I was saving this tip for today, because it’s a bit of a Christmas present, courtesy of alta88. Users of both Firefox and Thunderbird may have noticed that when you get the feed preview screen in Firefox 2, and use the drop-down list to add the feed to Thunderbird, it does not work. There are [...]
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According to bugzilla.mozilla.org, On Tuesday, December 26, at 6pm PST (2am UTC) we will be upgrading Bugzilla to the current pre-release of version 3.0. We are expecting the upgrade to take anywhere from 4 to 6 hours. Bugzilla will be down for the duration of the upgrade process. For more information, see the upgrade notes. [...]
I hadn’t seen Late Night with Conan O’Brien in long time; and I forgot how brilliant his humour is. Tonight, he told the story of www.hornymanatee.com. http://youtube.com/watch?v=SfqCPmlyYwM
Firefox 2 has a lot of small usability changes, that are great. I’m sure we’ve all accidentally middle-clicked on a bookmark folder, or live bookmark, only to be bombarded with many many tabs opening many many web sites at once. In Firefox 2, if you trigger an action that will open 15 or more tabs [...]
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In a somewhat controversial decision, it was decided that if you open a group of tabs (middle-click on a bookmark folder) in Firefox, those new pages will be opened in the currently opened tabs, rather than being added. There is, however, a setting to make groups of tabs be opened in new tabs, rather than [...]
Among the changes in Firefox 2 is that the ‘Go’ button is now attached to the address bar, when customizing toolbars. Some Firefox users may prefer not to display the ‘Go’ button, because they use the |Enter| key, or use the Paste and Go 2 extension. You can get rid of the ‘Go’ button by [...]
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Firefox 2 users may have noticed that the built-in spell checker does not automatically check single-line text fields, such as Google.com. Instead, you need to open the context menu (right-click), and choose Spell check this field. With multi-line text fields (for example, the Detailed Comments box at hendrix.mozilla.org), the spell checker is automatically turned on. [...]
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In light of Chris Hofmann’s recent call for a discussion regarding building better Firefox support, I looked at the list of tasks I wanted to accomplish on the Mozilla Support site; and found that I’ve been taking too long to accomplish them. The main reason is because whenever I boot up my computer, and check [...]