Firefox

[Mr E]

Damn I need to get out more.

Just updated to firefox 0.9, and have installed and configured advanced tabs and mouse gestures. I love mouse gestures.

For anyone still using IE. This is the future.

God it's nice.

www.mozilla.org

[PetrolTed]

Gestures?

[Mr E]

Gestures.

Instead of hitting that pesky 'back' button - right click and wave the mouse left....

...want to go home? Right click and write a 'h'...

....etc. Click and up to open a link in a tab. Click and down to open in a new instance of the browser......

Buttons suddernly seem very clunky.....

(I own a P900, so writing on screens makes sense to me)

[docevi1]

ok, so where is that?

[FourWheelDrift]

PetrolTed said:

Gestures?

Downloadable extension from here

http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/

[Mr E]

FourWheelDrift said:

PetrolTed said: Gestures? Downloadable extension from here http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/

[plotloss]

Just installed this.

Makes PH look different.

Seems a lot more lightweight than IE too...

[zumbruk]

It is (lighter than IE). And with Popup blocking and Flash blocking, it's definitely the dog's nads.

[docevi1]

wow! I didn't know they existed, I've now installed various nifty things that I wished FireFox had

Thank you

[Mr E]

docevi1 said:

wow! I didn't know they existed, I've now installed various nifty things that I wished FireFox had Thank you

A pleasure.

The card games and minesweeper are quite cool.

Download tools are worth grabbing too.

[size13]

In linux + firefox 0.9

After I d/l extensions, it just says they will be installed after firefox is restarted, but never are.

Any ideas anyone?

edited to add: it must be a permissions thing

>> Edited by size13 on Friday 30th July 14:04

[Pigeon]

What flavour linux?

[FourWheelDrift]

ummmmmmmmmmm.......Strawberry

[Mr E]

FourWheelDrift said:

ummmmmmmmmmm.......Strawberry

PMSL

[zumbruk]

size13 said:

In linux + firefox 0.9 After I d/l extensions, it just says they will be installed after firefox is restarted, but never are. Any ideas anyone?

Did you install Firefox as yourself, or as root? And if as root, are you installing the extensions as root?

I run Firefox on my Solaris boxes (I'm using it now) and it all works fine, including the extensions.

[Bodo]

size13 said:

In linux + firefox 0.9 After I d/l extensions, it just says they will be installed after firefox is restarted, but never are. Any ideas anyone? edited to add: it must be a permissions thing >> Edited by size13 on Friday 30th July 14:04

Have you had a look if they only need to be enabled perhaps?

#Tools #Options.... and then in the Extensions tab

[roadsweeper]

zumbruk said:

It is (lighter than IE). And with Popup blocking and Flash blocking, it's definitely the dog's nads.

You've also got AdBlock (not to be used on PH! ) and BugMeNot (gives login information for sites which require registration to read news articles for example) which should be checked out. Magpie is quite cool (image collector) and I can recommend Sage (RSS client).

Secure Password Generator (generates secure passwords!) and TinyURL (generates tiny URLs!) are good.

Oh, also get PasteAndGo (paste a URL into the address bar and go straight to it) and there's something called Drag & Go or something similar which is neat.

You can also get a neat extension that allows you to select some text and google it.

Finally, now get Thunderbird, the Mozilla email client - it's also awesome.