Fixing the Firefox 4 open tab / open window nonsense

andrewmemoryblog@gmail.com (Andrew's Memory Blog) — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:19:17 -0700

Firefox 4 has got it into its head that tabs are better than windows, despite the fact that tabs use up more UI and look ugly, while windows are nice and clean.

In order to promote their tab agenda, they’ve changed the order of the context menu so your muscle memory for “Open Link in New Window” now brings you “Open Link in New Tab”. Ugh.

Luckily, there is an answer for this.

Create a userChrome.css file in your profile/chrome directory (on Windows, C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\somethingrandom.default\chrome\):

#contentAreaContextMenu > * { -moz-box-ordinal-group: 2; } #context-openlink { -moz-box-ordinal-group: 1 !important; }

This doesn’t change the order under the file menu, but at least when you’re using the context menu it will work right.

Scale your website images

andrewmemoryblog@gmail.com (Andrew's Memory Blog) — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:32:26 -0700

I just noticed that if you scale an image using width= and height= attributes of the img tag, Firefox 3.6 will (sometimes) put a thin border on the top and left of the image - something that you can’t get rid of with CSS/styling.

Weird - but a good rule seems to be scale your images to the correct size before using them in HTML.

This is different from the “border around link images” issue - which is easy enough to get around by using border-style: none in CSS.

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Fixing the Firefox 4 open tab / open window nonsense

Scale your website images