BSD & Gaming

The new 4.0 series of Firefox for FreeBSD is now available as a PBI for PC-BSD users.

Use your software update tool or download the push button installer from here – [LINK]

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I tried, I really tried with Firefox 3 to learn to like the “Awesome Bar“. To begin with, the name bugged me, “awesome bar”… really?

Ok be good, that voice in my head told me in that sickening patronizing tone that is so prevalent in today’s politically correct culture.  The voice continued to badger me with guilt saying – just give it a try and stay open minded.

Grumbles…. fine fine whatever.

I’m a card carrying member of the “If it ain’t broke, don’t goddam fix it!” and the “Keep It Simple…ya Stupid idiot!” groups. SO, needless to say every time I hear about how someone somewhere gets what they think is a bright idea, usually in my world….it ain’t.

Well here I am many many, months later and my final conclusion? It sucks the big one. It almost never gives me anything related to what I want. Instead of saving me time it wastes it by feeding me useless crap to look at.  I end up typing the URL by hand if I know it or hitting up a search engine to find it.

Fine… it’s faster that way anyhow… so how do I get rid of it? Ahhhh the ever helpful about:config

Search for browser.urlbar.maxRichResults and change the value to “-1“, you can change it to “0” which most sites suggest, but I find it creates a slight flicker at the bottom of the URL entry field. By using a value of “-1” that flicker does not appear for me.

I’m putting together a little list of the FireFox add-ons I have found to be useful.

Please take a look at the page Recommended add-ons for FireFox.

The newest Firefox 3.6 makes a big change in how new tabs are loaded. The old way opens a new tab to the far right. The new way opens a tab immediately to the right, this bugs the hell out of me.

If you like or want to know more about the way version 3.6 handles tabbed browsing and the changes to come, then take a look at this page – [LINK]

For those dinosaurs like myself who prefer the old way it’s a simple enough fix.

Go to about:config and filter for browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent, then change the value to “FALSE”.

All done, PHEW! now I can go back to surfing the way I like it.

I liked Mozilla before they split off Firefox and then renamed the suite from Mozilla to “Seamonkey” blegh! What a name. I refuse to use it, sorry in my opinion that name is just lame. I can’t believe they couldn’t come up with something better. Ah well… I rant…. blah blah blah.

Anyway… I’ve used tabbed browsing for ages and I prefer to have the close button to the far right in the tab bar. The recent changes of a new page button, a list all button, and having a close button for each and every tab is just annoying. I don’t need all that crap. So every time I setup firefox on a new computer here are two things I do right away.

First – edit the userChrome.css file for your profile by adding these lines after the
@namespace line:

.tabs-container > stack {display:none!important;}
.tabs-newtab-button {display: none !important;}

Second – go to about:config and filter for browser.tabs.closeButtons and change the value to “3“.

TADAH! Once again the tab bar is cleaned of all the junk I don’t want and my close button is on the right where I prefer it. This works great in FreeBSD so I assume it should work fine for windowsz and linux based os’s.