Archive for the 'Firefox' Category
Firefox shortcuts with Ubiquity
As Robert Scoble writes, it’s only for passionate internet users (at the moment anyway), but the Firefox plugin Ubiquity has awesome potential for changing the way we use the internet - watch this video to learn more.
Ubiquity is one of a number of tools currently knocking around that look into changing the way we interface [...]
Firefox 3 gets off to a bad start
It looks like Mozilla’s Firefox Download Day has got off to a bad start - this was the picture at 1800 UK time (the exact time of release):
I’m guessing they’ve hit unprecedented traffic volumes, as there were a lot of people waiting for this. Conspiracy theorists might say that Microsoft probably set up a well-timed [...]
Read More..>>Stop Javascript from disabling window resizing
One of the all time most irritating Javascript functions has to be the ‘resizable = 0‘ property that’s used within the ‘window.open()‘ function. This often results in content that doesn’t quite fit the windows that pop up - grrr.
Anyway, Firefox has an option that disables some window resizing, but not most of it - this [...]
Firefox gains market share…
According to a French survey company XiTi Monitor, Mozilla’s Firefox browser hit a whopping 28% share of the European internet ‘visit share’ in December 2007, gaining at the expense of Internet Explorer.
One wonders how much, if at all this has to do with scraping. I know that I for one do 99% of my scraping [...]
Nofollow attributes in Firefox
If you want an easy way of highlighting ‘nofollow’ attributes on links viewed in Firefox, go to the following directory:
C:\Documents and Settings\[user name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[random string].default\chrome\
Then change the name of userContent-example.css to:
userContent.css
Open the file up in any text editor (such as notepad), and copy and paste the following code: