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A couple more links

I’ve added Mozilla Links, and supernova00′s Firefox Tips & Tricks to my links page; and as per »Q«’s comment, changed the Live Bookmarks tutorial to John Bokma’s main Firefox Tips and Tricks site.

2006 02 04 Chris Ilias ilias.ca
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Live Bookmarks tutorial and techspot’s Firefox Tweak Guide

I’ve just added a couple more links to my links page. Mozilla Firefox: RSS and Live Bookmarks is an overview and tutorial of web feed (RSS) support in Firefox. techspot: Firefox Tweak Guide is an all around guide to Firefox, which covers both basic and advanced usage.

2006 02 03 Chris Ilias ilias.ca
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How to upgrade Firefox 1.5

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 [...]

2006 02 01 Chris Ilias Mozilla Comments (10)

SeaMonkey and Firefox/Thunderbird share more than I thought.

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; [...]

2006 01 27 Chris Ilias Mozilla
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Looking at FTP sites for Mozilla releases

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 [...]

2005 11 29 Chris Ilias Mozilla Comments (2)

Bookmarks in RSS

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 [...]

2005 11 10 Chris Ilias ilias.ca
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Scot’s Newsletter: Customizing Firefox

I just added a link to the Customizing Firefox article from Scot’s Newsletter to my links page.

2005 11 09 Chris Ilias ilias.ca
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Turn off the “Downloads Complete” alert in Firefox.

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.

2005 11 09 Chris Ilias Mozilla Comments (29)

the-edmeister’s Firefox informational pages

I just added a link to the-edmeister’s Firefox informational pages to my links page. Some good info there.

2005 11 08 Chris Ilias ilias.ca
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browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped

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. [...]

2005 10 31 Chris Ilias Mozilla Comments (9)