I find it extremely surprising that some sites (ex:Facebook) are (or were a few months back) displayed differently on Windows FF vs OS X FF.
1. Tab close buttons should be on the left, not the right.
2. They got the tab title right, in the center, but site icon should be right next to the site title, not on the far left.
So it can only be used as a direction indicator and as such, I think it looks good.
BTW, the UX alpha is back to the old style.
You can do that using a custom key binding in ~/Library/KeyBindings.
Firefox ignores this and still insists on home/end working on the full document. But even worse: in the new Gmail compose window, not even Command-Left/Right works (it does in other Textareas - no idea what Google did here).
Now this might totally be a case of http://xkcd.com/1172/ but by the life of me, I cannot work without a way to move the cursor to the beginning of a line - especially when the keys that I usually use are so destructive (scrolling all the way to the top, making me lose my position).
This is the only reason why using Firefox is out of the question.
In the past, I patched some JS file inside the bundle, but now that Firefox updates so often and it's a signed binary, I can't really do that any more.
That's because Home and End keys on the Mac, like in the original UNIX, mean the beginning and the end of the document not the beginning and end of a line which is a Windows thing (and since Windows is the overwhelming presence, is commonly misunderstood as the keys themselves meaning that) and since most early Linux desktop environment's aimed to duplicate Windows, is also the default Linux behaviour now.
You will find this behaviour in all Apple provided applications as well.
> I cannot work without a way to move the cursor to the beginning of a line
Anything that doesn't override Cocoa's default key bindings will be able to use the emacs key bindings as well (Cntrl-A for the beginning and Cntrl-E for the end of the line)
>in the new Gmail compose window, not even Command-Left/Right works
cntrl-a and cntrl-e work.
not on my machine. As I said, I used ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict to change it. If the OS provides a way to change defaults, I expect applications to respect that too - no matter the historical reasons.
> >in the new Gmail compose window, not even Command-Left/Right works
> cntrl-a and cntrl-e work.
Yes, but Command-Left/Right is something that worked on the Mac even since before OSX. I, again, see no reason why it wouldn't work here.
I havn't used it but this claims it will change the Firefox behaviour as well (specifically make them behave like windows for the home and end keys)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/keyfixer/
I think cmd-left and cmd-right are used by Firefox for " back" and "forward" so those never work on Firefox (unless perhaps you go find where Firefox specifies its key bindings and change them)
http://www-archive.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#keys
sounds like
cmd_beginLine cmd_endLine
are what you need to modify in the example given
<binding id="editorUser">
<handlers>
<handler event="keypress" key="w" modifiers="control"
command="cmd_deleteWordBackward"/>
</handlers>
</binding>Is it? I'm used to them going to the beginning and the end of lines on Linux.
It drives me crazy too. At one point I used a workaround mentioned in the bug discussion[1], but I have no idea if it still works. I decided to support Mozilla/Firefox and just got used to control+a/e within Gmail.
You can download a Nightly build of it (that auto-updates) at http://people.mozilla.org/~jwein/ux-nightly/
I'll miss Camino.