Is it possible to make a tag to a window? Would be so usefull sometimes to compaire sites.

gogul: never happened with the old firefox

gogul: I didn't test the Tab To Window add-on, but it appears to do what you want.

hexkid: Thank you. Next to 'move to new window' and 'copy to new window' you also can 'join to window x, y or z'. Great!

Have no issues other than the size of my address bar...
Why is it so damn big?

http://www.alaskaneric.us/fire-fox.jpg

Baked Alaskan: I believe it's because of the size of the icons on that "line". I can't reproduce it here (screenshot 1), but with a few tweaks to my userChrome.css file (screenshot 2, notice the path to the file) I got something similar (screenshot 3) :)
... maybe you can change your userChrome.css file to change the size to something you like.

hexkid:

Hmmm
Well, icons are as small as possible and I dont know anything about Chrome.css 

Baked Alaskan: Is that the "Walnut Theme"? From the Stephanie's comments in the User comments there, I believe version 1.7.0 does not exhibit that behaviour.

Maybe you should update it? Try Tools/Add-ons, select Themes and click "Find Updates"

hexkid:

Yep, that was it. I didnt update the theme (walnut)
Thanx for the help..  :)

is there anything i can do to stop the pages of Bk jumping around everytime i click to move

imsoaddicted: I asked hexkid about that. You mean when it loads a game page, it loads the left column, then the game board (which is active, so you can click on it) then loads the move list last, BUT when it does that it moves the game board to the left. Hence if you have already clicked on it, you make a different move. It is the most frustrating thing on Brainking, and is real bad when the site is busy.
He suggested something in his 'user scripting' Fellowship, but cant think what it was now, go look lol

p.s. it does the same on every page if you notice, here its left column, then these message boards, last the right hand column which the compresses the whole page.

MadMonkey: its been more noticeable in the last couple of weeks and if your trying to make fast moves plays havoc with your eyes
and its the same on each of the 4 browsers i use

does anyone know of any nice rpg with online servers without a monthly fee ?

something like diablo (although preferably a bit more rpg) on the battlenet servers

Anyone using Firefox 1.5 get a recent java upgrade that prevents the rich text editor here from working? Fencer suggested I upgrade to Firefox 2.0. Dont know much about it and compatibilities. Anyone has any insite?

And feel free to post your comments/experiences/suggestions to the current blog entry: http://brainking.info/archives/104-JavaScript-can-be-tricky.html

Rose: The only issues in upgrading might be several extensions not compatible yet. But the widely used ones already run with 2.0 - all that I use do ;)

Mr. Shumway: Well, I switched to 2.0 and now have my rich text editor back. So far 2.0 looks pretty much the same, smaller icons at the top. That's all I notice

Rose: Firefox 2.0 comes with the following changes (from http://www.pcwelt.de/news/englishnews/Internet/50928):

• Built in Phishing Protection


• Search suggestions now appear with search history in the search box for Google, Yahoo! and Answers.com


• Changes to tabbed browsing behavior


• Ability to re-open accidentally closed tabs


• Better support for previewing and subscribing to web feeds


• Inline spell checking in text boxes


• Search plugin manager for removing and re-ordering search engines


• New microsummaries feature for bookmarks


• Automatic restoration of your browsing session if there is a crash


• New combined and improved Add-Ons manager for extensions and themes


• New Windows installer based on NullSoft Scriptable Install System


• Support for JavaScript 1.7


• Support for client-side session and persistent storage


• Extended search plugin format


• Updates to the extension system to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions


• Support for SVG text using svg:textPath

Mr. Shumway: WOW, I already have FireFox 2.0 - I did not know about the ability to re-open accidentally closed tabs. I do that occasionally.

Now looking, if you right click on a tab, you have the option to undo close tab - and it brings back the closed tab. Very cool!

Mr. Shumway: Just played around a tad with the new Firefox. I like!! That new undo close tab feature is awesome. So far so good!

Who says i spend too much time here ? lol
I just spent 4 hours going through and try alot of add-ons for Firefox, all 2,468 of them
There are some really neat ones to add along with the one that Mr, Shumway gave us earlier for resizing these message area boxes.

MadMonkey: The coolest new feature on firefox is when u accidentally crash or have to reboot and u go to open firefox it says do you want to restore all windows you had open? I had 5 windows open before i had to do an emerg reboot and it opened them all back up.. way kool!
I love firefox!!

Rose: I know, i have had the same when i crashed.
There are loads of Tab add-ons, double click to reload, all Tabs different colors, and the one i like is a permanent Tab add-on, which obviously does what it says, you can set as many Tabs as you like to be permanent. So i have 3 Brainking ones there all the time now.
Another great one is a Searchbar Autosizer box for Google, its only about 1cm wide now and grows the more you type in there & shrinks the URL box at the same time lol, way cool

I wish I had as much luck as you all seem to have had.... twice now I've lost my bookmarks - if I want to un-install this version and then load the 2.0, what will happen to my bookmarks then? Should I first save them somewhere? Sorry, I'm not a computer wiz.... :)

Binabik: You can export (save) your bookmarks in Firefox (and any browser)

I'm not sure exactly in the old version of firefox since I have 2.0 sitting here right now, but in 2.0, you go to Bookmarks, and choose orginize bookmarks - where then you can find a file, export to export your bookmarks. (Will export to a simple html file.) And then if you lose it again, you can import back in the bookmarks.

I've never lost my bookmarks - I just simple install the 2.0 version and it copied everything over to the new version.

Thank you BBW! Now, do I install the 2.0 version and it will automatically replace the older one? Or do I install the 2.0 and then delete the first one?

Binabik:It replaces the old one.  You won't lose anything.

BIG BAD WOLF: Thank you King Reza and BBW!

does anyone know any good anti-virus technology to download. i have AVG right now and when i tried to update it it just wouldn't do it. I did everything correctly and it still says that the anti-virus protection is out of date. this is causing my computer to become really really slow.

Sigh, this is the 4th time I've lost my bookmarks - this has never happened to me with IE and it's not making me a fan of Firefox. Does anyone know what might be causing this?

Binabik: Are you on Windows?
If you open the folder C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_WINDOWS_NAME_HERE\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ (or some such) how many folders do you get? Should be 1! If there's more than 1 folder you may be able to fetch your bookmarks from a "old" folder to the most recent one.

Close Firefox before moving files within these folders.

hexkid: Thanks Hexkid, I will check that - but how can I prevent this from happening? I did, fortunately, copy my bookmarks a couple of days ago so I didn't lose as much, but it's still annoying...

Binabik: That ...\Firefox\Profiles was just a guess. Have a peek at Firefox Help: How To Manage Profiles :)

I don't know if your Firefox is automagically generating profiles for each new installation, and if it is I don't know why or how to stop it from doing that, sorry :(
Anyway, I thought it wouldn't hurt to see there.

hexkid: Thank you again Hexkid, I'll check it all out.

Binabik: Have a look at Mozillazine Knowledge Base: Lost bookmarks , it may give you some help also on how to find them. According to this if it is caused by the installer not properly detecting all Firefox processes, they are not lost.

Hope it helps

MadMonkey: Thank you MadMonkey, I'll do that too - I've been there and they're helpful, but it's a looooong process for a nincompoop like me...

tell me what to do about the anti-virus software. the AVG that i have isn't fuctioning properly even after i updated it properly

jessica: I use AVG, what exactly is the problem

jessica: I used AVG until i rebuilt my system and had no problems either. Have you tried uninstalling it & reinstalling ?
If not there are quite a few good ones about, try Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic

xmas is soon: the problem is that when i updated it it still said that the antivirus protection was outdated and needed to be reconfigured. i might use MadMonkey's idea and uninstall it then reinstall it and if that doesn't work i will uninstall it and just go with another anti- virus software.

jessica: ah right, that happened to me recently , i rebooted and it was all ok.

MadMonkey: MadMonkey, or anyone, do you think Avira is better than Norton/Symantec?

i am using AVG
last week when i started up my computer AVG told me there would be no updates anymore in 2007 ?

Hrqls: I didnt get that it told me my AVG was running out in January 2007 and i had to buy it again

xmas is soon: ah ok .. thats the message i got as well i think ..

i only got the message once though .. my gf was at the computer at that time so i didnt pay much attention and expected to receive it again next time i would start my computer ..

Hrqls: Yes i only got it once too, obviously it was jsut a reminder, i wont buy though i will just use their free edition, it still does the job .

xmas is soon: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

GRISOFT is announcing a new version of the AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition. This new 7.5 version with improved performance and full compatibility with the latest Windows Vista version is available. Users that are using AVG Free 7.1 will be provided with a specific dialog, within the next few weeks, with the opportunity to choose the right option fulfilling their needs. AVG Free 7.1 version will be discontinued on 15th of Jan 2007.

Hrqls: Oh wow thanks for that

xmas is soon: i am wondering though if 7.5 will be free as well .. and what will happen with the updates to free 7.1 .. and what will happen to the updates to the virus database for the free 7.1 :)

Hrqls: i had to uninstall the other AVG software that i had and then go to the AVG site and then download the 7.5 version. and it is free to all if you are using your pc at home.