How to find number of Fx windows (not tabs)
In XP with an older Fx version I could see (24) Firefox in the Windows taskbar at the bottom of the screen. Now with current Fx and Windows 7 I only see a globe. Can I get a visible count? (Apologies if this is a Windows question; hard to know.)
I prefer separate windows to stacking up tabs (so easier to skip around with alt-tab). I see the "Tab counter" add-on, but it seems to count tabs, not windows.
/rant on/ Any current or future designers: get off this retarded notion of replacing useful screen info with icons. Naturally it began with Microsoft when their Deproductivity Department came up with the still 100% useless ribbon, replacing visible scrollable choices in menus. "(24) Firefox" has become "globe icon." You should see the Acronis backup product: there's tons of screen real estate, but just big symbols, and not one G.D. menu whatsoever.
This has become a tsunami. It makes for flashy sexy minimalist design so sounds good in I.T. presentation, economizing interfaces into icons because of handheld devices and their small screens, "because that's the way the world is going." However this is being done to the deproductive detriment of desktop users. Interface designers seem all giddy at the notion of a unified interface. However remember that the world is not being run by the limited, less efficient handheld users; the world goes around due to the office workers who spend 8 hours a day on a desktop. Home users too. Handhelds are what you use when you're not at a desktop; but when you have the choice, you go desktop to utilize its higher productivity - if that of course is your aim. Why compromise the primary interface (desktop), in order to homogenize it with the currently sexy "app" fascination?
So cut out the $%^&ing iconization of interfaces! Except for handheld apps only! /rant off/
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Right click on a blank area of the Taskbar. Task bar and start menu should come up. Choose the Taskbar tab. Click on Taskbar Buttons
Ty Fred but that will just produce 24 globes. Can I get it to say
(24) Firefox
on the Taskbar like it used to?
(By the way, he was saying to change this with taskbar *properties*)
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WInXP is EOL and Mozilla doesn't officially support it any longer.
That said, Mozilla probably won't just arbitrarily end support for WinXP to it being EOL and Mozilla does do limited compatibility testing with WinXP to make sure a planned change isn't going to break compatibility in a major way. But when it comes to "doing right" for Firefox users running much newer versions of Windows, WinXP users will end up with the sort end of the stick.
Alas, it's not about XP (or is it? Is the problem just Win7's taskbar preventing showing the count?). AAR I won't attempt to argue the merits of XP and the merits of its interface, but it is important for developers to note: - Most know that Microsoft has NOT discontinued WinXP support. It just charges a fee for it. - It is still on a LOT of machines as the primary OS. Tens of millions is likely. In 2014 IIRC it was the primary OS on 30% of Windows machines.
Ask your bank what OS is on their ATM machine. Seriously. Brace for the answer being "Windows XP."
- If anyone claims it's disappearing, don't tell all those VM users running XP. There's a lot of VirtualBox (et al) setup solely to run XP32 for applications that ceased to function in a later Windows OS.
That aside, Can I get the taskbar to say
(24) Firefox
? Like it used to?
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