bow down before the altar of firefox 1.5!
Woo-hoo! Firefox 1.5 is out!
Me — being all excited — I go right out and install it. Only problem is… after installing it, half of my extensions don’t work, as they haven’t been updated for the version 1.5.
So I start to panic — I need those extensions to live!
Or do I? After playing around with Firefox 1.5 for a wee bit, I discover that while there are many extensions that I do use regularly, there is only one that has altered my browsing experience to the point that I had to stop what I was doing and find the fix — Super DragAndGo. (I might have mentioned it before.) Without it, I felt like a shell of a man.
But have no fear! I am not the only one that leans on the crutch of the DragAndGo. After a few minutes of searching, and finding a numbers of hacks that people had figured out, I actually found someone that had modified the extension and was offering a 1.5 compatible version. (Bless you, Schrade.)
But aside from this minor drama — which I’m sure you all find engrossing — I’m pleased as punch with Firefox 1.5. (I love that I’m able to shuffle my tabs around without an extension. Good work, Mozilla.)
And, a few new extensions have popped up on Lifehacker that just tickle me pink:
After you install Tab Preview if you place your mouse pointer over a hidden tab, it will shows a small, out-of-focus preview of the page hovering over the current page — sort of like picture-in-picture. So, if you have a bucketful of tabs open, and thereby can’t read the titles, you can just place the mouse over the tab to see what’s on the page.
On the otherhand, foXpose takes your open tabs and shows all of them tiled in your browser window — then when you want to focus on a specific page, just click it and you’re ready to go!
Sigh. I love Firefox.
December 1st, 2005 at 3:43 pm
Not willing to go and actually LOOK at Firefox 1.5, foXspose sounds like something Macintosh did on OSX Panther.. or Tiger… or TabbyCat. One of those. Anyway… once again, the efficient and fun people out there, if they’re not working FOR apple, are mimicking it.
I’m still, for some reason, reluctant to leave Safari. I just… like it.
December 1st, 2005 at 3:50 pm
Oh, it was definitely designed as a replica of OSX’s Expose feature. Hence the name.
December 1st, 2005 at 3:56 pm
Are you even capable of writing a sentence without linking something?
December 1st, 2005 at 5:18 pm
No.