alex chiang: web 6.0

In the spirit of helping out the open source community, I upgraded most of my machines to Ubuntu Hardy Heron, in order to help with the beta test effort.

It’s mostly all good so far, except for a few firefox3 annoyances.

• middlemouse.contentLoadURL is set to false, but you have to turn that on in older Ubuntu installs too, so I already knew what to look for.
• browser.zoom.full is set to true, which means if you scale text up for easier reading, it scales images up too. Yuck. Set it to false to revert that annoying behavior
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124728
• the address bar history/predictive behavior has changed subtly, and I find myself surprised when I start typing a url, hit tab, and it chooses some link I wasn’t expecting. Not able to quantify this yet… edit: ah, setting browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped to true gets you back to ff2 behavior

I don’t think the above list warrants Ubuntu bug reports, considering I’m not a typical Ubuntu user and changing the defaults to what I prefer would probably confuse people, but in case anyone out there in blog-o-land is wondering how to fix some of the annoyances, there ya go.