Firefox, couple of quick ??

[frogesque]

Navigation, Where is (is there) the "Refresh" button?

How do I stop the cursor on message the board input form from blinking? It's driving me nuts!

[Maksutov]

Navigation, Where is (is there) the "Refresh" button?

How do I stop the cursor on message the board input form from blinking? It's driving me nuts!

The refresh buttom is right here:

http://img6.exs.cx/img6/6308/Refresh.jpg

Not sure what you can do about the cursor other than click off the window.

[frogesque]

Reload current page, Doh! Thanks Maksutov, How could I have missed that? :oops:

That cursor's still annoying though. Is it an old Netscape HTML, "Blink", thing?

[tofu]

The standard shortcut keys work in firefox as well.

ctrl-R reloads/refreshes the page
alt-arrow keys work the back, next buttons

and a special feature of firefox, ctrl-t opens a new tab. Tab's are the best thing about firefox. They're much cleaner and nicer than having to open a seperate window like you do in IE. You can still open a new window if you want, but most times you'll find tabs to be better.

the standard windows key, alt-tab switches to another window on your desktop. ctrl-tab switches to the next tab in firefox.

[Ut]

I'm not sure about this cursor blinking thing you speak of. I've never noticed it before. Maybe I'm just unobservant.

I highly recomend downloading one of the navigation plugins. There are a couple of varieties to choose from, and they make keyboard input or the menu bar obsolete. I, personally, use All-in-One Gestures, which is a rocker/scroll gesture plugin. There are also various menu based plugins which are really cool.

[zebo-the-fat]

Also look at View->Toolbars->Customise

This lets you add things like Mail to the toolbar

[frogesque]

Thanks for all the replies. I'll go play with a few of the toys :lol:

So far I haven't found Firefox to be any more stable or faster on this heap o' junk but that's probably got more to do with the pc

I've IE and Firefox open at the moment. The cursor for IE on the message input is a single black vertical line that blinks (1/2 on 1/2 off) about once per second and isn't too intrusive. On Firefox it's slightly broader and flutters erractically. The normal arrow mouse pointer changes to a thin I about 18pt. high on both whilst over the message input form.

For what it's worth (not a lot!) my OS is Win98

[Kesh]

Ah, that explains it. It's probably a bug in how FF runs under 98. The insertion mouse pointer (the I bar) looks normal to me on a Mac and WinXP.

[Crashtest]

I just recently started using Firefox and I seem to have a problem with it displaying thumbnail images on any web page. For instance, I cannot see the image in Maksutov's post or any images on Yahoo. The browser works just fine except for that one, slightly annoying, problem. Any suggestions or help that can be offered will be greatly appreciated. BTW I have the 1.0 version of Firefox on Windows XP.

[Lycus]

I just recently started using Firefox and I seem to have a problem with it displaying thumbnail images on any web page. For instance, I cannot see the image in Maksutov's post or any images on Yahoo. The browser works just fine except for that one, slightly annoying, problem. Any suggestions or help that can be offered will be greatly appreciated. BTW I have the 1.0 version of Firefox on Windows XP.
Go to Tools, Options and then Web Features. Is for the originating web site only checked? If it is, uncheck it, hit OK and reload the page.

[Crashtest]

I just recently started using Firefox and I seem to have a problem with it displaying thumbnail images on any web page. For instance, I cannot see the image in Maksutov's post or any images on Yahoo. The browser works just fine except for that one, slightly annoying, problem. Any suggestions or help that can be offered will be greatly appreciated. BTW I have the 1.0 version of Firefox on Windows XP.
Go to Tools, Options and then Web Features. Is for the originating web site only checked? If it is, uncheck it, hit ok and reload the page.

#-o That did it. Thanks a lot Lycus.

[worzel]

Ctrl-Click on a link to open it in a new tab. Great for opening links in posts for reading later.

[ZaphodBeeblebrox]

Ctrl-Click on a link to open it in a new tab. Great for opening links in posts for reading later.

Or if you have a Mouse with a Middle-Button, or a Scroll-Key, just push that.

It Works Great!

[Kesh]

Oh, here's a nifty trick:

Go into your address bar and type "about:config" without the quotes. This brings up a whole host of configuration options you don't normally have access to.

Scroll down until you find an option labelled browser.tabs.showSingleUserModePrefs. Right-click on the setting (false) and select "Toggle" to change it to true.

Now, if you go into your Options (Preferences on the Mac), and click the Advanced section, you have a new setting under the Tabs heading. You can now force any link that would normally open in a new window to, instead, open in a new tab automatically! No more surprise windows when you're tabbed browsing. (Popup windows still work like normal.)

[Laguna]

Does anybody know, how to change the directory for the FF cache?
The standard Directory in Documents and Settings is not my favourite place.

[Kesh]

Here you go. (http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#oth_cache)

[AndrewGPaul]

Also, can you set it to empty the cache every time you close FF?

[Laguna]

Great! Thank you!

[Dirk Dogstoerd]

Of course an even better course of action would be to get yourself a copy of Opera 7... More features in less code than FF, and fast under Win98, as with any other version.

[Kesh]

Also, can you set it to empty the cache every time you close FF?

Not that I'm aware of. About your only recourse is to set the cache size to 0, so that files are never stored past your current session.

[AndrewGPaul]

Wouldn't that mean it doesn't use the cache during a session?

(So far, the only thin IE will do that FF doesn't).

[tofu]

Also, can you set it to empty the cache every time you close FF?

Trying to hide something are we? hehe.

Under tools/options on the privacy page is a single button that clears everything. That includes not only the cache, but also the history, the location bar, and all cookies. It's a chore to clear everything in IE. A few months ago a friend of mine was visiting and he wanted to show me a certain website (I promise, it was a friend, not me). anyway, after he left I thought I'd better hide the evidence of that so I went to the clear cache function in IE. Well basically, I'd forgotten about the location bar and apparently my girlfriend saw it because I noticed that same site in the history again. She didn't say anything. I wonder what she thinks of me.

[Gullible Jones]

Of course an even better course of action would be to get yourself a copy of Opera 7... More features in less code than FF, and fast under Win98, as with any other version.

Opera comes with an irritating ad bar. Sure you can buy it to get rid of the ads... But that costs $50, which is absolutely ridiculous for a browser. Also, if you check out its stats on Secunia.com, you'll see that it's got more vulnerabilities than Mozilla/Firefox. (And Konqueror makes it look like a big fat target.)

FF/Mozilla is a bit slow to start up on Win98 if you have a slow machine. Usually less than 10 seconds, though, if you have enough RAM (128 megs is recommended) and don't have a dozen things running in the background.

Oh BTW... if you have Firefox, set "net.http.pipelining" and "net.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true", and increase "net.http.pipelining.maxrequests". (Default for the last one is "4", maximum is 8 or 10 IIRC.) Rendering speed should be improved.

(If you use the Mozilla Suite, turn on "pipelining" in Preferences, I forget where.)

[Lycus]

Opera comes with an irritating ad bar. Sure you can buy it to get rid of the ads... But that costs $50, which is absolutely ridiculous for a browser.
Do people actually buy Opera? With all the free browsers available, what would be the point?

[Gullible Jones]

Apparently it's a bit faster than Firefox. But that can be solved by enabling pipelining, as mentioned earlier... Presto, Firefox faster than Opera. ;)

(For those who don't get the joke - Opera's rendering engine is called Presto.)

[sarongsong]

...Opera comes with an irritating ad bar...
I'm not seeing this (Version 7.02, unpurchased)---where exactly is it?

[Gullible Jones]

You're not?

I hope you aren't using a cracked version... :o

[sarongsong]

Nope---and just 'up-graded' to their free Version 7.54 and still haven't encountered it. (So far, preferring the earlier version simply because I'm more accustomed to it.) Maybe using the 'Refuse all pop-ups' switch keeps them away?

[Gullible Jones]

No, it's a panel not a popup.

What operating system? Maybe the Mac version doesn't have it?

[sarongsong]

Win98---and I don't see it when I got to their Homesite (http://www.opera.com/), where you'd think it would definitely appear, either. Even they say, "... When you buy and register Opera, the ad banner disappears...", but I sure am not seeing it---weird, eh?
Wait a minute, yes, I see it now---sorry---so used to seeing it, it doesn't really stand out. It resides in the upper right corner of the screen, but does not intrude into the window itself:
"Buy Opera today! and make this banner go away." #-o
Never really found it to be a problem, tho.