Metropol

I think it's just begun in America and such places.

I'm sure most of the metropol'rs already use Firefox but incase you don't.

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

Heh, has it recovered from going titsup then?

Interent Explorer download day?

I have just got around to trying Firefox 3 with Glasser and Hide Menubar extensions installed and I rather like it. It's space efficient and rather streamlined. I am not too fond of the contrast between the black and the page when there are no tabs open but that's easily fixed with that Always Show Tab Bar option. I am quite impressed. I may even keep it like this. I'm not sure how stable the setup is but time will tell.

The wordwheel history is very nice as well now I come to think of it. The harsh contrast between the G and the typing area in the search box irriates me slightly because I am a pedantic attention to detail person. And it irriates me how there are little white pixels on each corner of the tooltips (for me, anyway). Also the new visual dragging thing doesn't work very well with cleartype on.

I am very pleased it has page zooming, finally. That was the primary reason why I switched.

I have a similar set up to you cdd, and it's very stable so far, and I've had it like this for a few months.

Yes, so far I'm very pleased.

However I have a major gripe, namely that the Bookmarks business is a lot more cumbersome than the IE "Favourites" menu. With IE the favourites come as a nice sidebar, whereas with Firefox you get a drop down menu. Howver the Firefox drop down menu is very cluttered with lots of rubbish before my actual bookmarks and the Alt+B shortcut is very hard to press in my opinion compared to Alt+C.

How do other people deal with this?

Ctrl+B.

cdd, for some reason or another, up until relatively recently I used to think you were rather an all round computer'n'coding savvy person. However, your ceaseless ramblings about why you (justifiably) favour IE based on pixels, drop down menu/side bar positions and the degree of title bar transparency in relation to the Vista sitting behind it has led me to the conclusion that... I'm wrong, cdd.

noelfirl wrote:cdd, for some reason or another, up until relatively recently I used to think you were rather an all round computer'n'coding savvy person. However, your ceaseless ramblings about why you (justifiably) favour IE based on pixels, drop down menu/side bar positions and the degree of title bar transparency in relation to the Vista sitting behind it has led me to the conclusion that... I'm wrong, cdd.

And when you put it like that you remind me of just how short and insignificant life is

Jovis: Ooh. That was a pleasant surprise.

He's lying, you are wrong.

I took all of 9 months or so to move from Firefox 1.x to Firefox 2.x, this might take longer.

cdd wrote:How do other people deal with this?

You're pretty much meant to use the search bar rather than the menu. Plus as you bookmark new things they tend to go into "unsorted bookmarks" (which was called the horrible "unfiled bookmarks" until some clever fucker complained). You have to explicitly put something onto the menu or the toolbar as to keep it tidyer.