Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird and other Gecko-based software discussion (Part 2)

[Daeron Tinúviel]

Not without third-party software. I use PowerMenu when I need to minimize stuff to the tray. Free, uses very little resources, and has a bunch of other useful little features.

ok, thanks

 

[RazerBack]

TIP - someone might find it useful

I've been using FireFox for quite awhile now. I love the extentions and themes for it.

The bookmarks that it makes is pretty useful. I copied the file bookmarks.html to my personal webspace that I have with my ISP, and when I'm at work I set my bookmarks as my homepage. Unfortunately I can't install FireFox at work.

 

[Tabula Rasa]

The lunitic is on the grass ...

Not sience I joined the army
I can't realy see a big diffarnce between Mozilla and Firefox, all the features Mozilla has firefox has as well, it just looks slightly different.

 

[Tabula Rasa]

Grrr, This is kinda annoying.
Firefox keeps giving me a wierd error messege on some sites I blocked cookies from.
I appritiate its attempt to be friendly and all, but I am aware of my own actions
Is there any way to cancel that feature?

 

[Geffy]

its designed to stop sites from just taking you on a wild ride, but yes it can be annoying

 

[Xie]

its designed to stop sites from just taking you on a wild ride, but yes it can be annoying

And sadly alot of sites do such things ... weather.com is one that comes to mind that i no longer use because of this

 

[luish]

I must say that I am in love with FF, I tryed to use MyIE2 but it is not as good as FF...

I am waiting for 0.9

 

[Not Bman]

Stolen from here ...

I did that, and some stuff still dosent work???? This is making decide if i should go back to IE...?....

 

[dreamliner77]

All of a sudden today the google search bar thingy in firefox isn't working anymore. Any idea how I can get it working again?

 

[gonaads]

All of a sudden today the google search bar thingy in firefox isn't working anymore. Any idea how I can get it working again?

Left click on the icon that is there, be it Google, Dictionary or whatever. (see attachment)

Then click on "Add Engines" and when yer Browser opens up the Engines web site just reinstall it, see if that helps.


Also... maybe Google is just being bitchy today.

 

[dreamliner77]

Thanks gonaads. That did it, I guess you learn something new everyday.

 

[Perris Calderon]

a while ago somone posted a method for lauching the browser with increased priority

it was with a batch file...could someone post that again for me, thanx in advance

 

[NetRyder]

a while ago somone posted a method for lauching the browser with increased priority

it was with a batch file...could someone post that again for me, thanx in advance

That would be me

The command you add to the batch file is:

start /REALTIME C:\"Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"

You can also use /LOW, /NORMAL, /BELOWNORMAL, /ABOVENORMAL, and /HIGH for the priority switch.

 

[gonaads]

Thanks gonaads. That did it, I guess you learn something new everyday.

Glad it worked

 

[Perris Calderon]

That would be me

The command you add to the batch file is:

start /REALTIME C:\"Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"

You can also use /LOW, /NORMAL, /BELOWNORMAL, /ABOVENORMAL, and /HIGH for the priority switch.

thanx buddy...have you had any issues with this?

 

[NetRyder]

thanx buddy...have you had any issues with this?

Nope, a browser isn't usually very CPU-intensive under normal circumstances, so it works fine. Page rendering "feels" a little snappier on higher priorities too...especially loading of large images etc.

 

[muzikool]

I've got Firefox installed on my second partition with all of my applications. Is there any reason why it might run more efficiently if I throw it onto C: with my OS installation?

 

[NetRyder]

The Firefox program folder is on your second partition, and your profile folder is on your primary partition. In the end, it doesn't make a difference really since it's the same physical drive anyway.

 

[gonaads]

I've got Firefox installed on my second partition with all of my applications. Is there any reason why it might run more efficiently if I throw it onto C: with my OS installation?

As NetRyder said, No. But if you've had Firefox crash on occassion, for whatever reason. It wouldn't be a bad idea to defrag the drive Firefox is installed on. It couldn't hurt. It wouldn't be a bad idea for the entire system really.

Another thing is if there was a way to use Mozilla's Turbo Mode, aka "Quick Launch". But I don't know if there's a way to implement it in Firefox.

Mozilla say's that you should have an adequate amount of memory (they recommend at least 128 MB). But again, this is for Mozilla, not Firefox.

Maybe there's info on the Firefox forums.

 

[NetRyder]

Quick launch was removed from Firefox back when it was Firebird itself. It's only available in the Mozilla Suite now.