[001],  [002],  [003],  [004],  [005],  [006],  [007],  [008],  [009],  [010],  [011],  [012],  [013],  [014],  [015],  [016],  [017],  [018],  [019],  [020], 

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J
001	002	003	004	005	006	007	008	009	010
011	012	013	014	015	016	017	018	019	020
021	022	023	024	025	026	027	028	029	030
031	032	033	034	035	036	037	038	039	040
041	042	043	044	045	046	047	048	049	050
051	052	053	054	055	056	057	058	059	060

Extensions for Tables, see Extension list on home page

This is 001_with_underscore.htm, and is an expanded version of 001.htm – the numbers at the right can be used to test scrolling options.

Tabbed Browsing in Firefox, lets you load multiple web pages into separate tabs within the same browser window.  While this is very powerful in itself and tabs are now in all browsers, there are additional benefits that become apparent when used with additional options in Firefox.

Tab Capacity and other Tab Testing would be greatly enhanced if you install the "Tab Counter" extension, a simple extension that displays the open tabs count of the window for each open window.  The default placement is at far right end of the menu bar just before the throbber button, if present.

Tab Capacity and Tab History and Tab Navigation Testing:
You can open several tabs each with several webpages to test tab navigation, or open all of the 120 tabs above into separate tabs all at once with the Linky extension.  If you want to see all of your tabs at once see information in Tabs Bar Minimal Size | userstyles.org (style 9043).

Tab Navigation Keyboard Shortcuts can be tested with this page.  To see what is available use a "Highlight All" from the Find toolbar (Ctrl+F) for "tab" on Firefox and other Browser Keyboard Shortcuts (Comparison Table), you are looking for "tab" and "tabs" related material, ignore "table..." references.

Tab Navigation Toolbar Buttons can be tested with this page.  The Combined Back/Forward Button upon right-clicking the button or clicking on the single dropdown arrow will display pages opened in current tab in a "heap" with the latest tabs at the top, and the currently displayed page with a blue sphere instead of it's own favicon.  To test open several links in the same tab.

Extensions and features that can be tested here:
Extensions:  Dafizilla Table2Clipboard (Table handling / paste to Excel), Grab and Drag (like a Mac), Launchy (see how this page looks in other installed browsers), Linky (open links at once into tabs); Link Visitor (Mark link(s) as visited or unvisited), Mouse Zoom, Image Zoom (independent zooming of an image), Multiple Tab Handler (enhanced tab features via tab context menu), Perma Tabs Mod (protect a tab), Split Browser, Tab Clicking Options (close a tab), Tab Counter; Table Tools (sort, filter), .
Features: Tabbed Browsing, Vertical scrolling; Zooming and rechecking vertical scrolling at different zoom levels.
Styles:

• Tab Color Underscoring active/read/unread | userstyles.org, Colors the bottom border of a tab with RED for active tab, BLUE for a normal tab, GREEN for a still unread tab.  Broken in Firefox 3.6 see Bug 487242 (next)
• Bug 487242 – Regression: in userChrome.css no longer possible to distinguish between unvisited tabs, visited tabs, and the selected tab (Regression in userChrome.css)  Please vote to get this fixed!!!

Preferences that can be tested here:
Autoscrolling: autocontext.prefs-autoScroll, general.autoScroll

Auto Scrolling [tools,options,general] middle-click to start/stop [middle-click on my mouse set to Enter].

Smooth Scrolling [tools,options,general] (scrolling on a web page moves page content pixelwise rather than line-by-line):

general.autoScroll	default	boolean	true
general.smoothScroll	default	boolean	false
gfx.use_text_smoothing_setting	default	boolean	false
grabAndDrag.smoothStop	default	boolean	true
toolkit.scrollbox.smoothScroll	default	boolean	true

Mouse Scrolling:
My screen resolutions:  1024x768 primary, 1280x1024 secondary monitor.  On the primary I see 30 lines with normal toolbars, and 38 lines in full screen mode with only tabs bar showing (44 and 48 on secondary).  If the primary is set to 1280x800, I see 32 and scroll 31 (see 39, scroll 38 in fullscreen with only tabs bar).  In order to get the proper scrolling by page with the mouse wheel,  one mousewheel.* about:config value was changed in Firefox.
   mousewheel.withnokey.action   user set   integer   1   (Scroll document by one page - old link) (new link)

Test of Text Area Resizer

Next check to see if it interferes with logon/signin for GMail, MozillaZine(forums), MozillaZine(kb), Verizon, support.mozilla.com, Yahoo,

Appears to work okay for those logins.  To get userid dropdown for a login, it is actually click to select, then click to see drop-down, it is not double-click.  So double-click should work to activate the move without interfering with normal Firefox form usage.

Spell Checker

Test of Spell Checker in a Form. Submit will add to the URL on the location bar of no consequence.

Words are tested upon use of spaces or other delimiters.
Test words: xghi Google goggleplex spit splinter xdfe;

Once set up properly so that the spelling check works in a text area, you can have the built-in spelling checker check any webpage, by making the document editable with a bookmarklet
spellcheck: (Shorten name in the bookmarks profile entry to "Sp" if used directly on the Bookmarks Toolbar)
  javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; %20document.designMode='on';%20void%200

While you are in Editing Mode from the bookmarklet, you will not be able to use browser features such as links.  F5 (Reset) will restore browser to normal usage.

Set-up of built-in Firefox spelling checker, if not working.

• Tools → Options → Advanced → General → "Check my spelling as I type" (default)
  (On a Mac use Firefox → Preferences → Advanced → ...)
• layout.spellcheckDefault set to 2 (1 is default)
• spellchecker.dictionary, set to "en-US".  (should already be set)
• Restart Firefox after changing layout.spellcheckDefault to 2.
• Check spelling, if does not identify misspelled words in the text area, or allow you to add a word when right clicking then take Firefox down, and create persdict.dat with Notepad (can be empty) in your profile directory, restart Firefox, and retest.

The of "SpellCheck" extension to check a web page (not forms) is from by Edit (menu), "Spell Check" and adds a toggle switch to the Tools menu.  Simpler to setup but may interfere with usage by advanced users with it's extra menus and overhead.

Linkify, Linkification of Plain Text Links -- Test

Some examples:
example.com
www.example.com
http://www.example.com
www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/kws.htm

Order of Tabs in Tabs Bar -- Tests

• Tab Color Underscoring active/read/unread | userstyles.org (style 9023)
• Tabs Bar Minimal Size | userstyles.org (style 9043)

Firefox 3.6 (Namoroka) attempts to make use of tabs "easier" by placing opened tabs to the right of the tab from which they were opened and is experimenting with tabs as a group to the right or opening immediately to the right of the active tab.  In my opinion this makes a hopeless mess of tabs whichever way it is done, and makes use of tabs LIFO (Last In First Out) which is very counter productive.  You can test your 3.6 Beta or when released your 3.6 production version with the steps shown here.

You can skip the rest of this nonsense if you always want all new tabs to always open at the far right by using:
  browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent   user set to False -- (Most highly recommended)

Future tests may also make use of these links:
  -- Top-level [A],  [B],  [C],  [D],  [E]   -- Actual intent is that these five should be opened from a folder all at once, such as frequently read blogs, tabs only opened in background.  Simulate opening from a folder by Opening A then in background B, C, D, E, click on E, then return to A and procede with testing. An asterisk(*) indicates reselecting a tab.

Namoroka (3.6b3pre)
Creation:  *A B C D E *E *A 1 2 *B 3 4 *C 5 6 *D 7 8 *E 9 10 *1 21 22 23 *B 31 32 33
Results: A 1 21 22 23 2 B 31 32 33 3 4 C 5 6 D 7 8 E 9 10 (as expected)
Deleting from the right deletes tab and then activates tab to left.
10 9 E 8 7 D 6 5 C 4 3 33 32 31 B 2 23 22 21 1 A

Opening tabs in Foreground after opening A B C D E from folder or background
*A 1 *A 2 *B 3 *B 4 *C 5 *C 6 *D 7 *D 8 *E 9 *E 10
Results: A 2 1 B 4 3 C 6 5 D 8 7 E 10 9   (parity with Google Chrome)
Deleting from the right deletes tab then activates tab to left.
9 10 E 7 8 D 5 6 C 3 4 B 1 2

Google Chrome (3.0.195.32 & 3.0.195.33)
Creation: *A B C D E *E *A 1 2 *B 3 4 *C 5 6 *D 7 8 *E 9 10 *1 21 22 23 *B 31 32 33
Results: A B 3 4 31 32 33 C 5 6 D 7 8 E 9 10 1 21 22 23 2 (Google needs work)
Deleting tabs deletes tabs in a strange order.
2 1 21 22 23 10 9 8 7 D C 5 6 33 32 31 4 3 B, or deleting from
1 21 22 23 2 10 9 E 8 7 D 6 5 C 33 32 31 4 3 B

Opening tabs in Foreground after opening A B C D E from folder or background
*A 1 *A 2 *B 3 *B 4 *C 5 *C 6 *D 7 *D 8 *E 9 *E 10
Results: A 2 1 B 4 3 C 6 5 D 8 7 E 10 9 (Google and Firefox 3.6 in Foreground)
Deleting from the right deletes tab then activates tab to left.
9 10 E 7 8 D 5 6 C 3 4 B 1 2

Opera 10.01, Firefox 3.5.5, IE8 Opening tabs in Foreground or Background always places new tab to the far right like Firefox 3.5.5 and earlier.

note:  IE8 appears to have a serious Tab problem, slow, and can only retain 10 tabs.
 

MOUSE SHORTCUTS -- Firefox		Google Chrome	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari
Open link in Background Tab	Ctrl+click	Ctrl+click	Ctrl+Click	Ctrl+Shift+click	Ctrl+click
Open link in Foreground Tab	Ctrl+Shift+Click, Middle-click	Ctrl+Shift+click	Ctrl+Shift+click	Shift+click	Ctrl+Shift+click
Open Link in New Window	Shift+Click	Shift+Click	Shift+Click	(N/A)	Ctrl+Shift+Alt+click

See Keyboard Shortcuts   (#newtab)
The area with red text under Mouse Shortcuts can be reversed to match other Browsers, select Tools → Options → Tabs → [x] When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately.  This is the same setting that can be changed by setting browser.tabs.loadInBackground to False to set focus on new tabs opened from links (load in foreground)
So that bookmarks open the same way as links, these about:config settings should be *same* as each other:
- browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground (default is False), controls focus of bookmarks opened in new tab
- browser.tabs.loadInBackground (default is True), controls focus of links opened in new tab

IE8 (tabs to right like old Firefox):  Doesn't matter if Forground or Background all go to the end of tabs, tabs bar will be scrolled right or left Ctrl+{1-9} pick from the visible tabs wht Ctrl+9 being the last visible tab. The rest can be piced from the drop-down.
order: A B C D E 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

Safari (tabs to right like old Firefox and IE defaults):  Doesn't matter if Forground or Background all go to the end of tabs, but only the first 8-11 tabs are in order, the last tab to fit or selected from tabs drop-down past the first 8-11 to show in foreground will be the right-most tab.
order: A B C D E 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

Test opening of links from a bookmarks folder, often about twenty bookmarks, but will modify the tests to include the' original three (currently just showing the 01 for most tests) 01,  02,  03, 

Test opening of links in Background with your keyboard shortcut (ctrl+click (default), or Ctrl+Shift+click like Opera) 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, this would also be the same as if you opened the five links at once from a bookmarks folder (open all in tabs).

Test opening of links in Foreground with your keyboard shortcut (ctrl+shift+click (default), or Ctrl+click (Shift+click in Opera) 31, 32, 33, 34, 35,

Test opening of links that have target="_blank" 41, 42, 43, 44, 45,

Test opening of links like Google into same new tab target="_new" they will all be in the same heap with the newest at the top of the pile within one new tab. 51, 52, 53, 54, 55,

Firefox 3.5.4, Shiretoko 3.5.5pre (and Opera 10.01):  01, 02, 03, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 55,

Namoroka (3.6b2pre), and Minefield (3.7a1pre):  01, 55, 45, 44, 43, 42, 41, 35, 34, 33, 32, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 31, 02, 03, (with browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent set to true by default).   Don't look here for updates on what these Beta versions are going to be doing, last I noticed it will be to emulate Google Chrome's topsy turvey web browsing.  I am simply going to use the override and not waste another week on this ridiculousness, seems they are going to keep trying to resurrect all of their previous failed attempts.  The current thread on this can be seen in a Developer thread -- “FireFox 3.6 behavior when opening tabs”

IE8 (keyboard shortcuts same as Firefox defaults):  21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, (test ended with only 10 tabs open and disappearance of base page (01), tabs open VERY SLOWLY and with sound) just tested with 01 to start (not 01, 02, 03).

Google Chrome (Keyboard shortcuts same as Firefox/IE8 defaults):  01, 55, 45, 44, 43, 42, 41, 35, 34, 33, 32, 31, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25

Safari (keyed like Firefox/IE defaults):  01, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 (test ended with 41 going to a new window)

If you wanted an even more realistic test try opening 20 blogs, then try to read each blog in turn, and then read the tabs created from each of those tabs, and delete; half of the blogs and half of the inserted tabs when finished reading, anything but putting all new tabs to the far right is going to create a big mess.  When you delete a tab it goes back to the tab that created it if it came directly from there; otherwise, you go to the tab to the right.

You might also try open several pages in a tab, then backup to earlier page in tab and open more tabs.  Also try opening from a tab, then opening from another tab, then back to the first tab and open more tabs.

As you can see it will make a lot of difference whether you normally open tabs in the background or in the foreground.

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