[WEB4LIB] Firefox PR1 & Mozilla 1.7.3 introduced

[John Duke]

George,

Check the options for Advanced / Accessibility / Use Find As You Type. It threw 
me for a while until I found it there. This is on Windows; I expect it is 
similar on the other platforms -- I'll find out tonight!

John

george at library.caltech.edu wrote:
> The age of the standards-compliant browser continues to see advances in
> the state of the art.  Mozilla Firefox 0.10 (1.0 Preview Release)
> <http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/>, somewhat surprisingly from a
> numerical perspective, the follow-on of version 0.9.3, rolled out
> earlier this week.  My initial experience has been a qualified positive.
> I dearly love the type-ahead find functionality introduced in the many
> of the Mozilla/Gecko browsers a couple of years ago.  [Camino 0.8.1
> <http://www.mozilla.org/products/camino/>, an exclusively OS-X browser,
> also lacks this superb function.] Whether through some fault in my
> installation or a bug in PR1.0, I find myself somewhat adrift without it
> functioning for me at the moment.  Final version of Firefox 1.0 is
> expected in the fourth quarter of this year
> <http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=5271>.
> 
> Mozilla 1.7.3 <http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/> patches some
> 'minor' security holes, but does not include any major new features
> <http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=5269>.
> 
> George S. Porter
> Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science
> California Institute of Technology
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