Making Firefox use Thunderbird for web feeds
I was saving this tip for today, because it’s a bit of a Christmas present, courtesy of alta88. Users of both Firefox and Thunderbird may have noticed that when you get the feed preview screen in Firefox 2, and use the drop-down list to add the…
Bugzilla.mozilla.org upgrade
According to bugzilla.mozilla.org, On Tuesday, December 26, at 6pm PST (2am UTC) we will be upgrading Bugzilla to the current pre-release of version 3.0. We are expecting the upgrade to take anywhere from 4 to 6 hours. Bugzilla will be down for the…
www.HornyManatee.com
I hadn’t seen Late Night with Conan O’Brien in long time; and I forgot how brilliant his humour is. Tonight, he told the story of www.hornymanatee.com. http://youtube.com/watch?v=SfqCPmlyYwM
Warning when opening a large number of tabs
Firefox 2 has a lot of small usability changes, that are great. I’m sure we’ve all accidentally middle-clicked on a bookmark folder, or live bookmark, only to be bombarded with many many tabs opening many many web sites at once. In Firefox 2,…
Open bookmark folders in new tabs
In a somewhat controversial decision, it was decided that if you open a group of tabs (middle-click on a bookmark folder) in Firefox, those new pages will be opened in the currently opened tabs, rather than being added. There is, however, a setting to…
Removing the ‘Go’ button in Firefox 2
Among the changes in Firefox 2 is that the ‘Go’ button is now attached to the address bar, when customizing toolbars. Some Firefox users may prefer not to display the ‘Go’ button, because they use the |Enter| key, or use the Paste…
Automatically spell checking single line text fields
Firefox 2 users may have noticed that the built-in spell checker does not automatically check single-line text fields, such as Google.com. Instead, you need to open the context menu (right-click), and choose Spell check this field. With multi-line text…
Going on support newsgroups hiatus
In light of Chris Hofmann’s recent call for a discussion regarding building better Firefox support, I looked at the list of tasks I wanted to accomplish on the Mozilla Support site; and found that I’ve been taking too long to accomplish them.…