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2010-04-01
, 15:47
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@ Milton, WI, US
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#232
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Did I catch that the nightly builds now support the same addons the 1.0 build does?! That was a deal breaker for me, no adblock plus, no firefox. I lasted almost 2 days, but it was hard to compare performance with ads murdering each page load.
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2010-04-01
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#233
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Originally Posted by zimon
Zooming using the volume hardkeys will be landing in the nightlies very soon
Fennec sucks in Scandinavian version of N900.
Zooming IN and OUT is difficult. With keyboard "shortcuts", one has to press three keys at the same time.
I've made a proposition of better "standard" which would make sure it works in all those minimal qwerty-keyboards which do not have anything else extra but CTRL-key (and A-Z).
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478038#c24
Also currently still there is no way to screw and unscrew zooming level as in MicroB.
(Is there any fixes for these zooming issues in the latest builds?)
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2010-04-01
, 18:11
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#234
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Originally Posted by hordeman
Sorry, no plans to add copy/paste yet. We don't have a way to select text on the web page.
Once copy/paste starts showing up, I can try to make a few minutes time to test that.
Using the new context menu, an add-on could add some commands to copy links.
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2010-04-01
, 18:27
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@ CA
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#235
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Originally Posted by mfinkle
Bummer! I wish I could find the source, but someone on the dev team said it was being worked on for the next release. Also, these reasons also lead me to believe that it was on it's way.
Sorry, no plans to add copy/paste yet. We don't have a way to select text on the web page.
Using the new context menu, an add-on could add some commands to copy links.
- there is the "copy/ paste" context menu that shows up
- the "triple click option to highlight text" in about:config
- the accidental highlighting of text that happens from time-to-time (which I have a hard time replicating).
I'm just not clear as to why there has been this sudden movement to move away from copy/ paste in mobile browsers. It is an extremely useful feature especially considering how powerful mobile devices are becoming. I just don't like having to memorize and retype text.
In the meantime, anybody up for writing a highlight/ copy/ paste addon? PLEEEEASE???
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2010-04-01
, 18:51
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#236
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One quick solution would be to just select everything (CTRL A), well at least text, and then copying (CTRL C) to the clipboard.
One can then PASTE (CTRL V) the text in some text editor and get rid of anything else one didn't wanted.
And I still think, (CTRL I) should be zoom-IN and (CTRL O) should be zoom out. With mobile devices zoom has come an important and OFTEN used feature, so it deserves to have mappings in CTRL (A-Z) area of the physical keyboard map, as clipboard select/copy/paste already does.
CTRL I as "Info" is seldom used by most of the users even in desktop Firefox, so "info" wouldn't "deserve" a shortcut in that limited CTRL (A-Z) area IMHO.
Last edited by zimon; 2010-04-01 at 18:57.
One can then PASTE (CTRL V) the text in some text editor and get rid of anything else one didn't wanted.
And I still think, (CTRL I) should be zoom-IN and (CTRL O) should be zoom out. With mobile devices zoom has come an important and OFTEN used feature, so it deserves to have mappings in CTRL (A-Z) area of the physical keyboard map, as clipboard select/copy/paste already does.
CTRL I as "Info" is seldom used by most of the users even in desktop Firefox, so "info" wouldn't "deserve" a shortcut in that limited CTRL (A-Z) area IMHO.
Last edited by zimon; 2010-04-01 at 18:57.
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2010-04-01
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#237
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The biggie for me is being unable to scroll using the arrow keys, something I really miss from MicroB. Any word of it being implemented?
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2010-04-01
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@ Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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#238
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Originally Posted by zimon
You can use CTRL + Up or Down arrow keys to zoom already.
(CTRL I) should be zoom-IN and (CTRL O) should be zoom out.
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2010-04-01
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#239
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Originally Posted by Crashdamage
It requires to press three keys at the same time in Scandinavian version of N900. Not usable at all. And I think we/they should prepare that in the future there may be more minimalistic keyboards which only have CTRL and A-Z keys and not volume keys like N900 happens to have. Zooming IN+OUT is an important tool in mobile devices though.
You can use CTRL + Up or Down arrow keys to zoom already.
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2010-04-01
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Originally Posted by kylepsp
Flame me if you want
The biggie for me is being unable to scroll using the arrow keys, something I really miss from MicroB. Any word of it being implemented?
...but I think for that scrolling, HUJK or CTRL HUJK should be standardized. For the same reasons as (CTRL I) for zoom-in and (CTRL O) for zoom-out; important and very often tools used in mobile browsing, deserves a shortcuts in (A-Z) area.
I think I will make a HUJKIO-extension to Firefox/Fennec soon, if they are not added to vanilla browsers.
I have noticed that it takes a while for Firefox to start, but it loads the first page immediately after entering the URL. Microb on the other hand, starts up immediately but loading the first page takes a while.
So, in terms of time, from zero to first page load, Microb is not faster.
It's just an illusion....oohh..aaahh...it's just an illusion.
Well done. It's an impressive piece of work.