This was written with people used to windows in mind, but even if you’ve never used windows you might find some of the things mentioned on this page to be useful.
Autoscroll
Under windows Firefox when you press the middlemouse button (the scrollwheel) an icon pops up under your cursor and if you move the mouse up on the screen it scrolls up, and moving it down scrolls down. Untill the middlemouse button is pressed again.
To get the same behaviour under linux you’ll need to start op Firefox and enter about:config in the address field and hit enter.
It will warn you about how this might mess up your Firefox, just click the “I’ll be careful, I promise” button.
In the new screen that just showed up at the top in the filter field type in autoscroll.
Double click it and you’re done (a boolean set to false is set to true), Firefox will now behave the same way as it does under windows as far as auto scrolling goes.
Backspace as back button
Firefox under windows takes you one page back when you press the backspace button, this is done to match the file/internet explorer behaviour of windows.
Now you could do two things.
Learn the file explorer (konqueror, dolphin, nautilus) back button key under linux, as this one works in firefox as well… and you have unity between programs. alt+left arrow 1. Adjust Firefox behaviour to match windows bavhiour. [list=1]*]In the adres field type about:config again
promise to be careful *]In the filterfield type: browser.backspace_action
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Double click the result
Replace the result that just popped up with the number 0 and hit enter.
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Fixing the looks
As Firefox by default looks like a GTK application under linux it means thatunder KDE4 is plain ugly (in my opinion).
Under Gnome it’s not as, but if you play around with the gnome GUI a bit and customise it Firefox will stick out like a sore thumb there as well.
The only way to make it pretty is by setting a theme.
Naver - My personal favorite, it’s green… so it fits openSUSE quite well. ]Oxygen - Fits in with the KDE4 desktop enviroment… but only the default one, it wont adept itself if you changed your kde4 settings.]Strata Aero - Vista like
Sorry couldn’t find any win2k ones, and you need a mozilla account for a XP look, just search for XP on addons.mozilla.org if you’re interested
Saw that one, but as it was a mix of Vista and XP I decided not to post it
To everyone… my apologies for the horrible English in the OP, missing words and all.
Wrote it while being rather sleepy and only got 10 minutes after a post to edit it on these boards.
> To everyone… my apologies for the horrible English in the OP, missing
> words and all.
> Wrote it while being rather sleepy and only got 10 minutes after a post
> to edit it on these boards.
forget THAT…your english is GREAT (what is your first language?)…
missing words were not missed (i personally didn’t miss any!)…
remember the only purpose of language is to communicate, and yours
absolutely DID communicate…(if anyone thinks language is so English
teachers have jobs grading/marking our writing, well…you are wrong!)
and, thanks for the tips…having not used Windows since 1995 i had
no idea about that scroll feature, and alt+left arrow was also new
to me…
I’m Dutch, so Dutch is my first language.
*“As Firefox by default looks like a GTK application under linux it means thatunder KDE4 is plain ugly (in my opinion).
Under Gnome it’s not as, but if you play around with the gnome GUI a bit and customise it Firefox will stick out like a sore thumb there as well.” *
That bit in particular was quite bad
Can I add one more thing to it:
in the about:config window filterfield type browser.urlbar.clickselectall. Double click this (change the boolean from false to true).
Restart firefox and now when you click the address bar it will highlight the whole URL. Just like in Windows.
Most useful one for KDE4.2 users… fixing ctrl+f4 to close a tab.
Think the openSUSE folks normally fix this for you? So my ‘unstable’ kde4.2 needs to have this manually configured
Anyone know how to get more Windows/Fedora-ish behaviour with the address bar?
I’ve just moved to openSUSE after quite a while using Fedora and I’m used to being able to use Ctrl+arrow to move through the parts of the address (basically stopping at word boundaries - \b in a regex). Windows does the same thing (I just checked on my wife’s PC) but on Suse there’s no intermediary points - Ctrl+arrow jumps you to that end without stopping on word boundaries.
Hi
In the address bar enter: about:config then filter on
layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation change this from false to true
(double click on it), then restart firefox.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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I thought it might be something hiding in there somewhere, I just hadn’t been able to find it with the few words I thought of looking for (things like “address” and “location” for the location bar and “break” for word breaks). Thanks
