Re: [Hampshire] Firefox in Ubuntu overtyping

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Author: Keith Buddie
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Firefox in Ubuntu overtyping
On 8 April 2010 12:15, Victor Churchill <victorchurchill@???> wrote:

> Hello Keith,
>
> I don't know if this is relevant to your particular situation, but I
> found the whizzy "new" URL bar really irritating when Firefox
> introduced it - sufficiently so that I found an "add-on" called oldBar
> that reverts the URL entry area's helpful behaviour to its previous
> FF2 style. I think the extension came from the main firefox site's
> addons/extensions pages. Maybe that would help. I know, it's not as
> satisfying as properly diagnosing and fixing what's happening, but it
> might give some further indicators.
>
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Thanks Victor,

I'll give that a try and see if that stops it. I also find the "new" bar
quite annoying, mainly due to the fact there is a considerable delay on my
machine between starting to type an address and anything happening in the
address bar, to the point where I wonder if it has frozen.

Cheers,
Keith