Firefox

SirusSirus Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8466Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">Mouse Gestures own me</div> So I'm a new Firefox convert, and let me say the mouse gestures extension is by far the most useful feature I have ever used for a web browser. Not to mention the other great extensions like Gmail notifier. So I strongly suggest that everyone get Firefox and get the mouse gestures extension. [/praise]
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  • im_lostim_lost TWG Rule Guru Join Date: 2003-04-26 Member: 15861Members
    I got the mouse gestures extension, and I even went and found what the different gestures are, but I never use them. Oh well.

    Everyone still needs to get Firefox though.
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  • ForlornForlorn Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2634Banned
    gmail notifier?

    Oh and I've used adblock, but it screwed up and blocks way too much, I hate it, I tried to uninstall it but it still blocks everything

    Thankfully I have IEviewer, so I can just view a page in IE with a right click
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  • im_lostim_lost TWG Rule Guru Join Date: 2003-04-26 Member: 15861Members
    The Adblock extension doesn't block anything until you tell it to. If you told it to block something that you actually want to see, then you can go in and remove that item. If you are talking about the popup blocker, you can make it not block stuff on certain sites.
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  • Dorian_GrayDorian_Gray Join Date: 2004-02-15 Member: 26581Members, Constellation
    edited November 2004
    <!--QuoteBegin-Forlorn+Nov 14 2004, 07:05 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Forlorn @ Nov 14 2004, 07:05 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> gmail notifier?

    Oh and I've used adblock, but it screwed up and blocks way too much, I hate it, I tried to uninstall it but it still blocks everything

    Thankfully I have IEviewer, so I can just view a page in IE with a right click <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Adblock blocks nothing without you blocking it explicitly. And you unblock it in the options. It owns, so much better than the "Block all images from 'x'" option that comes with firefox, which DOES block way too much.

    Edit: Damn "I'm Lost" beat me to it.

    PS: Adblock > all
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  • SirusSirus Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8466Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    I use IE Viewer too, since sites like FP require IE for some queue lines. And Gmail notifier sits in my bar and is constantly logged into my gmail account and updates every 30 minutes (There is a variable for how often it checks), it takes up very little space on the toolbar and saves me the time of checking my mail.

    Mouse gestures are very simple. Holding right click while moving the mouse to the right will skip a page forward. Right click and back will go back a page. Right click and up opens a link in a tab. Right click and down on a link will open it in a new window. Right click and down then right will close the tab or window if there's only one tab open.

    Theres also more and it's fully customizable to what you would like.
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  • DragonMechDragonMech Join Date: 2003-09-19 Member: 21023Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    edited November 2004
    Which version/extension are you using?
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  • panda_de_malheureuxpanda_de_malheureux Join Date: 2003-12-26 Member: 24775Members
    The mouse I had broke so I'm stuck with a crappy old ball mouse. I found out that you can just type the text of the link and Firefox selects it. A+++ would navigate mouseless again.
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  • JediYoshiJediYoshi The Cupcake Boss Join Date: 2002-05-27 Member: 674Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Forlorn+Nov 14 2004, 12:05 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Forlorn @ Nov 14 2004, 12:05 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Oh and I've used adblock, but it screwed up and blocks way too much, I hate it, I tried to uninstall it but it still blocks everything

    <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Are you sure you weren't using the "Block images from..." option that comes with firefox? Adblock only blocks the specific image you tell it to o.O
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  • MulletMullet Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15910Members, Constellation
    Meh....I want a good reason why I should switch to firefox. IE never gives me trouble.... <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • ForlornForlorn Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2634Banned
    Yeah I think that's it, see the thing is I'm not sure how to turn off the built in ad blockers with Firefox, it sucks, I can't even use nationmaster.com half the site is blocked
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  • ZeroByteZeroByte Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3057Members
    edited November 2004
    If you have the all in one gestures extension, I humbly recommend that you enable rocker navigation. It's much easier to use than mouse gestures since you don't have to move your mouse at all. All you do is click the right mouse button and then the left mouse button successively to go back and and the in the opposite order to go forward. A bit strange at first when you've gotten used to mouse gestures but it's a real time saver.

    <!--QuoteBegin-Forlorn+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Forlorn)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Yeah I think that's it, see the thing is I'm not sure how to turn off the built in ad blockers with Firefox, it sucks, I can't even use nationmaster.com half the site is blocked<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Tools>Options>Web Features

    Click the button marked as "Allowed Sites" besides the Block Popup Windows option. Type in address of website you want to allow popups to appear and hey presto, you've disabled popup blocking for that specific site! Other sites will continue to have popup windows blocked. Although if a site has popups, a little X icon should appear on the lower left corner of your status bar, indicating that it has popups. If you click on it, you can easily unblock the website.
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  • NecroticNecrotic Big Girl&#39;s Blouse Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 53Members, NS1 Playtester
    <!--QuoteBegin-ZeroByte+Nov 14 2004, 08:16 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ZeroByte @ Nov 14 2004, 08:16 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> If you have the all in one gestures extension, I humbly recommend that you enable rocker navigation. It's much easier to use than mouse gestures since you don't have to move your mouse at all. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    And the world gets lazier again ;D

    Seriously, Opera has had Mouse Gestures built in for many-a-version and firefox is only just catching up now with a mere extension! I mock your superior yet backwards browser!
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  • im_lostim_lost TWG Rule Guru Join Date: 2003-04-26 Member: 15861Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-ZeroByte+Nov 14 2004, 12:16 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ZeroByte @ Nov 14 2004, 12:16 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-Forlorn+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Forlorn)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Yeah I think that's it, see the thing is I'm not sure how to turn off the built in ad blockers with Firefox, it sucks, I can't even use nationmaster.com half the site is blocked<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Tools>Options>Web Features<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Except that the problem doesn't come with popups (I just went to nationmaster.com in IE, and the site doesn't have any popups). I really don't know what the problem is, unless the images were somehow blocked by the Adblock extension without you knowing, which would be strange since you have to actively block things for that extension to do anything.

    And having mouse gestures built in means a bigger program for features that I will never use. That's why extensions are nice. There are hundreds of extensions, and they could all be built in, but nobody wants all of them, and it would make the program bigger than it needs to be. Then again, mouse gestures are pretty popular, but most things should be left as extensions.
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  • GadzukoGadzuko Join Date: 2002-12-26 Member: 11556Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Necrotic+Nov 14 2004, 03:38 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Necrotic @ Nov 14 2004, 03:38 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-ZeroByte+Nov 14 2004, 08:16 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ZeroByte @ Nov 14 2004, 08:16 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> If you have the all in one gestures extension, I humbly recommend that you enable rocker navigation. It's much easier to use than mouse gestures since you don't have to move your mouse at all. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    And the world gets lazier again ;D

    Seriously, Opera has had Mouse Gestures built in for many-a-version and firefox is only just catching up now with a mere extension! I mock your superior yet backwards browser! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    It's not "just now" catching up. Mouse gesture extensions have been around in various forms for as long as the browser has.
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  • Private_ColemanPrivate_Coleman PhD in Video Games Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7510Members
    I just got this. Brilliant. My laziness just increased tenfold.
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  • ExerExer Join Date: 2003-02-05 Member: 13167Members
    edited November 2004
    I only use Opera... maybe someday I'll be lazy enough to switch.

    <a href='http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7562&page=1' target='_blank'>http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7562&page=1</a>
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