Flashy band web sites: Firefox, please help Oct25 '05

# (1 of 5): Josh » joahua.com/blog

1 hour, 2 minutes after the fact. (Tue 25 Oct 2005, 7:03 PM CST)

Why do bands think that people have the patience or time to sit through all that crap?

Because most people use Internet Explorer, which is generally far less crappy when it comes to this stuff.

At the very least, I wish Firefox would come out with some sort of plugin that saves all browser tabs, continuously, in case of a locked-up computer, or browser.

There is, it's called Tabbrowser Extension. Amongst other things, it also allows you to re-order the tabs (like you've been able to do in Opera for goodness knows how long already), bookmark sets of tabs, open a bookmark folder in multiple tabs, etc. IIRC, it DOES attempt to save the tab state on exit, but seeing as Firefox is an unstable piece of crap with Flash, obviously it's not going to have the chance to save. The solution is simply to save your current tabs before going to a band site. Or use Opera, which is nearly as good as IE in that regard ;-)

# (2 of 5): Matthom

1 hour, 43 minutes after the fact. (Tue 25 Oct 2005, 7:43 PM CST)

Excellent. Perhaps my Flash comments are ignorant and 'one-sided,' since I do choose Firefox over IE. So, I digress.

I've been using a particular Tabbrowser extension for quite some time, although I don't know if it's the same as the one you referenced. It allows me to set some pretty handy stuff with tabs, but not re-order, which I've missed since my days of using Opera.

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# (3 of 5): Josh » joahua.com/blog

1 hour, 49 minutes after the fact. (Tue 25 Oct 2005, 7:50 PM CST)

Okay, looks like I screwed up. The tabbrowser extension is reportedly buggy and crap (I stopped using it coz it gave me problems some time I upgraded Firefox), and there's an appropriation of it that's better with much the same features, called Tab Mix. Seems like there used to be an English version there, because the link from the Tabbrowser site was to tabmix.html.en, but that now redirects back to the straight .html version. Doesn't look too hard to understand, though... I'm giving installing it a go now.

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# (4 of 5): Josh » joahua.com/blog

2 hours, 4 minutes after the fact. (Tue 25 Oct 2005, 8:05 PM CST)

Got it. Looks okay, it's in English once you install it without any problems (though I had to save the XPI onto my computer, then load the local URI -- it didn't even warn me when I clicked the link, it just didn't recognise it as an extension. Bizarre.)

You go into the Extensions menu, then click Tab Mix → Options → Tab → "Restore the last session when starting Firefox".

Should work okay... probably is a bit dubious when crashing, though.

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# (5 of 5): Tim Wheatley » timwheatley.org

1 year, 9 months after the fact. (Sun 29 Jul 2007, 2:42 PM CST)

Hi. Are you still having this problem?

I use Firefox 2.0.0.5 and my system keeps locking up on flash sites and sites that use flash based video (like YouTube). Did you find out what your issue was so perhaps I can get help?

Thanks,

Tim.

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