boof (OP) replied with this 6 months ago, 1 week later, 1 week after the original post[^][v]#1,381,159
well I've been searching about remedies for my PEEVES concerning Firefox graphical user interface elements. I have got some progress in that. eventually it'll be worth a post.
boof (OP) replied with this 6 months ago, 19 hours later, 2 weeks after the original post[^][v]#1,381,363
well I got another PEEVE. It's been a bitch to find all of the way to refer in css to all of the elements of the GUI that can have their coloar changed. just put a fucking list Mozilla you cocksucker. for example, #viewButton is how to refer to the button that says View that you see when you activate the sidebar by Ctrl-H to get the History list. Yeah, you can coloar that to your likeing when you know to call it by the name #viewButton. Tracking down shit like that is pissing me off, complicated by the changing of how css works with every new version of Firefox because they are making it more conforming to official css and less whatever the fuck they used all this time, but changing a bit at a time.
boof (OP) replied with this 5 months ago, 53 minutes later, 2 weeks after the original post[^][v]#1,382,161
well I tried to get into that but I'm currently stuck in a problem where it fucks up upon loading up whatever it is supposed to load up "TypeError: a is null", so I'll need to reset some shit somewhere but I don't know what yet. Also it is supposed to work like Inspect on a web page but lets you click on browser elements, but what happens instead is that the toolbox opens in a whole new window of its own with no browser elements (toolbars and so on) and I don't know what the fuck I'm even looking at
boof (OP) triple-posted this 5 months ago, 9 hours later, 2 weeks after the original post[^][v]#1,382,267
OK my progress with Browser Toolbox is, I can ignore the TypeError shit on the Console tab and still run the thing. What is sorely lacking is:
"Click on the inspector button (the first button on the left) in order to be able to inspect elements by your mouse:
After that, you can put your mouse pointer on any place in your browser window in order to learn it unique ID. For example, if you put it on the navigation bar, you’ll see a red dotted line around it:"
yeah, that's not happening for me. I can go in the Inspect and poke around there to make a blue box highlight stuff in the browser, but I can't mouse around in the browser and get any red dotted line or any automatic revealing of the ID of stuff the mouse is at.
boof (OP) replied with this 5 months ago, 7 hours later, 2 weeks after the original post[^][v]#1,382,456
progress:
better interface by pasting chrome://browser/content/browser.xhtml into the URL field, do ordinary Web Developer Tools so I don't have to futz with a two god damn windows at the same time.
next, click button to the left of the word Inspector in the menu that is at the top of the pane that appeared at the bottom of the page.
boof (OP) double-posted this 5 months ago, 9 hours later, 2 weeks after the original post[^][v]#1,382,541
that button then allows the action of mousing around the duplicate toolbars and having the related html/css appear in the Web Developer Tools frame. The only drawback is lack of access to things like menus that appear after clicking something and seeing their css stuff. Still need to activate Browser Toolbox to handle that, but even that needs a preparatory step of going to click the three dots button at the top right side of the frame and click Disable Popup Auto-Hide.
But there's never any "red-dotted line around it" stuff. Just blue boxes formed from rectangle whose corners are intersection points of four blue dashed lines.
Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 5 months ago, 7 hours later, 2 weeks after the original post[^][v]#1,382,589
@1,381,175 (D)
Flash is basically undead now. Flash Player itself is gone, but now they have Ruffle, which while not yet 100% compatible is better in some ways (you don't have to install it, and it works on any platform that supports modern JS; in fact the biggest cross-platform compatibility issue for many flash games these days is that their developers never imagined they would run on a device without a physical keyboard).
boof (OP) replied with this 5 months ago, 2 weeks later, 1 month after the original post[^][v]#1,385,801
I am currently peeved that my first attempt to use someone's javascript file to give a feature to Firefox doesn't fucking work, and that I don't fucking care to get into the weeds about why. Suffice it to say, this customization is not Mozilla supported so when they make new Firefoxes, some bullshit they changed makes scripts get broken so any script you find might not work with the version of Firefox you want to use and its a pain the ass.
boof (OP) double-posted this 4 months ago, 1 week later, 1 month after the original post[^][v]#1,387,659
progress:
I got the javascript file to be recognized by Firefox now, but because of the changing of shit with versions, I now have to try newer versions of the script, but not overshoot to too new, because this fucking function that the script is supposed to do is not performing. It shows a button in the toolbar that does nothing.
boof (OP) quadruple-posted this 4 months ago, 2 weeks later, 2 months after the original post[^][v]#1,392,652
progress:
I have my notes about how to use people's javascript files with Firefox done and have returned to finding more css crap with Browser Toolbox and Web Developer Tools which are built into Firefox. I got the IDs of all the toolbars and most of their parts -- all the immediately visible parts and much of the crap you see when you click something. I got a lot of relaxing pastel iced cream hues going on now. Got to do some of the menu backgrounds still. What I'm really happy that I figured out was how to have the menu bar hidden unless you mouse up to the upper left area where it is (or if you press Alt, as usual). Still have to tweak some of this and that.
boof (OP) quintuple-posted this 2 months ago, 1 month later, 3 months after the original post[^][v]#1,401,261
progress:
I am continuing to find how to change the coloar of various elements of the browser in isolation. I had a multi-day struggle with the overflow menu for the double chevron button that appears when you have lots of bookmarks on the bookmark toolbar (which is inexplicably named #PersonalToolbar for css ID). I fucking hate lengthy troubleshooting puzzle solving shit.
boof (OP) sextuple-posted this 2 months ago, 5 days later, 3 months after the original post[^][v]#1,402,209
well now I got a peeve and a half. even with the extensions I could find, you can't selectively delete specified domains, e.g. youtube.com, from the browser history. extensions exist to find all the matches, but if you want to delete, it is one by one and slow as fuck. UNACCEPTABLE