Firefox menus not fading

[Guest mgorbach]

For some reason, while every other rightclick menu in windows fades in for me under xp sp2 (i have it set up that way in the effects), firefox's menus dont. Is there a hack I can use to fox this?

[nathanrosa]

does it REALLY matter

[Guest mgorbach]

lol yes im picky ... it bugs me!

[em_te]

does it REALLY matter

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If it didn't, then everyone would still be using Windows 95. :p

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

appearance is everything my man ;)

and we probably would just be patching windows 95... or using MAC's (sorry to all mac fans, but it is true)

and im sorry im not sure how to. i was just commenting on these people

[DigitalFreedom]

Thanks for telling me this, untill I realized this I was fine with firefox, now its anoying!!!?!!!!!111!!1111!!!11!!!!!!!11!!11!!!!

[Veedems Veteran]

Yeah, it's part of the "fun" of XUL. Nothing much you can do, as far as I know.

[+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹]

no nifty javascript you can use? :cry:

[username]

you can enable the windows xp shadow but thats it as far as i know

[Guest mgorbach]

annoying ... why dont they just use a standard interface. I hate non-standard apps.

[EVO VIII]

Thanks for telling me this, untill I realized this I was fine with firefox, now its anoying!!!?!!!!!111!!1111!!!11!!!!!!!11!!11!!!!

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haha i know what you mean... ive been using it all this time and am totally fine with it until someone pointed out that my menus dont fade haha... oh well its still a kickass browser

[ZZOOzzoo]

Personally I prefer all special effects turned off, so it won't bug me so much.

I would've turned them off even if I was on Mac. :p

[bozthepcnerd]

Personally I prefer all special effects turned off, so it won't bug me so much.

I would've turned them off even if I was on Mac. tongue.gif

Oh yeah soo true :rofl: I have all the XP effects turned off for speed and memory's sake (as well as my eyes)

[Elliott]

Not like it's that performance hitting on OS X anyway. The GUI is powered by the GPU, unlike the Windows XP effects and GUI.

[smp]

Suckers!

My one fades away in xorg and also has drop shadows.

Using Linux and it built with GTK+ which is the main reason for all the cool stuff

[ZZOOzzoo]

Not like it's that performance hitting on OS X anyway. The GUI is powered by the GPU, unlike the Windows XP effects and GUI.

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I don't have any performance decrease problem with WinXP too.

I just hate how I see that boring animations that wastes every precious seconds. :)

When I click sometime, I want it to appear RIGHT AWAY, not with that glorious animation that fails to amaze me.

[NetRyder]

I don't have any performance decrease problem with WinXP too.

I just hate how I see that boring animations that wastes every precious seconds. :)

When I click sometime, I want it to appear RIGHT AWAY, not with that glorious animation that fails to amaze me.

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Same with me. :)

First thing I do on any XP machine I use is turn off the menu fade effects. I prefer to have everything come up instantly.

[em_te]

For me some animations are good and some are bad. The animation in the Firefox manager (where each entry fades in when you start a download) is plain bad. It has no use and takes too long to show. The good animations I like are when you minimize a window, the window shrinks towards the taskbar button so that I know I didn't press the wrong button (versus say the maximize or close button). I also like the fading out of menu items when you click on them since I usually click stuff so fast and only start reading the menu items after I've clicked on them (for example in the bookmarks). I also like smooth-scrolling which allows me to press pagedown and I can see it scroll and I can roughly guess where my previous position was. Hence, I for one prefer a choice, as Windows itself also offers us the choice of having the animations on or off.