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

[Kenneth Fairfield]

OK, thanks to you Alan, and to Paul Sture and Brian, for
the answer(s). :-)

On Thursday, January 5, 2012 5:57:02 PM UTC-8, AEF wrote:
> On Jan 5, 8:13 pm, AEF <spamsi... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 4, 3:13 pm, Kenneth Fairfield <ken.fa... at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> > > Alan, could you please explain what you mean by "oozing tabs"?
> > > At what version of FF did you first encounter them?

[...] 

> 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!

Ah ha!  I've never noticed that before.  I think my focus
is usually on the main page being displayed and not on the
tab bar, so it's never bothered me.  It also happens very
quickly.  But I might give your fix a try and see if I like
it or not.  

[...]

> 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. 

[...]

Well, I'm *well* over 40 and it doesn't bother me.  OTOH, I use
a not-default theme called Noia 4.  (I doubt most here would like
it, but I've been using it a long time and I *don't* like the
default FF theme at all.)  With this theme and/or the font I use
(Verdana), the URL formatting reads just fine for me (on two
different PCs and a laptop, reasonable resolution LCD displays on
all three).  Although I agree that this is one of those useless
tweaks that should've been left out. Sigh...

Thanks again, Ken