Firefox, especially if you have lots of extensions, does take sometime to start up. There are times I wonder is it loading? So I click the icon again thinking may be it didn’t work the first time around. Then I end up with Fx opened up in two windows. This is not a big deal, I just closed the extra browser window. Then I discovered a simple and customizable solution, the Splash extension. When you start Firefox a “Splash” (loading) screen will appear when Firefox is starting up. The default image is taken from the graphic that is displayed on…

[Part 1][Part 2][Part 3][Part 3.5][Part 4][Part 4.5] Just a quick update (thus the pt 3.5) on the status of the Firefox Add-on Overhaul. Some good news from the Mozilla Webdev Blog in response to a complaint (not mine) in regards to the lack of an Advanced Search feature: “fwenzel@mozilla.com Says: February 14th, 2007 at 10:37 pm …Advanced search is on our list, and will come back.” You can take a look at the preview site, but just keep in mind that this is a work in progress and due to the issues discussed in the Mozilla Webdev Blog, the site…

A recent Vulnerability involving Fx 2.0.0.1 (and possibly 1.5.0.* builds) has been exposed. The vulnerability (Bug 370445) could allow a malicious web site to impersonate an authentic one and set a cookie on its behalf. Due to Fx 2.0.0.2 already in RC status and due out in a few days, plus the bug is still being worked it is doubtful this will be fixed in this upcoming build. Likely we will see this fixed in Fx 2.0.0.3 (and if affects the 1.5.0.X builds, 1.5.0.11). In the mean time you can apply this simple fix via about:config… In a new tab,…

Mitchell Baker, CEO of Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation, has released a draft version of the Mozilla Manifesto, a declaration of principles and ways the Mozilla project as a whole follows and the goals it pursues. Part of the Mozilla Manifesto are 10 Principles that Mozilla “…believes are critical for the Internet to continue to benefit the public good as well as commercial aspects of life.” I am not going to list or discuss all 10 of the principles. However, #5 really stood out: “Individuals must have the ability to shape their own experiences on the Internet.” I strongly believe…

For some odd reason there was a Gecko 1.9/Grand Paradiso meeting on Tuesday (2007/02/13). In the meeting notes there is a brief mention that the Fx 3 developers are targeting (still have some bugs to work out) to have Places in place for the Alpha 3 release due out sometime next month. Permalink

[Part 1][Part 2][Part 3][Part 3.5][Part 4][Part 4.5] This is part 3 of my multi-part series on the Firefox Add-ons Overhaul. At the bottom of the Part 2 entry I had added this update: Update: The “preview” site is a work in progress and has actually been up (and down) for several weeks. The current extension list is NOT all inclusive, more may be added prior to the final release. Since this post, the preview site has been updated and nearly all the extensions I had mentioned prior as being removed/missing are now included in the preview site. They have also…

[digg=http://digg.com/software/CoLT_Copying_a_Link_as_Link] Back in October I touched briefly on my favorite and by far most used extension, CoLT (Copy Link Text). Since then I have found myself using it even more and have even taken advantage of the custom styles option. In the beginning I used CoLT mainly for copying entire (Text AND Links) HTML links. All I had to do was right-click (no need to highlight) the link I wanted to copy and selected from the context menu, ‘Copy Link Text & Locations As’ followed by ‘HTML Link’ from the sub menu. The extension automatically generated the HTML code for…

[Part 1][Part 2][Part 3][Part 3.5][Part 4][Part 4.5] As I mentioned Saturday, Mozilla is overhauling the Firefox Add-ons site. Earlier today Mozilla had made available a preview of the new and (not) improved Firefox Add-ons site. Besides removing a huge chunk of add-ons such as Clear Cache Button, CacheViewer, SeachLoad Options, Stylish, CoLT, Infolister, Linky, AJAX Yahoo! Mail, DisableBackspaceNavigation, Restarter, Smiley Xtra, Spellbound, Splash, Stop Autoplay, TinyURL Creator, Update Channel Changer and WeatherBug to name a few, I’ve noticed these changes thus far: URL format for the extensions has changed because of the multi-language support (English, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Korean, French…