mozilla question

[levemircento]

I have just started using mozilla, my IE7 seemed very slow at loading images, so I gave mozilla a go, and it seems much quicker.

I want to know, how do I get it to display a "spare" tab like in IE7? one that I can click on and its ready to use, instead of having to right click and get a new tab that way

thanks

 

[ChrisUK]

I have just started using mozilla, my IE7 seemed very slow at loading images, so I gave mozilla a go, and it seems much quicker.

I want to know, how do I get it to display a "spare" tab like in IE7? one that I can click on and its ready to use, instead of having to right click and get a new tab that way

thanks

CTRL + T

 

[Ninja59]

nearly all the shortcuts of IE7 are the same in firefox

 

[Captain Mike]

or if you have a trackwheel and want to open something in a new tab then click with the track wheel

i do this a lot and love this feature

 

[luvduvs]

CTRL + T

Or Ctrl + W to close it

 

[payney1]

Ctrl + scrolly mouse wheel zooms in / out

 

[Captain Mike]

Ctrl + scrolly mouse wheel zooms in / out

that happens on lots of programmes. not just mozilla

 

[RichDoblo120]

Ctrl + scrolly mouse wheel zooms in / out

I tried this and now I can't get it back to original and no matter what I do it looks weird...help

 

[colin79666]

I tried this and now I can't get it back to original and no matter what I do it looks weird...help

CTRL + 0 (zero)

 

[RichDoblo120]

CTRL + 0 (zero)

:worship:

Thankyou...that was driving me barmy

 

[Captain Mike]

:worship:

Thankyou...that was driving me barmy

haha i have people like you at work.

we call them "fiddlers"

"my screen looks out of proportion today i didnt touch anything i swear"

99% of the time they were fiddling with settings

 

[jug]

or if you have a trackwheel and want to open something in a new tab then click with the track wheel

i do this a lot and love this feature

well i'll be buggered with a rusty razor, j1ppers just taught me something useful!

 

[Captain Mike]

well i'll be buggered with a rusty razor, j1ppers just taught me something useful!

i use it soo much its one of my fav features

plus it doesnt jump to that tab in firefox so if u have a list of 20 links u can open them all quicly then go look at them.

 

[jug]

plus it doesnt jump to that tab in firefox so if u have a list of 20 links u can open them all quicly then go look at them.

same in IE

 

[Captain Mike]

same in IE

i know i tested the other day.

seriously IE is soo slow i used it last night and was gonna punch some1 i dont know how you cope.

 

[jug]

seriously IE is soo slow i used it last night and was gonna punch some1 i dont know how you cope.

its instant for me, how could anything be faster than that

 

[Captain Mike]

its instant for me, how could anything be faster than that

i open a page in it and it wil take about 2 seconds to load bits of it.

open the smileys on FF and takes about 5-6 seconds to get the symbols to show

weird

 

[Cee-Jay]

I have just started using mozilla, my IE7 seemed very slow at loading images, so I gave mozilla a go, and it seems much quicker.

I want to know, how do I get it to display a "spare" tab like in IE7? one that I can click on and its ready to use, instead of having to right click and get a new tab that way

thanks

Just double click the bar where all the tabs appear, and it will open a new one

 

[RichDoblo120]

haha i have people like you at work.

we call them "fiddlers"

"my screen looks out of proportion today i didnt touch anything i swear"

99% of the time they were fiddling with settings

I know, I'm so sh*te with PCs
I've got an excuse... I've only done manual work since I left school, never worked in an office and I left school in '81, computers were still kind of exotic then.

Love that clicking the trackwheel thing...brilliant

 

[colin79666]

I have a theory about levels of computer user.
It can be broken down to 3 stages:
1. The fearful - new to computers and fearful to use it/try something new as they are worried abut breaking it (call people at stage 3, even to change ink cartridges etc).
2. Fiddlers - have been using computers a while so try clicking things but don't always understand what they are doing. Often break things but don't know how to fix it (call no 3 but don't admit what they doing. Would be simpler to fix if they just owned up).
3. Expert - fiddle but have acquired the background knowledge so know what that setting will change and how to recover it if things don't go to plan (do "homers" fixing problems for 1 and 2).

Just about everyone will fall into each category at some point!