Comments on: How Ubiquity saved me today

By: Deba

Deba — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:36:35 +0000

This Ubiquity thing is cool. For sure this will help a lot

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:35:03 +0000

@Arnab: “History” menu, “Restore from last session…” (the last on the menu on Mac OS X/FF 3.0.6) The dialog box shows each open window as a collapsible element, and each tab from that window is listed with its title and a check mark.

By: Arnab

Arnab — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:55:52 +0000

@Neewok and @Jens – thanks for the comments!

Yeah – Cmd/Ctrl+w works, but in my haste I had clicked on another one of the 17-18 tabs I had open. Cmd/Ctrl+w closes the tab in focus – that’s why I tried “close-tab”. I don’t think there is any other FFox shortcut that lets you close another tab “by name”, is there?

Now the really interesting part. When I faced this 2 days ago, when I did this 3 days ago, “close-tab” simply closed the tab – I did not have to go through the horrible annoying hundreds of dialog boxes. Today I saw it – hmmm. Man it’s really annoying. (Maybe they added it recently?)

But thanks to @Jens, this time the “edit-page” command saved me (it disabled the annoying JS!) That’s a win!

By: Arnab

Arnab — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:44:31 +0000

@Joe – thanks I did not about this special (clunky) UI. It probably would not have helped me (I had around 17-18 tabs open when I had to do this) – but helps to know for the future.

I just killed FFox and hit the “Start New Session” on restart. Did not see any special menu for opening tabs from the previous session. Are you talking about “Show All History”? Otherwise, how do I get to this UI?

By: Jens Gyldenkærne Clausen

Jens Gyldenkærne Clausen — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:12:14 +0000

Great fun – but close-tab doesn’t do anything that Ctrl-w doesn’t do already – at least not when I tried it. You do get to close it – after clicking ok (or “enter”-ing) through a ton of javascript alerts.

But another Ubiquity command turned out to be really effective here – type “edit-page” insted of close-tab – that stops the javascript from messing with the browser immediately.

By: Neewok

Neewok — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:38:59 +0000

And, by the way, you could just have closed the tab using ctrl/cmd + W

By: Neewok

Neewok — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:35:27 +0000

After reading your post I was, like : “hey, if ubiquity can save me, then no problem, why wouldn’t I open this site in a new tab and try the same thing you did ?”

But it seems this ****** has added a onbeforeunload event on the page, that display a long serie of annoying dialog boxes right when you want to close it.

Man, that was horrible :/

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:21:43 +0000

Y’know, if you tell Firefox to “start a new session,” there’s a menu option to reopen tabs from previous session which gives you a (clunky) UI to selectively open “some” tabs but not all.