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Kill Bill's Browser
piratePenguin:
Go make your own Opera-based desktop enviornment, then. :p
(I'm actually seriously thinking about a mozilla-based DE (NOTE: I'm not thinking about MAKING it atall at this time.). That framework stuff, is fucking excellent)
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Sorry I couldn't help this one.
Unlike IE and FireFox, Opera actually has a propper zoom feature that not only makes the text bigger, all the other graphics are resized too, and yes the handy Control "+" and Control "-" keyboard shortcuts works too.
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Just found the bugzilla entry for this on the Mozilla wishlist FAQ. Here it is.
--- Quote ---full page zoom requires cairo to be switched on, so it won't be out (if at all)
before Firefox 3.0.
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Shizer.
In 2001 they almost had it in (there's a patch for it). If someone was motivated they could write the code but only enable it when FF is compiled with cairo support (FF didn't use cairo in 2001, BTW).
EDIT: download manager bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18004
Aloone_Jonez:
Godd, I'm glad to see Firefox is catching up.
How about the download manager?
Does it still loose your download when the connection goes down for a couple of seconds or you have a power failure?
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---How about the download manager?
Does it still loose your download when the connection goes down for a couple of seconds or you have a power failure?
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Not sure about that, don't think it's changed. Unless it allows you to resume the download...
I'm using Firefox HEAD ATM. Firefox 2 is scheduled for the last quarter of this year. An alpha 1 release isn't too far away. I just thought I'd see what's been done sofar - so I packaged 1.5 up so I could reinstall it later, moved my ~/.mozilla to ~/.mozilla-1.5 and checked out and compiled FF from CVS HEAD (I had to disable SVG support because of a compilation error).
I'm suprised at how stable it is. Hasn't crashed once. Performance seems about the same. Only problem is on vBulletin if I'm using the enhanced interface for posting posts I can't use the keyboard to navigate through the text (I prefer the basic editor anyhow, just to lazy to switch to it on forums I don't use much). Bugs like that are to be expected at this stage, though.
Tabs are like in Safari with a close button on each tab. If you've too many tabs open the close button only shows up for the current tab. Two times sofar I've accidently closed the rightmost tab instead of the current one. screenshot
Also, when you close a tab, instead of bringing you to the tab just to left of the old one, it brings you to the tab you were viewing before you switched to it (UPDATE: Nope, it's buggy. Doesn't work like it should all the time..). Now, if it would place new tabs just to the right of the current one...
Smooth scrolling is working. Not sure if it was in 1.5. There's a pretty cool cookie manager and (security) certificate manager that I never noticed before (I should've taken a good look at all the stuff in 1.5 before overwriting it).
Places has some stuff going on with the Bookmarks and the new History menus. You can search them from the same "Places" window.
I had planned on going back to 1.5 because I didn't expect this to be near as stable as it is. I'm gonna stick with this unless it starts fucking up badly.
Aloone_Jonez:
The tabs work in exactly the same way in Opera and always have done as far as I can remember I don't know it could be Opera's innovation.
I'm not keen on the default font it uses in the editor on your screenshot, I've found the same on Linux too, is it a Linux thing? Can you change it?
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