Firefox 3 beta 4 is out

Nick Harvey · Wed 02 Apr, 2008 22.59

Dr Lobster* wrote:beta 5 has just landed. seems even faster and there are some nice tweaks to the interface.

Charlie Wells wrote:Beta 5 is now out and the home button is back.

Nice of you to catch up Keith.

Charlie Wells · Thu 03 Apr, 2008 06.58

Nick Harvey wrote:
Dr Lobster* wrote:beta 5 has just landed. seems even faster and there are some nice tweaks to the interface.

Charlie Wells wrote:Beta 5 is now out and the home button is back.
Nice of you to catch up Keith.

Small matter of this site keeps going into mobile mode when posting in Firefox 3, which last night made it very difficult to read content on here as well as see whether there were new posts.

Anyhow, (when) are you going to admit you read wrong after complaining in the TV Forum watch thread?
http://www.metropol247.co.uk/forum/view ... 492#p77492

Ebeneezer Scrooge · Thu 03 Apr, 2008 12.35

Dr Lobster* wrote:there is a hide menu bar extension on amo which gives the firefox menu bar the same behaviour as ie7, (hidden by default, alt to show). in normal use, you never need to access it so it gives you a bit more space. it is a bit disappointing this functionality isn't there 'out of the box', but still.

When I read that, I thought it was a bit pointless. Then realised I rarely actually use the menus anyway. So thanks for that - now installed, it works a lot better!

Also found an addon called Stylish - allows you to write site-specific stylesheets so certain brightly coloured sites can appear readable again! You can also use it to search for existing alternative stylesheets, although that has only brought up nothing or a huge list for me so far.

Gavin Scott · Thu 03 Apr, 2008 13.17

Ebeneezer Scrooge wrote:Also found an addon called Stylish - allows you to write site-specific stylesheets so certain brightly coloured sites can appear readable again!

Does that mean I can read Nick's Comment without a pair of spectacles cobbled together with colour filters?

cdd · Thu 03 Apr, 2008 13.19

Gavin Scott wrote:
Ebeneezer Scrooge wrote:Also found an addon called Stylish - allows you to write site-specific stylesheets so certain brightly coloured sites can appear readable again!
Does that mean I can read Nick's Comment without a pair of spectacles cobbled together with colour filters?

I usually just select the whole page.

Pete · Thu 03 Apr, 2008 13.35

in firefox, View, Page Style, No Style

Sput · Thu 03 Apr, 2008 13.41

Hymagumba wrote:in firefox, View, Page Style, No Style

Ah, the good old "Jamez approach"

Ebeneezer Scrooge · Thu 03 Apr, 2008 14.17

Gavin Scott wrote:Does that mean I can read Nick's Comment without a pair of spectacles cobbled together with colour filters?

Yes it does, but unlike the other workarounds as given above, it will remember how you want to view the page in future too.

It's CSS handling does seem a bit weird, although I've not had time to read through all the manual yet so I might be missing something. It didn't work properly until I clicked the !important button in the edit box.

Nick Harvey · Thu 03 Apr, 2008 17.24

Charlie Wells wrote:Anyhow, (when) are you going to admit you read wrong after complaining in the TV Forum watch thread?

I can categorically state that that I read absolutely nothing wrong after complaining in the thread you mention.

Alexia · Fri 04 Apr, 2008 10.33

God has spoken Charlie. Supplicate.

This isn't a dig...but an observation... you have a canny habit of posting things that have either been posted several aeons before, or by posting them way too late.

I expect you to post sometime today that Sky News has a new look.

OK it was a dig.

Charlie Wells · Fri 04 Apr, 2008 12.34

Alexia wrote:I expect you to post sometime today that Sky News has a new look.

Nah, I posted in that thread yesterday. Still that reminds me, I need to post on TVForum to let everyone know that the BBC News website has relaunched.