Christopher Finke writes about software, woodworking, and other creative endeavors.

Category: Mozilla Firefox

  • Making Add-on/User Communication Less Annoying

    In which I propose a solution that will satisfy no one.

  • TwitterBar 2.9 Available: Post to Multiple Twitter Accounts

    (But only your own. I’m not that good.)

  • Extending the Web, not just the browser, with Twitter Filter

    I don’t care that you’re the mayor of your bus stop.

  • TwitterBar is a winner!

    (And so are you, for using it!)

  • Lost and FireFound

    Get it? Lost and FireFound??

  • Add-On-Con 2009

    If you know how to develop a successful add-on, please contact me ASAP.

  • Abandoning Yammer Time

    a.k.a. Quitting Time

  • TwitterBar updated with OAuth, shorter URLs

    Update: TwitterBar was sold to HootSuite and renamed HootBar in March of 2011. TwitterBar for Chrome was discontinued in October of 2012. Everyone’s favorite tool for posting to Twitter from your Firefox address bar (TwitterBar) has been updated to version 2.0. Changes in this version include: URL shortening Long URLs are now shortened by http://is.gd/…

  • Sort your feeds in Feed Sidebar

    A lot of people have asked for the ability to sort the feeds that appear in the Feed Sidebar extension for Firefox, so I’ve taken some time to integrate some basic sorting options. I would like to get some feedback on this feature before releasing it to the general Feed Sidebar audience, so I’ve uploaded…

  • Four More Fennec Add-ons

    Update: TwitterBar was sold to HootSuite and renamed HootBar in March of 2011. TwitterBar for Chrome was discontinued in October of 2012. I got some great feedback after I updated URL Fixer to be compatible with Fennec, Mozilla’s mobile browser, and I’m happy to announce that I’ve been able to add Fennec compatibility to four…

  • URL Fixer now compatible with Fennec (Mobile Firefox)

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ Fennec is the codename for Mozilla’s work-in-progress mobile browser for phones and smaller computing devices, and since it supports extensions just like Firefox, I’ve started adding Fennec compatibility to the extensions I’ve written (when it makes sense). URL Fixer version 1.5 is fully Fennec-compatible.…

  • 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.

  • Does Mahalo crash your Firefox?

    We at Mahalo have had quite a few reports of Firefox 3 crashing when visiting Mahalo.com. (Here’s a video of it happening.) We’d love to get this fixed, but we are unable to duplicate the problem on our own machines. If this happens to you, here is some information that you could send us to…

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