[Info-vax] Newsreaders, was (long ago): Re: HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[AEF]

On Jan 5, 8:13 pm, AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jan 4, 3:13 pm, Kenneth Fairfield <ken.fairfi... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Thursday, December 29, 2011 5:14:05 PM UTC-8, AEF wrote:
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> > > Thanks. I actually dug up the cures for the oozing tabs (what a stupid
> > > idea -- interrupts your train of thought -- and seems ridiculous in
> > > that the hardware people are making faster and faster hardware and
> > > here we have some geeky a-huh a-huh a-huh programmer finding a way to
> > > waste time for something whose cool effect, if there is any, wears out
> > > on the second occurrence) and the url graying, on my own. A near
> > > miracle but I was very persistent!
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> > Alan, could you please explain what you mean by "oozing tabs"?
> > At what version of FF did you first encounter them?
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> > And more importantly, what was your fix???
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> > I'm on FF 8.0.1 but on the verge of going to 9.0.1.  I happen
> > to *like* tabbed browsing, but I keep it down to about 3-5 tabs...
> > If the oozing comes with FF9, I'd like to kill it as soon as
> > it appears. ;-}
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> >     Thanks, Ken
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> I'll have to look to find the fix.
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> The tab would grow from left to right. Really annoying. Just open the
> tab instantenously. Who wants to see this every time they open a tab?
> It wears out the first time you see it (at least for me).
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> I can't believe anyone wasted valuable time to make this time-wasting
> non-entertaining crap.
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> I'll get back to you with the solution if I can find it.
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> AEF

OK. The tab at the top slides out, as if from behind the last tab, to
the right. To turn it off, visit about:config and set
browser.tabs.animate to false. I found this by Googling and I can't
imagine what search terms I used. But when something "this awful"
comes along, and stays in your face, you find a way!

Just stumbled upon it: Google

    how to stop animated firefox tabs

I don't recall thinking up "animated".

The other thing I hated was the grayed-out urls. Instead of making the
domain BOLD, they made the rest of the url nearly unreadable by
turning it light gray. I guess that's fine if you're under 40. Anyway,
I just found this:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110814184522AACi0Bq

Yikes! It's our way or the highway! Crap. There are certain things I
*have* to use IE for, like SharePoint, Altiris, and Oracle expense
forms (well, the latter for speed).

OK, to fix the grayed out url,

    http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2282807

set browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled to false.

Actually, mine was on true! I guess the graying isn't that bad at home
on my Mac. Wow. But the oozing tabs had to go.

Just checked my FF at work over VPN. I have it turned off there. I
guess it's worse there. On the Mac the strokes of the letters are
thicker, thereby making the effect much smaller.

AEF