Two months ago on March 11th I announced I would be Making the Switch to Fx 3.0. I did download and install Firefox 3 a couple weeks ago. However, I had not done much with it up until this weekend. Part of this was because I was having issues trying to get my bookmarks over from Firefox 2. The issue had nothing to do with the inability of Firefox 3 to import my Firefox 2 bookmarks. Rather it was I could not locate my Firefox 2 bookmarks within my profile folder. Turns out the profile folder path is a little…
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It has only been a few days since I announced Tweaks Section Redesign Coming Soon (on ffextensionguru.com). I am please to announce the new Tweaks section is now live. I also have created a direct link (http://tweaks.ffextensionguru.com) to the Tweaks section. The redesign went a lot better than making the transition to Firefox 3.0b5 as my default browser (more on that later).
Been so busy getting ready to switch over to Firefox 3 and following the Microsoft/Yahoo saga, I completely missed the Blog’s 2nd Anniversary back on May 1st.
Simple tweak to make your active tab wider. Using ChromEdit add the following lines to your userChrome.css file: /* Make the active tab wider */ #content tab[selected=”true”] { min-width: 200px !important; } Once you have added these lines, click Save, then Restart; your active tab will be wider than the inactive tabs when Firefox restarts. Notes: You can substitute any value for the ‘200px’. This tweak works for Fx 2 & 3. Tip Source: Eric Wendelin’s Blog
Along with the ‘Go’ Button and the Bookmark ‘Star’ (Fx 3) buttons there is also a ‘Live Feed’ button to add clutter to the address bar: To remove the ‘Live Feed’ Button use ChromEdit and add the following lines to your userChrome.css file: /* Remove live feed icon in Address url toolbar */ #feed-button { display: none !important; } Once you have added these lines, click Save, then Restart; the ‘Live Feed’ button will be gone when Firefox restarts. Note: This tweak works for Fx 2 & 3. Tip Source: Eric Wendelin’s Blog
As if the ‘Go’ Button weren’t bad enough, Firefox 3 adds a Bookmark ‘Star’ Button to the address bar. This ‘feature’ allows you to bookmark the current page you are browsing. This can also be accomplished by pressing CTRL+D (Add Bookmark), selecting Bookmark This Page from either the Bookmarks or Context (right-click) menu. To remove the Bookmark ‘Star’ Button use ChromEdit and add the following lines to your userChrome.css file: /* Remove the Bookmark star */ #star-button { display: none !important; } Once you have added these lines, click Save, then Restart; the ‘Star’ will be gone when Firefox restarts….
Here is the text you need to copy into your UserChrome.css file: /*Remove the search button (magnifying glass) */ .search-go-button { display: none !important; } New Source: Eric Wendelin’s Blog
Since I just installed Firefox 3 and starting with a clean slate I am having to go through my Tweaks List anyway to get Firefox 3 setup the way I like it. This will give me a chance to see which ones work with Firefox 3 and which ones don’t (and which ones should be removed). Further this section requires a massive redesign as right now it is nothing more than a list of links with brief descriptions. I will be breaking these tweaks into categories to make them easier to find. Look for the redesign section to go live…
WordPress.com is always adding new features and hadn’t even realized they added a related posts feature. The new feature called Possibly related posts was added back at the end of April. Here’s a brief overview on how this feature works: In a feature we’re calling possibly related posts we’ll now try to show posts related to yours a little section at the end. If we find any posts on your blog that are related, we’ll put those at the very top and in bold. Next we’ll show other posts from around WordPress.com, and finally we’ll check if there’s anything in…
I have finally gotten around to installing Firefox 3 Beta 5 earlier today. I haven’t done much yet, but noticed a bit of an interface change. The first thing I went to do was go into about:config to make some modifications to the default settings. Upon entering about:config in the address bar and pressing enter I was presented with this humorous warning. This replaces a similar warning from earlier versions of Firefox 3.