Yes, I feel very stupid asking Mr.Haller somthing. Its not like you go into a microsoft fourm and say "Oye!" "Bill!" like you know him. but any way, wouldent it be good to put a spell cheacker on the comment poster thingy? It would be good for people like me. Seeing as I've probebly spelt somthing wrong alerdy in this topic.
New: MKVToolNix (May 01, 2024), Platform 29.5 (Apr 24, 2024)
1,100+ portable packages, 1.1 billion downloads
Please donate today
Visit the Community page
Join our forums
Subscribe to our email newsletter
Subscribe with RSS
Follow us on Facebook
Follow us on LinkedIn
Follow us on Twitter
Follow us on Mastodon
Follow us on BlueSky
There is one... it's called Firefox 2.0
I'm running RC3 as my primary browser now as well as my primary portable browser. It's solid. Spell-checking is built-in. And it works across all websites... which is nice as any words you add to your dictionary follow you. That way you don't have to keep worrying that Mozilla isn't a word.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
I know but I dont allways use the beta. I like my normal one 'cause its compatble with everything.
For a local install, you can use the AspellFox extension if you have an Aspell dictionary installed (for example, if you installed Gaim with spell checking locally). But it's not portable.
Just wait for 2.0. Every extension I use has been updated except the Google Page Rank and Translate extensions. But I can live without them for a couple weeks until they're updated.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
I'm still waiting on 4 extensions. 2 aren't critical (I only used them for a week before I switched to FF 2), but I really liked the update notifier extension, and I'm going a little nutty without minimize to tray.
I never quite got the whole minimize to tray obsession. I can see where it makes sense for something like Thunderbird... where you want it to keep running unobtrusively and ping you when you have a new message... but why Firefox? It's a browser... a program that's running... so, logically, it should be in the task bar. And it's not like you need it running when you aren't using it to notify you of incoming emails or instant messages (another common system tray thing).
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
among other things. I prefer the gmail interface to TB for my email, but I use TB as a newsreader, so I get pings from both.
That's of course, entirely aside from the fact that I just like the fact that minimize to tray saves me taskbar space. I like to multitask, and probably half the apps I use on a regular basis can be minimized to the tray, so it makes my life a little easier.
Minimize to tray is great at work. usually my bosses dont look at the tray, just at the bar, and even if they do look at the tray, chances are they won't recognise the icon (only 1 of my co-workers has decided to download FF so they have no idea what it is)
---------------
Teen1: Oh, here comes that cannonball guy. He's cool.
Teen2: Are you being sarcastic, dude?
Teen1: I don't even know anymore.
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -- Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: baby ain't mine." -- Adam Holguin
Exactly what we do at my school.
Eventually, they blocked firefox.exe because they couldn't work out how to block us. So we renamed to iexplore.exe
We also have MenuX to hide the tab bar and have a button, and I hacked the extension to get an invisible button.
----
R McCue
Cube Games
People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were
the kind of people who didn't need people.
(Maskerade)
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Hide Tab Bar is an excellent extension for looking a research site in one tab and having other sites in other tabs without being caught. And it is compatible with 2.0.
Vintage!
Just add a boolean preference called extensions.checkCompatiblity and set it to false, and firefox will not check min and maxversions.
What if it's not just a bad version number, but a real incompatibility?
you'll find that out quickly
Seriously, though, it's usually not a big deal... though the jump to 2.0 does break some extensions. Even if it breaks, you can always bring it up in safe mode and uninstall it.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
Thanks guys. I am fully set with FF 2. Still hoping for official updates, so I know there isn't some disaster waiting in hiding for me, but I'm pretty happy right now.
For anyone not running firefox 2.0 get extension
"RiteofTongue"
then you can spell check in any web form. works good other than being a little slow.
Success is in the Details.
Firefox 2 is officially released tomorrow.
Side-note:
I know I'll get the usual, but how long until you get a portable version? I don't think anything has changed since RC2 so wouldn't it just be packaging it up?
----
R McCue
Cube Games
People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were
the kind of people who didn't need people.
(Maskerade)
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
It hasn't changed since RC3. But, John might have a few launcher surprises up his sleeve (I'm just guessing, I have no idea actually).
He just put in a bunch of new features in FFP 1.5.0.7, and that was released just 2 days before FFP 2 RC1, and less than a month ago. I'd be pretty shocked at yet *another* major surprise. Not that I'll complain if I'm wrong.