Comments on: Firefox Secrets interview on Computer America http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/07/19/firefox-secrets-interview-on-computer-america/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:06:45 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Matt Mickiewicz http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/07/19/firefox-secrets-interview-on-computer-america/comment-page-1/#comment-5266 Matt Mickiewicz Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 48683459#comment-5266 <p>Excellent interview :)</p> Excellent interview :)

]]> By: alfasierra http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/07/19/firefox-secrets-interview-on-computer-america/comment-page-1/#comment-5267 alfasierra Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 48683459#comment-5267 <p>Firefox users beware! One of the not-so-neat things it does is to eat all your favorites. Being a very active developer, I had bookmarked more than a hundred favorites from August to March, when Firefox ate all my favorites.</p> <p>I looked for a solution in the Firefox forum, but I found only many other posts by people who lost their favorites, and some from people who had also lost all their e-mails in Thunderbird. No solution was available.</p> <p>What I discovered was that this problem has been discussed on the forum for two years, but it has still not been fixed, while Mozille continues to release new versions of Firefox. Even though I loved everything else about Firefox, I have gone back to using IE.</p> Firefox users beware! One of the not-so-neat things it does is to eat all your favorites. Being a very active developer, I had bookmarked more than a hundred favorites from August to March, when Firefox ate all my favorites.

I looked for a solution in the Firefox forum, but I found only many other posts by people who lost their favorites, and some from people who had also lost all their e-mails in Thunderbird. No solution was available.

What I discovered was that this problem has been discussed on the forum for two years, but it has still not been fixed, while Mozille continues to release new versions of Firefox. Even though I loved everything else about Firefox, I have gone back to using IE.

]]> By: Kravvitz http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/07/19/firefox-secrets-interview-on-computer-america/comment-page-1/#comment-5268 Kravvitz Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 48683459#comment-5268 <p>Yeah that is an annoying bug. It happended to me a few days ago on someone else's PC. I reconstructed the bookmarks from an old backup of them and the IE favorites.</p> <p>If you backup your bookmarks regularly than it's not a problem. To back them up go to Manage Bookmarks --> File --> Export and then select the filename and location and click Save.</p> Yeah that is an annoying bug. It happended to me a few days ago on someone else’s PC. I reconstructed the bookmarks from an old backup of them and the IE favorites.

If you backup your bookmarks regularly than it’s not a problem. To back them up go to Manage Bookmarks –> File –> Export and then select the filename and location and click Save.

]]> By: trojjer http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/07/19/firefox-secrets-interview-on-computer-america/comment-page-1/#comment-5269 trojjer Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 48683459#comment-5269 <p>Well, that bug hasn't happened to me yet; not that I'd be bothered, since I've only just started really using Favourites/Bookmarks...</p> <p>Does anyone else get a bit frustrated with how awkward it can be when, for instance, another page is loaded into a popup window without the tab toolbar present? At the minute I'm getting a bit sick of having to right click and close the "hidden tabs" sequentially...</p> Well, that bug hasn’t happened to me yet; not that I’d be bothered, since I’ve only just started really using Favourites/Bookmarks…

Does anyone else get a bit frustrated with how awkward it can be when, for instance, another page is loaded into a popup window without the tab toolbar present? At the minute I’m getting a bit sick of having to right click and close the “hidden tabs” sequentially…

]]> By: Kevin Yank http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/07/19/firefox-secrets-interview-on-computer-america/comment-page-1/#comment-5270 Kevin Yank Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 48683459#comment-5270 <p>Yep the invisible tabs in pop-ups is a silly bug, documented <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243893">here</a>.</p> <p>A hacky solution in Firefox 1.0.x is to go to the special about:config page and set dom.disable_window_open_feature.toolbar to true, which will force the standard toolbar (which includes the tabs bar) to be visible in all windows, including chromeless pop-ups.</p> <p>In Firefox 1.5 (coming in September), this bug has been fully fixed. The <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143866">same bug in Mozilla</a> has also been fixed for the next release of that browser.</p> Yep the invisible tabs in pop-ups is a silly bug, documented here.

A hacky solution in Firefox 1.0.x is to go to the special about:config page and set dom.disable_window_open_feature.toolbar to true, which will force the standard toolbar (which includes the tabs bar) to be visible in all windows, including chromeless pop-ups.

In Firefox 1.5 (coming in September), this bug has been fully fixed. The same bug in Mozilla has also been fixed for the next release of that browser.

]]> By: texman http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/07/19/firefox-secrets-interview-on-computer-america/comment-page-1/#comment-5271 texman Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 48683459#comment-5271 <p>Use an independent bookmark/personal information manager and forget the anemic Favorites feature in all the browsers. I use Compass, shareware that hasn't been upgraded in over six years, and it works very well. I have over 15,000 URLs carefully categorized in over 1200 folders, full text search, encryption (store all my passwords in this), export individual folders to a HTML page, etc. Could not function without it.</p> <p>If SitePoint released a very similar bookmark manager that allowed easy integration with FireFox (right now pressing INSERT while on a web page only auto inserts the URL from IE) folks would beat a path to your door IMO.</p> <p>Compass <br /> http://www.softgauge.com/compass/</p> Use an independent bookmark/personal information manager and forget the anemic Favorites feature in all the browsers. I use Compass, shareware that hasn’t been upgraded in over six years, and it works very well. I have over 15,000 URLs carefully categorized in over 1200 folders, full text search, encryption (store all my passwords in this), export individual folders to a HTML page, etc. Could not function without it.

If SitePoint released a very similar bookmark manager that allowed easy integration with FireFox (right now pressing INSERT while on a web page only auto inserts the URL from IE) folks would beat a path to your door IMO.

Compass
http://www.softgauge.com/compass/

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