Comments for Browser Watch

Comment on Tip: New Tab at end in Firefox 3.6 by ER

ER — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:24:37 +0000

Thanks a bunch, this also works in Firefox 4 Beta 7.

Unfortunately, the “don’t fix it if it isn’t broken” maxim doesn’t get you very far as a developer (I suppose) – people expect new features constantly. I’ve been skipping Firefox 3 altogether and just recently switched to 4, because FF 2 (portable edition) is defenceless against CSS history snooping, even with Stanford’s SafeHistory and SafeCache installed. I’ve been grabbing extensions to restore as much of the old behavior, like “Oldbar” (restores FF 2 locationbar behavior) and “Status-4-Evar” (lets you put the statusbar text (link URL), download progress etc. back where it belongs, even though they’ve officially gotten rid of the status bar). With a bit of tuning, FF 4 is practically as fast as 2 used to be, and I’m coming to like the thing.

Comment on Tab animations for Firefox 4 by Tom

Tom — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:52:14 +0000

Deactivate this in Firefox:

- Type in “about:config”
- Confirm the warning message
- Search for “browser.tabs.animate” and set this to “false”

greetings Tom

Comment on Full-screen Google Chrome on Open by Fred

Fred — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:11:16 +0000

Hi guys,

For those interrested, I found another way to solve the problem (on my system at least, Windows Vista, but probably works for any, as it doesn’t seem related to it), that is have the new chrome window opened maximised, with ctrl+n and even with right-clic “open in a new window” function, without having to code anything in shortcuts or else …

Here’s the trick :

When you close your “last” open chrome window, it remembers the position and the status (maximised or not). So close all windows except one, make sur that one is maximised, then close it too …

Next time you open chrome, the window will be maximised (except if you modified the shortcut to do something else), AND any new window opend even with right-clic on a link and “open in new window” will ALSO be maximised !!

Gee, finally a straightful easy solution … works on my system anyways.

Cheers,

Fred.

PS : Of course, if one day your new window doesn’t open maximised anymore, you probably inadvertenly closed once the last chrome window in a windowed mode, not maximised … and it remembered it too. Easy to re-fix now.

Comment on Google Chrome 6.0.472.62 released by Alex

Alex — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:14:49 +0000

Yes I know, I’ve been a bit slow lately with the updates. Too much other work on.

I’ve posted about it now though: http://www.browser-watch.com/2010/10/23/google-chrome-7-0-517-41-released/

Comment on Google Chrome 6.0.472.62 released by Cordless

Cordless — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 02:40:09 +0000

Version of Chrome 7.0.517.41 released recently.

Comment on Full-screen Google Chrome on Open by Raman

Raman — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:45:55 +0000

@maxolasersquad – Thanks a lot. That worked like a charm on my netbook.

Comment on Firefox 3.6.10 released by Bec

Bec — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:32:07 +0000

3.6.10 is even worse, it crashes almost constantly, I’ve reverted to IE

Comment on Google Chrome 6.0.472.59 released by Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:04:53 +0000

That version also seems to be breaking the ability of a fair few people’s ability to use the bookmark tab (not to mention moves the bookmark star and changes the bookmark shortcut), as you can see here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=39fe847776851641&hl=en

Is there anything you guys can do, google doesn’t seem to be recognising the problem, it’s incredibly frustrating..

Comment on Silent updates coming to Firefox by Roman

Roman — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:06:14 +0000

“The implementation will be slightly different to Chromes…”

This should be “The implementation will be slightly different FROM Chrome’S…”

Comment on Sneak Peak: Internet Explorer 9 Interface by Tiago Sá

Tiago Sá — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:24:40 +0000

Maybe IE9 will be like Chrome: when you have too many tabs open, it just breaks.