FF3.6
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From: Pandora
If you just download the updated version without uninstalling the existing install then you shouldn't have any problem. It's pretty efficient normally in copying everything over to the new version. Just click 'Help' then 'Check for updates' It should all be automatic from there..
Make sure you make a restore point before starting then, If it all goes belly up again, just do a system restore. Everything should be back to normal then.
Hope you have a trouble free install this time....
Make sure you make a restore point before starting then, If it all goes belly up again, just do a system restore. Everything should be back to normal then.
Hope you have a trouble free install this time....
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From: Witnesham, Suffolk
One annoyance I have with FF3.6.
In every previous version, if I "middle-clicked" to open a link in a new tab, it would put the new tab at the right hand end of the row where I could find it immediately.
Now, it puts the new tab next to the tab I clicked from, so I have to search along the row to find it. If I have several tabs from the same site, I have to look at them all to find the new one.
'Tis a pain. Anyone know a fix?
In every previous version, if I "middle-clicked" to open a link in a new tab, it would put the new tab at the right hand end of the row where I could find it immediately.
Now, it puts the new tab next to the tab I clicked from, so I have to search along the row to find it. If I have several tabs from the same site, I have to look at them all to find the new one.
'Tis a pain. Anyone know a fix?
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From: Tracey Island
It can be cured, have no fear....
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1) Open up firefox and go to "about:config" (just type it in the address bar without quotes)
2) You might get a warning that this will void your warranty. Proceed with care.
3) Filter the results by searching for 'insertRelatedAfterCurrent'
4) Now simply click the preference until the value changes from true to false.
Then in Tools, Options, Tabs, tick box for 'when I open a link in a new tab, open it immediately'
This makes it go back to the way you are used to.
It worked on mine....No problems
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1) Open up firefox and go to "about:config" (just type it in the address bar without quotes)
2) You might get a warning that this will void your warranty. Proceed with care.
3) Filter the results by searching for 'insertRelatedAfterCurrent'
4) Now simply click the preference until the value changes from true to false.
Then in Tools, Options, Tabs, tick box for 'when I open a link in a new tab, open it immediately'
This makes it go back to the way you are used to.
It worked on mine....No problems
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From: Mallorca
Well, I updated a spare, slightly older, computer from FF2 to FF3.6 and it seems to have worked perfectly. I then set a system restore point and did the same on this machine and I lost all of my bookmarks exactly as I did the last time I tried it. I went into the FF3.6 help section and followed the instructions for restoring bookmarks lost while updating from FF2 to FF3.6 and...... it didn't work. I went back to my newly established system restore point and that didn't work. I went back to the last system restore point which had been created automatically in the normal course of events (which was for yesterday) and that didn't work either. So I've gone back to OldVersions.com and reinstalled FF2 and all has been restored as before.
Can PPRuNe "HELP, PLEASE" work better than FF help etc. has done?
Can PPRuNe "HELP, PLEASE" work better than FF help etc. has done?
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From: Witnesham, Suffolk
It can be cured, have no fear....
.
1) Open up firefox and go to "about:config" (just type it in the address bar without quotes)
2) You might get a warning that this will void your warranty. Proceed with care.
3) Filter the results by searching for 'insertRelatedAfterCurrent'
4) Now simply click the preference until the value changes from true to false.
.
1) Open up firefox and go to "about:config" (just type it in the address bar without quotes)
2) You might get a warning that this will void your warranty. Proceed with care.
3) Filter the results by searching for 'insertRelatedAfterCurrent'
4) Now simply click the preference until the value changes from true to false.
There's only one with insert:
intl.menuitems.insertseparatorbeforeaccesskeys;true
The nearest I could find are:
browser.link.open_newwindow;3
browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction;2
middlemouse.openNewWindow;true
- which may be the one I need, but I have no idea what the numbers do.
Off now to have a play...
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From: Tracey Island
...Just rechecked mine and it's there....Did you enter it into the filter at the top of the page?If that didn't work...Scroll down to 'Browser,tabs,insertRelatedAfterCurrent'
It's there with all the other tab settings.....
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Per Ardua ad Astraeus
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From: UK
My apologies, Cam - I missed your post #60 on the fold of the page. Google will help you 'find' the bookmarks (and 'export' them), and I would guess export from 2 and import into 3.6?
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From: Tracey Island
What you have changed has nothing to do with tabs.....it is supposed to Prevent pop ups to hide the menu bar.
Keep Firefox?s location bar on sight | Blue Onion Software *
Can someone else possibly check on their computers to make sure I'm not going mad??
Last edited by call100; 24th February 2010 at 22:57.
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Running Windows 7.
EDIT: that triggered a thought! The version running at the time was 3.5.7 which doesn't have the problem. :doh:
3.6 has the relevant key, and changing it has indeed fixed the problem.
Thank you!
EDIT: that triggered a thought! The version running at the time was 3.5.7 which doesn't have the problem. :doh:
3.6 has the relevant key, and changing it has indeed fixed the problem.
Thank you!
Last edited by Keef; 24th February 2010 at 23:31.
