HunterZ, so as not to continue the hijack in the other thread, I will respond here. You said that you could live with Firefox's download manage if you could get it to not use a default download directory. If you go into the config file, look for "browser.download.useDownloadDir" and set it to false. It will now ask you every time where you want to save it, with the browse dialog open to the last folder you saved a DL in.

Also, if you have a broadband connection, there is a tweak that you can do in the config that will significantly speed up Firefox.

Thanks. Actually I found that download manager setting in the options menu (using v1.0.4).

Do you know off-hand what that speed tweak is, or where I can go to find it? Thanks.

As an update to my previous post: I looked at some Thunderbird themes and didn't see anything good. The default isn't that bad though, so I'll live with it until/unless I see something better.

Edit: I tweaked several about:config settings based on this guide: http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_1.html

I left a lot of settings alone that the author recommended adjusting though.

There's a plugin called Tweak Network Settings that does a lot of the back end changes automatically.

The plugin you downloaded to put everything in one window is actually functionality already built into Firefox. Change browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs to True and look in your Advanced preferences. 😀

Found that one too, but thanks Targaff.

One small difference between Mozilla and Firefox that I don't like is that when I open a new tab in Firefox it doesn't put the cursor in the address bar so I can type one in. I didn't even know how used I was to doing that in Mozilla until I started using Firefox in earnest.

HunterZ wrote:

<snip> when I open a new tab in Firefox it doesn't put the cursor in the address bar so I can type one in.

That is correct if you use CTRL-T to open the new tab. But if you double-click on free space on the tab row (next to an existing tab), a new tabbed page is created, and the cursor goes to the URL field.

Nope, not for me. I'm using Firefox 1.0.4. Besides, if I have to move my mouse to the top of the screen to open a new tab, then I may as well move it up to the address bar too 😜 Hell no.

Here's another good extension I forgot to reinstall: http://www.coralcdn.org/plugins/

I don't know, my cursor automatically goes to the address bar when I hit Ctrl+T...

Yeah, turns out it was because I reinstalled an extension called Single Window. It was great for Mozilla but redundant for Firefox.

In my case I am still using Mozilla 1.7.8 because I haven't got a "composer" replacement. I also use Mozilla mail but I could live using FireFox + Thunderbird. Do you know any html editor (gui) similar to Mozilla's composer that will run standalone? 😎

Nope, but I'm not much into HTML editing these days. I did use Mozilla's HTML editor/composer component and found that it was good for viewing HTML from an editing point of view, but that it added a lot of bloat to my pages and that I had to fight with it to get it to do things the way I wanted (which was usually a less complicated way than it was trying to do things). I ended up using Mozilla to see how the page was laid out but used Notepad to edit it.

I think that Dreamweaver generates the cleanest code of all the WYSIWYG editors and is easy to use. You could pick up an older version for not a whole lot, though I would not go earlier than 4.

I would suggest spending 20 minutes learning XHTML and editing it by hand -- it's not hard. (http://w3schools.com) The cleanest, tightest, and standards-compliant code will only come from a human. 😀 I don't think I've ever seen a WYSIWYG editor output fully-W3C-compliant code. That said, there is a stand-alone Mozilla Composer called Nvu.