On Friday, Gerv announced that Giganews would be hosting the new Mozilla news server. This is something that was five years in waiting. It will also be the first time user support forums will be on a server called “mozilla.org”. (I’ll post more info, when the groups go live.) While there have been mentions of [...]
Firefox users have an option to enable smooth scrolling in the options menu, but what about Thunderbird? Is that part of the back-end Mozilla code, that they share? Why yes it is! To enable Smooth Scrolling in Mozilla Thunderbird, add the following line to your user.js: user_pref(“general.smoothScroll”, true); Or, if you have the AboutConfig extension, [...]
I just got an ICQ account. Hello, Congratulations! You can now take an active part in the ICQ community & services using your new ICQ number: 349814105.
Most of my website traffic comes from Mozilla Europe. As such, I’d like to make an effort to add more international links to my links page. Anyone know of some good Mozilla sites in other languages? (help sites, forums, development, anything)
Here’s another frequently asked question about Firefox: When I start entering text in to a search field (or any other text field, like name, address, etc.), I get a drop-down list of items I previously entered in the same field. How do I remove one of those entries? Answer: Use the arrow keys (one your [...]
Guidelines, Rules, or Request? Two out of three isn’t bad. Looks like there’s a discussion in the secnews Firefox newsgroup about bottom-posting versus top-posting. The most notable aspect of it are the references to the Posting Guidelines, sometimes referred to as “policy”, “rules”, “custom”, “preference”, “request”, “conventions”, etc. It has always been rather confusing to [...]
Some people prefer to be warned when a website wants to set a cookie. Even though the option does not appear in Firefox, this is another feature from the Mozilla Application Suite that is in the back-end code for Firefox. To enable cookie warnings in Firefox: Enter about:config in the location bar. Right-click anywhere within [...]
Sometimes people ask how often Firefox refreshes live bookmarks. The default is set to 30 minutes, but you can change that. Enter about:config in the location bar. Right-click anywhere within the list of preferences and select New -> Integer. When you get asked to enter the preference name, enter: browser.bookmarks.livemark_refresh_seconds You will then be asked [...]
It is common practise, and good net etiquette, in email and newsgroups to quote the text of a message you are replying to. Google Groups reiterates this on their Netiquette page. So why the heck does their button that appears below each post on Google Groups not quote the message being replied to? They even [...]
Imagine looking at your computer desktop, and seeing this: Today, a jet airplane slid off the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport, crashing into a gully 200 feet away. To see your home city on CNN.com is a pretty weird feeling. Notice the weather feed in the first screenshot. To say the weather was severe, [...]