Archive for the ‘Firefox’ Category
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
One of my (very few) frustrations with Firefox is that by default, you can only open a handful of tabs before you have to use the scroll button to access them. Using this quick about:config change you can alter the size (width) of your Firefox tabs, allowing for more to ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Another possible title for this brief tutorial could be "StumbleUpon now automatically includes all the sites you give a thumbs-up as a Firefox 3 bookmark". But I'll stick with my first title.
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Miss604 is on a screencasting-roll - here's one on how to customize the Firefox 3 Toolbar, just in case it installed with some of the buttons missing (or you want to add others). You can subscribe to all of Rebeccas screencasts on Viddler using this feed. The video is after ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
As a part of Firefox 3, the Location Bar got a few upgrades. One of them is that it now uses a XUL richlistbox widget for the auto-complete dropdown. This means that typing in the Location Bar will now search not only URLs, but page titles, bookmark names, and tags. ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Unless you've been living under a rock, you've already heard that development on Firefox 3 is pretty close to done. Well as of today, it's done. The Mozilla crew want to set a world record for most software downloads in 24 hours, so head over to http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/firefox3 and grab your ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
As you likely know by now, Google has updated their favicon.ico from the boxed G ()to a lower case (with no box) g (). However, Firefox continues to use the old icon in the search bar.
Old Google Firefox Search Bar
New Google Firefox Search Bar
To switch to the new icon ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Google recently changed their favicon.ico from the ever familiar boxed G, to a smaller g. If you're not a big fan of the new icon, you can install this Greasemonkey script and pretend the change never happened. You will of course need to be using Firefox (or Safari) as your ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Using the amazing Firefox Addon GMarks, you can import your Firefox bookmarks to Google Bookmarks, and then add a GMarks menu item to replace your Firefox bookmarks. And you get a number of extra features, one of the best being quick search. Follow the instructions outlined below and your bookmarks ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
The PortableApps.com Suite is a collection of free portable apps including a web browser (Firefox), email client (Thunderbird), office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, sudoku game, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably. This guide will take you through installing and setting up PortableApps to best ...
Posted in Firefox, Office, Windows | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
This brief tutorial will take you through the steps required to add favicons to your Bookmarks Toolbar in Firefox 3 Beta 5. This is a tutorial requested by the friendly How-To Geek.
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Using the Firefox Add-on GooglePreview, you can have thumbnails displayed next to each search result for both Google and Yahoo.
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GooglePreview installs the same way most other Firefox add-ons do, and you'll have to restart Firefox for it to take effect.
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
If you're a Firefox fan, but get frustrated with the number of times it crashes on your Mac, or would like to squeeze some extra performance out of it, you should give Firefox Mac Community Builds a look. They have G3, G4 and Intel specific builds of Firefox - from ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Using the very helpful Toolbar Buttons Firefox plugin, you can add more than 70 'new' buttons to your Firefox Toolbar.
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
If you're a die-hard Safari user, you may want to check out one of Firefox's best features - Greasemonkey. Using the free software SIMBL and GreaseKit, you can run most of the scripts created for Greasemonkey - in Safari. And Mailplane. And all WebKit apps. So now you can use ...
Posted in Firefox, Mac | 24 Comments »
Saturday, November 10th, 2007
One of my favorite Greasemonkey scripts is Folders4Gmail - and it was updated today to work with the latest version of Gmail. Once again my Gmail filters are folders.
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