I'm so happy!

[conuly]

Since I've been using Firefox, I've gotten very dependant on tabs. I hate to navigate away from a page just for a link, and I've grown irritated with the "new windows" thing you do with IE. So my time on the library computers was annoying for a reason other than the icky mouses - I couldn't tab! Nooooo!

*grins*

Today they forgot to lock a computer down properly. So now I have my firefox, and my tabbed browsing. Yay!

Comments

[literalgirl.livejournal.com]

I am just curious - why is tabbed browsing better than just having a new window?

Sell me on it. ;-)

(Although I am hoping to be gone in a few minutes, so if i don't reply right away it's not because I am ignoring you...) :-)

[conuly]

New windows pop up over what I'm reading, and usually are much too large minimized (I need it either small when minimized or fullscreen - any other way irritates me to death), and clutter up the taskbar.

Tabs don't pop up over what I'm reading. This is a big plus. You don't notice it when you're used to opening new windows, but once you fall out of that habit it becomes very annoying. And, yeah, all that other stuff :)

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

I love tabbed browsing too! Are you using just the built-in tabs or the full-featured Tabbed Browsing Extensions?

I just discovered a new extension about a week or two ago that sets the download manager to open in its own tab (instead of a mini-window) with a bunch of little options. That one's *really* saving my sanity, since I was constantly losing the manager in my jumble of windows, forgetting where I had downloaded stuff, and so forth.

If you don't have either of what I'm talking about, LMK and I'll throw you some links. *grin*

[conuly]

I might download the extension for my own laptop, but I really don't want to download too much here - as it is, I'm going to have to cross my fingers and hope nobody notices that I downloaded firefox!

Actually, if I just switch the language to the dvorak keyboard, I should have this computer to myself for the rest of the week.

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Hint from my days surfing using public computers... If you can get a small (like maybe 32 megs) USB key-drive and use it there, you can run your own custom copy of Firefox directly off of it wherever you go.

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

Heck, you can also download the ZIP version and extract it into My Documents. I've done that on a few public computers. :-D

[conuly]

*blinkblinkblink*

Both of you - tell me more!

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

OK. All the Firefox distributions are in this directory index:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/

Go into the directory for the latest version (currently 0.10.1), and grab, well, the only .zip file in the directory. Then extract that, well, wherever it will let you, and run the executable once it's extracted.

[thren0dy.livejournal.com]

I can't do without tabbed browsing. I've been using Mozilla for a couple of years, so when I saw that the computer at work had IE for a browser, I promtly downloaded Firefox and have been using that. Poo on new windows browsing. :)

[xmorningxrosex.livejournal.com]

you're just like me! except I haven't installed firefox on my work computers yet...but yes, booo to IE!

[the-lady-aurora.livejournal.com]

I use Netscape and love tabbed browsing. Especially the personal toolbar option. One click and all my regular pages load in one go.

[arikatt.livejournal.com]

I feel the SAME EXACT WAY. *kinship hug* ^_^

[conuly]

*grins and hugs*

I want to clandestinely upload firefox to all those computers! And clean the meeses. Ick.

[feathered.livejournal.com]

I agree that it is very comforting to have the familiar, happy tabby browsing, but as a librarian, I feel obligated to say that it tends to piss us off when people find ways around the download-preventing systems. There are reasons we've got them on. I dunno about your library computers, but ours are troubled and burdened with massive use and disuse, and programs that people install on them usually add to their distress with popups and taking up memory, etc.

If you came to my library, I would have to scold you for that and uninstall it. Because that's my job. Hopefully your librarians are more easygoing about installations and downloads.

[conuly]

I don't think they care, actually. Nobody finds a way around this stuff, they get taken off for various reasons and nobody bothers to put them back on. *shrugs*

[stejcruetekie.livejournal.com]

I use Firefox too, but I *hate* tabs. You can't switch between tabs easily, like I can alt-tab between windows. In the past couple months I've been using Firefox, I've used the tab function but once.

And I hated the download manager too. I much prefer the IE window displaying the percentage, which can be viewed on the task bar.

[conuly]

There's extensions that let you switch between tabs like that. I use a mouse extension that let's me switch between tabs by right clicking, like I would to open a link.

[priyatelka.livejournal.com]

Totally addicted to tabs, as well. Anytime I have to go away from my computer and use IE now it's just horrible for me and I lament the even temporary loss of my Firefox.

[literalgirl.livejournal.com]

I am just curious - why is tabbed browsing better than just having a new window?

Sell me on it. ;-)

(Although I am hoping to be gone in a few minutes, so if i don't reply right away it's not because I am ignoring you...) :-)

[conuly]

New windows pop up over what I'm reading, and usually are much too large minimized (I need it either small when minimized or fullscreen - any other way irritates me to death), and clutter up the taskbar.

Tabs don't pop up over what I'm reading. This is a big plus. You don't notice it when you're used to opening new windows, but once you fall out of that habit it becomes very annoying. And, yeah, all that other stuff :)

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

I love tabbed browsing too! Are you using just the built-in tabs or the full-featured Tabbed Browsing Extensions?

I just discovered a new extension about a week or two ago that sets the download manager to open in its own tab (instead of a mini-window) with a bunch of little options. That one's *really* saving my sanity, since I was constantly losing the manager in my jumble of windows, forgetting where I had downloaded stuff, and so forth.

If you don't have either of what I'm talking about, LMK and I'll throw you some links. *grin*

[conuly]

I might download the extension for my own laptop, but I really don't want to download too much here - as it is, I'm going to have to cross my fingers and hope nobody notices that I downloaded firefox!

Actually, if I just switch the language to the dvorak keyboard, I should have this computer to myself for the rest of the week.

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Hint from my days surfing using public computers... If you can get a small (like maybe 32 megs) USB key-drive and use it there, you can run your own custom copy of Firefox directly off of it wherever you go.

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

Heck, you can also download the ZIP version and extract it into My Documents. I've done that on a few public computers. :-D

[conuly]

*blinkblinkblink*

Both of you - tell me more!

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

OK. All the Firefox distributions are in this directory index:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/

Go into the directory for the latest version (currently 0.10.1), and grab, well, the only .zip file in the directory. Then extract that, well, wherever it will let you, and run the executable once it's extracted.

[thren0dy.livejournal.com]

I can't do without tabbed browsing. I've been using Mozilla for a couple of years, so when I saw that the computer at work had IE for a browser, I promtly downloaded Firefox and have been using that. Poo on new windows browsing. :)

[xmorningxrosex.livejournal.com]

you're just like me! except I haven't installed firefox on my work computers yet...but yes, booo to IE!

[the-lady-aurora.livejournal.com]

I use Netscape and love tabbed browsing. Especially the personal toolbar option. One click and all my regular pages load in one go.

[arikatt.livejournal.com]

I feel the SAME EXACT WAY. *kinship hug* ^_^

[conuly]

*grins and hugs*

I want to clandestinely upload firefox to all those computers! And clean the meeses. Ick.

[feathered.livejournal.com]

I agree that it is very comforting to have the familiar, happy tabby browsing, but as a librarian, I feel obligated to say that it tends to piss us off when people find ways around the download-preventing systems. There are reasons we've got them on. I dunno about your library computers, but ours are troubled and burdened with massive use and disuse, and programs that people install on them usually add to their distress with popups and taking up memory, etc.

If you came to my library, I would have to scold you for that and uninstall it. Because that's my job. Hopefully your librarians are more easygoing about installations and downloads.

[conuly]

I don't think they care, actually. Nobody finds a way around this stuff, they get taken off for various reasons and nobody bothers to put them back on. *shrugs*

[stejcruetekie.livejournal.com]

I use Firefox too, but I *hate* tabs. You can't switch between tabs easily, like I can alt-tab between windows. In the past couple months I've been using Firefox, I've used the tab function but once.

And I hated the download manager too. I much prefer the IE window displaying the percentage, which can be viewed on the task bar.

[conuly]

There's extensions that let you switch between tabs like that. I use a mouse extension that let's me switch between tabs by right clicking, like I would to open a link.

[priyatelka.livejournal.com]

Totally addicted to tabs, as well. Anytime I have to go away from my computer and use IE now it's just horrible for me and I lament the even temporary loss of my Firefox.