I run Firefox with a lot of plugins. I rely on the status bar (add-on bar) to keep many of the plugin notification / configuration buttons out of my toolbar. From my perspective, Firefox is working hard to drive me away, by removing its distinguishing features that make it different from Chrome.
Can you stick them all in the menu at the end of the toolbar? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customize-firefox-contr...
No, because I need them to be visible to show their status.
The "Use small icons" option used to be there, but I don't see it anymore. I think that they removed it.
Yeah, they did. But you can get it back with Classic Theme Restorer[1], which has the "Small buttons on navigation toolbar" option. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemer...
Beware this extension. I installed it and it broke the Customize feature completely, even after uninstalling it.
What's this about the status bar / add-on bar gone? The main reason why I use Status-4-Evar is because when I hover over a link I don't want that link to pop-over the page content, which is what Chrome did first, then Firefox copied like sheep. It's distracting, like a tiny little pop-over in the corner of your eye. I like having URLs show in a status bar separate to the main web window. It's out of the way, and I ju…
I don't get it either. "Status 4 ever" didn't help either. But I found a way: Get this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/classicthemerest... Activate the "Bottombar Toolbar" by right clicking somewhere on the top space where the bars are. Now you have a small bar down there. Open the new funky customization menue and drag the "Statustext"-Element down there. The only problem is that you'll find your…
This did not work for me. In fact classic theme restorer broke FF's Customize... menu feature, as well as the hamburger menu at the end of the toolbar - it is now completely inoperable, even after removing it.
Where the hell is my forward button? Why does browser.tabs.onTop not mean anything anymore? Where's my refresh button? On the... right side, inside the Awesome Bar? Why isn't a separate button? Why can't I put the Home button back beside the Back button? Why is the back button permanently part of the Awesome Bar? Why does the Awesome Bar change shape and size to allow the forward button to exist? Why isn't the forwar…
I didn't know browser.tabs.onTop still worked up to FF28. I wish I had been using it since they removed the setting for it.
To my knowledge search history is opt-in (as opposed to opt-out). Reconfirmed this for my Google accounts and in fact it is not storing search history. Ofcourse Google may be tracking it on their end, but I assume very few services don't track, so that's a non-issue (at least for me). For anyone who wants to check, the url is: https://history.google.com/history/
Search history as presented to you may be opt-in, but what Google actually does with your data is unknowable.
Google provides a unified privacy policy for all products that describe how the collected data is used.
I expect that this release will mark the point of rapid decrease of Firefox usage. Lets wait a few months and see. Such UI changes are. The best way to irritate the users who actually used the browser and got used to the placement of the controls. It seems as the designers themselves at the same time used Google's Chrome and now "unified" their own experience. Well at least now they removed some reasons for users to not switch to Google's browser.
Or just close all those tabs. Realistically you're never actually going to get around to reading them and they're just there weighing you down. Seriously, close them. Forget they were ever there. If you haven't looked at them yet it means that they're not that important!
Yeah, this is the only way I keep my browsing sane. Over the years, a kind of "tab garbage-collection" habit has emerged. I find it works really well, since if a tab hasn't been visited in the last 20 minutes, I probably won't open it again. Additionally, the history-tracking of the browser is good enough and my google-fu sufficient so I can find anything I need that I've previously visited. Keeping my tabs lean make…
I've found Evernote with it's web clipper to be great for this. Anything I figure I might want someday, but I don't know exactly when or why, goes into my EN archive. The full text is searchable, so it's like having Google for only stuff that I've found interesting in the past. (And the clipper can even add results from your library to search engine results, so you can re-find things even when you're not specifically looking.)
I love Firefox -- for what it's done, what it represents, and what it helps guard against. I have fond memories of those early versions of Firefox (nee Firebird) that busted open the IE monopoly, and where hands-down the best browser going at the time. But it's never felt very good on the Mac to me, and it still doesn't. Here's a few early thoughts on this release, from the perspective of a happy Safari user, w/ a pr…
Here is why I don't use it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476541 This bug makes Firefox useless to me and has been around for over 5 years!
This seems to be a recurring thing with Firefox. I really think they should leave the damned UI alone and start fixing some of the killer half decade plus old bugs!
This is the third one I'm aware of that is a basic usability thing. Others include a complete failure to browse to sites that present a duplicate SSL certificate, and an odd breakage that results in downloads getting half completed but the UI saying they're complete anyways.