Context menu on status bar not working correctly
I've just updated foxyproxy to 2.13, not sure from what version as I always turn off auto-update mechanisms in all applications, and what the hell has happened?
The icon in the status bar seems to flicker between different colours during normal use (i.e. use proxies based on their pre-defined patterns and priorities) like some kind of annoying hit-the-monkey banner, and a menu-display bug has appeared.
This is a screenshot of Firefox, showing how I have the status bar laid out:
http://imagebin.ca/img/B1e9G0HT.png
This is Firefox 2 on XFCE 4.4 - I'm not going to be installing 3 as FF is being ruined by Mozilla whilst they chase IE users.
I have right-click set to show the context menu, but when r-clicking since updating FP the menu doesn't display properly. Depending on where on the FP icon I click, I either get a very awkward to use menu or an unusable menu:
http://imagebin.ca/img/JyAYOUQi.png
http://imagebin.ca/img/HwiZ6k.png
But I have found if I click on the very top edge of the FP icon it does display properly, albeit with redundant up and down scroll buttons at the top and bottom:
http://imagebin.ca/img/DDkxw3R.png
These screen shots don't capture my mouse pointer, but I can say that the menu seems to appear either all above the point of the pointer, or all below. As there isn't enough room below the icon for the menu, it gets squashed so much it is unusable. If FF isn't maximised then the menu can be displayed OK depending on how far up the screen the bottom of FF is.
A little bit of clicking just now has revealed that the messed up menu only seems to occur when I click directly on the fox picture (i.e. the bit that changes colour needlessly). If I r-click between the fox's face and the line separating Advanced Cookie Manager or NoScript's bit of the status bar then the menu works OK, and if I r-click at the very bottom of the FP status bar-region the menu appears as expected.
The fact that this bug seems to only be triggered by clicking on the actual fox picture that changes colour makes me think that the 2 things are linked.....
Grr, and I've just noticed that the logging panel has been moved about too.... why on earth have the three buttons on the right, with a massive empty space underneath? All this does it leave less space for the actual log, making it even more awkward to use! Those buttons are redundant anyway because the features they offer are on the context menu, but why not put them in a row horizontally so they take up less space in total if the buttons have to be there?
Firefox 2.0.0.x support has
Firefox 2.0.0.x support has officially ended on mozilla end. Don't expect everything to work as a charm as nothing is tested to comply with Firefox2 any more as of Firefox 2.0.0.20.
Please check your images.
Only first image works, rest is announcing the error 'Sorry, you can't do that from here.'
Yeah, I know Mozilla has
Yeah, I know Mozilla has stopped supporting FF2. Unfortunately Mozilla are running Firefox into the ground trying to increase the size of their user base. They are ruining the product because they are dumbing it down so much, and loading it up with hand holding features, and features that advertisers would want much more than most users might ever find useful (the allegedly "awesome" bar and geo-location respectively). I am not interested in using just another Internet Explorer. I think I will be moving to Seamonkey at some point (good to see FP has started to support that).
FP 2.13 supposedly works with FF2 though.
As for the images, I forge all referrers to be a site's root so maybe that's why the images haven't worked.... They seemed OK when I tested them out, but not now (even sending legit referrers). Having a look in my history and going to the page where the image was first displayed seems hit and miss now too.
I've uploaded them to imageshack instead. Maybe that'll work better.....
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This is a screen shot of Firefox, showing how I have the status bar laid out:
http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/5720/85881626.png
This is Firefox 2 on XFCE 4.4 - I'm not going to be installing 3 as FF is being ruined by Mozilla whilst they chase IE users.
I have right-click set to show the context menu, but when r-clicking since updating FP the menu doesn't display properly. Depending on where on the FP icon I click, I either get a very awkward to use menu or an unusable menu:
http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/6101/fpmenuwtf2.png
http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/6163/fpmenuwtf1.png
But I have found if I click on the very top edge of the FP icon it does display properly, albeit with redundant up and down scroll buttons at the top and bottom:
http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/7005/fpmenu.png
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Cheers
I have seen that scrolling
I have seen that scrolling menu issue in my own addon, but I haven't seen it in Foxyproxy. I'd think its theme related.
What Firefox theme are you using? Consider updating the theme for possible fixes.
http://i29.tinypic.com/f0q59z.jpg - This is a picture of how my Danish logging page looks in Firefox3.5
Awesomebar is pretty awesome though if you like to not remembering the full path to a page but just remember the page title.
"FP 2.13 supposedly works
"FP 2.13 supposedly works with FF2 though."
I could swear that I added to the release notes of a previous version that I'm no longer doing Firefox 2.x testing, even though FoxyProxy is still marked as compatible with Firefox. However, I checked the release notes, and I can't find that statement.
"The icon in the status bar seems to flicker between different colours during normal use"
You can disable this by:
1. Changing the colors of each proxy (Proxy Settings->General tab) to be the same color
or
2. Disabling animation (Proxy Settings->Animate icons when this proxy is in use)
As for the context-menu problem, I could say that I'll investigate but I'm not sure how much energy I want to put into supporting Firefox 2.x anymore. Could you possibly downgrade to an earlier version and permanently stay with that since you're permanently staying with Firefox 2.x? I'd try FoxyProxy 2.9. If that still has problems, 2.8.14 (the final 2.8.x release) should do it. Get older versions of FoxyProxy here.
Concerning the logging buttons: I put them on the right to be consistent with the layout of buttons on the Proxy tab. You do have a point, though, that horizontal space should be maximized on this tab, so I will move them up top. However, if you never upgrade, you'll never see this change :) Thank you for the suggestion, anyway.
Eric
I have seen that scrolling
I have seen that scrolling menu issue in my own addon, but I haven't seen it in Foxyproxy. I'd think its theme related.
What Firefox theme are you using? Consider updating the theme for possible fixes.
No idea what the theme is - never installed one, so the default.
Awesomebar is pretty awesome though if you like to not remembering the full path to a page but just remember the page title.
I have tried the awful bar, but I think it is an utter POS. It comes across as a patronising hand-holding feature. It just duplicates functionality that is already within the browser, but at the expense of a simple functional address bar.
The awful bar should have been an extension in its own right all along, but for Mozilla to increase their market size more they need to convince IE users to use FF. The way to do this is shouting things like "easy" and adding hand-holding features. But the reality is that the browser just gets dumbed down, and in the long term the very people that initially advocated FF will be alienated.
I know that with extensions and hacks it can almost be returned to normal (but isn't), but I don't like workarounds and having to carry the baggage of unwanted features.
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"The icon in the status bar seems to flicker between different colours during normal use"
You can disable this by:
1. Changing the colors of each proxy (Proxy Settings->General tab) to be the same color
or
2. Disabling animation (Proxy Settings->Animate icons when this proxy is in use)
Animations were already turned off, but the colours are still flashing annoyingly.
And setting the 2 colours to just be the same doesn't stop what it is doing. The chuggy FF interface will still have to think about swapping them about.
(Yes, I run FF on a MOS 6502, I don't have the cycles to spare!).