On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 04:18:19AM -0400, Michael Leuchtenburg wrote:
> Oh, and to make things better, the print preview isn't an accurate
> picture of the way things actually print. That would be way too
> fucking easy, wouldn't it?
someone remind me again what font rendering library firefox is u
At 16:58 -0500 2007.03.16, Jeremy Weathers wrote:
>OSA scripting support is hateful enough on its own (though it
>continues to tease me with the potential of usefulness). Adding the
>AppleScript language on top of that keeps me away from Script Editor
>for months at a time.
That's why I wrote a wh
The same goes for the utter fuckwits who designed you. I hope
their families die too so they can't spread whatever defective
genes spawned a moron like you.
While HyperTalk was tolerable (IIRC), whoever thought extending the
language outside of its environment into the realm of system and
applic
Peter da Silva wrote:
>> Why they hid this in "Keyboard Shortcuts" I have no idea.
>
> Every release of OS X has hidden more stuff in really fucked up places
> in Preferences.
Speaking of hiding stuff, whomever decided in 10.3 that it would be a great
idea to turn the simple "Keyboard Viewer" and
Dear Applescript
You're a retarded buggy undocumented piece of shit. Please fuck off and
die slowly and painfully, impaled on a rusty shit-smeared spike.
The same goes for the utter fuckwits who designed you. I hope their
families die too so they can't spread whatever defective genes spawned a
mo
* Robert Rothenberg [2007-03-16 17:00]:
> On 15/03/07 22:53 A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> > What dimwit ever thought that conflating these options in a
> > single preference in this manner was a sane thing to do!? It
> > took me AGES to realise why the damn Ctrl-W shortcut no
> > longer worked as I expect
Lots of things are hateful about Firefox printing.
Go to View -> Page Style and select No Style. Then Print Preview. Ignored.
Worse, it's re-enabled the stylesheet.
On 15/03/07 22:53 A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> What dimwit ever thought that conflating these options in a
> single preference in this manner was a sane thing to do!? It took
> me AGES to realise why the damn Ctrl-W shortcut no longer worked
> as I expected it to. Googling for close to two hours or so in
On Mar 16, 2007, at 1:58 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
That's a Mac thing, Firefox is just behaving like a native app. You
can
change this behavior system wide. I discovered that there's an option
hidden
in System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Keyboard Shortcuts for "In
windows and dialog
On Mar 15, 2007, at 11:57 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Casual users don't click to bring a tab to the front and accidentally
hit the
close button that's taking up 1/4 of the tab they're clicking on?
I'm not a "casual user", I don't think, and I use Camino - I haven't
tried out the new Firefox
Michael G Schwern wrote:
Martin Ebourne wrote:
Well, you're right for you I presume, but definitely not right for
everyone.
Can't we all just hate everyone?
Hey, this list is for hating software, not people. Maybe a
hates-people list would be too scary.
Windows on the desktop tend to b
A. Pagaltzis writes:
> * Abigail [2007-03-16 01:55]:
>
> > On the boxes I do use Firefox, I have it disappear under me so many
> > times after using Ctrl-W just trying to erase the current URL.
>
> Funnily enough, that happens to me with Gaim chat windows,
I've somehow managed to get both Fire
A. Pagaltzis writes:
> With 2.x, I have to use either Ctrl-W or Alt-F4, depending on whether
> I'm looking at a window with several tabs or just one -- as long as I
> enable "Always show the tab bar." If I turn it off, then Ctrl-W does
> what I want. (So after much wailing and gnashing of teeth, I
Martin Ebourne writes:
> On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 17:19 -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>
> > Speaking of tabs, can I say what a horribly bad idea putting a tiny
> > little "close" button on a tiny little tab is? X-Chat Aqua used to
> > do this but they sensible took it out. Firefox used to do thi
A. Pagaltzis writes:
> I think there even was an unclose-tab function somewhere, but it's
> well hidden; I only stumbled onto it accidentally and now I can't
> remember or rediscover what obscure gesture invokes it.
Ctrl+Shift+T opens the most recently closed tab (and you can do it a few
times to
Martin Ebourne wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 17:19 -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>> Speaking of tabs, can I say what a horribly bad idea putting a tiny little
>> "close" button on a tiny little tab is? X-Chat Aqua used to do this but they
>> sensible took it out. Firefox used to do this but th
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 17:19 -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Speaking of tabs, can I say what a horribly bad idea putting a tiny little
> "close" button on a tiny little tab is? X-Chat Aqua used to do this but they
> sensible took it out. Firefox used to do this but they unsensibly put it back
>
On 2007-03-15 at 23:58 -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> That's a Mac thing, Firefox is just behaving like a native app. You can
> change this behavior system wide. I discovered that there's an option hidden
> in System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Keyboard Shortcuts for "In
> windows and d
Phil Pennock wrote:
> Camino's nice. Having tab (the key) take you to buttons (not just text*
> input fields), as Firefox does on every other platform, is pretty
> essential for keeping my frustration levels down as all my keyboard
> navigation habits get blown away.
That's a Mac thing, Firefox i
On 2007-03-15 at 18:50 -0500, Jeremy Weathers wrote:
> It doesn't help you, but the OS X version handles this correctly.
Are you sure?
Uncheck "Hide tab bar when only one tab is open".
Watch as closing the last tab causes a flicker as it reopens
"(Untitled)", the blank URL. The "Prevent last tab
On 2007-03-16 at 01:48 +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> Since then, the basic Firefox tabbing has always worked well
> enough for me.
>
> Guess that's no longer true. *snarl*
Copy your prefs.js from the profile directory.
Install Tab Mix Plus.
Tinker to get things working.
Copy the new prefs.js
Unins
On 2007-03-16 at 01:36 +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Michael G Schwern [2007-03-16 01:20]:
> > Speaking of tabs, can I say what a horribly bad idea putting a
> > tiny little "close" button on a tiny little tab is?
Firefox is not always the most responsive of applications. Sometimes I
don't know
A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Michael G Schwern [2007-03-16 01:20]:
>> Speaking of tabs, can I say what a horribly bad idea putting a
>> tiny little "close" button on a tiny little tab is?
>
> It's actually a preferrable UI style for casual users. The two
> styles have very different affordances.
Casu
Joe Mahoney wrote:
> I much prefer the "button on the tab" implementation. Now you don't
> have to click on the tab, then move your mouse over to the close
> button. I rarely accidentally close the wrong tab in Firefox 2, but I
> did it much more often in 1.x
Hit (ctrl|apple)-w. We don't need no
On 3/15/07, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote:
Personally, I find this extension worth the price of admission to
prevent Backspace (the erase-previous-charachter key) from changing to
the previously accessed web page. "
Ahh, the memories! Searching for a way to disable that Backspace key
miser
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 01:23:31AM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * jrod...@hate.spamportal.net [2007-03-16
> 01:10]:
> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:53:31PM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> > > That is, the Ctrl-W shortcut now has the same demented
> > > behaviour that the close-tab button always had
>
* Abigail [2007-03-16 01:55]:
> On the boxes I do use Firefox, I have it disappear under me so
> many times after using Ctrl-W just trying to erase the current
> URL.
Funnily enough, that happens to me with Gaim chat windows, but
never with Firefox. (I also keep hitting Ctrl-Z to undo my last
tex
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 01:23:31AM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * jrod...@hate.spamportal.net [2007-03-16
> 01:10]:
> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:53:31PM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> > > That is, the Ctrl-W shortcut now has the same demented
> > > behaviour that the close-tab button always had
>
* Michael G Schwern [2007-03-16 00:15]:
> I'd never noticed this behavior before, and I tried it out and
> it wasn't how my Firefox works. Turns out to be a side-effect
> of the wonderful Tab Mix Plus add-on which has many wonderful
> benefits.
>
> While on the subject of tabs, I'd also recommen
* Michael G Schwern [2007-03-16 01:20]:
> Speaking of tabs, can I say what a horribly bad idea putting a
> tiny little "close" button on a tiny little tab is?
It's actually a preferrable UI style for casual users. The two
styles have very different affordances.
That said, I made a beeline for th
On 3/16/07, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Its like putting a "self destruct" button on the right hand side of all the
tables in your house. Carelessly put a cup down in the wrong spot and *boop*!
Your table and cup disappear! And the best part is, there's no undo!
(something else Tab Mix Plus fix
* jrod...@hate.spamportal.net [2007-03-16 01:10]:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:53:31PM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> > That is, the Ctrl-W shortcut now has the same demented
> > behaviour that the close-tab button always had
>
> I'm not sure if you want CTRL-W to do this. I don't. That is,
> to my
Jeremy Weathers wrote:
>> That is, the Ctrl-W shortcut now has the same demented behaviour
>> that the close-tab button always had: when there's only one tab
>> left, Ctrl-W closes the tab AND THEN OPENS A NEW ONE WITH THE
>> HOMEPAGE!! RHHH! DIE!! Die, dammit, and get outta my face!
>> Really,
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:53:31PM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> That is, the Ctrl-W shortcut now has the same demented behaviour
> that the close-tab button always had
I'm not sure if you want CTRL-W to do this. I don't. That is, to my
mind CTRL-W is close window, not close tab. If that somehow
That is, the Ctrl-W shortcut now has the same demented behaviour
that the close-tab button always had: when there's only one tab
left, Ctrl-W closes the tab AND THEN OPENS A NEW ONE WITH THE
HOMEPAGE!! RHHH! DIE!! Die, dammit, and get outta my face!
Really, it's very hard to excite me past my
A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> Except that in Firefox 2, "Always show the tab bar" apparently
> means "even if you have to rescue the browser window from
> destruction to ensure that the tab bar can continue to shine in
> all its glory."
>
> That is, the Ctrl-W shortcut now has the same demented behaviour
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