Hi guys.
Is there an add-on that can make me look through a page I'm looking to another I have open on another tap?
On mac there's an app called Afloat that does this.
transparency
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Grumpus
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Re: transparency
Guessing it's probably more of a system window configuration.
(on Linux this is usually system window config)
(on Linux this is usually system window config)
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gfdgfd
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Re: transparency
I typed "tap" by mistake but I meant tab.
Lets say I have tab 1 on a website that has a big WATCH.
But I'm watching a video on youtube on tab 2.
Since I'm not close to the computer, I would like to watch both (the time on tab1 and the video on tab2) because I'm not close to the screen (and can't watch the small computer watch lets say).
I could use that addon that splits the space and makes you fit multiple tabs but this thing I'm asking (transparency) would be better. Anyway I guess there's not such thing.
Lets say I have tab 1 on a website that has a big WATCH.
But I'm watching a video on youtube on tab 2.
Since I'm not close to the computer, I would like to watch both (the time on tab1 and the video on tab2) because I'm not close to the screen (and can't watch the small computer watch lets say).
I could use that addon that splits the space and makes you fit multiple tabs but this thing I'm asking (transparency) would be better. Anyway I guess there's not such thing.
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Grumpus
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Re: transparency
It may be the transparency could cause some confusion in just the watching but . . .
There is a setting in you preferences which opens a new window instead of a new tab. Open /Edit/Preferences/General/Tab and uncheck the middle setting open links in tabs instead of new windows
If your system has the transparency capability it might be picked up by Firefox but this is a guess.
Any new window from another software if the transparency is set to a percentage on the system should also work.
There is a setting in you preferences which opens a new window instead of a new tab. Open /Edit/Preferences/General/Tab and uncheck the middle setting open links in tabs instead of new windows
If your system has the transparency capability it might be picked up by Firefox but this is a guess.
Any new window from another software if the transparency is set to a percentage on the system should also work.
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gfdgfd
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Re: transparency
I'm on a OS-X and the sw I use to do this is called Afloat but it works only if the application was done in Cocoa(?) Firefox apparently is not, so using another window will not work. Anyway, I don't know if this is hard to program as an extension but it could be a useful addon.
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Grumpus
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Re: transparency
If you program why not see what help Mozilla is offering to developers in the way of help. Contacts
Take a look at the Rust language which is partially used in Firefox and may eventually become the core code.
Take a look at the Rust language which is partially used in Firefox and may eventually become the core code.
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gfdgfd
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Re: transparency
Unfortunally I don't program (although I really like it and would love to learn one day) the problem is that I've tried and I saw that it takes time to do it right (unfortually I don't have it now.. I should have started to code when I was younger.. now my brain just can't handle it because I've tried). Anyway thanks Grumpus