tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38606689.post1847830846887952881..comments2023-03-25T06:12:33.283-07:00Comments on Xoatlicue: A Random Attempt at Specifying Firefox UITau Centralhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04639944664204798442noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38606689.post-61755345190727087882007-04-05T05:29:00.000-07:002007-04-05T05:29:00.000-07:00A picture with descriptions would be a great addit...A picture with descriptions would be a great addition to BMO. Too often people don't fully describe or use incorrect terminology in describing an issue because the lack full understanding of the environment. This makes accurate searches of bugzilla difficult and diagnosis of problems take more time and work.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02463703191986569049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38606689.post-66357428480969711082007-04-05T05:28:00.000-07:002007-04-05T05:28:00.000-07:00Message in the Mac top-level menus? Are you sure y...Message in the Mac top-level menus? Are you sure you're not looking at Thunderbird or something?<BR/><BR/>The top-level menus are basically identical on all platforms: File, Edit, View, History, Bookmarks, Tools, Help. I think the Mac version has a Window menu and of course it also has the Application menu. In 2.0, Go was renamed History but otherwise the menus are consistent with 1.x.<BR/><BR/>"In the Windows picture, there is a square box to the right of the Menu Bar. What is its purpose? What is it called?"<BR/><BR/>It animates when a page is loading. It's called a throbber.<BR/><BR/>"The Mac has an extra symbol on the right of the Search Bar. It spins when one is searching. It stays motionless while one is not searching. Is there equivalent UI on Windows and Linux?"<BR/><BR/>It's the throbber again. Just in a different position. Animates when any page is loading, not just when searching.<BR/><BR/>The Windows History Sidebar key is Ctrl+H. There's also a Bookmarks Sidebar. Used to be a Downloads sidebar once. Pages can be loaded into the Sidebar as well.<BR/><BR/>The Windows Find key is Ctrl+F.<BR/><BR/>In the beginning, Mozilla had a fairly standard Find window. Later, Typeahead Find (quickly renamed Find As You Type) was added, influenced by Mac IE5 and Vi (see http://www.mozilla.org/access/type-ahead/ for details). Firefox merged the Ctrl+F and FAYT behaviour so that they both used the same UI though with some differences relating to automatic hiding and the behaviour of the enter key. In 2.0, they needlessly separated the UI for the two modes, introducing the Quick Find bar.Alex Bishophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08209313842529912269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38606689.post-35241755169600451922007-04-05T01:01:00.000-07:002007-04-05T01:01:00.000-07:00As far as I can tell the OS X menubar you describe...As far as I can tell the OS X menubar you describe is the Thunderbird menubar... I have never seen a "Message" item in the Firefox menubar, I'm pretty sure.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13458201505329872811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38606689.post-12849800003509232872007-04-04T23:17:00.000-07:002007-04-04T23:17:00.000-07:00I can't say for sure, but I wonder if you're using...I can't say for sure, but I wonder if you're using an official Mozilla build of Firefox on Ubuntu. The "Go" menu was supposed to be renamed "History" in 2.0 (if not 1.5), which is very strange given the IceWeasel debacle (I'd really expect it to be Mozilla-like).<BR/><BR/>I've never seen the "Message" menu you speak of on OS X - and I'm running 2.0.0.3.<BR/><BR/>Given all the question marks for Windows, I'd point out that the keystrokes are almost universal, and the Windows ones are prob. the same as the Linux ones for the most part. Find is definitely Ctrl-F. However, I pretty much never use History, so I can't verify that (but you could Google "Firefox keyboard shortcuts").<BR/><BR/>Another little known Firefox Quick Find feature is the ['] (single quote) search for hyperlinks. This is the behavior of FAYT from the Phoenix & Firebird, where typing would take you right to the relevant link. This is great for when you want to log out of something and can just type 'lo[enter]. /lo might turn up plain text that appears before the real link.<BR/><BR/>Also, the difference with the spinner is is that on Linux & Windows, it would live at the end of the menu bar, but none exists in the chrome part in OS X, so it goes besides the Search Box.<BR/><BR/>If you really want fun...try and find "Preferences."<BR/>Mac: Firefox -> Prefs (Cmd-,) [OS X default]<BR/>Linux: Edit -> Prefs (historic & common on platform)<BR/>Win: Tools -> Prefs (common on platform)<BR/><BR/>I use Firefox on Mac & Windows on a daily basis, but sadly I do not run a current version on Linux, so I cannot offer useful pointers. (And I'm not an Fx dev or anything. =P) Alas, this box does not have Gtk2, and there are no current copies of Firefox released that way. :-/ I'm planning on putting Seamonkey on it to be current.John's Tech Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14899900912680989386noreply@blogger.com