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Your pointless tip of the day.
« on: April 12, 2007, 12:04:55 PM »
Open another Firefox browser within a Firefox tab or browser by adding the below command in your URL bar.

chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

I couldn't think of a real use for this, especially since you can't open tabs within the browser within a browser, but it's still fun. :)
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Re: Your pointless tip of the day.
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2007, 12:54:23 PM »
Hmmm, I discovered that I can open tabs within the browser within a browser.  But, as you said, I see no real use for this.  It just takes up more space at the top of your screen.

Edit: other observations:
This can be done in layers, or multiple levels; in other words, a browser within a browser within a browser, etc.   The home page in any of these browser windows created by opening a browser within a browser is the Mozilla Firefox Start Page.  And, switching between tabs in a sub-level browser window does not change the URL shown in the web address box. 

Interesting but worthless.   :-\
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    Re: Your pointless tip of the day.
    « Reply #2 on: April 12, 2007, 03:22:22 PM »
    MUA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAA!!!

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    Re: Your pointless tip of the day.
    « Reply #3 on: April 12, 2007, 03:47:03 PM »
    Heh Dilbert. Was going to see if more windows could be opened but looks like 4 is the max. :(
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      Re: Your pointless tip of the day.
      « Reply #4 on: April 12, 2007, 03:51:19 PM »
      I opened 5... but stopped because I was at 100% CPU and 100,000KB Memory usage for FF alone. :o
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      Re: Your pointless tip of the day.
      « Reply #5 on: April 12, 2007, 05:44:23 PM »
      I opened 5... but stopped because my monitor screen was full and I couldn't see the web address box to try another one.  COL
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      Re: Your pointless tip of the day.
      « Reply #6 on: April 12, 2007, 06:24:59 PM »
      Computer geeks are the boredest people ever...
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      Re: Your pointless tip of the day.
      « Reply #7 on: April 12, 2007, 06:33:21 PM »
      I opened 9 before Firefox almost stopped responding.
      Firefox was using 207,224 KB of memory and about 97% of my CPU.
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      Re: Your pointless tip of the day.
      « Reply #8 on: April 12, 2007, 06:38:05 PM »
      Just curious.  What size monitor do you have and what is your setting for resolution? 
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      Re: Your pointless tip of the day.
      « Reply #9 on: April 12, 2007, 06:45:42 PM »
      I have a 17" monitor set at 1280 by 1024 pixels.
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      Re: Your pointless tip of the day.
      « Reply #10 on: April 12, 2007, 08:22:18 PM »
      Haha, Dilbert is right. It just kind of sits and thinks (Vista screen shots remove the mouse, so you cant see it)



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      Re: Your pointless tip of the day.
      « Reply #11 on: April 12, 2007, 08:34:37 PM »
      Quote from: Zylstra on April 12, 2007, 08:22:18 PM
      Haha, Dilbert is right.
      Right about what, 5 layers being the limit?  Not true for everyone; Kip went to 9.  I think I can go more than 5 but have to change resolution to see what's happening.  Haven't tried that yet.
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      Re: Your pointless tip of the day.
      « Reply #12 on: April 12, 2007, 08:48:57 PM »
      Quote from: soybean on April 12, 2007, 08:34:37 PM
      Quote from: Zylstra on April 12, 2007, 08:22:18 PM
      Haha, Dilbert is right.
      Right about what, 5 layers being the limit?  Not true for everyone; Kip went to 9.  I think I can go more than 5 but have to change resolution to see what's happening.  Haven't tried that yet.
      No, about it just stopping and crashing.
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      Re: Your pointless tip of the day.
      « Reply #13 on: April 12, 2007, 08:56:29 PM »
      I got 5 up and I had to restart my computer, lol.
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      Re: Your pointless tip of the day.
      « Reply #14 on: April 13, 2007, 10:13:57 AM »
      How 'bout 100 extensions in FireFox ? ? ?

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