Problems with new[ish] Firefox on Ubuntu 11.04
I have just upgraded my system to xubuntu 11.04 and I have a couple of problems with the version of Firefox it has installed. The first problem is that I can't even see what version of Firefox it is as the main menus have disappeared (that's the File, Tools and other menus, including the Help menu which tells you which version of Firefox you have). How on earth do I get those menus back? Secondly the new Tab layout is a pain, I've turned off 'Tabs on top' but the tabs are still in a sill place because the leftmost tab sits above the sidebar, not above the web display area. Is there any way to get back to the old layout where the tabs are actually above the pages they refer to? -- Chris Green
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 10:33:55AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
I have just upgraded my system to xubuntu 11.04 and I have a couple of problems with the version of Firefox it has installed.
The first problem is that I can't even see what version of Firefox it is as the main menus have disappeared (that's the File, Tools and other menus, including the Help menu which tells you which version of Firefox you have). How on earth do I get those menus back?
Secondly the new Tab layout is a pain, I've turned off 'Tabs on top' but the tabs are still in a sill place because the leftmost tab sits above the sidebar, not above the web display area. Is there any way to get back to the old layout where the tabs are actually above the pages they refer to?
Aaargggh!!! It's the new Unity desktop for Ubuntu, they've integrated the Firefox menus into the Unity desktop - what they haven't done is *not* do it when (like me, because I run xubuntu) you're not running the Unity desktop. What a ***stupid*** idea! -- Chris Green
The first problem is that I can't even see what version of Firefox it is
You have my sympathy and I take your struggle as another reason to look at Mint when I need to upgrade. Apparently Firefox are heading towards (automatically?) upgrading versions without giving version numbers. Not, I feel, their best idea.
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 05:01:12PM +0000, Bev Nicolson wrote:
The first problem is that I can't even see what version of Firefox it is
You have my sympathy and I take your struggle as another reason to look at Mint when I need to upgrade.
Well I thought/hoped that running xubuntu rather than ubuntu would protect me a little, but as I said it turns out that it's an Ubuntu thing to put the Firefox menus somewhere else and that has bitten xubuntu.
Apparently Firefox are heading towards (automatically?) upgrading versions without giving version numbers. Not, I feel, their best idea.
Well with the rate at which new versions appear now they'll run out of version numbers soon! :-) -- Chris Green
On 06-Dec-11 10:33:55, Chris Green wrote:
I have just upgraded my system to xubuntu 11.04 and I have a couple of problems with the version of Firefox it has installed.
The first problem is that I can't even see what version of Firefox it is as the main menus have disappeared (that's the File, Tools and other menus, including the Help menu which tells you which version of Firefox you have). How on earth do I get those menus back?
Secondly the new Tab layout is a pain, I've turned off 'Tabs on top' but the tabs are still in a sill place because the leftmost tab sits above the sidebar, not above the web display area. Is there any way to get back to the old layout where the tabs are actually above the pages they refer to? -- Chris Green
Weird indeed! On my own (elderly) firefox, with main menus on top and tabs in a row below it, but no sidebar, if I right-click on the main menu bar I get a drop-down which offers: Navigation toolbar [selected] Bookmraks toolbar [selected] Customise Maybe there's some area (sidebar?) which you could right-click on to get a similar response. (You may have to try everything in sight). Dummo if this will help -- it's groping in the dark! Good luck. Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.harding@wlandres.net> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 06-Dec-11 Time: 10:47:22 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
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