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Re: Firefox question in both Windoze and Linux...

Bazza — Wed Nov 03, 2010 3:47 pm

Author: Bazza

Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 3:47 pm

Thanks MBF, you replied for me...

Re: Firefox question in both Windoze and Linux...

ollie — Wed Nov 03, 2010 1:07 pm

Author: ollie

Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 1:07 pm

D'uh, now I know what he was asking. The links are displaying the page titles and I can't find any urlbar options (using about:config) to configure this. Sorry.

Re: Firefox question in both Windoze and Linux...

MartyBartfast — Wed Nov 03, 2010 11:30 am

Author: MartyBartfast

Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 11:30 am

ollie wrote:

In the Bookmarks menu choose "Organise Bookmarks"....

It wasn't bookmarks he was having problems with.

Re: Firefox question in both Windoze and Linux...

ollie — Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:45 am

Author: ollie

Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:45 am

In the Bookmarks menu choose "Organise Bookmarks" - the resulting box shows the tree structure on the left of all your bookmarks. When you select a bookmark folder on the left, each bookmark is displayed on the top right panel. Select a bookmark there and then edit in the dialogue boxes below - names and addresses can be edited.

Re: Firefox question in both Windoze and Linux...

ajgreeny — Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:25 pm

Author: ajgreeny

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:25 pm

MartyBartfast wrote:

ajgreeny wrote:

I am certain there is an add-on that can do that for firefox, which I have used in the past, but I can't find it now; perhaps it is not compatible with FF 3.6.*

Try this

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227/
[url][/url]

Thanks for that MartyBartfast. I looked for it but could not find it, and could not remember what it was called.

Re: Firefox question in both Windoze and Linux...

Rhakios — Tue Nov 02, 2010 7:24 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 7:24 pm

I'd already had a search in about:config using "address" and "location" as search terms without turning up anything useful, which is why I hadn't bothered to mention it.

Thinking about it again, I have used "url" as a search term. This turns up some things that look as though they might do something, but if the default string associated with a value is "+", for example, what are the alternatives and what do they do? Ho hum. I think the add-on looks a much simpler way of doing things, I wonder exactly what they change to achieve the effect?

Re: Firefox question in both Windoze and Linux...

Bazza — Tue Nov 02, 2010 6:15 pm

Author: Bazza

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 6:15 pm

Hi towy71

> "Here be dragons" and I'm too timid to mess with that

Ooooh, that looks fun...

Already had a quick gleg and ooooh many ways to crash
my browser...

Will take a proper look later...

Thanks for that snippet...

Re: Firefox question in both Windoze and Linux...

towy71 — Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:47 am

Author: towy71

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:47 am

I'm sure that you can do it by typing

Code:

about:config

in the address bar and scrolling through but it warns "Here be dragons" and I'm too timid to mess with that

Re: Firefox question in both Windoze and Linux...

MartyBartfast — Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:55 pm

Author: MartyBartfast

Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:55 pm

Bazza wrote:

Hi MBF...

Not perfect, but miles better than the original layout.

Thanks a lot...

I think there are others which do similar things, so might be worth browsing some of them.

Re: Firefox question in both Windoze and Linux...

Bazza — Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:36 pm

Author: Bazza

Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:36 pm

Hi MBF...

Not perfect, but miles better than the original layout.

Thanks a lot...

Re: Firefox question in both Windoze and Linux...

MartyBartfast — Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:04 pm

Author: MartyBartfast

Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:04 pm

ajgreeny wrote:

I am certain there is an add-on that can do that for firefox, which I have used in the past, but I can't find it now; perhaps it is not compatible with FF 3.6.*

Try this

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227/
[url][/url]

Re: Firefox question in both Windoze and Linux...

ajgreeny — Mon Nov 01, 2010 8:30 pm

Author: ajgreeny

Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 8:30 pm

I am certain there is an add-on that can do that for firefox, which I have used in the past, but I can't find it now; perhaps it is not compatible with FF 3.6.*

Re: Firefox question in both Windoze and Linux...

Bazza — Mon Nov 01, 2010 6:26 pm

Author: Bazza

Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 6:26 pm

Hi towy71...

Thanks but......

Er, right, however I want it to be global, even on NON
bookmarked addresses.

Over to you... ;o]

Re: Firefox question in both Windoze and Linux...

towy71 — Mon Nov 01, 2010 5:21 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 5:21 pm

How very silly that you don't think to use the "edit" option in organising bookmarks just click the link and the "name" option holds that guff,edit it and Bob's your aunty's husband

Re: Firefox question in both Windoze and Linux...

johnhudson — Mon Nov 01, 2010 7:33 am

Author: johnhudson

Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 7:33 am

I suspect the answer is change to Chrome - or possibly Chromium which doesn't show any of this.

Konqueror does but as a second column, not below the url; so your eye is not caught by them