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RulerDark: another highly recommendable dark Firefox theme!

A couple days ago, I recommended the dark Firefox theme Black Stratini. I recommended it too quickly because I've already found a better dark theme called RulerDark; RulerDark simply has higher aesthetic value than Black Stratini - I also like how the font-color is not overly dark like it is in Black Stratini (which makes it difficult to read what's typed on the screen at times.)

Anyway, be sure to check RulerDark out!

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How to make Mozilla Firefox extremely streamlined

The following guide will show you how to make Mozilla Firefox extremely streamlined without there being any loss of functionality.

If you follow this guide through, you're Firefox will end up looking similar to this (the only difference might be the theme you decide to use):

1. Right-click on the menu-bar in Firefox and un-check 'Bookmarks Toolbar'. Underneath 'Bookmarks Toolbar' it says 'Customize...'; click on this. When the box shows up, put a check-mark beside where it says 'Use Small Icons'. When you're finished putting a check-mark beside 'Use Small Icons', drag and drop Firefox's search-box into the 'Customize Toolbar' box, which will remove the search-box from Firefox (don't worry, later on in this guide I'll show you how to perform Google searches directly from the address bar). Once you're finished, click on 'Done'.

2. Right-click on the menu-bar, and click on 'View'; under the context-menu, make sure that 'Status Bar' is un-checked.

3. Download and install the following Mozilla Firefox extensions:

Hide Caption Titlebar Plus (this will hide the caption titlebar at the very top of your web-browser. Don't worry, the minimize, restore and close buttons will still show up.)
Hide Menubar (this will obviously hide the menu-bar. Simply press the Alt key to make the menu-bar come up when you have to use it.)
Smart Stop/Reload (this will combine the Stop and Reload buttons, making them one; this is what it's like in Google Chrome.)

4. Since you removed the search-box in Firefox, you'll want to have Firefox still be able to perform Google searches without leaving the page you're on, right? To be able to perform Google searches using the address-bar in Firefox, you simply have to do the following:

Type 'about:config' in the address-bar. You'll get a warning message; ignore it and click on 'I'll be careful, I promise'. In the filter box, type 'keyword.URL'. Modify the string to http://www.google.com/search?btnG=Google+Search&q=

After doing this, you'll be able to perform Google searches directly from your address-bar without having to use the search-box. This is similar to how Google Chrome functions.

5. Install a good compact theme of your choice from addons.mozilla.org

You're done! I hope you enjoy your new streamlined Firefox setup.

PS. I understand that some people out there may find this setup to be overly minimalistic; you're free to change/not change whatever you wish/don't wish to change.

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Black Stratini: A highly recommendable dark Firefox theme

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.

Damn, is it ever nice!

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How to enable disabled Firefox add-ons using Mozilla's own add-on

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.

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Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Prism

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Retaking control of my Inbox - Switching from Thunderbird to Gmail.

For the past couple of years I've been using the Mozilla Thunderbird Email Client connected through IMAP to an email account on my website. With that, I've been dealing with My Hosting Provider's 10MB email space limit by transferring my messages from the server to Local Folders on my computer every few days, and organizing it through folders and backing up by having messages forward to Yahoo! Mail.

My problem as you can probably guess was that I was that I had messages in multiple places, I was sorting it online through Yahoo! and Backing it up locally but I didn't really have a system, so centralized place, no email control center. My brother suggested I switch to Gmail, my problem was I didn't want a new email address, I wanted to continue to use my existing email address without using my servers. I worried about how difficult it would be to receive mail sent to that address and send mail from the address. It turned out to be simple, I setup a simple Cpanel forwarder to get all mail sent to me@mydomain.com redirected to me@gmail.com and "added an email address" in my Gmail Settings. It now works great!
           Using Gmail I can have my mail syced accross multiple platforms. I am writing this email which I will then send to posterous using Gmail Offline on my way home from Iowa, I can obviously check it online from any computer connected to  the interent, and with a simple selection and entering my username and password I can sync my Gmail with my iPod Touch. If I wanted too I could also sync my Gmail with my Phone or use Gmail's my Mobile Website. It's so easy, I always have my email no matter where I go. To organize my email I take advantage of Gmail's Labels (I enjoy how you can add more than one label to each message). I keep my Inbox clear by Archiving and I enjoy how you can convert email messages to tasks and they appear in your task pane in the lower right.

Switching to Gmail I have recently been exploring other Google Services, these services also sync across the multiple platforms I discussed above. I have been using Google Calendar to organize my increasingly busy life and I've been exploring Google Docs. Gmail has helped retake control of my Inbox.

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Mozilla Labs Jetpack - Image Editor

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ul.timate.info | Firefox Add-on for Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and FriendFeed

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All about logos for Firefox Mobile (or whatever Mozilla is calling it)

Mozilla has just announced the logo for the upcoming mobile version of Firefox (codenamed Project Fennec). Mozilla hosted a competition and here is the winning logo, by a Russian guy named Yaroslaff Chekunov.

The logo is called Pocketfox, and obviously alludes to the Firefox fox inside a pocket, with its tail dangling out. I don't like it. It just does not look too logo-ish to me. I think a logo should have sharp edges, and this one doesn't. It looks like a painting. And even if it did have sharp edges, I still doubt that I will like it.

I like the Fennec logo more. "Fennec" was the codename for the mobile Firefox project. This is the Fennec logo:

Project Fennec was apparently inspired by the Fennec fox, a small fox found in the Sahara desert.

I like the Fennec concept more. I think that the Mozilla's mobile browser should be given an entirely different name (although I understand that it could greatly benefit from the Firefox branding). I just prefer the idea of a new 'fox' for my phone.

And I really, really like the Fennec logo more.

One more thing - one the of the five finalists in the above-mentioned logo competition was from a Filipino. I'm having trouble posting the picture here in Posterous but his entry is here. The guy's name is Emmanuel John Villar, and he is a computer teacher in UST HS. I don't like his logo, I think it's very ugly, but hey, kudos to him for making it to the five finalists.

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