So, I Finally Got Mozilla...
SoulSkorpion
Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 423Members
Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 423Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">...and I need some advice</div> I've been using IE for a while, and not half an hour ago, I finished installing the latest Mozilla RC. Why? Well, tabbed browsing is kinda cool (used it at uni), and it's not necessarily vulnerable to the same exploits as IE.
Now here's the thing. There are a lot of subtle things about it that irritate me, since I'm used to having them\being able to do them in IE, and it doesn't happen here. I've scoured the preferences menus, but I can't find options for these. If anyone knows how to change these, or if there are any plugin applications that handle these (I understand that there are various add-on projects around), I'd really appreciate it.
Anyway, here we go.
<ul><li>In IE, if you press the middle mouse button, you get a white circle with black arrows in it, and then if you move the cursor outside the circle it scrolls the page; the further away from the centre of the circle, the faster it scrolls. I used this a <i>lot</i>, and I'm really noticing not having it.</li><li>Even when a page has finshed loading, IE lets you hit the stop button again which disables looping animations. Mozilla doesn't seem to. Yes, I know you can disable looping animations alltogether (or set them to loop once only), but I'd rather not do that, unless there's no alternative.</li><li>Clicking on a link that opens the link in a new window seems to always open the new link fullscreen, which I really don't like. Any way to change it?</li><li>I'm having a fair bit of trouble telling exactly what position the cursor is in when typing stuff. Maybe it's because it isn't blinking. It also seems to be because the cursor overlays bits of letters; it's not quite in between the letters properly. A really minor quibble, more an annoyance than anything else, but I'd love to know if there was a way to, well, fix it.</li></ul>
So, if anyone's got suggestions for dealing with these issues, I'd appreciate it.
Now here's the thing. There are a lot of subtle things about it that irritate me, since I'm used to having them\being able to do them in IE, and it doesn't happen here. I've scoured the preferences menus, but I can't find options for these. If anyone knows how to change these, or if there are any plugin applications that handle these (I understand that there are various add-on projects around), I'd really appreciate it.
Anyway, here we go.
<ul><li>In IE, if you press the middle mouse button, you get a white circle with black arrows in it, and then if you move the cursor outside the circle it scrolls the page; the further away from the centre of the circle, the faster it scrolls. I used this a <i>lot</i>, and I'm really noticing not having it.</li><li>Even when a page has finshed loading, IE lets you hit the stop button again which disables looping animations. Mozilla doesn't seem to. Yes, I know you can disable looping animations alltogether (or set them to loop once only), but I'd rather not do that, unless there's no alternative.</li><li>Clicking on a link that opens the link in a new window seems to always open the new link fullscreen, which I really don't like. Any way to change it?</li><li>I'm having a fair bit of trouble telling exactly what position the cursor is in when typing stuff. Maybe it's because it isn't blinking. It also seems to be because the cursor overlays bits of letters; it's not quite in between the letters properly. A really minor quibble, more an annoyance than anything else, but I'd love to know if there was a way to, well, fix it.</li></ul>
So, if anyone's got suggestions for dealing with these issues, I'd appreciate it.
Comments
Middle mouse still scrolls for me (or opens page in new tab if i click on link), stopping animation thingy, opens new links in windowed, mouse thingy.
Although maybe it's because i am using Firefox and not just plain old Mozilla.
the optiion in there that allows the program to stay in
your system's memory.
I've disabled that option but at the cost of having a slow
first start of the program. After that it runs fine and pretty quickly.
Not wanting to hi-jack your thread but does anyone know
how to display email mail sizes in the mail client (ThunderBird?).
In Outlook Express and Outlook, you simply Right-Click the
email and go down to Properties and the file/email size
is displayed there. But I can't seem to find anything like that
for ThunderBird.
Is there an option i've overlooked or a plug-in I can download?
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[edit]These were actually the main reasons I never switched to FireFox. Although, SoulSkorpion, if you don't want to use another browser, I believe there are many extensions/plugins you can find that solve most of these problems, but you'll have to download and look a lot.[/edit]