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…

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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

Note: For this tweak I recommend using the ChromEdit Plus This tweak allows you to change the color of the progress bar in your status bar. Simply add these lines to your userChrome.css file located in your profile folder: /* Change the progress bar color */ .progress-bar { -moz-appearance: none !important; background-color: #660000 !important; } To specify the color, choose your color here and note the six-digit hex code. Within the code you have copied from above to your userChrome.css file, replace ‘660000’ with the six-digit hex code for the color you have chosen. Make sure you include the ‘#’…

At the end of last year I mentioned in my Help with Minefield Error post I was getting odd error messages when I exited Minefield.  I got a response in the thread I had posted over on Firefox Builds. Someone suggested disabling/removing the talkback extension has they too were getting similar problems with the newer version (3.0a2pre).  After disabling the extension, I closed Minefield, restarted Minefield updated to the latest nightly build, closed and restarted Minefield to apply the update and then finally closed Minefield again.  No Windows error messages!  The only downside is I won’t be able to report…

A couple days ago I explained in the Bookmarks: Backing up and Recovering post how to recover your missing bookmarks if Firefox ‘eats’ them. But I didn’t give much thought to if something major were to go wrong, until Freesitebuilder left the following comment: “Great tip – I’ve lost my bookmarks twice when they simply disappeared from Firefox, and a third time with a HDD failure.” Good point! Five days worth of backed-up bookmarks aren’t going to do you much good if your hard drive is toast! Now, if you are doing regular system back-ups to CD-R, Tape Drive or…