Decisions, decisions..
http://firefoxy.de/firefox_download_post_pics/firefoxy-mozil...
[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [31 Dec 10:31 GMT+1]
Representin'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/niko_10/2210385882/[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [13 Jun 11:23 GMT+1]
Snappy
I've been skipping reading blogs and feeds for a while (using Bloglines for feed reading, works great).Anyway, after reading Mozillazine's post on the latest Firefox beta:
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=23077
and seeing you could install a separate version of Firefox without it messing around with the Firefox version I use regularly I thought why not.
Here's the link to the portable app version:
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/test
I'm playing around with Vista these days, and I don't have the time (or inclination) to learn about how to backup the default Firefox profile so yeah, it seemed like a good idea.
What can I say, Firefox 3 rocks. It looks good, and it is fast as hell. Props to all the developers for this one. If I had to use one word to describe Firefox 3 it would be snappy.
I've seen Vista get a lot of flack, but it isn't that bad actually. A bit slow perhaps, and it gives the BSOD every time I try to connect to Nokia Communicator E90, but otherwise it's OK.
Oh well, have to test new things I guess, back to Ubuntu soon. :)
[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [27 Mar 12:27 GMT+1]
Neato
Firefox is spell-checking for me as I type into this text-box. I upgraded to Firefox 2.0 a day or two ago and didn't notice it until now. How cool.[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [02 Nov 00:10 GMT+1]
Another cool tool
Well, I discovered a new cool tool for Firefox; the Video Downloaderhttps://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/
it enables downloading movies from various sites that embed video objects, ranging from flash encoded movies to just about anything you can think of. Saves my day, as some movies only work in the mplayer, with downloaded files (and digging through HTML to find the download URL is a PITA).
[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [30 Aug 18:57 GMT+1]
Not smokin'
I was looking around for Thunderbird extensions, and couldn't find many. Before I stumbled over the Thunderbird extensions link onhttps://addons.mozilla.org/
which was
https://addons.mozilla.org/?application=thunderbird
there are hundreds of different extensions for Thunderbird, many of which add some feature that I find useful, but the coolest one was Quitomzilla
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?applicati...
an extension that shows you how many cigarettes you've avoided and how much money you've saved after quitting with smoking.
I used to smoke, guess I quit somewhere around 2002 so I've saved just over 10000 dollars not smoking. Lately I've had a minor urge to start smoking again for some reason, so stumbling over this extension was a good thing. Not smoking 30000 cigarettes over the last years has certainly improved my health, now I'm spending that money on bikes, the gym and other useful stuff, and have money to spare.
(It works in Firefox and Mozilla as well.)
[Permalink] [By morphex] [Thunderbird (Atom feed)] [12 Mar 15:19 GMT+1]
I wonder
A Microsoftie asked me how Firefox could be installed in 'silence mode', probably without any installation screens.. wonder if that's possible.[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [07 Mar 05:01 GMT+1]
Firefox on speed
Just downloaded a new extension for Firefox, called Fasterfox. It shaves off 200ms to 2000ms on each page load here with the Turbo Charged feature as far as I can tell.
It also has an advanced preference settings option which enables tweaking of the relevant speed options and something called pre-fetch.. not sure I like the pre-fetch feature, think people have tried something like that before and got unpopular with webmasters for doing it.
Anyway, having it on the default setting Turbo Charged works here, pages are just a little bit faster and more fun to work with.
Feels like I'm sitting on a fast computer on a very broad connection. :)
[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [25 Feb 11:31 GMT+1]
Some praise
I just have to praise the Web developer toolbar extension for Firefox. What a great tool for web developers..[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [05 Feb 13:36 GMT+1]
Word up (12)
Firefox articles in italian:http://opensourcearticles.com/articles/firefox_15/italian/pa...
[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [15 Dec 19:53 GMT+1]
Word up (11)
New Firefox articles available for review: http://opensourcearticles.com/firefox_15/english/part_01[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [29 Sep 00:52 GMT+1]
Word up (10)
New Thunderbird articles available for review:http://opensourcearticles.com/thunderbird_15/english/part_01
[Permalink] [By morphex] [Thunderbird (Atom feed)] [20 Sep 15:34 GMT+1]
70 million
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=node/view/16831[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [12 Jul 22:49 GMT+1]
Bittorrent in Firefox
What if Firefox had native support for Bittorrent? Would work for distributing Music, Videos, Firefox updates et al.. Take the load of popular sites.. could connect automatically to a shared cache for example for slashdotters.. How much would extra resources would it take, and how long would it take to implement it?[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [23 Jun 00:56 GMT+1]
Word up (9)
Introduction to Firefox, in Hungarian.[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [29 Apr 16:53 GMT+1]
3 to go
Looks like there's about 3 million downloads left before Firefox has been downloaded 50 million times:http://www.spreadfirefox.com/
[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [19 Apr 14:38 GMT+1]
One size fits all, with some resizing
Asa mentions a new extension that enables resizing of text areas in Firefox, and it just works. Nice.[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [27 Mar 21:22 GMT+1]
Word up (8)
Introduction to Firefox in dutch, with images.[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [01 Mar 10:57 GMT+1]
Pimp yo ride
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/marco/pimpzilla/[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [20 Feb 15:51 GMT+1]
Word up (6)
Introduction to Firefox, in french, with french images.[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [18 Feb 09:13 GMT+1]
Got it
I've been looking for ways to reduce the strain on my hands lately, as I've had some symptoms of RSI and CTS.I still love music though, and download a lot from allofmp3 (http://blogologue.com/blog_entry?id=www.allofmp3.com), which has a somewhat repetetive interface for downloading files.
So, FlashGot came in handy, it's a Firefox extension which enables downloads of all links in a webpage, or all links in the currently selected text. Installing it, restarting Firefox, going to the music download page on allofmp3 and pressing Ctrl+F3 enabled me to download 25 songs at a time, using a program that was already installed called Aria (which I tried earlier, but forgot about).
This tool, combined with a shift from right-handed to left-handed mouse, Dvorak keyboard layout and a better posture should improve things quite a bit.
It's great when technologies such as simple HTML are widely used, so that simple client-side extensions can simplify the daily lives of regular and (somewhat) disabled users.
[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [15 Feb 00:34 GMT+1]
Word up (5)
Introduction to Firefox, in italian.[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [14 Feb 08:03 GMT+1]
Word up (4)
Introduction to Thunderbird, in simplified chinese.[Permalink] [By morphex] [Thunderbird (Atom feed)] [11 Feb 11:36 GMT+1]
Word up (3)
Firefox introduction in Portugese:http://www.nidelven-it.no/articles/introduction_to_firefox_e...
[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [06 Feb 13:44 GMT+1]
Word up (2)
Introduction to Thunderbird, in Swedish. Thanks Owe![Permalink] [By morphex] [Thunderbird (Atom feed)] [28 Jan 13:45 GMT+1]
Word up
Introduction to Firefox, in Norwegian. Thanks Elizabeth![Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [28 Jan 10:48 GMT+1]
Cause it's a voodoo child
Hendrix is Mozilla's feedback system. I wonder what the noise-to-signal ratio is.. :)[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [11 Jan 23:52 GMT+1]
10 million Firefox downloads
Congrats to everyone involved! The future on the internet looks a lot brighter now. Let's get our party hats on and party like it's 1999!
[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [11 Dec 21:26 GMT+1]
8 million
Firefox has had 8 million downloads in 23 days, according to Asa. That's pretty amazing.[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [02 Dec 19:46 GMT+1]
In persia..
Introduction to Firefox, in persian.[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [02 Dec 17:52 GMT+1]
Flashy
I didn't know that Firefox could find & install the flash plugin automatically when it was required from a page if it wasn't already installed. That's pretty cool. And user friendly.[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [22 Nov 20:30 GMT+1]
Easy downloads in Firefox
I've found a new cool Firefox extension, called OpenDownload:http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?applicatio...
it enables files to be opened directly in your favourite application,
without prompting to confirm/select the application first.
[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [16 Aug 16:14 GMT+1]
Your internet on IE
http://piercedotzler.com/mozilla/poster.jpg, link via http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa
[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [13 Jul 21:08 GMT+1]
Firefox in Japanese
The Firefox articles are once again available in Japanese after the update.[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [12 Jul 06:00 GMT+1]
That's cool :)
Asa appreciates our articles:One of the best Firefox articles (actually, I'd call it a "walk-through"), over at Nidelven IT, has been updated. Do give An introduction to Mozilla Firefox, part 1 a second (or first) look. It's filled with great screenshots and describes much of what you need to know to get the most out of Firefox.
[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [30 Jun 20:46 GMT+1]
Firefox articles updated
The Firefox articles have been brushed up and updated with some extra info. Get it while it's hot. :)[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [29 Jun 14:39 GMT+1]
Firefox web developer extension
Via Mozilla Update I found a cool extension for Firefox, called Web Developer. It adds a number of features to Firefox, some of which I found to be very useful:- Edit CSS - live editing of CSS for a page
- View CSS - Displays the stylesheets
- Find broken images
- Outline elements (add a border to a given type of element)
- View response headers
- Clear HTTP authentication (why doesn't every browser have this feature?)
- Validate CSS/HTML/Links/WAI Accessibility
Pretty sweet.
[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [27 Jun 18:45 GMT+1]
Firefox 0.9 release candidate is out
Just downloaded Firefox 0.9, which sports a new theme and extensions management. Get it from your local mirror.[Permalink] [By morphex] [Firefox (Atom feed)] [09 Jun 10:38 GMT+1]
Eyecandy
Blogzilla reports about a new set of icons created for Mozilla Firebird and Thunderbird:
Veeery nice.. :)
[Permalink] [By morphex] [Mozilla (Atom feed)] [08 Oct 09:21 GMT+1]
Saving email
A lot of people are having problems with email these days, spam, viruses, software that doesn't work. Dave is having a problem now. How about giving Thunderbird a spin? An introduction (including installation instructions) is available here.
[Permalink] [By morphex] [Thunderbird (Atom feed)] [22 Aug 03:43 GMT+1]