Comments on: Firefox Bugs

Firefox Bugs

Grod — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:19:13 -0800

I've switched to Firefox. I have my MeFi preferences set to open links in a new window. I have the Tabbrowser Preferences extension installed on firefox and everything set to open in new tabs, links on metafilter still bring up new windows. While I can just CTRL + click to open in a new tab, I'm wondering if this is a mozilla thing, or a mefi thing. Thanks.

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:06:48 -0800

Can you give me a little more about your tabrowser settings? I have it set to Expert Settings and as of Firefox, it defaults to "Use Multiple Browsers Only When I Open Them"-- this is opening MeFi links in tabs for me.

By: Grod

Grod — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:11:30 -0800

Ah, well, I'm not using Tabbrowser Extensions, I'm using the Tabbrowser Preferences. Reason being, it either interacted badly with some other extension, or isn't completely stable. At anyrate, I found it did more harm than good, especially since all I wanted was to change the default behavior for where links open. I guess the way Metafilter preferences are set to a cookie might have something to do with it, in which case there's probably a line somewhere in about:config that will fix it, or something could be added to user.js, but I don't know much about this stuff yet.

By: Grod

Grod — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:16:53 -0800

As long as your fielding firefox questions, how come visited links, whether opened in a new tab, new window, or the same window, don't change color? It isn't much of a problem on MeFi, but its driving me nuts on google.

By: Hackworth

Hackworth — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:36:24 -0800

i just set middle-click to open in tabs, so clicking the scroll wheel does the trick.

By: Grod

Grod — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:43:05 -0800

Good idea, but I'm on a laptop. I guess I'll just ctrl+click. I was just wondering if it had something to do with how the cookie is handled or something.

By: matteo

matteo — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:48:33 -0800

heh. since you're mentioning FireFox -- I'm usually on FireBird/OSX and everything's OK with MeFi but I've recently tried to comment on MeFi using FireFox/WIN2000 and I don't have the Bold/I/link function. why?
if it's already been covered, feel free to hurl abuse in my general direction

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:03:05 -0800

I don't have the Bold/I/link function. why?

That's a fine question: I didn't notice it, what with being so grateful MeFi was back, but the shortcut icons are gone. I don't know if Firefox has some different JavaScript or what, but the links started showing up (in Preview only) on SpoFi for a while. Then again, I just checked the source and there's no reference to the include file anymore.

I'll admit Tabbrowser Extensions is a bitch goddess who demands tribute every time you want to upgrade, but she's worth it to me. Safest way to add it (if you want to; it's the only way I know to get full control of the tabs in Firebird/fox) is to destroy your existing profile(s) and work from there.

By: Grod

Grod — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:03:32 -0800

This is really strange, but since I first posted this bug it has disappeared. I don't know how or why, as I haven't changed a thing in my settings. I wonder if it'll reappear?

By: Grod

Grod — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:14:50 -0800

Yup, it came back.
*scratches head, shrugs

By: Succa

Succa — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:03:50 -0800

Grod, I've had the exact same behaviour using TabBrowser Preferences. I disabled it and tried TabBrowser Extensions but it gave me much aggravation, so I switched back. I think it's just an incompatibility between Firefox and the T-B Extensions. Everything worked fine for me in the old version (Firebird). I expect it will be resolved soon. Perhaps send a note to the creator of T-B Extensions?

By: dg

dg — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:33:46 -0800

I don't have the Bold/I/link function. why?
I don't know why, but they were not around in earlier versions of Mozilla, then they appeared after some tweak or other by mathowie and now they have disappeared again with Firefox.

By: carter

carter — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 06:13:14 -0800

The same thing happens to me in Safari/10.3 (i.e. clicking on a link brings up a new window, ctrl-click brings up a new tab). I have MeFi prefs set to open links in a new window too. I guess the Mefi preferences just override the browser preferences.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:49:33 -0800

I guess the Mefi preferences just override the browser preferences.

i beleive all the mefi preferences do is cause a <base target="_blank"> to be inserted in the page that's sent to you. check your tab options for something like "include links specifying new target window" or similar.

By: Grod

Grod — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 12:59:32 -0800

OK. I've found what appears to be a solution. By adding the following line to your user.js file the target="_blank" is disabled.



// disable target="_blank" (open in same window):

user_pref("browser.block.target_new_window", true);

It seems to work.

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:19:32 -0800

Cool. Thanks.