In case anyone didn’t know it existed, I just found a Microsummaries plugin for WordPress. No configuration required. Upload it, activate it, and your blog offers live titles.
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If you use Nightly Tester Tools to bump up the compatibility of an add-on to enable it on your installation of Firefox or Thunderbird, that does not guarantee that the add-on will work. Nightly Tester Tools is a tool for testing. Add-ons are built on top of Firefox/Thunderbird code. When the Firefox/Thunderbird code changes (new [...]
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Now that Mozilla Firefox 2 has reached its first release candidate, it’s probably the best time for extension authors to update their extensions to work on Firefox 2; and thus the optimal time for users to check for extension updates, so no extensions get disabled when Firefox 2 is finally released.
Providing screenshots can really go a long way in helping users with their questions. But sometimes images don’t tell enough. Watch this. If only I could add that great background music, that the CustomizeGoogle folks use.
Those interested in giving feedback on purposed changes to the Firefox 2 theme, should head over to the mozilla.dev.themes newsgroup, where there is quite a bit of feedback/discussion taking place. In addition, the SeaMonkey Council wants to give SeaMonkey a new default theme. Head over to the mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey newsgroup, to give your feedback on that. [...]
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Some people prefer it, if Firefox does not display a yellow alert bar in the browser, when a pop-up window has been blocked, citing a preference of pop-ups to be blocked “silently.” You can get rid of it, by modifying a hidden setting. In Firefox, go to the URL: about:config Search for the preference privacy.popups.showBrowserMessage. [...]
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Mozilla Firefox users, who like to put many bookmarks in the Bookmarks Toolbar, sometimes get to the point where the number of bookmarks is too much to fit on the screen; so Firefox gives a drop-down menu at the end of the Bookmarks Toolbar, to access bookmarks not displayed on the toolbar. Some users have [...]
Here’s a question: Using any of Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, the Mozilla Suite, or Netscape, have you ever purposely clicked on the ‘Remove All’ button, in the password manager? Follow up question: Have you ever clicked on it by accident? Clicking on it by accident, is easy, when it sits right beside ‘Remove’ button. Luckily, the [...]
Don’t like your bookmarks being stored in your profile folder? Want two or more users on the same computer to share a bookmarks file? Easy. – close Firefox. – copy/move your bookmarks.html file (and bookmarks.bak) to the location you prefer to keep it. – open Firefox. – enter about:config in the Firefox location bar, right-click [...]
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