Slack!

[dustyakubra]

Yes, that's me, I've been slack lately. Very slack. No updates since goodness knows when, and Kate's been scolding me. What've I been doing with my time? I went on NONT (that was awesome) and I've been working on a number of websites (Flash Rovers, Rowallan Venturers mark 2, and even a new design for Kate's venturer unit) Please note that all

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[k8eus]

About the system restore thing - I have that already, it's an extension you can get. I'm not sure if it restores information into forms because I've never bothered to try, but it has been useful overall. It's good they're incorporating it into the browser.

Thanks for finally updating :)

[dustyakubra]

I know it's an extension :P All the improved tab functionality is already available as various extensions, the feed viewing is available as an extension, spell checking is available as an extension, many of the improvements to search plugins are available as extensions, etc. etc.

[molokov_au]

Nice to hear Firefox is finally catching up... :)

People (such as yourselves) are such advocates for Firefox, and rightly so. I do believe it's a good browser, but it's still got a way to go. All of the available browsers do.

But some of the features you mention for this new Firefox Alpha have been in Avant Browser for ages

[dustyakubra]

Firefox seems to have all those options either by default or as extensions :)

To make middle click on link tabs open in the background - Tools -> Options -> Tabs. Uncheck "Select new tabs opened from links."

To make bookmarks open in the background, type about:config in the location bar and set browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground to true (double click on it to toggle it.)

Opening new tabs when you type something in the location/address bar seems a little odd to me, but there's probably an extension for it.

[dustyakubra]

Oh and I forgot to add that being an IE shell is unforgivable :P

[sprawk_bagrawk]

umm i may be missing the point but i think you can open a new tab from the address bar by going alt-enter