Jump Lists to Firefox on Windows 7


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Windows only: Jump Lists are one of the best new features in Windows 7, and since Firefox still doesn't take advantage of them, a small utility called Winfox adds the feature for you.

Using the utility is simple enough?just pin Winfox to your taskbar and you'll have a new Firefox icon with an enhanced context menu?you can open new tabs, view your most frequently visited pages, pin items by simply dragging and dropping, and the items even display the favicon of the page. It's one of those features that most likely will be included into future versions of Firefox, but for now it might be just what you're looking for.

Winfox is a free download for Windows, and both 32-bit or 64-bit versions are provided?you'll want to make sure to pick the appropriate one for your version of Windows.

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I was trying to use this earlier today, but I couldn't get it to work. Not sure why. I installed it to both my 3.0 and 3.5 beta 4 directories, both crash as soon as I launch them. I also tried installing to a different folder on the desktop, same problem. Anyone know how to fix my problems?

Edit: I have the "Tasks" on the jumplist, but the aero peek or w/e isn't working right...

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I was trying to use this earlier today, but I couldn't get it to work. Not sure why. I installed it to both my 3.0 and 3.5 beta 4 directories, both crash as soon as I launch them. I also tried installing to a different folder on the desktop, same problem. Anyone know how to fix my problems?

Edit: I have the "Tasks" on the jumplist, but the aero peek or w/e isn't working right...

thats not supposed to work.

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Does this provide any other functionality which takes advantage of the new taskbar APIs, such as progress of downloads being displayed in the taskbar button? Any overlays of the icons, for example to show how many tabs you have open or to show that you're downloading etc? Also, does it have the tabs grouped in the taskbar button, or the windows still?

Thanks :)

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Crashes on launch. Great job developer for not supporting x64.

Make sure it's not extracted to your Firefox folder. Instead, just extract it to a folder in your user directory.

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Make sure it's not extracted to your Firefox folder. Instead, just extract it to a folder in your user directory.

Yeah already tried that. Not different at all. Just o[agubad crash.

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Crashes on launch. Great job developer for not supporting x64.

So, let me confirm this - you're blaming a developer of a small extension (who is possibly the only developer of that extension) for maybe not supporting x64 versions of Windows?

Have you considered the fact that this one developer may not have an x64 version of Windows to take advantage of and test this application on? There may possbily be documentation by Mozilla on how to support 64bit operating systems, I haven't looked, but even if there is, it still makes it harder as it may not be able to be tested on 64bit systems if the developer doesn't have a 64bit version.

As a developer, I'm annoyed people make assumptions like this. I probably have the capacity to create a Firefox extension, yet I do not have a 64bit system to test extensions on, if I were to create any.

When it's such a small 'application', created by one developer, he is more than likely going to test it himself. Sometimes it is not feasible for developers to buy things like a 64bit capable computer as well as say a Mac and maybe partition their hard drive to be able to install Linux on it, as well as making sure they have both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of each operating system, just to please every single possible user.

For times like this when such things are not feasible, it makes sense to develop the application on the systems we can get hold of and hope it will help a lot of users anyway.

Are you forgetting this developer created the application for free to help users? Yet you are complaining? Nice...

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So, let me confirm this - you're blaming a developer of a small extension (who is possibly the only developer of that extension) for maybe not supporting x64 versions of Windows?

Have you considered the fact that this one developer may not have an x64 version of Windows to take advantage of and test this application on? There may possbily be documentation by Mozilla on how to support 64bit operating systems, I haven't looked, but even if there is, it still makes it harder as it may not be able to be tested on 64bit systems if the developer doesn't have a 64bit version.

As a developer, I'm annoyed people make assumptions like this. I probably have the capacity to create a Firefox extension, yet I do not have a 64bit system to test extensions on, if I were to create any.

When it's such a small 'application', created by one developer, he is more than likely going to test it himself. Sometimes it is not feasible for developers to buy things like a 64bit capable computer as well as say a Mac and maybe partition their hard drive to be able to install Linux on it, as well as making sure they have both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of each operating system, just to please every single possible user.

For times like this when such things are not feasible, it makes sense to develop the application on the systems we can get hold of and hope it will help a lot of users anyway.

Are you forgetting this developer created the application for free to help users? Yet you are complaining? Nice...

He provided an x64 app that doesn't work. If you don't know if it works or not, don't release it.

When I make a program on x64 I give people a warning : May not work in x86. Here? No. Just here it is.

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He provided an x64 app that doesn't work. If you don't know if it works or not, don't release it.

When I make a program on x64 I give people a warning : May not work in x86. Here? No. Just here it is.

Ahh, in that case, I apologise :blush:

From the post of yours I quoted, I assumed he hadn't developed an x64 version and you were complaining about that.

Maybe I shouldn't assume things either and should double check things first? ;)

Sorry. I hope you can understand what I mean about the people I described though :)

Hopefully someone will find a way to figure out how to get the 64bit version working for you (Y)

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Ahh, in that case, I apologise :blush:

From the post of yours I quoted, I assumed he hadn't developed an x64 version and you were complaining about that.

Maybe I shouldn't assume things either and should double check things first? ;)

Sorry. I hope you can understand what I mean about the people I described though :)

Hopefully someone will find a way to figure out how to get the 64bit version working for you (Y)

No worries. From what I've seen everyone in the comments section of that page seems to be having problems. Most with x64.

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So, let me confirm this - you're blaming a developer of a small extension (who is possibly the only developer of that extension) for maybe not supporting x64 versions of Windows?

Have you considered the fact that this one developer may not have an x64 version of Windows to take advantage of and test this application on? There may possbily be documentation by Mozilla on how to support 64bit operating systems, I haven't looked, but even if there is, it still makes it harder as it may not be able to be tested on 64bit systems if the developer doesn't have a 64bit version.

As a developer, I'm annoyed people make assumptions like this. I probably have the capacity to create a Firefox extension, yet I do not have a 64bit system to test extensions on, if I were to create any.

When it's such a small 'application', created by one developer, he is more than likely going to test it himself. Sometimes it is not feasible for developers to buy things like a 64bit capable computer as well as say a Mac and maybe partition their hard drive to be able to install Linux on it, as well as making sure they have both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of each operating system, just to please every single possible user.

For times like this when such things are not feasible, it makes sense to develop the application on the systems we can get hold of and hope it will help a lot of users anyway.

Are you forgetting this developer created the application for free to help users? Yet you are complaining? Nice...

You guys don't get enough love! I appreciate all the hard work you do because the only coding I can do is some simple bash. If you want some one to test a 64 bit extention for you, just pm me and I will be happy to oblige.

Would be nice for mozilla to implement this natively...

Given their refusal to even consider using other Microsoft features like Protected Mode (Which Microsoft opened up the API's for other to use.) I am not surprised one bit. They reluctantly added porn mode because all the other major browsers had already done so. I switched back to IE (IE8 to be specific.) because of their arrogant attitude towards these important new features.

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Given their refusal to even consider using other Microsoft features like Protected Mode (Which Microsoft opened up the API's for other to use.) I am not surprised one bit. They reluctantly added porn mode because all the other major browsers had already done so. I switched back to IE (IE8 to be specific.) because of their arrogant attitude towards these important new features.

You can add the 'memory hog' bug of Firefox to the list of things that Mozilla refuse to consider fixing.

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Yes.. they have planned it for v4.0

Do you have a source for this please? As far as I am aware, Mozilla haven't officially confirmed this, it's just speculation as it's more than likely they will.

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Do you have a source for this please? As far as I am aware, Mozilla haven't officially confirmed this, it's just speculation as it's more than likely they will.
System Integration
  • OSX Dictionary integration
  • OSX Services & AppleScript integration
  • OSX Keychain integration
  • Windows Aero Glass
  • Windows Aero Peek
  • Windows 7

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Namoroka

I dont expect this to happen in v3.6 or if this version will be released as 4.0 but at least they have plans on it.

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Well, the new W7 task bar came at a really bad time in the Moz development cycle. The significant changes were supposed to be in by something like a1 or a2, and by the time MS had unveiled the feature, it had already missed the boat, so it has to go into the next release, whether that be another 3.x or a 4.0. Had MS unveiled that stuff last summer when work Gecko 1.9.1 was in the early we'll-accept-big-changes stage, then this would've been a different story.

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Early to mid 2010? ****ing.

Don't hold your breath, Microsoft has had enough time to pump out two Vista service packs and a new version of Windows, while Firefox has yet to get support for protected mode and Aero Glass.

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Would be nice for mozilla to implement this natively...

It's logged as a bug and I do recall it was slated for the next release...

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