Comments on: Firefox 3.6 Goes Gold http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7679/ Open Source, Open Standards Sat, 05 Oct 2013 13:48:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: 1fastbullet http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7679/#comment-7741 1fastbullet Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7679/#comment-7741 <p>Yipee, Now I can give firefox a new look without restarting. Most outstanding as I was getting so tired of staring at the same old crap whilst I awaited firefox to return to a responsive state.<br /> I\'m particularly fond of not needing to restart firefox, as this might mean that I no longer need rely upon firefox\'s ability to re-open my tabs which, by the by, only worked when it damn well felt like working.<br /> I\'d like to register a complaint regarding the brevity of your review: I note you failed to mention whether v3.6 has fixed any of the features it succeeded in breaking in 3.5. You know, minor things like playing nice with Gmail, as an example. It fascinates me that inserting images into Gmail is not a problem for my Linux/firefox machine or my Windows (XP) machine when I use the Iron browser. But inserting an image into Gmail under Windows and firefox has not worked in 3.5 ever.<br /> I so look forward to installing yet another version of firefox so I can, once again, install my extensions, wrestle with bookmarks and go through about:config, virtually item-by-item and hope that when I actually attempt to use it, it won\'t crash or hang while consuming 90+% of my CPU. </p> Yipee, Now I can give firefox a new look without restarting. Most outstanding as I was getting so tired of staring at the same old crap whilst I awaited firefox to return to a responsive state.
I\’m particularly fond of not needing to restart firefox, as this might mean that I no longer need rely upon firefox\’s ability to re-open my tabs which, by the by, only worked when it damn well felt like working.
I\’d like to register a complaint regarding the brevity of your review: I note you failed to mention whether v3.6 has fixed any of the features it succeeded in breaking in 3.5. You know, minor things like playing nice with Gmail, as an example. It fascinates me that inserting images into Gmail is not a problem for my Linux/firefox machine or my Windows (XP) machine when I use the Iron browser. But inserting an image into Gmail under Windows and firefox has not worked in 3.5 ever.
I so look forward to installing yet another version of firefox so I can, once again, install my extensions, wrestle with bookmarks and go through about:config, virtually item-by-item and hope that when I actually attempt to use it, it won\’t crash or hang while consuming 90+% of my CPU.

]]> By: epperson http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7679/#comment-7742 epperson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7679/#comment-7742 <p>\"It would be good, though, if it were more obvious how to return to the default theme. Users have to dive into the preferences to change this and it can take a bit of digging to find.\"</p> <p>It would be good if the writer added a parenthetical remark about where in the preferences this can be changed. As it is, the information is just barely helpful. </p> \”It would be good, though, if it were more obvious how to return to the default theme. Users have to dive into the preferences to change this and it can take a bit of digging to find.\”

It would be good if the writer added a parenthetical remark about where in the preferences this can be changed. As it is, the information is just barely helpful.

]]> By: jzb http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7679/#comment-7743 jzb Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7679/#comment-7743 <p>@epperson: Go to Tools -> Add-ons -> Themes and pick the default theme. Thanks for the question! </p> @epperson: Go to Tools -> Add-ons -> Themes and pick the default theme. Thanks for the question!

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