As I’ve been reading various discussion groups, it occurs to me that when a user reads that Firefox 1.5.0.1 is out, he/she rushes to the Mozilla website to download it. Sorta puts all that hard work on the update system to waste . Yes, I know the majority of Firefox users probably don’t hang out [...]
Some of you may be aware of my webpage that compares the differences between Mozilla Suite versus Firefox and Thunderbird. With the impending release of SeaMonkey 1.0, I decided to create an equivalent page comparing SeaMonkey against Firefox and Thunderbird. Because SeaMonkey uses the Mozilla 1.8 codebase, I figured the list of differences would shrink; [...]
Apparently there are a few websites reporting that Firefox 1.5 has been released, because it’s on the FTP server. These sites need to reel themselves back in. To quote David Baron: “It hasn’t shipped yet, it’s on the FTP site in preparation for being shipped. “ and Dave Miller: “very few people (in the grand [...]
I’ve recently become fascinated with the idea of using RSS to maintain a list of items rather than a feed of news or a log. If used in that way, Mozilla Firefox‘s live bookmarks feature, all of a sudden, has a practical use. My website evolved from one links page, that has now become my [...]
I just added a link to the Customizing Firefox article from Scot’s Newsletter to my links page.
Some folks don’t like the pop-up notification Mozilla Firefox gives, when downloads are completed. You can turn that off using a hidden setting. Enter about:config in the location bar. Search for the preference browser.download.manager.showAlertOnComplete. Modify the value to false.
I just added a link to the-edmeister’s Firefox informational pages to my links page. Some good info there.
When you type a web address in the location bar of Mozilla Firefox, a drop-down list will appear, showing entries in your browser history that match what you have typed so far. Sometimes people only want entries that have been previously typed. Well, there’s a preference setting for that. Enter about:config in the location bar. [...]
I don’t know why, but some people prefer to have a splash screen appear, as an application is loading. Netscape has one, the Mozilla application Suite has one, but Firefox does not. Yes, you can add one, if you like. – Download this splash.zip file. – extract the files within it to your Firefox program [...]
By default, Mozilla Firefox comes with the file npnul32.dll in the \Plugins\ directory. If you enter about:plugins in the location bar, you’ll see a list of installed Plug-ins, with file information, and MIME-type assignments. In that list, you’ll see npnul32.dll listed as “Mozilla Default Plug-in”, assigned to the MIME-type *. So what is the Mozilla [...]