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

[Paul Sture]

On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:40:26 +0100, Paul Sture wrote:

> 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.

Correction: There's a checkbox you can uncheck so that the warning 
messages doesn't appear again.



-- 
Paul Sture