OK, I have the new version of Firefox and have moved all the buttons
around to make it reasonably usable.

In the old days, I used to be able to open a bunch of tabs and save them
as a little directory in the bookmarks, then go to that, hit "open all
in tabs" and it loaded the tabs as last used.

I can't find how to do that anymore. Is it me or has something changed?
--
Bill

Bill wrote:

OK, I have the new version of Firefox and have moved all the buttons
around to make it reasonably usable.

In the old days, I used to be able to open a bunch of tabs and save them
as a little directory in the bookmarks, then go to that, hit "open all
in tabs" and it loaded the tabs as last used.

Not quite sure what you were using before, but new a feature in 4.0 and
higher is "Tab Groups" look for a dropdown or toolbar button toward the
right hand side at the top, also you may want to set
tools/options/general so that it re-opens last tabs at startup, rather
than opening a specific home page (or pages).

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:11:55 +0100, Bill wrote:

OK, I have the new version of Firefox and have moved all the buttons
around to make it reasonably usable.

In the old days, I used to be able to open a bunch of tabs and save them
as a little directory in the bookmarks, then go to that, hit "open all
in tabs" and it loaded the tabs as last used.

I can't find how to do that anymore. Is it me or has something changed?

Assuming you have some bookmarks in a folder - just middle click on the
folder
--
Jim S
Tyneside UK
www.jimscott.co.uk

In message , Andy
Burns writes
Not quite sure what you were using before, but new a feature in 4.0 and
higher is "Tab Groups" look for a dropdown or toolbar button toward the
right hand side at the top, also you may want to set
tools/options/general so that it re-opens last tabs at startup, rather
than opening a specific home page (or pages).

I'll have to test when I have more time, but I did
a) open tab groups and click on the close x. This seems to clear Firefox
back to no tabs and I had to start again.
b) open tab groups, saw there was an invisible little box in purple on
blue that said something like name the group, called it fred, closed the
tab group screen, looked for fred but he was nowhere to be seen.

Will I have to read the instructions?
--
Bill

Bill wrote:

b) open tab groups, saw there was an invisible little box in purple on
blue that said something like name the group, called it fred, closed the
tab group screen, looked for fred but he was nowhere to be seen.

Will I have to read the instructions?

Once you open tab groups, each tab you previously had open shows as a
small version of itself, you drag tabs on top of each other to create a
new group, once a group is created you can name it and drag tabs between
groups, or nest groups into groups etc, click on a tab to "zoom" back to
that tab, with the other tabs in its group active ...

John Rumm wrote:

Its got tab group management now which is quite sweet.

I do like it and use it, especially useful if you work for at/for
multiple customers, just create a tab each then pick up where you left
off when last dealing with them.

However, tab groups are the new nested bookmark folders, tabs are the
new bookmarks, tags and stars are also the new bookmarks, the original
bookmarks in folders are still there, they could really do with a cull
of features ...

On 14/06/2011 17:11, Bill wrote:

In the old days, I used to be able to open a bunch of tabs and save them
as a little directory in the bookmarks, then go to that, hit "open all
in tabs" and it loaded the tabs as last used.

I can't find how to do that anymore. Is it me or has something changed?

Assuming you mean "Bookmark all tabs" - yes it's still there but, rather
oddly, it doesn't doesn't appear if you open the Bookmarks menu using
the mouse.

Open the same menu with the keyboard (Alt-B) and it appears in the menu
list as it used to. Also Ctrl-Alt-d opens it directly.

HTH
--
Andy

In message , Andy Wade
writes
On 14/06/2011 17:11, Bill wrote:

In the old days, I used to be able to open a bunch of tabs and save them
as a little directory in the bookmarks, then go to that, hit "open all
in tabs" and it loaded the tabs as last used.

I can't find how to do that anymore. Is it me or has something changed?

Assuming you mean "Bookmark all tabs" - yes it's still there but,
rather oddly, it doesn't doesn't appear if you open the Bookmarks menu
using the mouse.

Open the same menu with the keyboard (Alt-B) and it appears in the menu
list as it used to. Also Ctrl-Alt-d opens it directly.

Ah, how weird is that?

I'll have to look at Tab Groups when I have more time. It doesn't yet
seem to do what others say it should.

I may have reached the point where I'm too old for all this. I'm sure
there used to be a "Manage Bookmarks" option as well. I suppose there
has to be an R in the month before that appears?
--
Bill

Bill wrote:

I may have reached the point where I'm too old for all this. I'm sure
there used to be a "Manage Bookmarks" option as well. I suppose there
has to be an R in the month before that appears?

ctrl-shift-O (oh, not zero)

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Bill saying
something like:

I'm sure
there used to be a "Manage Bookmarks" option as well.

It's 'bookmarks/show all bookmarks' then you can edit, save, restore,
etc.

On 6/15/2011 10:38 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
Bill wrote:

I may have reached the point where I'm too old for all this. I'm sure
there used to be a "Manage Bookmarks" option as well. I suppose there
has to be an R in the month before that appears?

ctrl-shift-O (oh, not zero)



How on earth do you remember these control-key commands? You must be
either much younger than me, or much more abstemious.

Gib Bogle wrote:

On 6/15/2011 10:38 AM, Andy Burns wrote:

ctrl-shift-O (oh, not zero)

How on earth do you remember these control-key commands? You must be
either much younger than me, or much more abstemious.

Hic! ... must be the former.

On Jun 14, 11:29*pm, Bill wrote:
In message , Andy Wade
writesOn 14/06/2011 17:11, Bill wrote:

In the old days, I used to be able to open a bunch of tabs and save them
as a little directory in the bookmarks, then go to that, hit "open all
in tabs" and it loaded the tabs as last used.

I can't find how to do that anymore. Is it me or has something changed?

Assuming you mean "Bookmark all tabs" - yes it's still there but,
rather oddly, it doesn't doesn't appear if you open the Bookmarks menu
using the mouse.

Open the same menu with the keyboard (Alt-B) and it appears in the menu
list as it used to. *Also Ctrl-Alt-d opens it directly.

Ah, how weird is that?

That's FirePox for you. The developers *know* what is best for you,
don't question it.

MBQ

On 15/06/2011 00:14, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember saying
something like:

I'm sure
there used to be a "Manage Bookmarks" option as well.

It's 'bookmarks/show all bookmarks' then you can edit, save, restore,
etc.

FF4 has trouble opening pdfs on my machine. Switched to Chrome and all
is ok again.

stuart noble wrote:

FF4 has trouble opening pdfs on my machine. Switched to Chrome and all
is ok again.

I dislike any browser handling PDFs for me, I always remove the plugins
or MIME mappings so that it uses an external viewer (and that's not
usually Acrobat these days for me).

Andy Burns wrote:
stuart noble wrote:

FF4 has trouble opening pdfs on my machine. Switched to Chrome and all
is ok again.

I dislike any browser handling PDFs for me, I always remove the plugins
or MIME mappings so that it uses an external viewer (and that's not
usually Acrobat these days for me).

Yes. I had that issue with firefox when I somehow configured it to use a
plugin to open them 'in window'

Trouble is so many PDFS are actually pretty much weird, and you need to
have a selection of stuff to open them.

But mostly firefox seems to remain pretty constant. I am simply not
having te trouble others seem to despite having the latest beta of
firefox 5.0 running here. It seems pretty stable to nme, and no untoward
effects. just needs a bit of setting up.

Might go for chromium one day.

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

I am simply not
having te trouble others seem to despite having the latest beta of
firefox 5.0 running here. It seems pretty stable to nme, and no untoward
effects.

Same here, in reality it would be better to call in Firefox 4.1 rather
than 5.0

On Jun 15, 10:15*am, stuart noble wrote:
On 15/06/2011 00:14, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember *saying
something like:

I'm sure
there used to be a "Manage Bookmarks" option as well.

It's 'bookmarks/show all bookmarks' then you can edit, save, restore,
etc.

FF4 has trouble opening pdfs on my machine.

Same with FirePox 3.x here. Don't know if it's a FirePox or craprobat
issue.

MBQ

On 15/06/2011 10:13, Man at B&Q wrote:

That's FirePox for you. The developers *know* what is best for you,
don't question it.


Firefox is my browser of choice, but the following about:config setting
is fairly dumb when it's me that has purposely crashed the browser (via
task manager) to get out of something nastily scripted (like a pushed
scam download of 'Antivirus 2011').

browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes 1

I've set it to 0 so I can be asked straight away whether I really want
to resume.

Otherwise I'm in a continuous loop!

More info: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Session_Restore

--
Adrian C

On 15/06/2011 12:17, Man at B&Q wrote:
On Jun 15, 10:15 am, stuart wrote:
On 15/06/2011 00:14, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember saying
something like:

I'm sure
there used to be a "Manage Bookmarks" option as well.

It's 'bookmarks/show all bookmarks' then you can edit, save, restore,
etc.

FF4 has trouble opening pdfs on my machine.

Same with FirePox 3.x here. Don't know if it's a FirePox or craprobat
issue.

MBQ


They open fine in Chrome so, now that I've imported bookmarks and
passwords, I don't think I'll be going back.

On 15/06/2011 17:00, John Rumm wrote:
On 15/06/2011 12:17, Man at B&Q wrote:
On Jun 15, 10:15 am, stuart wrote:
On 15/06/2011 00:14, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember saying
something like:

I'm sure
there used to be a "Manage Bookmarks" option as well.

It's 'bookmarks/show all bookmarks' then you can edit, save, restore,
etc.

FF4 has trouble opening pdfs on my machine.

Same with FirePox 3.x here. Don't know if it's a FirePox or craprobat
issue.

FF4 wraps plugins like acrobat in a separate process[1] now so that if
it crashes, it does not take the browser down with it.

[1] why you see an exe called plugin_container.exe spawned for each such
plugin.


End result is it doesn't work though

stuart noble wrote:

On 15/06/2011 17:00, John Rumm wrote:

FF4 wraps plugins like acrobat in a separate process[1] now so that if
it crashes, it does not take the browser down with it.
[1] why you see an exe called plugin_container.exe spawned for each such
plugin.

End result is it doesn't work though

This shouldn't affect Acrobat. By default only Flash, Quicktime and
Silverlight are exiled to the plugin container

in 1047961 20110615 101524 stuart noble wrote:
On 15/06/2011 00:14, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember saying
something like:

I'm sure
there used to be a "Manage Bookmarks" option as well.

It's 'bookmarks/show all bookmarks' then you can edit, save, restore,
etc.

FF4 has trouble opening pdfs on my machine. Switched to Chrome and all
is ok again.

National Lottery site doesn't work in FF4 but is OK in Chrome

En el artículo , Bill
escribió:

In the old days, I used to be able to open a bunch of tabs and save them
as a little directory in the bookmarks,

You mean 'Bookmarks/Bookmark All Tabs', yes? It's moved; if you right-
click on any tab a menu pops up, and one of the options is Bookmark All
Tabs.

A very handy feature which I use a lot.

--
(\__/)
(='.'=)
(")_(")

En el artículo
roups.com, Man at B&Q escribió:

FF4 has trouble opening pdfs on my machine.

Same with FirePox 3.x here. Don't know if it's a FirePox or craprobat
issue.

Tools/Addons/Plugins, disable the Acrobat plug-in. Next time you click
on a PDF link you'll be offered the option to open it in a separate
Acrobat window. The browser integration is crap (where's the page
count, for a start?)

--
(\__/)
(='.'=)
(")_(")

On 18/06/2011 02:31, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el
roups.com, Man at escribió:

FF4 has trouble opening pdfs on my machine.

Same with FirePox 3.x here. Don't know if it's a FirePox or craprobat
issue.

Tools/Addons/Plugins, disable the Acrobat plug-in. Next time you click
on a PDF link you'll be offered the option to open it in a separate
Acrobat window. The browser integration is crap (where's the page
count, for a start?)


Thanks. Will try that

stuart noble wrote:
On 18/06/2011 02:31, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el
roups.com, Man at escribió:

FF4 has trouble opening pdfs on my machine.

Same with FirePox 3.x here. Don't know if it's a FirePox or craprobat
issue.

Tools/Addons/Plugins, disable the Acrobat plug-in. Next time you click
on a PDF link you'll be offered the option to open it in a separate
Acrobat window. The browser integration is crap (where's the page
count, for a start?)


Thanks. Will try that

Also in general preferences there is a page (applications) that tells
you how to deal with odd extensions. Look for PDF in that and configure
to use whatever external program you prefer. But for sure switch of 'use
internal plugin ' bit.

In Linux that's edit-preferences-applications.

In message , Mike Tomlinson
writes
You mean 'Bookmarks/Bookmark All Tabs', yes? It's moved; if you right-
click on any tab a menu pops up, and one of the options is Bookmark All
Tabs.

A very handy feature which I use a lot.

Yep, that's the one. I had, of course right-clicked almost everywhere
else.

And thanks to others for the other guidance.

Firefox's help files are either very poor or wrong.
--
Bill