Octopus Overlords

ImLawBoy wrote:Are you talking about searches from the search bar in the upper right? If so, in Options-->Tabbed Browsing-->Load the Following in New Links you can select "Searches from the searchbar," and it will give you the option to have the results in a new tab on top, or in the background.

Grifman wrote:Lots of times, I've read something on that page that I want more info on so I google it - but I don't want my original page to go away.

warning wrote:

Grifman wrote:Lots of times, I've read something on that page that I want more info on so I google it - but I don't want my original page to go away.

Highlight the text you want to search for in Google. Then right-click with your mouse and click the option "Search web for..." It should open the google search in a separate tab.

ImLawBoy wrote:How odd. For me, "Tabbed Browsing" is its own option - I don't need to go into "Advanced" to get there.

See, this is why I rarely offer help - I never seem to get things right!

godhugh wrote:Yep, it's the TabBrowser Extensions. One of the few extensions I'd consider mandatory for Firefox.

ImLawBoy wrote:What kind of problems are they talking about? A quick (i.e., not in depth) search of mozilla.org shows that some people had problems installing it, and some problems associated with using it with Firefox version 0.8, but I haven't had any problems at this time (unless I haven't realized that they were problems!).

This extension is strongly unrecommended by Mozilla Foundation. This extension has many many latent bugs (ref: above). If you use this, you must be prepared to own huge risk maybe.

Following is one of comments in Neowin.net:

TBE is one of the most buggest extensions. It has never been and most likely won't ever make it onto update.mozilla.org because of this. The firefox devs, other extension devs and many many people at mozillazine strongly discourage the use of TBE because of its buggyness. A lot, and I mean A LOT of bugs that are filed on bugzilla and new threads started on mozillazine are a result of this extension. Please just use the built in options (bangbang already explained how to turn these on) or if you feel you must use TabbedBrowserPreferences isntead.

And, following comments are posted by Ben Goodger - a core developer of Firefox in Mozilla Foundation - in the MozillaZine forum:

Everything just swell. I brought Firebird back up, installed Tabbrowser Extension ONLY, and exited again. Right away I called the browser back up again--but no go. I got a box with:

"Error launching. No XBL binding to browser."

The Firebird dev team recommends avoiding using TBE. Your best bet if you have to use it is to determine what builds TBE supports and then obtain that version of Firebird.

Hmm... doesn't seem an extension should prevent the browser from executing ..doesn't sound like a very good design in handling the functions of extensions.

In upcoming milestones we're going to be making some changes that will probably prevent TBE from working as a "standard extension."

TBE does some terrible things including replacing core browser files, and the Firebird dev team does not recommend using it unless you are prepared to have your browser break every few days. The only exception is if you tend to use a release build (rather than nightlies) and that release build is explicitly supported by TBE.

Because of one person, all of a sudden TBE is bad?

No, because of several people. The Firebird developers. TBE overwrites system files with its own. That's bad by any standard. But don't let us stop you from using whatever extensions you like. We're just not all that sympathetic when people's browsers break after installing things that do this. It's basically like installing a program that overwrites various DLLs in Windows\System with its own and promptly breaks other apps. If you use TBE you do so at your own risk - only use it with builds that TBE claims to support. Otherwise, you're asking for pain. Future milestones of Firebird will make it such that "simple" extensions are not permitted to make any changes to the install directory of Firebird and will make extensions like TBE stand out as being more "dangerous". The installer already blows away the entire bin directory when it "upgrades" an existing installation so TBE incompatibilities should be limited when using installer builds.

However - we will likely be looking at TBE's features and assessing what pieces should be built into the default configuration. If people have pet favorite features in TBE, perhaps a new thread should be started here to list them all so we can get an idea of what the key reasons are people use the extension.

I also agree comments above.

ImLawBoy wrote:Well, reading that made me double check what I have installed, and I actually Tabbrowser Preferences, not Tabbrowser Extensions. Try that - it should have what you're looking for.

ImLawBoy wrote:I just like to mess with you.

ImLawBoy wrote:Well, reading that made me double check what I have installed, and I actually Tabbrowser Preferences, not Tabbrowser Extensions. Try that - it should have what you're looking for.

ImLawBoy wrote: See, this is why I rarely offer help - I never seem to get things right!