Comments on: Firefox 3 hits RC1 – stupid design decisions http://t-machine.org/index.php/2008/05/30/firefox-3-hits-rc1-stupid-design-decisions/ Internet Gaming, Computer Games, Technology, MMO, and Web 2.0 Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:30:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Peter Freese http://t-machine.org/index.php/2008/05/30/firefox-3-hits-rc1-stupid-design-decisions/comment-page-1/#comment-1849 Peter Freese Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:17:57 +0000 http://t-machine.org/?p=195#comment-1849 @eyrie0: Simple answer? Multi-monitor. @eyrie0: Simple answer? Multi-monitor.

]]> By: adam http://t-machine.org/index.php/2008/05/30/firefox-3-hits-rc1-stupid-design-decisions/comment-page-1/#comment-1812 adam Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:36:53 +0000 http://t-machine.org/?p=195#comment-1812 @eyrie0: I typically have 20-30 browser windows open at once, with an average of 5-15 tabs open in each. Doing Ctrl-T to open a new tab in a random window that is probably nothing to do with whatever I'm opening the tab for is going to be confusing and unhelpful: I wont be able to find that tab later (I'll have to check EVERY one of 200 odd tabs to find it), and when I'm in that window next time and working with the tabs that are there, I'll be confused as to what that random one is doing there. This is the beauty (and the main purpose, surely?) of tabs: they let you organize working-sets of web-pages together with each other. There's even some plugins that have been around since Firefox 1 which let you more easliy "save" a set of tabs + windows that you can reload quickly in future, so that you can use them literally as working sets. Of course, FF also lets you bookmark sets of tabs, that provides a more basic form of this too. @eyrie0: I typically have 20-30 browser windows open at once, with an average of 5-15 tabs open in each. Doing Ctrl-T to open a new tab in a random window that is probably nothing to do with whatever I’m opening the tab for is going to be confusing and unhelpful: I wont be able to find that tab later (I’ll have to check EVERY one of 200 odd tabs to find it), and when I’m in that window next time and working with the tabs that are there, I’ll be confused as to what that random one is doing there.

This is the beauty (and the main purpose, surely?) of tabs: they let you organize working-sets of web-pages together with each other. There’s even some plugins that have been around since Firefox 1 which let you more easliy “save” a set of tabs + windows that you can reload quickly in future, so that you can use them literally as working sets. Of course, FF also lets you bookmark sets of tabs, that provides a more basic form of this too.

]]> By: adam http://t-machine.org/index.php/2008/05/30/firefox-3-hits-rc1-stupid-design-decisions/comment-page-1/#comment-1811 adam Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:33:34 +0000 http://t-machine.org/?p=195#comment-1811 Of course, firefox still has the old "special phrase that means BLANK WINDOW" that (if you know about it) you can use to make it do blank windows (and blank tabs, if you install a plugin to add the ability to set the default new tab). Just put "about:blank" in the address bar (no http:// or anything). Of course, firefox still has the old “special phrase that means BLANK WINDOW” that (if you know about it) you can use to make it do blank windows (and blank tabs, if you install a plugin to add the ability to set the default new tab).

Just put “about:blank” in the address bar (no http:// or anything).

]]> By: adam http://t-machine.org/index.php/2008/05/30/firefox-3-hits-rc1-stupid-design-decisions/comment-page-1/#comment-1810 adam Fri, 30 May 2008 17:13:17 +0000 http://t-machine.org/?p=195#comment-1810 Open new tab to blank tab is *not working either* right now. Maybe this is, in fact, just a bug that got introduced in the RC1 build? Open new tab to blank tab is *not working either* right now.

Maybe this is, in fact, just a bug that got introduced in the RC1 build?

]]> By: eyrie0 http://t-machine.org/index.php/2008/05/30/firefox-3-hits-rc1-stupid-design-decisions/comment-page-1/#comment-1809 eyrie0 Fri, 30 May 2008 16:04:24 +0000 http://t-machine.org/?p=195#comment-1809 Why would you ever want to open a new Firefox browser? Why not just open a new tab? (Ctrl-T) Surely they haven't taken away the ability to open a new tab to a blank page as well? Why would you ever want to open a new Firefox browser? Why not just open a new tab? (Ctrl-T) Surely they haven’t taken away the ability to open a new tab to a blank page as well?

]]> By: yarpen http://t-machine.org/index.php/2008/05/30/firefox-3-hits-rc1-stupid-design-decisions/comment-page-1/#comment-1807 yarpen Fri, 30 May 2008 12:36:22 +0000 http://t-machine.org/?p=195#comment-1807 Sadly, Google Browser sync doesnt work under FF3 (even after "fixing" XPI manually), so FF2 for me :/ Sadly, Google Browser sync doesnt work under FF3 (even after “fixing” XPI manually), so FF2 for me :/

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