Re: Proxy on Tools menu

Lewis G Rosenthal <[email protected]> Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:06:06 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.multizilla
Organization Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 09/05/08 03:36 pm, Michael Vincent van Rantwijk, MultiZilla thus wrote :
> Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
>> Hi, Michael (and a very, very warm "welcome back" to your dad!!!)!
>
> Thank you very much Lewis.  Please note that my father won't be part 
> of this newsgroup, as a precaution, to protect someone's privacy (he 
> is sharing his Internet connection).
>
I understand (and assumed as much, based upon his absence from this 
list). Please pass along my good thoughts. Rarely do I use a MultiZilla 
feature that I don't think of him (particularly the feed reader).

More, below:
>> Comments on this, below:
>>
>> On 09/05/08 02:47 pm, Michael Vincent van Rantwijk, MultiZilla thus 
>> wrote :
>>> Paul Hartman wrote:
>>>> I'm not sure when it changed, but at some point the "Proxy" options
>>>> disappeared from the "golden wrench" tools menu in MultiZilla. It was
>>>> really handy for a quick proxy switching off and on. Did I disable
>>>> this by way of some kind of setting, or was it removed? (It's not
>>>> there under click, shift+click, or ctrl+click.)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks :)
>>>> Paul
>>>
>>> Hi Paul,
>>>
>>> This feature (menu) was changed on:
>>>
>>> Sat Sep 22 10:38:48 2007 UTC (11 months, 2 weeks ago) by Michael (me)
>>>
>>> As in changed, not removed, because it will be there when you hide 
>>> your status bar (menu -> View -> Show/Hide -> Status Bar).
>>>
>>> Just to clear up the thought of it being removed - thought it 
>>> probably still feels like this, but anyway that's how things are 
>>> right now.
>>>
>>> We can change this, by adding a pref setting to make it appear at 
>>> all time.  In fact I will do that right now ;)
>>>
>> I know it's not MultiZilla's "thing" to get involved with Mail/News, 
>> but I see that the right-click menu on the online/offline button is 
>> only available from the browser window. It would be handy to have 
>> this available everywhere (i.e., Mail/News). Possible? Should I open 
>> an RFE?
>>
>> Cheers/2
>
> While we could fix this, wouldn't it be better to file this RFE over 
> at mozilla.org?
>
I'm sorry; I thought your reference above was to a change in MultiZilla 
enabling that button in the browser and not in core. I will definitely 
file the RFE over there, then!!!

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Lewis
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