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Firefox & Thunderbird

Firebug Beta 1 Released

December 5, 2006

The beta of Firebug 1.0 has been released and comes with some amazingly useful features. For those unfamiliar with this Firefox extension, Firebug provides a wealth of tools for developers to debug, monitor or edit portions of a site. Portions of it overlap the Web Developer’s toolbar, and in several cases, Firebug surpasses it hands [...]

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Unordered lists, discs, diamonds and you

May 1, 2006

An interesting little tidbit I picked up today whilst banging my head against my desk: when Firefox renders a page in Quirks mode, unordered lists that specify ‘disc’ as the bullet of choise are instead rendered with diamonds.

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Selenium IDE Extension

March 15, 2006

Selenium IDE is a Firefox extension that is a “very easy to use and powerful tool for controlling, automating or testing web sites. If there is any repetitive or predictable task that you are always doing in your browser why not let the Selenium IDE handle it for you.”

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Another Take: Firefox Extensions

December 16, 2005

Stuart Robertson of Design Meme has posted a concise write up of his Top 5 Firefox Extensions for Web Designers. I wasn’t aware of Aardvark, but it looks to be quite useful. The other two extensions that aren’t on my list of Firefox Extensions, are ones that I continue to monitor. Hell, the geek in [...]

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FireFox Extensions – Updated

December 3, 2005

An up-to-date list of my installed Firefox extensions with explanations of each.

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Tab Preview

December 2, 2005

Tab Preview “is an extension for Firefox 1.5 that shows a preview of tab contents when you move your mouse over a background tab.” I’ve just installed it and will post an update after I’ve used it for a bit. It looks exciting though!

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Modify Firefox 1.5 to work with all extensions

December 1, 2005

Scattered – Modify Firefox 1.5 to work with all extensions

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Website testing with TestGen4Web and Firefox

November 1, 2005

Website testing with TestGen4Web and Firefox

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Pasting Wrapped URLs into Firefox

August 10, 2005

Andrei Zmievski provides a quick bit of info regarding how to paste multi-line URLs into Firefox, which occur most often when a URL is wrapped in an e-mail. I need to make this change in my various Firefox installations. A bit more info, including a list of what the various settings mean, is provided on [...]

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Thunderbird 1.0 Takes to the Skies

December 7, 2004

As reported on mozilla.org, Thunderbird 1.0 has been officially released! This is great news!
I expect I will be installing it on several family machines over the upcoming month. Why? Because it has been a solid e-mail client throughout its beta period, and has gotten easier to use with every release. It also provides a wealth [...]

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