'm not yet ready to make FF my default browser.
>
> Could I make a duplicate of that folder, called say "FFTechsites" such that 
> its links open by default in FF instead of my default browser Maxthon? 
> Changing all the file associations individually would be most tedious. 
> Changing them globally would effectively make FF the default browser.
>
> Maybe one day I'll be as enthusiastic as you guys when I get around its bugs.
>
> I'm sure it'll be a lot of fun exploring all the addons.  (I've already 
> been through all that with Maxthon).
>
> Now solved 2.5 problems out of 3, thanks to you guys. But there'll be more, 
> so don't go to sleep just yet.
>
> Don Penlington
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