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Loki|muh
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so. firefox-0.9-r1 is now in portage. 
But there is still one thing anoying me about firefox. This damn password manager dialouge is always shown twice.
Is there a way to turn this off without turning of the entire password manager?
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Given M. Sur
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-- EDIT --
This post was just a rant, so I'm shortening it now that I've calmed down and realized part of the problem was my mistake (as you'll see in the next few threads -- I thought settings still went in ~/.phoenix)
The problems I'm still having though are:
1. Fonts look different -- which I can get used to
2. The default theme sucks, and icons are too big even with "use small icons"
3. Cannot install any extensions (see my post a few posts down)
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Loki|muh
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~/.phoenix ??????
~/.mozilla/firefox !!!
the fonts are a bit messed up 
The Umlauts here in phpbb2 are shown as question marks |
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Given M. Sur
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| Loki|muh wrote: | ~/.phoenix ??????
~/.mozilla/firefox !!!
the fonts are a bit messed up
The Umlauts here in phpbb2 are shown as question marks |
 I thought it still used ~/.phoenix
When did that change?
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Loki|muh
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 7:59 am Post subject: |
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| with the change to 0.9 |
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| Loki|muh wrote: | ~/.phoenix ??????
~/.mozilla/firefox !!!
the fonts are a bit messed up
The Umlauts here in phpbb2 are shown as question marks |
I had the same "fonts messed up" thing too when I first installed the rc version. From what I can tell the fonts are actually correct now and something was screwed up before. It took some setting changing but things look good for me now. Before the menu fonts were always bigger than the thunderbird menu fonts when all settings and fonts were set the same.
Yeah the profile directory changed, atleast you didn't have the nightly builds that put the profile in ~/.firefox before they settled on the current place. 
Also to not that thunderbird is still under ~/.thunderbird 
I've been using mozilla-laucher to handle the launching of urls form other apps all day and it's quite a bit slower than doing it the direct way. If I click on three or four reply notifications in thunderbird, it spikes the cpu and there's a good delay till the third and fourth tab opens.
Do the compiled versions of firefox and thunderbird share libraries or anything? I'm just a little confuse on why it takes one script to decide what app to launch instead of launching them direct.  |
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| It all works fine for me font-wize and everything. Do you all have XFT and such along with having the fonts setup? |
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Given M. Sur
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Is anybody else having problems installing extensions? Everytime I try to install AdBlock it appears on the list in the extension menu, says "Waiting..." and then disappears after about a half a second. It never installs it
AdBlock is the main reason I use firefox too.
Edit: this same thing also happens with EZNav
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| msingle1 wrote: | | Yeah, so why is this thing hard masked? |
packages are generally hard masked for good reasons. in this case, it was because you had to run it as root before it would load for a user. thats not acceptable for the portage tree - the concept of running a web browser as root is frowned upon....and also, how many other desktop packages do you know that need to be run as root before they will stop silently dying for users?
if this was put into the tree like this normally, there would be a surge of useless bug reports.
anyway, the gentoo-mozilla guys have worked around the need-to-start-as-root-once issue in mozilla-firefox-0.9-r1.ebuild, and as such, the hard mask has been removed.
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| Firefox 0.9 looks really screwed up for me. All the fonts look bad, like they aren't anti-aliased or something. Aswell, it seems that I cannot use the go back/forward functions. |
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neenee
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everything seems fine for me - i do not use any extensions,
and i have not really used firefox before apart from some
test-runs - so there's not really anything i can compare this
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I've used Firefox since sometime last summer when I was still stuck in Windoze. I think I first used version 0.6 [Firebird back then] and it has come a long way since then, but even then it was a great browser and it just keeps getting better.
I've also helped some friends and my parents switch to it. Must keep the user base growing. |
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| Font and GIF render is crappy in some places. Like in the forums "Post a reply" dialog, where there are smileys on the left side. They are corrupt, changing their position etc. Only the moving ones. |
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| I oddly don't have the problem with the GIF renderer although I used to. Odd. |
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EricHsu
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hello, can anybody tell me how to change the font setting of the firefox's UI?
The "Fonts & Colors" in the preferences options seems only for website fonts?
Thanks!
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yngwin
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You can change the GUI in ~/.mozilla/firefox/default.xxx/chrome/userChrome.css - for example I have:
| Code: | menu[label="Go"] { display: none !important; }
* { font-size: 9pt !important } |
You can add to this using standard CSS.
There are also some font configuration settings in $APPDIR/greprefs/all.js which you can override in ~/.mozilla/firefox/default.xxx/user.js - for example with:
| Code: | user_pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
user_pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", false);
user_pref("font.antialias.min", 8);
user_pref("font.directory.truetype.1", "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype");
user_pref("font.directory.truetype.2", "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"); |
In case you want a binary build with SVG enabled, I have several available at http://pryan.org/mozilla/firefox/lokean/0.9/
Before you install firefox-0.9 you should remove 0.8 and the ~/.phoenix and/or ~/.firefox directories (0.8 has incompatible themes, extensions and a few other things). You can save your bookmarks.html, key3.db and signons.txt and move those into the new profile. You will have to (re)install (0.9 compatible) extensions and themes which are available at:
http://update.mozilla.org/
http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=284
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=79513 |
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Ben2040
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Hi
| cbr wrote: | | Like in the forums "Post a reply" dialog, where there are smileys on the left side. They are corrupt, changing their position etc. Only the moving ones. |
Well mine used to do that (0.8 ), but now it doesn't (0.9).
| Loki|muh wrote: | But there is still one thing anoying me about firefox. This damn password manager dialouge is always shown twice.
Is there a way to turn this off without turning of the entire password manager?
Bye,
Max |
IIRC, it's asking if you want to remember the password, _and_ the username.
| Bague wrote: | | I need to find the site that had The noia theme, because I really liked the full theming that had. |
Thats on the site linked to by the "Get new themes" button on the Themes dialog box - and it works great
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allucid
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| dsd wrote: | | msingle1 wrote: | | Yeah, so why is this thing hard masked? |
packages are generally hard masked for good reasons. in this case, it was because you had to run it as root before it would load for a user. thats not acceptable for the portage tree - the concept of running a web browser as root is frowned upon....and also, how many other desktop packages do you know that need to be run as root before they will stop silently dying for users?
if this was put into the tree like this normally, there would be a surge of useless bug reports.
anyway, the gentoo-mozilla guys have worked around the need-to-start-as-root-once issue in mozilla-firefox-0.9-r1.ebuild, and as such, the hard mask has been removed. |
that's odd. after I installed it I was able to run it as a normal user. It asked me to move my preferences over but I did not have to run it as root. maybe some people have the wrong permissions set on their prefs dir. |
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viperlin
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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NO RUNNING WINDOWS IS NOT AN ERROR!
now that thats over
and the modern theme is much better. |
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Given M. Sur
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| viperlin wrote: | | and the modern theme is much better. |
Maybe in some situations. In mine, it clashes with the rest of my desktop.
I really wish there was a way to get the old theme back, as I really don't like any of the other ones either.
As for the extensions, I'm going to try removing ~/.phoenix and ~/.mozilla and try again. If adblock still doesn't work then I'm switching back to 0.8.
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| 00420 wrote: | | viperlin wrote: | | and the modern theme is much better. |
Maybe in some situations. In mine, it clashes with the rest of my desktop.
I really wish there was a way to get the old theme back, as I really don't like any of the other ones either.
As for the extensions, I'm going to try removing ~/.phoenix and ~/.mozilla and try again. If adblock still doesn't work then I'm switching back to 0.8. |
there is, just look at the freckin theme page it's on it (called Qute) |
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Given M. Sur
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| viperlin wrote: | | 00420 wrote: | | viperlin wrote: | | and the modern theme is much better. |
Maybe in some situations. In mine, it clashes with the rest of my desktop.
I really wish there was a way to get the old theme back, as I really don't like any of the other ones either.
As for the extensions, I'm going to try removing ~/.phoenix and ~/.mozilla and try again. If adblock still doesn't work then I'm switching back to 0.8. |
there is, just look at the freckin theme page it's on it (called Qute) |
It's not the same. It's close. But, not quite.
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| get an older version from the old .phoenix DIR and use a websites file upload thing? |
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Everything works fine here so far. The fonts actually look better for me now! I've only installed the All-in-One Gestures. The default theme may not be as nice as it should be, but you can always install another theme, so it's not a really big deal.
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Old theme: Qute is the theme as it appeared last in the nightlies/cvs builds. It is a further developed form of the default theme of 0.8, which is available as Qute Retro.
AdBlock: I'm using this, which works fine with 0.9. |
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