On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:33:43AM -0700, Jared Buck wrote: > You can change the directory firefox downloads into by going to the Edit > - Preferences menu, then selecting downloads. lots of stuff you can > change there, including where stuff gets downloaded to. This is not true. You can put it in any directory but your home directory. > > And as for the interface? it's not hard, you just go to the firefox > extensions website, then download the extension you want, then restart > firefox after it installs. All of them can be individually configured > from the Extensions dialog box under the Tools menu (just select the one > you want to work with and hit options. > > Jared To me this is more complicated then going to a helper menu, entering a application type, one or more extensions and the program to deal with files of that type. But again I do not want to start an argument about this. > > On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 11:37 -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Again I am not trying to start a rant I just want to know. > > > > I find firefox somewhat inferior to the previous mozilla. Why do > > people support it so? > > > > 1. The ctrl-l option is somewhat worse than the previous ctrl-shift-l > > option. > > 2. I would like my downloaded files to go in my home directory. So as > > root I want them to go into /root. That may be unreasonable to some > > people but it can't be done in firefox. The Desktop folder is the last > > place I want to put them. > > 3. The interface to add helper applications is obscure compared to > > mozilla. > > > > And on and on. I guess I am just a curmudgeon. Remember I am not trying > > to start a rant , I am just very curious why firefox is taking over. > > -- > > > > ======================================================================= > > It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that > > English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many > > other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case. > > -- Sydney J. Harris > > ------------------------------------------- > > Aaron Konstam > > Computer Science > > Trinity University > > One Trinity Place. > > San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 > > > > telephone: (210)-999-7484 > > email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx > > -- ======================================================================= Real computer scientists like having a computer on their desk, else how could they read their mail? ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx