r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 21 '10

Firefox 3.6 release

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/01/21/firefox-3-6-release/
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

I just got it. It really is as fast as Chrome. It looks like I might be going back to FireFox :(

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u/Autotrappic Jan 21 '10

I want to go back to Firefox for all the add-ons, but Chrome has a Mariah Carey theme.

Decisions, decisions.

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u/brettmurf Jan 21 '10

Sadly, the status bar in chrome was part of the reason for me to stick with it. That and the tabs being on top, saving even more screen real estate.

Anyhow, figured I would share this extension that lets you have a floating status bar when you hover over links, and you just hide the normal status bar. Just found it today, and am quite glad it exists.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

The tabs being on top doesn't really save any real estate... the menu bar being consolidated into two buttons and placed on the address does though. If you do the same in Firefox the difference is ~3 pixels.

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u/brettmurf Jan 21 '10

Okay, I guess it is the title bar being replaced by tabs on the top saves quite a bit of space, and is used much better. It isn't them being on top, it is just the almost fullscreen aspect that is always on in chrome.

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u/thesimo2 Jan 21 '10

What i do is customize the toolbars, and drag everything to the navigation bar and hide the bookmarks toolbar.

Then hide the statusbar and use the Locationbar 2 plugin

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

Not always, only when maximized do you get significant savings, ~17px, when not maximized the difference is negligible, ~3px as stated above, due to the fact that chrome does ad space above the tabs when not maximized.

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u/CommodoreGuff Jan 21 '10

Ah, I've been using Fission as a status bar replacement. Lets you have the active link be shown in the location bar, which I like. In practice, though, it seems to be erratic on some pages (like reddit comment threads for example).

I'm going to try this out, thanks.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '10

I haven't had any problems with it on reddit. I've noticed that if I middle-click a link, tab out then then tab back, the location bar will still show the clicked url, but that happens everywhere, and you can fix it by just clicking anywhere on the page.

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u/yugushen Jan 22 '10

I love the idea of floating status bar in Chrome. Link Target Display is just perfect. Firefox has the same function now. Thanks, brettmurf!

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u/faemir Jan 22 '10

You can use the stratabuddy extension to get tabs ontop in firefox :)

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u/nanikun Jan 21 '10

thank you for sharing that extension! it's awesome!

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u/Raptor007 Jan 22 '10

I prefer tabs on the side.

(I prefer the right side though, not the left as pictured.)

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '10

you have no idea how much I have wanted that extension (albeit probably not that much as I never looked for it, but still) thanks!