On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 21:22 +0100, Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 09:08:05PM +0100, John Lewis wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:28:12 +0100
> > Phillip Chandler <phillip.chandler@???> wrote:
> > > Your probably asking why Im after using firefox 2.x. Just preference
> > > really. Im just so into my own little annoying habits of how I want
> > > to do things, and Im not yet ready to switch over to a browser that
> > > does stuff via a database, and has a horrible drop down menu on the
> > > link box.
>
> If I recall, there's a drop-down box on the address bar in 2.x as
> well, although the behaviour is a little different. That behaviour can
> almost certainly be changed -- looking at "bar" in about:config shows
> several plausible candidates. Without knowing what you object to, I
> can't really suggest anything more than that.
Hi Hugo.
I dont really object, in a stand up on my soap box kind of object. I
read that FF3 uses a database to store the bookmarks and the drop down
box lists loads of links. Ive got so used to using FF2, that I wanted to
stick with it. So was just seeing if its easily possibe to just
uninstall whatever-version 3.xx and install Firefox 2.x. Plus I have FF2
working nicely with adblock, colour tabs & prefbar. Im the only user on
my laptop, so currently have ff2 + everything installed in my home
directory rather than system wide so all users use it.
> Use of SQLite is really not that bad. It's way more robust than,
> say, BDB, it's not a large library, and quite frankly I'd prefer that
> than some horrid XML mess. :)
>
> > iceweasel is firefox without the proprietary logos because they
> > conflict with Debian rules. I happily use iceweasel and I see no
> > database in my system (sid on this system and lenny on my laptop)
>
> Firefox 3 uses SQLite to store much of its internal config data
> now:
>
> hrm@joshua:cy2ff62f.slt $ pwd
> /home/hrm/.firefox/default/cy2ff62f.slt
> hrm@joshua:cy2ff62f.slt $ ls *.sqlite
> content-prefs.sqlite permissions.sqlite urlclassifier3.sqlite
> cookies.sqlite places.sqlite webappsstore.sqlite
> downloads.sqlite search.sqlite
> formhistory.sqlite urlclassifier2.sqlite
>
> Hugo.
>
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