Shockwave problem ?

Macromedia shockwave was not installed by default ??!
(Flash is).
Test page is here:
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/

more typeaheadfind wierdness

More on typeaheadfind wierdness
Same session - seemed to occur when a download finished toolbar message popped up.
Wierdness may have been limited to one tab though. Does not replicate. Needs further testing.

(downloading the really cool elemental table freebies: http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/pertable_fla.htm )

browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground

Strong personal preference for this but does confuse naive users.
browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground true

list of prefs

Useful pages documenting the config preferences:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries
http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences.html

typeaheadfind wierdness

Possible BUG
typeaheadfind true breaks form elements eg google in tabs if timeout set to 55000 ?

http://www.mozilla.org/access/type-ahead/
says "(not in an edit box of or drop down list)."

2nd time noticed, need to test.
Apears to go away so may be timeout..

about: abouts

about:
about:config
about:plugins
about:buildconfig
about:cache
about:credits
about:mozilla

Firefox 1.5 beta first changes

Wishlist:
Wikipedia EN in search engines: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/quick/wikipedia.html

Add NewTab and History icons to toolbar.

CONFIG CHANGES:
//open in tabs rather than multiple windows:
lockPref("browser.link.open_newwindow", 3);
//restrict to links rather than window.open:
lockPref("browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction", 1);

//typeaheadfind was a hit with users:
lockPref("accessibility.typeaheadfind", true);

For Corporate environment:
// Let remote content link to local (file://) content. This is needed for intranets...
// http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84128
lockPref("security.checkloaduri", false);

Firefox 1.5

Note:
Now that Firefox 1.5 is out in Beta,
I am building a new config file for 1.5.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
There ARE changes.
Stay tuned.