Firefox

[camioneur]

I'm making a real effort to use Firfox and have got around the IE tab so that I can see all my sites. I cannot however find an option for loading a new tab everytime I open a bookmark without using the right click option. It just over writes the tab I'm already on. You can set IE7 or Avant to do this easily! Or can you lock a tab so that it can't be closed by accident. You see this is what bugs me about Firefox, everything is so complicated

[rojash]

Ctrl-click

[camioneur]

So Firfox is better then because it takes 2 hands to do what you can do with 1 in IE, I'm baffled by this. I really do think there's been some brainwashing going on.

[Ethel]

I use an add on:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/158

And go in to Tools - Options - Tabbed browsing - links

And choose 'new tab'

[Ethel]

And another useful add on - opens tabs that you have accidentally closed

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3082

[Gromit]

In Firefox's preferences, you can set to open a new window or a new tab as the default.

[Ethel]

The links aren't working.

Go to firefox addons, and install

Tabbrowser preferences and Undo Closed Tabs Button


All my links, bookmarks and so on automatically open in a new tab.

[camioneur]

I have installed that add in you mention Ethel but I cannot make it load bookmarks from the bookmarks toolbar in a new tab without overwriting the current one

[Ethel]

Have you gone in to tools - options - tabbed browsing and set the options to 'load in new tab'.

If you have, close Firefox and reopen.

[camioneur]

yes done all that, still overwrites current tab

[Ethel]

If you have a middle button on your mouse - click that (and only that) to open your bookmark in a new tab.

[rojash]

camioneur, I get the sense that you didn't want to like firefox before you started - that's fine, if you don't like it, don't use it.

Your remark "it takes 2 hands to do what you can do with 1 in IE" doesn't really make sense, because

(a) you couldn't do it at all in IE if Firefox didn't exist: IE7 (which was the first IE to allow tabbed browsing) was only produced in response to the popularity of Firefox.

(b) What happens if you want to open the new page in the same tab?

Firefox also has many other advantages of IE, but as I said, it's not for everyone; some people have a natural hostility to things with which they are not familiar. Thanks to Firefox, you have a choice which didn't exist before, but you don't have to take it.

Avant is just IE in a skin

[camioneur]

well i don't agree, i was using Avant as a tabbed browser years before IE7. At least I'm prepared to give it a shot and have been doing all day but i still can't get it to do what IE does easily. I am not in the least prejudiced. I just want a browser that does the job I want it to with the least fuss. I would use Firefox tomorrow if it did what i wanted it to but it doesn't. Avant maybe IE in a skin but who cares?? i don't, i just want a browser that works (one handed) If we're talking prejudices, what's wrong with IE. there's millions of people that seem to manage perfectly well with it, me included, but when everyone on here shouts the praises of something so much then I'd be a fool not to see what all the fuss was about. Is this not the case?

[Ethel]

Cam - have you tried the middle mouse button on your toolbar bookmarks?

Just the middle button.

[camioneur]

Yes thanks Ethel, not the same though is it?

[camioneur]

I would very much be interested in a list of these "advantages" that apply to me Rojash, by me I mean the average man in the street who uses a browser for ordinary business or private use. Avant by the way was using tabbed browsing when I first discovered it some 5 or 6 years ago and I've been using it since. The fact that IE7 has tabs is neither here nor there. I've also used Opera and the like but I go where the best results are to be found..wouldn't anyone?

[Ethel]

I used Avant for a while. but didn't really like it.

For my own personal use Firerox suits me because I have the add-ons to make my life easier.

These include:

Adblock Plus, so I can't see the adverts on this and other sites

EbayNegs - one click and I can see an eBay user negative feedback

Quicknote - easily stores and retrieves notes (like a post it note)

Scrapbook - takes and stores web pages for easy access

Allow Right Click - gets round those pesky html codes that prevent copying some or all of a website (very useful for eBay)

Foxmarks - synchronises all my computers Firefox automatically, so they are all identical

NoScript - blocks malicious script on websites

SmileyXtra - allows me to quickly post a wide range of smileys on my other forum

FEBE - automatically backs up and stores my Firefox profile at regular intervals. Useful for exporting to other computers or in the event of a hard drive crash

This is just a few of the add-ons I have come to rely on
and is why I couldn't go back to IE

[rojash]

As I said, camioneur, if you don't like it, you don't have to use it. I don't imagine that my internet use is much different from that of other users, and I like it. You don't - fair enough.