Favourite browser (January - June 2011)

Opera 11 now. Earlier Operas over past several years.
Simplest for me to customize each site permissions and global permissions than FF or IE8.
Sometimes SeaMonkey but haven't learned that one yet.
One site I use is illiterate in Opera. so IE8 is used there.

 

Firefox 4 Beta 12

 

i like Opera but too many website incompatibilities with it and limited extensions (same for chrome with limited extensions) so i like firefox 4 the best

 

Firefox (Current version).

 

I noticed a couple of website incompatibilities too, I am thinking about trying chromeplus.

 

I'm enjoying Firefox 4 Beta 12 so far. There are a couple of UI issues I'm not fond of, but overall, it feels so much more responsive than Firefox has in a long time.

 

What are those, if you don't mind? They may be curable.

 

I haven't played with the settings much, so I'm sure I'm complaining over nothing, but I'm not fond of having the reload and home buttons tucked away over into the corner. I haven't seen a way to change that yet, after a quick trip through options. A strange complaint for sure, but can the tab sizes be made a bit smaller? I kind of feel like I'm looking at a bunch of those yellow office folders when I look up there

 

For the first one, if you right-click right near the top in a vacant spot, you should get a "customize" option. Choosing that will give you a screen into which you can drag what you don't want or you can drag what you want from there onto a spot you like on the tool bars.

Similarly, you can grab a hold of any button and drag it to where you want it and release.

The second point about the tab height will require tinkering with userChrome.css. Maybe we should start a thread on tweaking Fx4 since there are just so many visible differences between 3.6 and 4.

 

Thanks for helping me out with the button issues, I guess I'm picky when it comes to toolbar placements and such, lol. The tabs issue wasn't about the height, it was more the length of them. They truly do look like the tops of office folders I'm too picky I think, lol. In time I'll no longer care, it's just new and my eyes are adjusting to the differences.

 

This bit of code will let you tweak the tab height:

Code:

#TabsToolbar
{height: 24px !important; }

This goes in the userChrome.css file which is a plain text file and maybe a hidden file in a hidden folder with a path like this:
C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\Whatever\Mozilla\Firefox\randomstring.default\chrome\userChrome.css.

The underlined part will depend on your OS. I'm not sure about the part in italics since I've set up things to be on the E: drive.

randomstring.default will be your profile folder.

The "chrome" folder may or may not exist. If it doesn't, you need to create it.

The userChrome.css file may or may exist. Or, there maybe a file (if there's a pre-existing folder called "chrome") called userChrome-example.css. In which case, one may make a copy of that file and rename the copy simply userChrome.css.

For the specific purpose of tweaking the tab height the entire contents of the userChrome.css file will be as follows:

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");
#TabsToolbar
{height: 24px !important; }


Don't ask me why but the first line is totally necessary for userChrome.css to work.

Each time you edit the userChrome.css file, you will need to save it and restart Fx for the change to take effect.

 

I'll give that a shot, thanks a lot Vasa

Edit: I finished the reply before you added your other post. I'll test it all out, thanks!

 

Tab Width:

about:config -> browser.tabs.tabMinWidth & browser.tabs.tabMaxWidth

 

Just checked. It's not in my Minefield. Which version has it?

 

Okay. Both were removed despite opposition
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574654

 

Yeah, right. I have Tab Mix Plus add-on which creates those, I totally forgot about that.

-http://tmp.garyr.net/tab_mix_plus-dev-build.xpi

 

Thanks for the links, JR! At least I can point others to them while mentioning that the line should be there.

I so much prefer tweaking to get the effect I want rather than slapping on an add-on.

 

Google Chrome for sure. Using anything else now just feels... weird.

 

Chrome and IE9 RC are 2 great choices

 

Chrome Stable version since 2008

 

Have been using Firefox 4rc recently because the current 3.X began to get a bit glitchy for some reason. 4rc helped but is still not as smooth as it used to be. Have never tried any browsers other than FF since I installed it 3 or 4 years ago so I am eager yet hesitant to download one for some reason. Chrome and Opera are looking like the ones to choose from.

 

I'm an IE8 browser user. It seems that is as far as I can go being a XP Home SP3 user. But I'm in no hurry to change as all is well for me.

 

Personally I'm looking forward to giving Fx 4 a bit of a spin. I did try a couple of the betas. Don't overlook SRWare Iron.