Search bar

Posted Jun 8, 2006 2:11 UTC (Thu) by Mithrandir (subscriber, #3031) [Link]

Most of the destabilisation I've noticed seems to be related to upgrades not playing so nicely with your old profile. If you're seeing a lot of crashes often you can improve things by moving away your old profile directory (in .mozilla/firefox on my box), then opening firefox to create a new profile, then copying back the important stuff from your old profile.

Firefox still won't be completely stable, but it helps.

Posted Jun 8, 2006 12:20 UTC (Thu) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link]

Agreed regarding the search bar. Also, because the pop-up was specified in a particular fashion (some kind-of window ownership relation I forget the details of) with something like the ion window manager it was impossible to move the pop-up window out of the way of whatever it was obscuring.

Posted Jun 8, 2006 14:15 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

Hey, I like the search bar at the bottom!

I had 0.9.3 configured to use vi keystrokes, so I could search with "/" and "n" without the dialog window getting in the way.

I have configured the search bar to use "/", but "n" doesn't work (and I find "F3" to be very Windows-like), and it seems to have focus problems which I have not been able to pin down. Sometimes I press "/" and start typing, the search bar doesn't pop, and the text goes to /dev/null, or some other useless place. I have to grab the mouse and click on the client area, and start over. I'm wondering if this is somehow related to using "focus follows pointer" on my window manager...