[vox-tech] a firefox question

[Jonathan Stickel]

These have been some interesting discussions about FireFox.  One thing 
Pete originally complained about that hasn't been discussed is the 
opening of new windows when you would rather they would go to another 
tab.  This often frustrates me as well.  From what I can tell, this 
occurs when some java happy web designer wraps a link with javascript to 
open a new window.  Left-clicking on these links opens the content in a 
new window, as expected.  Middle-clicking on the link opens a blank tab 
with the javascript in the location bar.  Since java code is not a valid 
location, nothing opens.  I hope this gets fixed in future versions.

Jonathan


Rob Rogers wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 06:24:26AM -0800, Lewis Perdue wrote:
> 
>>I don't suppose anyone knows a hack that will allow Firefox to support a 
>>wheel mouse? I've gotten hooked on configuring mine to scroll down a page 
>>at a time. Firefox does not support, so I went back to Mozilla.
> 
> 
> One of the annoyances to Firefox is it doesn't present nearly the
> configuration options of Mozilla. The good thing is the options are
> still there, just not available through the preferences interface. There
> is an extension (the name of which I can't remember at the moment) that
> fixes that problem. Luckily you can always manually configure it. Try
> typing 'about:config' in the address bar. This brings up a page with
> every possible configuration option and their current value. You can
> then filter down to the mousewheel options by typing 'mousewheel' in the
> filter bar. There are probably 3 options you're particularly interested
> in here: mousewheel.withaltkey.action, mousewheel.withcontrolkey.action,
> mousewheel.withshiftkey.action. Each one of course modifying what
> happens when you use that particular key while scrolling the mousewheel.
> You can double click on any of them and change the value. Setting to 1
> makes the mousewheel scroll a page at a time. 2 is to go forward and
> back in your history (equiv. to the forward/back buttons). 3 causes the
> wheel to increase or decrease the font size (very handy on some sites
> that set it way too small...I bind that to ctrl).
> 
> HTH
> - rob
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