Damn Firefox
I was just typing away at an entry here that I might well attach to the end of this one when I decided to look up the spelling or a word. “I know, I shall use trusty Google”, I thought. Well, I didn’t actually think that, I looked at the Google search box in the top right corner of Firefox and typed in the start of “chimera” to see if the suggestions came up with the right spellings. They came up with more than one that I thought could be correct, so I actually performed the search. Having established the correct spelling, I went to click on the tab containing my half typed entry. Only, oh dear, Firefox has displayed the results in the tab I currently had open. Arse. Not quite sure why it would have been designed like that. After all, in Firefox 2 we have a useful “Close Tab” button right there on each tab, so surely it is a cheap job for the user to do to close a search tab once they have finished it. After all, aren’t you looking for something that might well be relevant to another tab?
Anyway, what I was saying was that I’d changed the theme to a third party one, Iceburgg by Devlounge as it has a nice wintery feel and we’d put the Christmas tree up. I’ve been tinkering about with various things this evening while Kate is away including setting myself up a user account on her PC. We only have one set up in our house so far, which is her box with my monitor and speakers (hence the chimera reference I was originally going to make). Now that I’m retyping this is does seem a dull thing to say, so nevermind…
Tags: design, Firefox, needless fiddling, sucks
Can’t you set Firefox to open items from the search box in a new tab (perhaps it comes under the equivalent address bar option)? Mine certainly does. I’m still using FF1.5 though and haven’t got around to upgradting to version 2 yet, but surely the option will be there all the same?
I can’t remember whether the option is a FF default or whether you need an extension for it, but I’d have thought it was there somewhere.
After a bit of investigation, indeed you can. The needed setting is browser.search.openintab. Still annoyed me at the time because I’d written most of an entry. Can’t wait for Wordpress 2.1 with autosave!
Yep, annoyed the hell out of me too. I nabbed an extension to make it do what I wanted.