Category Archives: Mozilla Firefox
Links Like This gets a facelift
Links Like This is a Firefox extension I wrote last year that allows you to automatically open multiple links from a webpage. I released the first version in May of 2007 but never really went back to update or improve it; that’s about to change. During a recent conversation about Links Like This, I realized [...]
Stop! Yammer Time
Yammer is a service designed to help co-workers keep each other up-to-date on their work progress by answering the question “What are you working on?” Yammer Time is a Firefox extension that reminds you to use Yammer. By default, every 4 hours between 9AM and 5PM on weekdays, it will pop up this obtrusive prompt: [...]
Firefox’s memory usage is out of control
I had been told that after upgrading to Firefox 3, it would only need 15 terabytes of RAM…
Feed Sidebar Update
Feed Sidebar is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser that displays the items from your newsfeeds in a sidebar. It can be downloaded for free from Mozilla Add-ons. I just uploaded an update for Feed Sidebar to Mozilla Add-ons. Changes since version 3.0.1 include: New Features Added an option to always have new [...]
Feed Sidebar updated for Firefox 3
Firefox 3 introduced many new features for extension developers, and I decided to take advantage of some of them in order to update my Feed Sidebar extension. Version 3.0 of Feed Sidebar is now out, and these are the main features and changes I added: Look and feel: I updated all of the icons for [...]
Firefox 3
Today marks the release of Firefox 3. It’s free. It’s fast. It’s the best Web browser ever created. (Yes, even better than Netscape Navigator 9, if you can believe it.) Did I mention that it’s free? Do yourself a favor and upgrade from whatever steaming pile of garbage you’re using to browse the Web. Because [...]
Mozilla Firefox Bug #237180
In this episode of “Bug Evangelism,” Chris highlights a 4-year-old bug in Firefox concerning bookmark keywords. Mozilla Firefox lets you assign “keywords” (or “shortcuts”) to bookmarks by entering a word or phrase in the bookmark’s “keywords” field. The advantage to setting a keyword for a bookmark is that you can load the page more quickly [...]
Rated O for Open Source
Firefox 3 is coming this Tuesday, and it’s bringing awesome artwork with it. More information about this poster is available at John Slater’s blog, Into the Fuzz.