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The new "menu in the upper left" seems to be rather badly designed. It's missing the "View" menu entirely, which makes it impossible for me to view non-ASCII/U
by DarkShikari 16y ago
The new "menu in the upper left" seems to be rather badly designed. It's missing the "View" menu entirely, which makes it impossible for me to view non-ASCII/Unicode websites. It took me about 5 minutes of searching and frantically right-clicking to re-enable the old menu, which of course still had the View menu.
On a positive note, 4 is so much faster than 3.6 it isn't even funny. It's like going from a 286 running off of an 8-inch floppy to a Core 2 on an SSD.
- mbrubeck 16y agoCharacter encoding options are now in the "Web Developer" sub-menu of the Firefox menu. (Weird, I know.) UPDATE: This is different in localized builds - Japanese builds of Firefox should provide easier access to the encoding menu. In other locales, you can go to about:config and toggle "browser.menu.showCharacterEncoding" to see this. You can also press Alt+V to quickly open the old View menu.
- DarkShikari 16y agoThis may confuse the few hundred million users whose languages don't use Roman letters and weren't told about this move...
- hasenj 16y agoI'm a user of such a language (Arabic) and by now all websites I care about use utf8, so the character encoding is a problem from the past as far as I'm concerned. I'd be really surprised if there are still sites that don't use utf8.
- DarkShikari 16y agoJapan still uses Shift-JIS for practically everything, much to the chagrin of anyone else in the world looking to use their applications.
- hasenj 16y agoI visit some Japanese websites from time to time (not that I can read or anything .. just clicking on links) and don't remember having many problems with weird characters.
- yuhong 16y agoThis is because this is required if the site uses a legacy character encoding AND it is declared incorrectly or not at all.
- ootachi 16y agoIIRC in those locales the Character Encoding menu is under the main Firefox menu.
- madelfio 16y agoTap "Alt" and you get the normal menus (including "View"). Not very obvious, but easy once you know.
- kellishaver 16y agoThis doesn't seem to work in Ubuntu, at least not for me.
- cycojesus 16y agotype Alt+v then.
- Jencha 16y agoI may be missing something, but character encoding menu is right there when you click Firefox button. 9nth entry from the top for me.
- EdiX 16y agoYou should never need to change the default encoding. If you have to it means the web page you are viewing is broken.
- matthewn 16y agoIf you don't mind installing an extension, "Personal Menu" will let you add the View menu and its children to the upper-left menu.