Comments on: 2 things I hate about Firefox 2.0

By: Maggie

Maggie — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:11:31 +0000

Actually, I found a fix for what I just complained about and I thought I’d post it here in case others surf in via google, the way I did.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=478405&postdays=0&postorder=asc&postsperpage=15&start=15&sid=45aebe99b53bacf2b83f40534eea9e27

To fix contexual menus on a Mac, so that you only have to click and hold to get them, not press control, click and hold, go to the about:config, search on “click”. The last thing listed should be called ui.click_hold_context_menus – just double click on it to change “false” to “true”, and contextual menus will work again as they did in Firefox 1.5.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:04:31 +0000

Thanks for posting about how to fix the scrolling tabs – they were driving me crazy!

Do you have a solution for Firefox’s disabling the contextual menu one used to get when clicking and holding on a link (on a Mac)? Now you have to hit control and click. It’s really annoying.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 10:38:56 +0000

Awsome tips! I googled firefox tab close button and i found the FAQon the firefoc website. It fixed the close button problem. But then I noticed the limit of 8 tabs. Nothing about this in the FAQ. I was about to downgrade to version 1.5 when I googled “I hate the new firefox”. This page came up and your gripes were the same as mine. Good Show! I wonder what else we have in common. Great minds think alike, but you were the one who figgure out how to fix the problem. Right on! –Jon in California

By: pacora

pacora — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:03:34 +0000

sweet stuff, Feel exactly the same way about those two things. Thanks alot for the Tips, now all I gotta get rid of is the CSS problem I am having.

Cheers,

By: Phoenix

Phoenix — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:43:35 +0000

To hide the “list all tabs” button, you will need to edit the userChrome.css file.

It is located (in WinXP)
C:\Documents and Settings\(user)\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\XXXXXX.default\chrome\

if you have a userChrome-example.css just rename it to userChrome.css

Add this line to the bottom of the file:
.tabs-alltabs-stack {display: none !important;}

Additionally if you want the the “list all tabs” button shown only when the tabs overflow, use this instead:
.tabbrowser-tabs:not([overflow="true"]) > .tabs-alltabs-stack {display: none !important;}

By: Phoenix

Phoenix — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 09:19:44 +0000

ght ok

By: Phoenix

Phoenix — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 08:28:24 +0000

I love DeAnander’s question but I have another one to add to that. How do you move the left scroll arrow over to the right like it was in Firefox 1.5? I REALLY want to know this one!

Phoenix

By: DeAnander

DeAnander — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 23:47:52 +0000

hooray it worked! next question, how to get rid of that stupid “list all tabs” button which is wasting space on the RHS of the tab bar? don’t need it now that I can see all my tabs again.

By: DeAnander

DeAnander — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 23:39:12 +0000

couldn’t agree more, the first thing I thought after opening FF2 was, Who Broke My Tabs? I was truly annoyed and googled until I found your page with what looks like a fix. ridiculous anti-user engineering from the firefox team.

if they want better tab visibility (not that you need it with favicons and personal memory) why not 2 or more tab bars, stacked? a limit of 8 is insane and the scrolling “feature” is a bad joke. kind of, er defeats the whole purpose of having tabs in the first place. what were they smoking?

By: wishful

wishful — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:21:43 +0000

BTW…where can I find a music player for Firefox?
Quicktime will not work.