May 14th, 2011 § § permalink
FF4 has a feature by which, when you try to open a second copy of a page, will flip to the existing tab rather than re-opening it.
This drives me crazy.
I usually have several dozen tabs open, across multiple screens, some not visible. When I re-open a tab I want it to appear right in front of me. Not (as happens now) to be brought to the front of a window I can’t even see.
this blogpost offers some solutions, most of which don’t seem to work.
What does seem to work is adding some junk to the end of the url. A hash should do it, or in extreme cases a hash followed by some random characters.
July 25th, 2010 § § permalink
further to earlier grumbling about firefox, it seems the main culprit is the restore-session facility. This is something I hated anyway, even without realising that it was shutting down my hdd every 10 seconds to churn through all my tabs. Solution: go to about:config. browser.sessionstore.interval controls how often firefox stores its tab data. The default is 10 seconds; setting it to a long string of nines has sped up my computer no end.
and so, firefox is saved for another day.
also of note: the vimkeys plugin, providing j/k scrolling.