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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Paul Sture wrote 2012-01-06 16:11:
> 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.
>
>
>

And you do not have to restart FF. I could change the value and check
the result on tabs even with the about-tab still open.