Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-20 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Sam Halliday wrote: Ralph Katz wrote: For searching *within* a web page in firefox sorry if i was unclear... i mean the search bar at the top. the one that requires search engines, like google. cheers, Sam Hi Sam, OH that one! If you mean the one just to the right of the basic url textbox, then

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-20 Thread Sam Halliday
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Sam Halliday wrote: Ralph Katz wrote: For searching *within* a web page in firefox sorry if i was unclear... i mean the search bar at the top. the one that requires search engines, like google. OH that one! If you mean the one just to the right of the basic url textbox, then

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-19 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Sam Halliday wrote: for anyone who has thunderbird installed, they will notice that when you search for an item in the search bar, a little button appears which allows you to clear the field... is there an extension to firefox which enables the same feature in its search bar? as it is very

Re: Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-19 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/19/2004 09:10 AM, Jonathan Kaye wrote: Sam Halliday wrote: for anyone who has thunderbird installed, they will notice that when you search for an item in the search bar, a little button appears which allows you to clear the field... is there an extension to firefox which enables the

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-19 Thread Sam Halliday
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Sam Halliday wrote: for anyone who has thunderbird installed, they will notice that when you search for an item in the search bar, a little button appears which allows you to clear the field... is there an extension to firefox which enables the same feature in its search

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-19 Thread Sam Halliday
Ralph Katz wrote: For searching *within* a web page in firefox sorry if i was unclear... i mean the search bar at the top. the one that requires search engines, like google. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages

Re: Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-18 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/17/2004 11:40 PM, Travis Crump wrote: If it makes you feel any better, I can't for the life of me figure out where in the gnome-keyboard-properties dialog you are supposed to set this. From terminal: $ gnome-keybinding-properties Note that that is different from gnome-keyboard-properties.

Re: Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-18 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/18/2004 12:00 AM, Sam Halliday wrote: thanks, unfortunately that is not an optimal solution as on my laptop keyboard it is quite tricky to send Delete. Tricky to hit the delete key?! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-18 Thread Travis Crump
Ralph Katz wrote: On 12/17/2004 11:40 PM, Travis Crump wrote: If it makes you feel any better, I can't for the life of me figure out where in the gnome-keyboard-properties dialog you are supposed to set this. From terminal: $ gnome-keybinding-properties Note that that is different from

Re: Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 14:20 -0500, Ralph Katz wrote: On 12/18/2004 12:00 AM, Sam Halliday wrote: thanks, unfortunately that is not an optimal solution as on my laptop keyboard it is quite tricky to send Delete. Tricky to hit the delete key?! Remember, it's a laptop, not a desktop

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-18 Thread Sam Halliday
Ralph Katz wrote: Sam Halliday wrote: thanks, unfortunately that is not an optimal solution as on my laptop keyboard it is quite tricky to send Delete. Tricky to hit the delete key?! yes its a laptop keyboard, so Delete (unlike Backspace) requires a two-key combination, which is just a pain. when

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-18 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 17 2004, Steve Lamb wrote: Firefox setting CNTL-U to upload manager was pretty dumb since CNTL-U is unix' default for clear field. :/ Put this into your .gtkrc-2.0 file: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - gtk-key-theme-name = Emacs - - - - - - -

Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-17 Thread Sam Halliday
for anyone who has thunderbird installed, they will notice that when you search for an item in the search bar, a little button appears which allows you to clear the field... is there an extension to firefox which enables the same feature in its search bar? as it is very irritating having to

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-17 Thread Michael Z Daryabeygi
Sam Halliday wrote: for anyone who has thunderbird installed, they will notice that when you search for an item in the search bar, a little button appears which allows you to clear the field... is there an extension to firefox which enables the same feature in its search bar? as it is very

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-17 Thread Steve Lamb
Michael Z Daryabeygi wrote: what is the select-all keystroke in... I guess gnome? don't tell me it doesn't exist. CNTL-A. Problem is that we're talking X style selects. Select something it is automatically coped into the CP buffer. So you can't do a Windows style CNTL-A, CNTL-C, click,

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-17 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Steve Lamb wrote: Michael Z Daryabeygi wrote: what is the select-all keystroke in... I guess gnome? don't tell me it doesn't exist. CNTL-A. Problem is that we're talking X style selects. Select something it is automatically coped into the CP buffer. So you can't do a Windows style

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-17 Thread bmetcalf
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Re: Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-17 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/17/2004 08:30 PM, Roberto Sanchez wrote: If anyone knows how to get Firefox and Thunderbird to default to the old keyboard shortcuts, I would like to know about it. I learned the answer earlier from this list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/10/msg03534.html Some additional notes

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-17 Thread Steve Lamb
Ralph Katz wrote: On 12/17/2004 08:30 PM, Roberto Sanchez wrote: If anyone knows how to get Firefox and Thunderbird to default to the old keyboard shortcuts, I would like to know about it. I learned the answer earlier from this list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/10/msg03534.html

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-17 Thread Michael Marsh
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:47:06 -0800, Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fat lot that does those of us using KDE. Pft. This whole must run Gnome to configure crap is starting to really piss me off. At least KDE apps have the courtesy of allowing one to configure their shortcuts in the

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-17 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 07:47:06PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Ralph Katz wrote: I learned the answer earlier from this list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/10/msg03534.html Fat lot that does those of us using KDE. Pft. This whole must run Gnome to configure crap is starting

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-17 Thread Travis Crump
Steve Lamb wrote: Ralph Katz wrote: On 12/17/2004 08:30 PM, Roberto Sanchez wrote: If anyone knows how to get Firefox and Thunderbird to default to the old keyboard shortcuts, I would like to know about it. I learned the answer earlier from this list:

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-17 Thread Sam Halliday
Ralph Katz wrote: And Sam, to clear the search bar, Ctrl-J, Delete or just type new entry. thanks, unfortunately that is not an optimal solution as on my laptop keyboard it is quite tricky to send Delete. the little X box which thunderbird has is preferable to any keyboard shortcut to be honest.