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2011 12 30 Chris Ilias Firefox Comments (0)

How to add thread lines in Thunderbird for Mac

If you use Mozilla Thunderbird on Mac and read messages in threaded view, it may be a little hard to track a thread tree. For instance, in this screenshot it is difficult to tell who MikeR’s last message at the bottom is in reply to. Did he reply to his own post, Mike Easter, or [...]

2011 10 28 Chris Ilias Thunderbird Comments (1)

Need your help in the support forum

53% of questions in the Firefox support forum are not getting replies. If you can, please make some time to answer a few questions, so we don’t end up with users coming to Mozilla for help and getting no reply. Here’s a link to posts without replies: https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions?filter=no-replies If you haven’t created an account on [...]

2011 09 29 Chris Ilias Firefox Comments (11)

Deleting individual newsgroup messages in Thunderbird

Let’s say you’re reading a newsgroup with Thunderbird, and some spam gets posted. Or someone posts an offensive message you just want to remove from the message list. Or any case in which you just want to remove an individual article you’ve already downloaded. In the past, it wasn’t possible to delete individual messages. At [...]

2011 07 22 Chris Ilias Thunderbird Comments (5)

When all you want to know is if the bug is fixed

For some specific bugs, I’ve added myself to the CC list, because I’m interested in knowing when the bug is fixed (and maybe when the target has changed). Problem is: because there has been a lot of discussion in a few of those bugs, I’ve been getting a lot of bugmail that I’m not interested [...]

2011 06 17 Chris Ilias Firefox
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What is compacting folders in Thunderbird, and why you should do it.

Are your Thunderbird folders taking up a lot of disk space, even though you only have a few messages? Is Thunderbird slow to open folders? It’s probably because you have not compacted your folders. When you delete a message, it doesn’t really get deleted from the folder. It gets marked as deleted. Thunderbird sees that [...]

2011 06 10 Chris Ilias SeaMonkey
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Firefox 4 Youtube HTML5

Okay, now that Firefox 4 is released and has been downloaded 40 million times, I want all Firefox users to do the following: Go to http://www.youtube.com/html5 Click on “Join the HTML5 Trial“ Most Youtube videos you watch will be served in WebM format with HTML5 markup, instead of Flash. Sidenote: Before you go thinking Firefox [...]

2011 03 28 Chris Ilias Firefox Comments (21)

How to change the colour of link previews in Firefox 4

In Firefox 3.6, if you want to see the destination URL of a link in a webpage, you can hover the mouse over the link, and the URL will be displayed in the status bar. In Firefox 4 Beta, the destination URL is now displayed in the Location bar. There have been complaints the the [...]

2011 01 05 Chris Ilias Firefox Comments (2)

How to update Firefox 4 Beta

A new Firefox 4 Beta is out, and users looking to update may have noticed that the “Check for Updates” menu item no longer there. That’s because the Firefox updater has been moved to the About Firefox window. To check for updates in Firefox 4, open the Firefox menu (or Help menu if you have [...]

2010 12 22 Chris Ilias Firefox Comments (11)

Firefox tip: Disable unused plugins

I used to post a lot of tips and tricks for Firefox and Thunderbird, but I haven’t posted in a long time. Here’s a new one. If you’re having speed/stability issues with Firefox, the cause of the problem is often one or more plugins. Mozilla offers a plugincheck tool, that tells you if you have [...]

2010 09 22 Chris Ilias Firefox Comments (8)