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

[Xie]

Oh and yes I'm lame enough to check the Mozilla (ie Seamonkey) status page often as I knew this update was coming

If anyone here still uses Mozilla or just cares you can see the status report here. So if all goes well we should have an official 1.7 release by end of May.

 

[Kr0m]

Anyone here know where (or you could do it for me) I could post a suggestion regarding Thunderbird's preview pane? It'd be nice if there was an option to disable the preview pane when reading mail but have it enabled when I click on the newsgroups without having to go to the options menu and re-enable it then disable it again when I'm done. Maybe even have options to enable or disable the preview pane for each account name and/or folder that you have.

 

[NetRyder]

The MozillaZine forums are usually the best place to post feature requests, since the devs check the place on an almost daily basis. Here's the Thunderbird Features sub-forum. I think posting your request here should be your best bet:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=30

 

[Geffy]

Yep, unistall TBE then close/reopen browser. Then if ya want something from TBE again, yer gonna have to install it again. There is no undo button that I know of. Unless there is somethin out there to the contrary.

I cant find an uninstall button for TBE, just a "Disable Extension" which doesnt revert it.

Daeron Tinúviel: where can I get the uninstall extension I looked on the texturizer site and couldnt see it there

 

[Tabula Rasa]

you could always just export them from Mozilla and stick them where you like so they are easier to find and then import them into firefox

How do I do that?

 

[Geffy]

methinks

Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks
File -> Export

then save it somewhere, I think the default name is bookmarks.html

 

[Evil Marge]

Awww Geffy's already answered Ben's question I was all excited cause I actually knew the answer to it

 

[Tabula Rasa]

methinks

Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks
File -> Export

then save it somewhere, I think the default name is bookmarks.html

Thank you

 

[Daeron Tinúviel]

BTW u can also go to your profile folder and there copy the bookmarks to wherever u want

 

[Tabula Rasa]

Cool
Can anyone please write down a list of extentions that are usfull or just nice.
I know its kinda blunt, and I should get just what I need, but maybe there are some special ones or something

 

[Daeron Tinúviel]

adblock
TBE
DownloadStatusbar
jslib (need it for the uninstaller)
uninstaller 0.1

 

[Geffy]

I like the WebDeveloper one and the UserAgentSwitcher, can be useful for some sites

 

[indyjones]

Cool
Can anyone please write down a list of extentions that are usfull or just nice.
I know its kinda blunt, and I should get just what I need, but maybe there are some special ones or something

Extensions I really Like are
Adblock
IE View (you can open any page or link in IE)
CuteMenus (gives you little icons on your menus)
Popup Count (displays a number in the statusbar corrisponding with how many popups killed)
Statusbar Clock (just uses some of the empty status bar to show the time and date)
TabScroller (by rigt clickin and scrolling you can switch to other tabs or go back pages)

 

[Tabula Rasa]

Cool I realy like the popup count one, its useless yet nice.

 

[gonaads]

Things They Left Out is a good one.

And the one I think is the most useful: ChromEdit. If you are always tweaking, it is really handy.

And then pretty much everything else that's been mentioned.

This one is cool too: EditCSS

It allows you to edit current stylesheets of a page in live, and display the result as you type.

 

[NetRyder]

In addition to the a lot of the ones mentioned above, I also use the "Copy Image" extension.
"This extension activates the inherent functionality for copying images to the clipboard"

 

[Xie]

In addition to the a lot of the ones mentioned above, I also use the "Copy Image" extension.
"This extension activates the inherent functionality for copying images to the clipboard"

that sounds like and interesting extention.

 

[Tittles]

hmmm...i unno where to put this but this thread sounds right i hope. Anyway as some of u might know i have at&t internet now :S and i gotta start using IE6. Before i always used aol and i heard people talk about firefox and all that...i was wondering which browser do u most of u prefer over IE6 since i don't like usin it and it seems slow :S. Thanks

 

[NetRyder]

As you might guess from the thread topic, most people participating in this discussion are using either Firefox or the browser from the Mozilla Suite. I'd suggest trying Firefox for yourself to see if you like it or not. It won't interfere with IE at all, so if, for some reason, you don't like Firefox, you can always uninstall it and go back to IE without any problems.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox

If you need help with anything after installing it, feel free to post your questions here. That's what this thread it for, after all.

 

[Tittles]

Thanks later tonight or tomorrow i will tell u how it goes...since i have stupid dial up it will take a lil bit. Thanks