Mozilla - firefox

[tick69]

I was just thinkning about the tabs and thinking perhaps you should be 'inspired' by the Mozilla foundation.  The first tabbed browsing I ever did was w/ Opera and the tabs were on the top but the browser was flakey and then I gave up and went back to netscape.  years later I went to Mozilla and the tabs there are the bomb.  In Mozilla there is a tab button option to just hit it and new tab appears while in Firefox there is no tab button but if you double - click on the tab bar a new tab appears.  Also the tabs are on the top.  I know that it is too late for that and the tabs are going to stay on the bottom, as many people are used to them there, - maybe make it an option, tabs on top or bottom or left or right, with the left/right option giving you the first letter of the path then path pops up when you hover over it -  but you could still add a new tab button or make it so you can right-click on the tab bar to open new tab and/or add an 'x' to the bar to allow closing tabs easier... In firefox/mozilla middle click on a link opens new tab and middle click on a tab closes it.  Also I'd love to have a shortcut that when opened had something like ten tabs opened up in the top pane ...  That may be possible now but I haven't had a chance to study the new readme files...  

Also you never replied to my last post in the copying...I know, you must be a busy man and we whine a lot, but I was and still am curious and keep checking to see if it got another reply...

[nikos]

you can put tabs on top but it requires a bit of registry hacking; see DPF_TABSONTOP in registry.txt

likewise you can put the "new tab" button on any toolbar; right-click on the toolbar and pick customise. Any menu commands that have an icon next to them can be placed on a toolbar

can you repeat that copying question? i can't remember it

[vserghi]

or add an 'x' to the bar to allow closing tabs easier

There is already an 'x' button in the tab bar to close the current tab. Have a look at the bottom right hand side, on each tab bar.

[tick69]

I guess the x works as expected, like I said, I haven't had time to study the read-me as I have school and all.  I just went through the normal menu options.  I guess the only improvement would be to make it so if I middle-click on a folder it opens in a new tab and if I middle-click on a tab it goes away...

The copying is about how in 2xExplorer if I copy files from pane A to pane B and say 'no, do not overwrite' then the ones that were not copied, but are present in both panels as they were aready there - at least in name - remain highlighted.  This is usefull when I am doing round-about fixes were a file in  say windows 98 - is causing problems but I have no idea which on it is.  After much testing I try a routine that is timely but almost always works.  I go to dos and rename and hide both windows and program files.  Then I install Windows fresh and clean and update it w/ the same patches and all.  then I copy everything from the old directory to the new one, registry included, only  overwriting the registry and ini files.  Then when I boot it up all the previous software works as if it was installed but the offending file got replaced.  If I use a seperate machine to do the copying then I can use 2xExplorer and the ones that were not copied, because they were already there, are still highlighted.  I can then copy them to a different directory were I can check the versions of dll's or just look at the list for commonalities to other situations such that I can try and figure out the original bad file that made me do all this work.  Every time I mention this you say 'oh just hit f9' but that does not work because f9 highlights the file in you r active pane that are not in the other pane but I want the files in the source pane that were already in the destination and so were not copied.  If I take and make a folder with 10 mp3's in it then make a second folder and put 2 of the same ones in it then use 2xEplorer to copy the 10 mp3's from a to b then say 'no' to the overwrite then the 2 that were already there are still highlighted but the 8 that were copied are no longer highlighted.  If I repeat w/ xplorer2 and say 'no' then all 10 are still highlighted and hitting f9 changes nothing.

[nikos]

i think i've explained that before: x2 works different than 2x
if my F9 recommendation doesn't do it for you you can "copy the selection" using Ctrl+F11 (mark | selection | store) and then apply it to the inactive pane with F11, so the files that weren't copied are selected