During my recent contact with an English company, I’ve had to use the pound sign (£) a lot, which has uncovered a bug in Firefox 3 — at least I think it is… Using the danish keyboard layout the pound sign has to be made by pressing alt-4, but doing so in Firefox 3 will just result in switching to tab no. 4 if a such exists. If not, the shortcut will merely do nothing. Either way, no pound sign for me.
Effectively this means that all combinations from alt-1 – alt-9 are useless, which means that the following characters can’t be written in Firefox 3 on OS X with a danish keyboard layout: ¡, “, §, £, ∞, ™, ¶, [ and ]. I find it especially troublesome that the hard brackets doesn’t work, since they’re extensibly used in BBTags, as replacements for < and > when writing HTML examples in a place that doesn’t handle < and > well, it’s used as scope delimiter in Functional Grammar notation and in a ton of other places.
I’ve scoured the web for a solution (as well as about:config) but to no avail.
i toggel tabs witk command- not alt. £ works fine here.
What doesn’t work, which almost make the browser unusable for me, is the new bookmark system. I mean the browser can display web pages, but if i can’t bookmark, i’m kind lost. Right now my desktop is full of *.webloc files. It’s a mess. I was really looking forward to see how the tags-system would work for organizing bookmarks. It might be due to the import of my old bookmarks, witch wasn’t exactly a smooth operation. Don’t know what to do about it.
Weird! I can change between tabs with both Cmd-number and Alt-number… Wonder why our Firefoxen behave differently…
Frankly, I love the new bookmark system. It’s so much easier just clicking the star in the URL-bar than going through the whole mess with selecting name and location and stuff.
So what happens if you press the star to bookmark?
Ohh… it’s to hard to explain in a few sentences. It kind of just doesn’t bookmark. Might be due to the tags. At one point i could bookmark, but then i started tagging and it went bonkers. I might try to reinstall, see if that helps. But i fear it’s my bookmark file that’s got corrupted in some way. As i said, the automatically import of my bookmarks from FF2 to FF3 wasn’t exactly a smooth operation. Manually importing my bookmarks is something i wanna do as much as anal-piss my self in the face. So…
I have to say i’d like it, meaning the system and the work flow, if only it worked (for me). I tried to search the bug tracker, but with out luck. Properly my search phrase wasn’t the right one.
Actually, it’s a bit weird, because I didn’t even have to import my bookmarks from Ff2 to Ff3. I just upgraded and they were all there.
When i upgraded there were some bookmarks but the the latest. They were like a week or two old. I was going almost flikflak i randers fjord til at discovered that it wasn’t an “rm -rf” like situation. The resent set of bookmarks were there.
Then i tried to import them “manually”, but with out much luck wrt. smoothness.
This should maybe be in the software cat.?
You’re right — I’ve assigned it some categories.
Do you have a danish language OS X install? I have english. Could it be that?
I can switch between them as I like, but I use English with Danish keyboard layout. I assume you use the same.
Hmm, turned out it was an add-on causing the trouble. Can’t remember which, but it was either Speed Dial or Foxmarks (I think Speed Dial)… I can finally write [ and ] again. \(^.^)/