Some quick updates regarding A Splash Screen For Fx & TBird. First, the extension (here) also works with Flock, sort of. You will get an Incompatible Extension Warning. Just click ‘Yes’ and the extension will install. Further there is an options screen which is accessed from Tools, Add-ons (or Extensions), select Splash and then click Options. Note: If you are having trouble with the Options Window “rolling-up” this can be fixed via about:config by changing browser.preferences.animateFadeIn to False. With the options screen you can specify the image you want displayed, background text, size of splash screen, how long it is…
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Another great find by Percy at Mozilla Links. SearchLoad Extension adds some much need options to the Firefox search bar (or search box). Once installed, to configure go to Tools and then select Search Options. There are two sections Searchbar and Tabs. The Searchbar section offer two options for the search bar. The first option well clear the searchbar after a specified amount of time (in seconds). This is a nice feature, but what I really like is the options to resent the search engine back to a default (in my case Google) after a a specified amount of time…
Thunderbird and Firefox more so (if you have lots of extensions), do take sometime to start up. This extension displays a “splash” (loading) screen for Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird (Mozilla’s calendar application) while the application starts. At the end of this article are samples of the Fx and Thunderbird splash screens. Oddly enough it does seem like the applications are launching a little faster with the splash screen. If anything at least you know the application is loading. I’ve had cases where Fx took so long to load from when I click the icon and I end up clicking again…
Looks like the last week of January is going to be a big week for Firefox and Thunderbird milestones and releases. Note: As in the past these release dates (especially those in red) are tentative and likely subject to change (much like that of Fx 2 this past summer): January 29th – Firefox 3 (Gran Paradiso) Alpha 2 January 31st – Thunderbird 2 Beta 2 February 2 – Firefox 1.5.0.10 and 2.0.0.2 Permalink
Late yesterday Matt at WordPress announced due to overwhelming response, all WordPress blogs will now have Snap Preview Anywhere (SPA). SPA is a cool little feature which generates a preview of the page when you hover over a link. What’s even nicer is the SPA feature is retro active so this feature works on any of my past blog entries that contain links. It also suppose to work on links contained within comments as well. This is another one of those nice standard features that makes me glad I switched over to WordPress a little over 4 months ago.
Granted right now Thunderbird is not as feature packed as Outlook. But Thunderbird 2 will be adding several new features such as the new message alert indicator, message tags and may be even tabs. Thunderbird 2 will also render incoming HTML e-mails via Firefox. Outlook 2007 (due out in February) on the other hand is not going to use Internet Explorer anymore to render incoming HTML E-Mails. Nope, it is going to use the MS Word rendering engine which is currently uses for creating e-mails. So what you ask? First off, ever try to make a web page out of…
Now you too can have your very own Firefox mouse pad. What better way to promote your favorite browser! Only $5* from the Mozilla Store. *Plus $2 minimum shipping charge.
Note: For this tweak I recommend using the ChromEdit Plus extension. With Firefox 2 came the options of changing where your close tab buttons were displayed along with tab-overflow and the List All Tabs buttons. By default the List All Tabs Button is on the right side of the tab bar. You can either move it to the left side of your tab bar or remove the button altogether. Moving The Button – To change the location of the List All Tabs button, use the ChromEdit Plus extension. Add these lines to your userChrome.css file located in your profile folder:…
Note: For this tweak I recommend using the ChromEdit Plus and about:config extensions. Restoring the “Find” Buttons For some odd reason in Firefox 2, the Quick Find Bar (activated via “/”) does not display the “Find Next” or “Find Previous” buttons. To restore these buttons, simply add this line to your userChrome.css file located in your profile folder /* Add Next/Previous Buttons to Quick Find Bar */ #FindToolbar > * {display: -moz-box; } When you are done editing your userChrome.css file, close and restart Firefox and the changes should take effect right away. Increase the Quick Find Bar Latency By…
Note: For this tweak I recommend using the ChromEdit Plus extension. The Firefox sidebar can display bookmarks, history and other content. Some users may prefer to have the sidebar displayed on the right side of the screen instead of the left. Simply add these lines to your userChrome.css file located in your profile folder: /* Display the sidebar in opposite side */ #browser { -moz-box-direction: reverse; } When you are done editing your userChrome.css file, close and restart Firefox and the changes should take effect right away. Source:Mozilla Links Permalink