firefox

[Alhanalem]

I'm really liking firefox now (especially since i found this little extension to filter out advertisements ) but theres one little thing that annoys me- I'd like clicking links to open in a new tab instead of a new window by default- like whenever I click a link to planet jailbreak on BU it opens in a new window instead (unless I use middle mouse). I like using seperate windows for unrelated sites though- mostly because I run windows at a high resolution and I can have two pages on screen this way . Is there any way I can make opening new pages in a tab the default? I couldn't find anything in options. (If theyre trying to sell on tabbed browsing, you would expect that tabs would be the norm). I still think tabs are overrated but that doesn't mean I think its a bad feature.

Another thing, whats the difference between 'mozilla' and 'mozilla firefox?'
And if firefox is available for Mac, why are they making yet another browser for mac (Chamino)? :

 

[ChaosJester]

Tabbrowser extensions should give you what you want. Tabbed browsing makes sense when 10-15 pages are loaded into the browser at once. Try that in IE and Firefox and you'll understand.

click on this link and it will take you directly to a place you can download the extension.

once installed, look in Tools>options>tabbed browsing>Extension Configuration button>Appearances>Features. Click the button at the very top of the configuration dialog boxes, that will lock the links for all tabs. If you want to lock/unlock individual links, look in the tab section of the bar at the top of the browser.

 

[TK v3]

One of ussss... one of ussss...

 

[Mychaeel]

Another thing, whats the difference between 'mozilla' and 'mozilla firefox?'

Mozilla is a suite consisting of a browser, a news reader, an email client and several other applications all embedded in a single user interface.

Firefox is based on the same backend technology, but a separate effort in making a browser which isn't bloated with a whole suite of other applications. So is Thunderbird, but on the email/news side of it.

And if firefox is available for Mac, why are they making yet another browser for mac (Chamino)?

It's probably an effect of the fact that you're not dealing with a corporate monster with a single marketing strategy here but a huge, heterogeneous community of users and developers who occasionally have different notions of what'd be nice to have.

 

[haarg]

For more control of tabbed browsing, type about:config into the address bar, and find browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs. Double-click on it to change it's value to true. You may need to restart Firefox for this setting to take effect. Now, In Tools > Options... > Advanced there should be a section of tabbed browsing controls. You could also try the Tabbrowser preferences extension. It is still a beta, but works well and gives more control.
While Tabbrowser extensions will provide much more control, it can slow the broswer down, and make in unstable.

While Firefox tries to look similar to it's host OS, it still uses it's own widgets to draw eveything. Camino is designed with Mac OS X native widgets, so it looks and reacts exactly as the rest of the OS.