Minefield 4.0b8pre

I’ve compiled and installed Minefield 4.0b8pre alongside Firefox 3.6 to give it a try.
Minefield is a precursory build of upcoming Firefox 4.0……..
It’s all good so far except one small detail.

The page link right-click (context) menu has inverted options
for “Open Link in New Tab” & “Open Link in New Window”.

This minor inconvenience was nearly a deal breaker for me!
I prefer the order of the previous versions, and couldn’t get used to it being reversed.

To restore the order as in previous versions, I changed my

~/.mozilla/firefox/d5me25we.default/chrome/userChrome-example.css

file to:

userChrome.css

Then added the following code to it:

#contentAreaContextMenu > * {
-moz-box-ordinal-group: 2;
}
#context-openlink {
-moz-box-ordinal-group: 1 !important;
}

Source of info:  http://www.forums.mozillazine.org


________ EDIT TO ADD INFO 1/12/12 ________

Using Firefox 9.0 now and still has same problem and similar fix.

Create a file:

~/.mozilla/firefox/d5me25we.default/chrome/userChrome.css

With this in it:

/*
* Edit this file and copy it as userChrome.css into your
* profile-directory/chrome/
*/

/*
* This file can be used to customize the look of Mozilla’s user interface
* You should consider using !important on rules which you want to
* override default settings.
*/

/*
* Do not remove the @namespace line — it’s required for correct functioning
*/
@namespace url(“http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul”); /* set default namespace to XUL */

/*
* Some possible accessibility enhancements:
*/
/*
* Make all the default font sizes 20 pt:
*
* * {
*   font-size: 20pt !important
* }
*/
/*
* Make menu items in particular 15 pt instead of the default size:
*
* menupopup > * {
*   font-size: 15pt !important
* }
*/
/*
* Give the Location (URL) Bar a fixed-width font
*
* #urlbar {
*    font-family: monospace !important;
* }
*/

/*
* For more examples see http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html
*/
#contentAreaContextMenu > * {
-moz-box-ordinal-group: 2;
}
#context-openlink {
-moz-box-ordinal-group: 1 !important;
}

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3 Responses to Minefield 4.0b8pre

  1. neminem says:

    Thanks! I was actually looking for information on when the 4.08b was going to be officially released (I’m running 4.07 now, was curious whether they’d changed their mind about the lack of a status bar yet ;) ). I noticed this as a small annoyance in 4.07, too, though – it wasn’t annoying enough to figure out how to fix it (unlike the lack of a status bar), but I’m still happy to have run across the fix accidentally. Works great!

  2. Eric says:

    I tried to compile it myself on Debian Squeeze 64bit, but I get an error :

    configure: error: Library requirements (cairo >= 1.10 pixman-1 freetype2 fontconfig) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
    *** Fix above errors and then restart with “make -f client.mk build”

  3. wap-tek says:

    NO status bar in the new firefox = now you are blind ,
    the status bar made it easy to tell if a site link
    lied about where you were going and this was
    just not coperate / advertizer friendly

    webgl = require a beta browser = maybe see something

    vrml/x3d = use a plugin or viewer
    in any browser, = it worked over 10 years ago!

    why cant mozilla just use
    a generic vrml / x3d plugin
    BUT make it FAULT TOLLERANT = as in
    ignore the deliberate standards breaking
    that the major players did 10 years ago

    google , mozilla, and many other “good guys”
    jumped the shark or drank the flavoraid

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