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Migrating to Firefox 3

Written by Toomas Römer on March 9, 2008 – 1:46 pm

I’ve been running nightly trunks of Firefox 3 for more than a month now. The switch was not easy. The changes in the usability department seem small but some changes are 180 degrees.

While holding CTRL and wheeling the mouse the font size changes depending on the direction of the wheeling. Well, in Firefox 3 they inverted it. I’m not willing to relearn just because somebody thought the direction should be IE compliant. Change in about:config mousewheel.withcontrolkey.numlines to -1 and you have the old behaviour back.

You are reading pages with diagrams with small text? You resize the page and you cannot make anything out of the resized diagrams? Disable the image scaling, change browser.zoom.full to false.

You have old plugins that supposedly don’t work? Give them a try, install Nightly Tester Tools and tell them that they are compliant and see if they work.


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