Advice

[yendi]

If you're still running Firefox 3.012 (instead of 3.5), do NOT accept the autoupdate of Tab Mix Plus. I've spent the last hour trying to troubleshoot a borked browser as a result. I'm rapidly changing my mind about whether TMP is really an extension I can't live without.

Comments

[themaskmaker.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!!! I know this will save me a lot of frustration (since I've had that frustration before).

[yendi]

No problem. If I figure out what went wrong, I'll post about it.

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

What does TMP do again? Clearly, I'm capable of living without it, but should I?

[yendi]

When it works, it allows you to display your tabs in multiple rows, offers true tab duplication (complete with history), and has really precise and advanced control over how tabs open (including the ability to force javascript into new tabs).

[lovingboth]

Hmm, it's working ok here with Ubuntu 9.04, FF 3.012 and TMP 0.3.8.

What problem are you having, what other add-ons, etc?

[yendi]

OSX 10.5.7, FF 3.012, TMP 0.3.8.1

Other add-ons are NoScript 1.9.7.7, Adblock Plus 1.1, and Autofill Forms 0.9.5.2 (not counting a handful of disabled-but-not-deleted items).


When I first installed, I lost all of my tabs. Every single one.

A reboot gave them back, but for some reason, hides the first two rows (which tend to be where my everyday tabs -- like gmail -- live). I can still scroll the remaining rows, and I can get to tabs in the first two rows (using the drop-down on the upper-right of the tab bar), but they won't show up otherwise, even using the two arrows that normally allow me to navigate rows.

[lovingboth]

I'm now on 0.3.8.1 and I haven't seen anything like this. I have the other essential, Adblock Plus, but neither of the others you have. (FlashBlock does all I want and I don't like what the author of NoScript did to get his ads shown by ABP.)

If you still have the problems, I'd copy the session and other info, uninstall FF, and reinstall it.

[yendi]

I actually gave up and upgraded to FF3.5. This has fixed all of the problems, other than the fact that FF now crashes about once a day.

What's the story on Noscript?

[lovingboth]

He a) released often enough that people suspect that it was done primarily to drive traffic to his site and b) he made NoScript alter ABP's code on people's machines to allow ads on his site to be shown.

http://adblockplus.org/blog/attention-noscript-users

[phantom_wolfboy]

I've recently gone back to using Opera for most browsing.