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idealflame@furaffinity.net:~$ cat journal
Okay. This is a journal of two parts.
1) FA Update [?3.6] 'Sigma'
●It is...acceptable. The new "Browse/Search/Submit/etc." bar, I like the design of (and it kinda makes sense, as it now acts as an actual 'interactive' menu), but the designers seem to have put more of an effort into using vertical space than horizontal - as demonstrated by the very top-to-bottom layout. This is something I don't particularly appreciate, but is more-or-less just a difference, so fine.
●I /don't/, however, like the new emphasis on adverts, which are starting to become very intrusive. Either they are at the top of pages, or, worse, between the image and the comments. This makes it harder to tell when an image already has comments on it, since before you could at least see the top of a comment-box.
●On the plus side: Activity session management! Woo boy, that's pretty cool. You can have several separate browser sessions active and /labelled/ without having to keep logging in. Especially useful for those of us who switch between different operating systems. *ahem*
●Also, a quick mention to temporal localisation: you can set what time-zone you're in so that the timestamps are more actively useful. Yay. And the shortcuts to notes and your journal, also a plus.
2) Tab Candy and Minefield
● OMG, Ninjaman. Like, THIS is amazing and totally what I need for my constant tab-whoring: grouping tabs in a visual manner. I can't possibly do the explanation justice in this blog. Just...watch the video
● In order to test Tab Candy, though, you can install the FireFox 4.0 Beta 3 Preview, codename Minefield. Runs well, seems fairly sleek, but was built on top of the FF3 engine, so that's to be expected. Not sure I appreciate the "tabs above the address-bar" look that they obviously stole off of Chrome, but it actually kinda works, so I'll forgive them.
● The "to fit in with Windows 7 orange button in the top-left corner instead of a titlebar and toolbar combo" I don't like, but you can turn it off, so fair play.
● However, the "to fit in with Windows 7 all tabs show in the taskbar-preview" you can't turn off, and I despise. I /reaalllyyy/ hope they get that fixed. [EDIT: Yay Open-Source configurability. Go to "about:config", and set "browser.taskbar.previews.enabled" to false :) ]
● Also, the Inspector. I'll probably never use it, but it's a funky tool all the same.
Umm. I think that's all for now. At least that last journal's finally gone now, right?
1) FA Update [?3.6] 'Sigma'
●It is...acceptable. The new "Browse/Search/Submit/etc." bar, I like the design of (and it kinda makes sense, as it now acts as an actual 'interactive' menu), but the designers seem to have put more of an effort into using vertical space than horizontal - as demonstrated by the very top-to-bottom layout. This is something I don't particularly appreciate, but is more-or-less just a difference, so fine.
●I /don't/, however, like the new emphasis on adverts, which are starting to become very intrusive. Either they are at the top of pages, or, worse, between the image and the comments. This makes it harder to tell when an image already has comments on it, since before you could at least see the top of a comment-box.
●On the plus side: Activity session management! Woo boy, that's pretty cool. You can have several separate browser sessions active and /labelled/ without having to keep logging in. Especially useful for those of us who switch between different operating systems. *ahem*
●Also, a quick mention to temporal localisation: you can set what time-zone you're in so that the timestamps are more actively useful. Yay. And the shortcuts to notes and your journal, also a plus.
2) Tab Candy and Minefield
● OMG, Ninjaman. Like, THIS is amazing and totally what I need for my constant tab-whoring: grouping tabs in a visual manner. I can't possibly do the explanation justice in this blog. Just...watch the video
● In order to test Tab Candy, though, you can install the FireFox 4.0 Beta 3 Preview, codename Minefield. Runs well, seems fairly sleek, but was built on top of the FF3 engine, so that's to be expected. Not sure I appreciate the "tabs above the address-bar" look that they obviously stole off of Chrome, but it actually kinda works, so I'll forgive them.
● The "to fit in with Windows 7 orange button in the top-left corner instead of a titlebar and toolbar combo" I don't like, but you can turn it off, so fair play.
● However, the "to fit in with Windows 7 all tabs show in the taskbar-preview" you can't turn off, and I despise. I /reaalllyyy/ hope they get that fixed. [EDIT: Yay Open-Source configurability. Go to "about:config", and set "browser.taskbar.previews.enabled" to false :) ]
● Also, the Inspector. I'll probably never use it, but it's a funky tool all the same.
Umm. I think that's all for now. At least that last journal's finally gone now, right?
What version of Firefox do you use?