Recensioni per Tabhunter
Tabhunter di Eric Promislow
2 recensioni
- Valutata 2 su 5di Niko, 2 anni faThis addon is really nice, quick and does the fuzzy searching how I'd like. But you can't change the keyboard shortcut to start search and on Linux it's a fairly horrendous default (ctrl+5) :(
- Valutata 2 su 5di Antikapitalista, 6 anni faThis once-awesome add-on, whose functionality is as indispensable as glasses to a severely myopic person and ought to have been part and parcel of Mozilla's Firefox distribution a long time ago, has been going from bad to worse, partly for changes in Firefox itself. At version 1.0.5, it was almost perfect. Then, due to Electrolysis, it became a lot slower at least. It would not be a problem if the author could set the compatibility range properly, so that it does not upgrade itself on older platforms that retain older functionality. For this single offending add-on, the otherwise useful automatic updating of add-ons must be switched off. But at least we got had a comfortably large and, above all, resizable window. Since about version 2, we got this loathsome, ridiculously clumsy non-resizable window, that sits at only about 1/9 of my pretty average 1920 x 1200 screen, making me scroll it to and fro in every direction for just about any query, if this is not meant to be pure design sadism, then it surely is an exercise in colossal stupidity and perceptual incompetence. What is wrong with the Western world and its craze for this dumbed-down minimalistic design: the bigger screens we have, the more controls get tucked away and hidden, which not only arrogantly lays the purportedly precious screen estate to waste, but also drives user interaction complexity to insanely high levels?! If i have a large screen, I want to have a rich visual interface with all the controls at hand! (That is why we get large screens, not to be forced to squint through some claustrophobic window, trying to glean the information that we want in a desperate struggle against the dictatorship of erratic and, especially as of late, often almost invisible scrollbars!) Sadly, because of the claustrophobic, non-resizable window, Tabhunter has become such a pain in the ass to use that it makes one puke with fury and anger... and, as such, Tabhunter has reached the point of virtual unusability. The fading of unloaded tabs will not help it. It may be much faster now, but it is negated by the need to type something into the search bar to make something appear in the search pane, e.g. a space if I want to get list of all open tabs, as I got them before. (Again, on design sadism: if there is some search facility with a search icon, why I cannot just click into the search bar to focus it and start typing, why do I have to click on the search icon to reveal the search bar before I can focus it ans start typing into it?!)
Replica dello sviluppatore
pubblicato il 6 anni faCurrent versions of Firefox no longer support extensions as standalone windows, so I'm locked to the current size. Have you looked at the PaleMoon browser at https://www.palemoon.org/ ? I don't use it myself, but it probably works with version 1.0.5