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

[Paul Sture]

On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:13:14 -0800, AEF wrote:

> On Jan 4, 3:13 pm, Kenneth Fairfield <ken.fairfi... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thursday, December 29, 2011 5:14:05 PM UTC-8, AEF wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > 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!
>>
>> Alan, could you please explain what you mean by "oozing tabs"? At what
>> version of FF did you first encounter them?
>>
>> And more importantly, what was your fix???
>>
>> 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. ;-}
>>
>>     Thanks, Ken
> 
> 
> I'll have to look to find the fix.
> 
> 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).
> 
> I can't believe anyone wasted valuable time to make this time-wasting
> non-entertaining crap.
> 
> I'll get back to you with the solution if I can find it.
> 

Ah, I see what you mean now.  It's pretty instantaneous here, but still 
irritating.  I notice it most when closing tabs.

Bash about:config into the URL field, OK the warning message and paste 
the following into the search box, and double click on it to change the 
value to false:

    browser.tabs.animate

Restart Firefox to bring it into play.

That warning message about voiding the warranty might be humorous the 
first time, but has worn thin the second time.  Fortunately there's a 
checkbox you can tick so that it doesn't appear again.

-- 
Paul Sture