The Shrine

Just downloaded the new Firefox. Noticed that my text in the address bar is now Blue. and the tab box has a plus sign.

Not sure what else has really changed but those are the first two big visual changes I've noticed so far. Anyone else have any thoughts?

when i go to "check for new updates"...nothing.

It's been out for weeks, now. You probably already grabbed it, Mully.

I had a weird graphical glitch with the new Firefox for a while and it disappeared as mysteriously as it came. Probably another quirk with my desktop.

I kinda like the + button for a new tab. Not that it was a huge drag to middle click my home page (blank page) or hit ctrl-t. I still find myself using the old ways 95% of the time.

Almost the only reason I open a new tab (that's not a link I want to open in a new tab) is to do a Google search, so I almost only open a new tab by pressing ctrl+t - my hands are already on the keyboard to type search criteria into Google.

(I use New Tab Homepage and set my homepage to Google.)

Shrinweck wrote:It's been out for weeks, now. You probably already grabbed it, Mully.

doh!

Kupek wrote:Almost the only reason I open a new tab (that's not a link I want to open in a new tab) is to do a Google search, so I almost only open a new tab by pressing ctrl+t - my hands are already on the keyboard to type search criteria into Google.

(I use New Tab Homepage and set my homepage to Google.)

I use new Windows instead of Tabs 'cause Alt-Tab doesn't work with Tabs. And I never have more than 3 or 4 open at any time.

Zeus wrote:

Kupek wrote:Almost the only reason I open a new tab (that's not a link I want to open in a new tab) is to do a Google search, so I almost only open a new tab by pressing ctrl+t - my hands are already on the keyboard to type search criteria into Google.

(I use New Tab Homepage and set my homepage to Google.)

I use new Windows instead of Tabs 'cause Alt-Tab doesn't work with Tabs. And I never have more than 3 or 4 open at any time.

Try ctrl-tab.

Lox wrote:

Zeus wrote:

Kupek wrote:Almost the only reason I open a new tab (that's not a link I want to open in a new tab) is to do a Google search, so I almost only open a new tab by pressing ctrl+t - my hands are already on the keyboard to type search criteria into Google.

(I use New Tab Homepage and set my homepage to Google.)

I use new Windows instead of Tabs 'cause Alt-Tab doesn't work with Tabs. And I never have more than 3 or 4 open at any time.

Try ctrl-tab.

That works. Thanks

Yeah, I don't know how I survived before ctrl-tab sometimes. And to think I discovered it while drunk and trying to alt-tab.

Kupek wrote:Almost the only reason I open a new tab (that's not a link I want to open in a new tab) is to do a Google search, so I almost only open a new tab by pressing ctrl+t - my hands are already on the keyboard to type search criteria into Google.

(I use New Tab Homepage and set my homepage to Google.)

Heh, that's what Google search bars are for.

SineSwiper wrote:

Kupek wrote:Almost the only reason I open a new tab (that's not a link I want to open in a new tab) is to do a Google search, so I almost only open a new tab by pressing ctrl+t - my hands are already on the keyboard to type search criteria into Google.

(I use New Tab Homepage and set my homepage to Google.)

Heh, that's what Google search bars are for.

My google search bar doesnt open a new tab, though, it runs the search in the tab im in. I wonder if i can change that...

Flip, you can. I tried that for a while, but I prefer to the search bar to be in the current window.

Opening a new tab for a Google search is faster and less work than using the search bar. Since Google's homepage forces the cursor to start in the search box, I can press ctrl+t, then start typing. Using the Search bar requires using the mouse and taking the time to manually get the cursor in the search box, and perhaps switching the search away from Amazon or Wikipedia. (Since neither Amazon nor Wikipedia force the focus into their search locations, using the search bar is faster for them.) It's a small difference, but it's still a difference.

I don't use Firefox so I'm out of it - but, did they upgrade the sprite-scaling algorithm in this one? They were supposed to do that awhile back and indeed they may have prior to this, one of the big reasons Opera locked me in is that it had modern smooth image resizing long before IE or FF did.

Kupek wrote:Flip, you can. I tried that for a while, but I prefer to the search bar to be in the current window.

Opening a new tab for a Google search is faster and less work than using the search bar. Since Google's homepage forces the cursor to start in the search box, I can press ctrl+t, then start typing. Using the Search bar requires using the mouse and taking the time to manually get the cursor in the search box, and perhaps switching the search away from Amazon or Wikipedia. (Since neither Amazon nor Wikipedia force the focus into their search locations, using the search bar is faster for them.) It's a small difference, but it's still a difference.

That's exactly why I use ctrl-t exclusively. I can do that much faster than moving the mouse.

Kupek wrote:Opening a new tab for a Google search is faster and less work than using the search bar.

Wait, hold on... I get Ctrl+T and get a blank page. What browser are you using?