I decided to look through various Mozilla Firefox themes today since I've not changed my theme for over a month now. After doing a little bit of searching, I decided to make the theme Black Stratini my new default Firefox theme.
The light-colored original version of the Stratini theme is nice as well, but I went with the dark version of it since it goes nicely with my customized dark Windows XP theme.
All advanced Firefox users out there know that there will be a time when some add-ons no longer works with the new version of Firefox you have just upgraded too.
Thankfully there is a quick and simple solution to this problem provided by Mozilla without the need to hack your Firefox's internals. Mozilla has an add-on titled Add-on Compatibility Reporter 0.3 which disables Firefox's compatibility checking and allows all incompatible add-ons to run. But it not only does that it also allows you to send Mozilla reports on whether the add-ons which have been marked incompatible still work or have stopped working with the new version of Firefox.After installing the Add-on Compatibility Reporter, your incompatible extensions will become enabled for you to test whether they still work with the version of Firefox or Thunderbird that you're using. If you notice that one of your add-ons doesn't seem to be working the same way it did in previous versions of the application, just open the Add-ons Manager and click Compatibility next to that add-on to send a report to Mozilla. Even if your add-ons all work fine, if they're marked incompatible, please let us know that they work fine by submitting a success report so we can encourage the add-on developer to update their compatibility information. We'll collect all of the reports and let add-on developers know what users are having problems with, or if their add-ons seem to work just fine in future versions of the product. If you encounter problems and want to disable your incompatible add-ons again, uninstalling the Add-on Compatibility Reporter should revert to your previous compatibility checking settings.
I’m trying to figure out why seesmic web looks messed up in firefox 3.5.5. At first I thought it was an extension, but disabling them all didn’t help at all. Hope they fix it soon.
This was working well for a while, but now, the "unread count" is not showing up on the tab anymore. Any fix to this?
If you use the bettergmail extension, and you haven't updated yet, don't. It breaks the unread count on the gmail tab, which is one of the main reasons for my use of this extension. Hopefully Gina will fix this soon, shes been busy with her book. This is for version 0.9.6.
Gina pointed me to this thread... installing the updated userscript fixes the issue.
YouTube Comment Snob is a Firefox extension that filters out undesirable comments from YouTube comment threads. You can choose to have any of the following rules mark a comment for removal:
- More than # spelling mistakes: The number of mistakes is customizable, and the extension uses Firefox's built-in spell checker.
- All capital letters
- No capital letters
- Doesn't start with a capital letter
- Excessive punctuation (!!!! ????)
- Excessive capitalization
- Profanity
Whether you're trying to block out comments that are NSFW or you're just pretentious by nature, the YouTube Comment Snob extension for Firefox should filter out the garbage for you.
As a committed Firefox fan of many years, the launch of Google Chrome only registered as a small blip on my tech radar. I always like to see competition (who wants to see the stagnation of the IE6 years again) and another browser was fine by me, though I couldn’t really get excited about it.
However, soon after the (highly anticipated) release of Firefox 3.5, I started to get a number of annoying problems (mainly crashes and slowdowns) both on my work and home PCs. For the first time ever Firefox was beginning to annoy me... so I decided to install Chrome and give it a whirl.
It was not quite love at first sight (mainly because it takes a bit of getting used to the uncluttered screen and combined URL/Search bar) but my god was it fast!! I quickly updated to the beta channel (to provide cross pc bookmark synchronisation) and then to the cutting edge developer version (which improved the speed even more and provided for basic extension support). I was hooked!
There are a few things I still prefer about Firefox – mainly the sheer number of extensions, but Chrome is quickly catching up in functionality. Once the extensions support filters down to the stable version and developers start writing them then I will be a complete Chrome convert! I still find some sites that don’t render properly in Chrome, but these are a rarity, and the idea of having a separate box for search and URL now seems very old fashioned. I’m still hoping that the next versions of Firefox include some speed improvements, but until then Chrome is my default.
I'm really digging this Firefox add-on. It's worth a million bucks for the visual and artistic stimulation I'm getting in replacement of those boring and annoying banner ads.
Any advertising on any web page is replaced by curated art images after you install it. The art shows are updated every two weeks and feature contemporary artists fro just about everywhere.
To get it on your Firefox, go to tools and go down to add-ons and search for add art.
Visit Add-art.org for the latest online ad replacing exhibit.
genius.
