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Originally posted by wormwood
what's the improvement to having everything in one place, the menubar? I prefer one place to several by far.
I have my menu bar for open folders, documents, applications etc.
Now I have the tab bar for open pages/tabs.

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Originally posted by wormwood
what's the improvement to having everything in one place, the menubar? I prefer one place to several by far.
You need to reprogram yourself a little. I kept looking down at the menu bar at the start, but now, I always look at the tabs when I want to change browser page.

To the OP, the possible personalisations are what make FF great. These are my extensions...
* Adblock Plus 0.7.2.4
* Add Bookmark Here 0.5.5
* Aging Tabs 0.5.1
* All-in-One Sidebar 0.7.1
* Answers 2.2.22
* BBC Bar 1.0.1.29
* British English Dictionary 1.19
* CustomizeGoogle 0.55
* Dictionary Tooltip 1.1.2
* Download Statusbar 0.9.4.6
* Fasterfox 2.0.0
* Firefox Extension Backup Extension (FEBE) 4.0.4
* FireFoxMenuButtons 1.5.3
* Flashblock 1.5.2
* Forecastfox 0.9.5.2
* FoxClocks 2.0.20
* Gmail Space 0.5.6
* GooglePreview 2.1.4
* Greasemonkey 0.6.8.20070314.0
* Image Zoom 0.2.7
* InfoLister 0.9f
* Linkification 1.3.3
* MR Tech Local Install 5.3.2.3
* murl 0.33
* No Go Buttons 0.1.1
* NoScript 1.1.4.6.070317
* Public Fox 1.04
* Read Easily 1.0.2 [disabled]
* Redirect Remover 2.3
* Remove It Permanently 1.0.6.3
* Resizeable Textarea 0.1d [disabled]
* RHP 0.1.4.7
* ScrapBook 1.2.0.8
* Searchbar Autosizer 1.3.6
* Status-bar Calculator 1.0
* Talkback 2.0.0.3 [disabled]
* TrackMeNot 0.4.61
* Unhide Menubar 0.0.9

If you have any annoyance, from something trivial like wanting to resize text boxes (like the ones for typing replies in these forums), to something big, like blocking flash ads, then FF has a solution for you, whether this is through extensions, or a Greasemonkey script.

Whenever it crashes (rarely), it saves all your open pages, and restores them as they were, including half typed messages, which is a real bonus.

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I use Firefox mainly because it's faster and it doesn't crash nearly as much as IE. The tabbed browsing and the favorites tool bar are also pretty neat.

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
Whenever it crashes (rarely), it saves all your open pages, and restores them as they were, including half typed messages, which is a real bonus.

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That's a big plus.

Another very handy extension (TinyURL Creator): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/126

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Originally posted by rbmorris
That's a big plus.

Another very handy extension (TinyURL Creator): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/126
That one doesn't work anymore... what version firefox do you have?

2.0.0.3

I tried it 3 days ago with same results.

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
That one doesn't work anymore... what version firefox do you have?

2.0.0.3

I tried it 3 days ago with same results.

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I have 2.0.0.3 also. It works fine for me. You may just need to reinstall it.

Here, I'll test it to make sure it works:

http://tinyurl.com/yqrepn

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Originally posted by rbmorris
I have 2.0.0.3 also. It works fine for me. You may just need to reinstall it.

Here, I'll test it to make sure it works:

http://tinyurl.com/yqrepn
It won't let me install at all, says 'file must be corrupt.

I SAID IT WON'T LET ME INSTALL AT ALL, SAYS 'FILE MUST BE CORRUPT!'

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Invalid file hash

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
It won't let me install at all, says 'file must be corrupt.

I SAID IT WON'T LET ME INSTALL AT ALL, SAYS 'FILE MUST BE CORRUPT!'

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Right click - save as (to desktop maybe), then drag the 'xpi' file into the browser.
Stops the 'hash error'

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
It won't let me install at all, says 'file must be corrupt.

I SAID IT WON'T LET ME INSTALL AT ALL, SAYS 'FILE MUST BE CORRUPT!'

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Invalid file hash
Still works for me [in case you haven't noticed]

But there's another one I use sometimes called urlkick - nearly as good.

http://urlkick.com/

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Originally posted by orangutan
Right click - save as (to desktop maybe), then drag the 'xpi' file into the browser.
Stops the 'hash error'
That worked.

http://tinyurl.com/2s9e3s

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
That worked.

http://tinyurl.com/2s9e3s

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LMAO

I borrowed that hat from one of those cool Chinese kids.

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Originally posted by rbmorris
LMAO

I borrowed that hat from one of those cool Chinese kids.
Wang Chung!

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
You need to reprogram yourself a little. I kept looking down at the menu bar at the start, but now, I always look at the tabs when I want to change browser page.

To the OP, the possible personalisations are what make FF great. These are my extensions...
* Adblock Plus 0.7.2.4
* Add Bookmark Here 0.5.5
* Aging Tabs 0.5.1
* All-in-On ...[text shortened]... ages, and restores them as they were, including half typed messages, which is a real bonus.

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it shouldn't be the user who has to be reprogrammed. 🙂

the crash save thingy is very cool though. I've always wondered why people write software without such a feature. or even when they do, it's annoyingly implemented, as a clunky hack of some sort. it's probably not a priority because "our software will not crash[/i]..."

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Originally posted by wormwood
it shouldn't be the user who has to be reprogrammed. 🙂

the crash save thingy is very cool though. I've always wondered why people write software without such a feature. or even when they do, it's annoyingly implemented, as a clunky hack of some sort. it's probably not a priority because "our software will not crash[/i]..."
People need to be re-programed all the time with new features. Otherwise, we'd all be working on green screens typing dos run dos.

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Some of the themes are excellent as well.
Here's the one I use:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons/previews/4521