"Less of a question, more of a comment — nice job to everyone involved in blacking out the Firefox start page and Mozilla website on Wednesday to protest SOPA!"
- Aaron Draczynski
"Bar Tab works by preventing the page from being loaded into memory until you actually click onto its tab. It has the added benefit of not immediately loading all of your tabs at once after a browser crash."
- Aaron Draczynski
In Firefox 4, how can I have two tabs open to the same URL? Everytime I try to enter the URL in a new tab it wants to take me to the existing tab. Annoying as hell.
Yes - the drop-down of recently typed stuff has the URL I'm typing with the text "Switch to tab". But there's no option to NOT switch to tab. I want a new tab with the same URL.
- Brian Johns
What happens if you just hit enter? It switches to the tab?
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
work-around: middle-click on the "switch to tab" text to open the URL in a NEW tab, then close the empty tab you just created a few seconds ago (which is now blank). How the hell do you middle-click on a Mac laptop BTW?
- Brian Johns
Jimminy: If you type the whole thing out, you can then hit return. If you down-arrow to the suggestion then you switch to the existing tab, even if the tab is open in a different "Spaces" space.
- Brian Johns
I rarely down-arrow, It looks like you can disable it in options though, from some testing I was playing around with. Tools>Options>Privacy>#Location Bar set the drop down to Bookmarks or Nothing. Though it removes lots of suggestions
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
A copy tab feature, like Opera has, would probably be a better solution. Edit: Just found it in Windows, Ctrl+Drag
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
If you hold down the Shift key, the switch-to-tab option will change back to loading the full page again.
- Aaron Draczynski
Brian - Try holding either Ctrl or Cmd and clicking. One of those is equivalent to middle-click, I think (and the other one will probably try to download the file). I'm not at my MBP right now, so I can't test.
- Fried Curdys
Aaron: Thanks! That's about the best answer possible, I think.
- Brian Johns
Well, I bought an iPhone 4 two weeks ago, so I'm going with 'yes.'
- Jim the Blatant
I still say "yes" for a new iPhone at WWDC (whether it's 5 or 4S with 4G or whatever). A quick Google search seems to say that odds are about 9:1 against; any place I can actually make that bet? :)
- Tudor Bosman
I'm guessing 'no' as well. Steve will want the media cycle about iOS + Lion + iCloud, not iPhone 5. That's another free media cycle 6-8 weeks from now.
- Kevin Fox
Nope. Seems like Apple is trying to temper expectations for new hardware by talking up iCloud, iOS, and Lion in their press release.
- Aaron Draczynski
I have always argued that the browsers are complicit in the ability for websites to violate my privacy.
- Brian Johns
Also, Firefox 6? I thought 4.0 just came out.
- Brian Johns
It did, but Mozilla is now adopting a rapid release schedule. 5.0 is in beta right now and will be out in a few weeks; 6.0 is in initial development & testing.
- Aaron Draczynski
"Yeah, it took me a few days to get used to that. I had it committed to muscle memory, so when they changed the order I kept wondering why links were opening in new windows."
- Aaron Draczynski
"I noticed the same thing. I tried messing around with all of the SmoothScroll settings to no avail, it either felt too fast, too slow, or too jumpy."
- Aaron Draczynski
OSX, Automagic launch on login, 'open http://url' in Terminal.app for pages, with Spotlight and Spring loaded dock icons pulling up the rear.
- Neal Krummell
I am "That Scary Taskbar Girl" for a reason. Behold, in all its glory: http://dl.dropbox.com/u... That's on autohide, and I have been doing things this way since my very first Windows based PC.
- April
On Windows XP, I used Quicklaunch a lot (but I had it pulled out as a completely separate toolbar). On Vista, I docked a toolbar to act similarly to the Quicklaunch. On Windows 7, I now use a combination of StarDock (docked at the bottom of my screen) and the Windows 7 pinned taskbar (docked at the top of my screen). On my MacBook, I generally use the Dock.
- Fried Curdys
On Win 7: Most used: taskbar. Others: start menu. No icons. Hate icons.
- Shannon Jiménez
Whatever the thing is called where you type command-space and then start typing the name of the command. Then hit return. I guess that's "spotlight."
- Brian Johns
Dock (if I have an icon for it in the dock), otherwise Alfred (used to use Quicksilver but switched due to lack of updates).
- Aaron Draczynski
I set Win+Z to open up Everything http://www.voidtools.com/downloa... then it's 'keystroke2anything'. Avid full-time user since their day 1. For the web, I did enjoy using Ubiquity (but I'm not using Firefox that much anymore, lost that 'mindset') for quick access to sharing, etc. Hyperwords, I just discovered, is now available as a Chrome extension, but I need more time and practice...
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- Zu from AOD
Dock, or from a terminal using tab completion
- Victor Ganata
Launcher/Quicksearch on Windows. Find and Run Robot to be exact. Ctrl+Space and type first few chars of what I want. Even on a Mac I'll use the quick search feature before the dock. I find it to be more instant than navigating with a mouse, but less memory intensive that mapping actual keystrokes to specific apps.
- Rahsheen the Dream
I've tried using spotlight, but I can never think of the name of the program when I want to use it. I'm like, uh....the graphicy one with the blue icon...OH, Photoshop, right. Or...that bloggy updatey one that's the orange circle... For someone who writes a lot, I remember programs almost solely by their icons.
- Jandy
Document icon from its folder, or app icon from the toolbar at the top of the window - since that's where the CS5 icons are, to get them out of the Dock. Apparently I only click about a third of the apps that are actually in the Dock.
- Mary B, VALUE author
Alfred: http://www.alfredapp.com/ I have 3 large screens, and moving the mouse over to the dock or a stack to launch is a real pain: much easier to double tap a key and use auto-complete to find the app.
- Mark Trapp
PC--ActiveWords, Macintosh--Spotlight
- David Thomas
"I've noticed this too, even without any shadows passing over the sensor. I was sitting still in a slightly dark room, and the screen brightness was shifting between bright and dim a few times each minute."
- Aaron Draczynski
In recipes where I don't see it: fine. If I can see it: Ewww - don't make me! Also feel that way about cottage cheese, mayonnaise, plain yogurt, all other cold, white things that aren't sweet.
- Mary B, VALUE author
I love it on or in a fair few things.
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
I used to hate it, but now I love it. I just dolloped my burrito with a...uh, dollop.
- Derrick
I don't care for it, but it's the secret ingredient in most of my mother's cooking which is always fantastic
- RAPatton
from iPhone
I don't like it on its own, but I'm okay with it as an ingredient. I like the tanginess it can bring to things. That's probably weird, but it is what it is.
- Katy S
I love that I wouldn't touch the stuff and then one day, my neighbor made some homemade burritos; nothing special, probably used a spice packet, some hamburger, good salsa, some cheese and asked if I wanted some...sour cream. I said no, but I guess she didn't hear me. Five minutes later, I took a big bite and blam, the cool sour cream contrasting with the spices and what not. I've liked it more or less ever since.
- Derrick
No mention of Steam? If anything is going to win over gamers and entice developers to the platform, it's Steam for Mac, not the App Store.
- Aaron Draczynski
RIP Brightkite check-ins. Used their service for quite a while until Foursquare grew to fame. But shifting their focus to group texting? That's already a pretty crowded space...
- Aaron Draczynski