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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Re: Why do I block ads? I recently decided to block ads as well, but for different reasons. For the most part, advertising on the web is something I don’t mind. The deciding factor for me is whether or not it prevents me from seeing the content I want to see. This is what made [...]
Wow…here’s the story… I use Dreamhost to host ilias.ca. I have many ilias.ca email aliases. Most relay messages to a gmail account (for spam filtering, and a searchable web archive), which then forwards them to an IMAP account hosted on ilias.ca. On Friday, Dreamhost decided to move some email accounts to new hardware. Here’s the [...]
Firefox 3.5 is released!! If you’re using Firefox 3.0.x, just open the Help menu and select Check for Updates… If you’re using anything else, download Firefox 3.5 from http://www.getfirefox.com.