BootAble – FreeDOS boot testing freeware
To obtain direct, low-level access to a system's mass storage drives, SpinRite runs under a GRC-customized version of FreeDOS which has been modified to add compatibility with all file systems. In order to run SpinRite it must first be possible to boot FreeDOS.
GRC's “BootAble” freeware allows anyone to easily create BIOS-bootable media in order to workout and confirm the details of getting a machine to boot FreeDOS through a BIOS. Once the means of doing that has been determined, the media created by SpinRite can be booted and run in the same way.
The participants here, who have taken the time to share their knowledge and experience, their successes and some frustrations with booting their computers into FreeDOS, have created a valuable knowledgebase which will benefit everyone who follows.
You may click on the image to the right to obtain your own copy of BootAble. Then use the knowledge and experience documented here to boot your computer(s) into FreeDOS. And please do not hesitate to ask questions – nowhere else can better answers be found.
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Without attitude; the discussion in episode 976 was Leo and @Steve didn't understand why FF didn't offer vertical tabs like every other browser, and I'd argue they do have such a feature without the need of addons like Tree View Tabs or All Tabs Helper etc.. It's right there in 'List All Tabs' and has been for years, but I guess no one either knows about it and/or uses it but me.
Well to be honest, I forget that feature even exists, because it's in the wrong place (I would want it on the left side) and doesn't appear to be movable.
In my opinion, Firefox's “List All Tabs” feature, more than anything else, demonstrates the fact that Firefox lacks true native vertical tabs. What having vertical tabs means is having them sitting there, along the left edge of the screen, always visible and instantly browsable at a glance. If a user has a large number of traditional horizontal tabs, the "List All Tabs" is needed to allow them to find the tab they want. It's mostly a sad half-measure. So let's hope (I'll hope!) that Firefox might finally wake up to this clear need. And as Chris mentioned, above, Tab Session Manager is another super-handy add-on.
Without triggering my conspiracy hypothesist, I find it curiously comical so many (including myself) still feel a need for such "native" spatial constraints as a routine of rigid tabs, and continue with an insistence on a conformity and limit of yesteryear's perusing of information and media.In my opinion, Firefox's “List All Tabs” feature, more than anything else, demonstrates the fact that Firefox lacks true native vertical tabs. What having vertical tabs means is having them sitting there, along the left edge of the screen, always visible and instantly browsable at a glance. If a user has a large number of traditional horizontal tabs, the "List All Tabs" is needed to allow them to find the tab they want. It's mostly a sad half-measure. So let's hope (I'll hope!) that Firefox might finally wake up to this clear need. And as Chris mentioned, above, Tab Session Manager is another super-handy add-on.
When will complaining/suggesting that we need vertical tabs on all our other applications besides the browser? Just maybe FF's 'List All Tabs' is brilliantly ahead of its time with a pull down tab list?
@Steve you interestingly touched on a browser zero tab potential in episode #SN977 discussing uses for Microsoft's Recall data which was kind of instinctively hinted at in the later part of the article above. Tomorrows user interface(s) of technology and information access all resides outside the box of today's container of routines. Our potential use of LLM AI is completely unimagined as of yet, but by the likes of those at Microsoft which have lead an intentional clear vision of past, present and future computing direction. The problem with today's binary realm is the flaw in our terrestrial infrastructure (insecure) and compromised Giant Tech across the board, which is currently being replaced with a secure quantum celestial infrastructure (i.e., https://www.starlink.com/ ) protected globally by the USSF.
www.mozilla.org
You might want to reread the release notes.The BETA channel of Firefox has vertical tabs now!
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Apparently you did... whether they have it properly documented or not is unclear.
I'm sure your Firefox Nightly feedback will help speed things along...Apparently you did... whether they have it properly documented or not is unclear.
Re: Nightly 126 Vertical Tab Bar needs more customization
There's a flag in about:config called sidebar.revamp you can set to true, but I saw somewhere it only enables the vertical tabs in a specific build which I haven't been able to try since there's no Flatpak for developer or nightly editions and i'm on Fedora silverblue. Also, does this need to be...connect.mozilla.org
also
Mozilla released a Firefox Nightly test build with vertical tabs - gHacks Tech News
Mozilla released a standalone Firefox Nightly test build recently that includes support for vertical tabs. Here is how it looks.www.ghacks.net
"Tech Break 7809No one should ever need more than one tab. That's what multiple browser windows are for.
Anyone else reading this thread using 'List all tabs'? Everyone I've talked to using FF over the years didn't even know it existed. D'oh!Without attitude; the discussion in episode 976 was Leo and @Steve didn't understand why FF didn't offer vertical tabs like every other browser, and I'd argue they do have such a feature without the need of addons like Tree View Tabs or All Tabs Helper etc.. It's right there in 'List All Tabs' and has been for years, but I guess no one either knows about it and/or uses it but me.
