Mouse gestures

[pdV6]

Totally reliant on genstures in Firefox now.
So much so that I find myself using them in oher applications (even ones I've written myself!) and sitting looking at the screen wondering why nothing's happening...

Excellent technology; so frustrating its not universal!

[charlie sprout]

Yup, they really are handy and soon become second nature.

[roadsweeper]

Yep, they're awesome, but may I take the opportunity to point you in the direction of a rather outstanding extension if, like me, you hate having to give your email address to sites just to register briefly, hence increasing the risk of spam:

Get Jetable Email
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&category=Web%20Annoyances&numpg=10&id=587

"Get a time-limited mail alias to avoid spam, via context menu."

[zumbruk]

Or just use mailinator....


www.mailinator.com

[agent006]

I use my own email domain, so i can just pluck an address out of thin air and use that. By default everything gets forwarded to my main email address, but if it starts getting spam i can just change it to forward to deadend@ address.

[roadsweeper]

agent006 said:

I use my own email domain, so i can just pluck an address out of thin air and use that. By default everything gets forwarded to my main email address, but if it starts getting spam i can just change it to forward to deadend@ address.

Yep, I have my own domain too, but the Jetable email is undoubtedly more convenient, particularly now it's a Firefox extension so you can just right-click in a field and fill it with a disposable email address that doesn't reference your domain and stops working after a specified time period. Give it a try, it's good I promise!

[roadsweeper]

zumbruk said:

Or just use mailinator.... www.mailinator.com

Yep, that's quite cool. There are a lot of disposable email address services, the difference I'm point out is that now you have a Firefox plug-in which makes it extremely convenient.

[FunkyNige]

pdV6 said:

Totally reliant on genstures in Firefox now. So much so that I find myself using them in oher applications (even ones I've written myself!) and sitting looking at the screen wondering why nothing's happening... Excellent technology; so frustrating its not universal!

Yup, I've lost track the amount of times I've tried to go 'Back' in Windows by using the mouse gesture...

[agent006]

roadsweeper said:

Yep, I have my own domain too, but the Jetable email is undoubtedly more convenient, particularly now it's a Firefox extension so you can just right-click in a field and fill it with a disposable email address that doesn't reference your domain and stops working after a specified time period. Give it a try, it's good I promise!

Sounds good. I'll give firefox another go again in a bit, but last time it would't import my opera setting properly/at all and was really slow. Although opera is taking an age to load these days for no apparent reason.

[chrishillcoat]

Have you got Opera 8? Faster than a greased whippet