Mail update

[venta]

Following this, I think I'm happy to declare my blacktreacle email to be working again. So if you're mailing me, please use that address (elizabeth at blacktreacle.com).

In other excitements, having just discovered from Sysadmin #2 that work's policy on browsers isn't quite what I thought it was, I've just gone all Firefoxy. Opinions may be forthcoming when I have some.

Comments

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Hmm... Interesting: I'm not sure there's a "policy on Browsers" here. There are people using IE, NS 4.76 and some reasonably current version of Mozilla. And me, with Opera.

Some of the policy (that of the MIS team) is "produce HTML that works on all browsers, and don't introduce unnecessary garbage". The Creative Services team, on the other hand, don't seem to know what they're doing (the CSS files include styles such as small, medium and large, which specify the point sizes of fonts, and the fact that the foreground colour should be black!). They also, conveniently, include "larger" and "smaller" links at the top of the pages. For those people who can't figure out how to reconfigure their browsers.

OUP's policy, on the other hand, seemed to be "IE everywhere, especially in the cases where it doesn't work. Where we'll blame Mozilla for being incompatible."

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

> reasonably current version of Mozilla

Pah! Mozilla 1.0 does me fine.

[Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1]

[venta.livejournal.com]

I think the policy here is basically: we support IE and Outlook. Use what the hell you like as a browser/mail client, but don't come crying to the sysadmins unless any problem you encounter is also reproducible on IE/Outlook.

Writing html is a completely separate matter with its own set of guidelines.

[waistcoatmark.livejournal.com]

Am slowly moving over to Firefox from Opera (which is a lovely browser that I'm very happy with, but not happy enough to put up with ATi's driver download page fatally crashing the browser 2 times out of 3).

My First Firefox Question

[venta.livejournal.com]

Is it possible to set up a bunch of links and have a simple method of saying "open all these in a bunch of tabs" ? Simple = no more than one button away.

I know you can set a bunch of links as a homepage, that's not what I want. I don't want this bunch of links opening every time I start my browser up.

I know you can put a bunch of links in a folder, and use the "open in tabs" button: that isn't simple enough :)

Thanks for any help.

Re: My First Firefox Question

[triskellian]

Weellll... you can put the folder containing your links on the toolbar, then it's only two clicks to open 'em all. Still not simple enough?

Re: My First Firefox Question

[venta.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I can probably manage two clicks :) Just thought it'd be nice if it could be done in one.

Thanks :)

And, oooh, hello, you're back. Nice time ?

Re: My First Firefox Question

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Opera allows bookmarks to be given nicknames. If you enter the nickname in to URL field, the bookmark gets opened.

So I could just type "lj" for example.

As I've just checked, it also allows nicknames on bookmark folders. Which opens all the bookmarks in the folder.

Don't know if Firefox allows the same technique. Or whether (gasp!) using the keyboard is too complicated.

Re: My First Firefox Question

[venta.livejournal.com]

Not sure either, I haven't really had chance to experiment properly with anything beyond the obvious yet.

Re: My First Firefox Question

[philipstorry.livejournal.com]

I just checked, and it doesn't allow that.

Firefox has stolen the nicknames idea - which is nice. But only for individual bookmarks, not for the actual folders.

This is probably why I use Opera at home - because I do more browsing there. At work, it's pretty much just a couple of news sites and LJ - so Firefox suffices.

Firefox is my second choice browser, and IE is my last choice unless I know I have to use it. My choices typically go Opera, Firefox, K-Meleon, lynx, telnet [hostname] 80, Internet Explorer.
;-)

Re: My First Firefox Question

[triskellian]

Lovely time, thanks! Some sort of report and photos probably forthcoming some time soon. Once I've got over the terrible betrayal that is English food and weather ;-)

Re: My First Firefox Question

[timeplease.livejournal.com]

That's interesting - regular Mozilla has a "bookmark this group of tabs" feature which does what you want. It seems to have been removed in Firefox.

The Tabbed Browsing Extensions for Firefox will do something like what you want (and a pile of stuff you don't, too) but don't really qualify as "simple".

Re: My First Firefox Question

[venta.livejournal.com]

The Tabbed Browsing Extensions for Firefox will do something like what you want

Aye. I've only just downloaded it, though, and am at work so haven't had a proper chance to play with Stuff It Does.

Thanks.

Re: My First Firefox Question

[wimble.livejournal.com]

The help says

You can also set a group of tabs as your home page.

So, as long as you only want one "bunch" of tags, you can do it that way.

Re: My First Firefox Question

[venta.livejournal.com]

Er, you see that part where I wrote:

I know you can set a bunch of links as a homepage, that's not what I want.

It's still not what I want :)

Re: My First Firefox Question

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Ah, I didn't reread the requirement when I noticed this possible solution...

And Opera allows a homepage to be set, but not to load it on starting up every time: just when you press the "home" button.