Dunderklumpen wrote:My guess is that TBE is not listed because the developers do not recommend it in fact the recommend not using it.
Please can you point me to an article which states this?
TheOneKEA wrote:Because it's not well-liked by many, who see it as fat, bloated and destabilizing to Firefox.
If you want the basics, use Tabbrowser Preferences instead - http://www.pryan.org/mozilla/site/TheOneKEA/tabprefs/
xjr1300 wrote:Dunderklumpen wrote:My guess is that TBE is not listed because the developers do not recommend it in fact the recommend not using it.
Please can you point me to an article which states this?
Dunderklumpen wrote:xjr1300 wrote:Dunderklumpen wrote:My guess is that TBE is not listed because the developers do not recommend it in fact the recommend not using it.
Please can you point me to an article which states this?
No article, as far as I know but Ben Goodger - developer of Firefox has said so - here in this forum.
Make a search for his postings if you do not take my word for it.
xjr1300 wrote:TheOneKEA wrote:Because it's not well-liked by many, who see it as fat, bloated and destabilizing to Firefox.
If you want the basics, use Tabbrowser Preferences instead - http://www.pryan.org/mozilla/site/TheOneKEA/tabprefs/
I'm always open to suggestions which make my browsing experience more userfriendly. I am a researcher and spend a lot of time on the internet, sometimes wanting to carry on the next day from where I left off. I have, as you suggested installed YOUR tab browser extension and yes it seems to work fine but the one piece of functionality in TBE that i liked was the ability for it to save all of the currently open tabs, so you can go back to the collection of web pages you had open.
xjr1300 wrote:This, all in ONE extension.
I don't know about it slowing FF down, or making it clunky or it being fat and bloated, it seems fine to me.
xjr1300 wrote:I would suggest that 99% of people who use FF and ARE NOT developers, like me, only use 10% of the functionality built in to the extensions they install. If it does something they like, they will keep it, otherwise it goes.
However, since this topic is about opinion. . .
AREN'T WE MISSING THE POINT?
Surely FF is all about providing a stable core set of functionality which is a REAL alternative to IE and then adding the functionality WE want to FF as we want it? or have I missed the point entirely?
xjr1300 wrote:I like FF, it is very easy to use and I seriously hope it succeeds, but it will only do so by either offering functionality that USERS want (NOT necessarilly ones that developers think are 'cool') and/or offer functionality not currently available in IE (such as. . wait for it. . . .TAB BROWSING. . you guessed!) and capitalise on that functionality.
johnleemk wrote:TheOneKEA, I installed 0.6.5 on 20040708, but it refuses to show up on the list and is not working at all, which leads me to believe it hasn't been installed. I tried again, and the same thing happened. I had to revert to Chris Cook's 0.5. :(
Dunderklumpen wrote:
My guess is that TBE is not listed because the developers do not recommend it in fact the recommend not using it.
TheOneKEA wrote:xjr1300 wrote:I like FF, it is very easy to use and I seriously hope it succeeds, but it will only do so by either offering functionality that USERS want (NOT necessarilly ones that developers think are 'cool') and/or offer functionality not currently available in IE (such as. . wait for it. . . .TAB BROWSING. . you guessed!) and capitalise on that functionality.
That's what extensions are for - to provide functionality above and beyond what the core offers, so that people can tailor their browser to suit their needs. Why is the lack of functionality in Firefox, and the ability to restore it with extensions, a Bad Thing?
TheOneKEA wrote:johnleemk wrote:TheOneKEA, I installed 0.6.5 on 20040708, but it refuses to show up on the list and is not working at all, which leads me to believe it hasn't been installed. I tried again, and the same thing happened. I had to revert to Chris Cook's 0.5. :(
Branch build or trunk build? If TBP refuses to show up in a branch build's Extension Manager on OS X, that's either a severe bug in the EM or a bug in my install manifest.
Dunderklumpen wrote:xjr1300 wrote:Dunderklumpen wrote:My guess is that TBE is not listed because the developers do not recommend it in fact the recommend not using it.
Please can you point me to an article which states this?
No article, as far as I know but Ben Goodger - developer of Firefox has said so - here in this forum.
Make a search for his postings if you do not take my word for it.