Comments on: Kazehakase on steroids

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:58:14 +0000

Ah, you might have a buggy release. I remember there was one that crashed on certain preference choices. See if there’s an updated version, or try checking the Kazehakase home pages for fixes. I think just about everything in the preferences menu is reflected in the rc file, so you might also be able to avoide that menu by directly editing it.

By: Ridwan

Ridwan — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:17:00 +0000

I’ve tried v0.5.2 on gOS 3. Does the drop link to download tray (on the right corner) works?
The stranges thing is Preference menu, when I click it, it would close the browser. Is this a bug?

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:20:40 +0000

Hi Keith. I’ll try to help with these, although you may have found a bug or two for what I can see. I’m using v0.5.0 on Arch for all these.

1. In the New tab submenu of the advanced preferences, I have both “Move focus to new tab on NewTab Action” and “Move focus to new tab on middle-clicking link” selected, and the focus shifts when I middle click, but not from a right-click-Open in new tab selection. That might be a bug; you should check the Kazehakase bug tracker and see if anything like that is filed there.

2. I don’t use gestures, so I’m afraid I can’t help with that one.

3. I think installing the Flash plugin for your distro should do the trick. In Arch that’s “flashplugin”; Ubuntu uses “flashplugin-nonfree”. You shouldn’t even have to restart your browser after installing it. Just refresh the page and Flash items should animate.

Cheers!

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:10:17 +0000

I’ve just spent a couple of hours on this and wonder if someone can help with these issues:

1) DealKiller
I can’t get new tabs to open in focus. I’ve tried creating a firefox style browser.tabs.loadInBackground entry but no go. This is a MAJOR annoyance for me.

2) Strange
While there is a keyboard shortcut for “open link in new tab” there is no way to do this with a gesture. Seems strange.

3) Doesn’t use flash by default, but I’m sure this is easy.

TIA

Keith

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:38:28 +0000

Fantastic! When I get back from work I’ll take a look. Feel free to import anything worthwhile from here into the wiki. It’s all GFDL1.2 now, so there shouldn’t be any licensing issues between the two. Thanks a bunch! This is really great!

By: voltaic

voltaic — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:13:55 +0000

I fixed up/taken over the Kazehakase wiki. It no longer contains large quantities of spam. I intend to make it into something useful, unless the developers object. If anyone is interested in helping out please visit the wiki:

http://kazehakase.sourceforge.jp/wiki/

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:15:00 +0000

Excellent find! I need to test two things now — privoxy and that ad blocking file. I should have a block of time this evening to set things up, but it looks like you’ve done the hard part already. Cheers and thanks!

By: voltaic

voltaic — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:05:46 +0000

Here is something interesting: http://www.gozer.org/mozilla/ad_blocking/

As the website suggests, you place the contents of the ad_blocking.css file in .kazehakase/mozilla/kazehakase/chrome/userContent.css and surprisingly the ads are gone. The list was last updated in August, but ad blocking still works very well. This also doesn’t suffer from the performance issues that privoxy brings about.

Every kazehakase user should give this a try.

By: johnraff

johnraff — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:41:24 +0000

I’ve just put in privoxy and Kazehakase is using it as a proxy. Ads are indeed being filtered just like Adblock Plus on Fx. However, on this particular machine (128MB, 450MHz) I’d say that Swiftweasel (which does seem to be significantly faster than Firefox btw) w. Adblock Plus is loading the same page faster than Kazehakase through privoxy. About 6sec vs 10sec for a Guardian page eg:(http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/02/climatechange?gusrc=rss&feed=12)…

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:51:08 +0000

Great, thanks a lot. I’ll give it a spin this evening when I get home, if I’m not too tired. I have to go to a wedding tomorrow so I might not get a chance to test this until later in the weekend, but if I can get it working I’ll package it up properly and republish it (with proper credit, of course ) in a separate post. (It will help me find it later.)

Thanks again! This will be a huge boost for anyone who’s trying to move away from Firefox. Cheers!