Re: Firefoxquestions

Hi Dennis,

I think the closest thing in Firefox to the ctrl+o behaviour in Galeon
is ctrl+l (or f6) which takes you straight to your URL input at the top
and highlights the contents so you can type over them.

If you go to the firefox extensions/addons page and search for 'Session
Manager' both 'Session Manager' and 'Tab Mix Plus' are returned; I think
either of these will cover your needs.

As for c) I'm afraid I don't know the ideal solution, but if you go into
preferences, click content, then advanced and untick 'Allow pages to
choose their own fonts..', this should make all pages use the font (and
size) you specify. It may be a short-term solution (some pages may look
weird) but things should be more readable.

If you don't find the solution to the problems theres nothing to stop
you from using Galeon (2.02 is in the Ubuntu repos). Or of course
Konqueror, Epiphany or Opera.

Peter


On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 11:14 -0500, stan wrote:
I'm building Kubuntu machines to replace my, and my wife's workstations.
The old machines have an older version of Debian with Gnome 1.4. We are
using Galeon 1.x as our browsers.

Looks like the choice today is Firefox. So, I'm trying to figure out how to
provide 3 functions provided by the older Galeon, that I can't seem to find
workalikes in Firefox.

a) Control O brings up an URL input window (empty) in the center of the
browser. We find this much more convenient that dealing with the URL input
bar at the top of the browser.

b) Sessions an be saved and restored (easily from the FILE menu). Sessions
are collections of sites opened in multiple tabs.

c) Adjustments to font size (plus and minus) are stored on a per page
basis. Thus I can have (for example) Slashdot displayed with the font size
bumped up a couple of points, and when I return to it, it will default to
the larger size.

Can anyone suggest workarounds for these in Firefox?

--
Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity.
(Dennis Ritchie)



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