NotesThe "Change Referer Button" add-on allows the user to quickly toggle "network.http.sendRefererHeader" without going to the "about:config" window.Unfurl
NotesTraditional extensions include overlays, wherein the application can load up XUL from the extension's package and automatically apply it atop its own UI. While this makes creating extensions that add to the application's user interface relatively easy, it means that updating, installing, or disabling an extension requires an application restart.Unfurl
Notes"I see no reason why Chrome won't rise to above 20% in the short term. This means, of course, that the market share of Firefox and Internet Explorer will continue to drop. But as I noted some time back, this really isn't a huge problem for Firefox - although it is for Microsoft. The reason is quite simple: Firefox was never aiming at world domination, it was fighting to create an open Web where no browser held such a dominant position that it could ignore open standards and impose de facto ones instead. We pretty much have that now, with Internet Explorer increasingly standards-compliant - and proud of it, amazingly."Unfurl
Notes"Both desktop and mobile Firefox Sync accept the URL for a non-Mozilla sync server. I'd like to use my own sync server with Firefox Home, but there doesn't appear to be a way to configure the server URL."Unfurl
Notes"EPUBReader is a Firefox addon which let you read ePub-files just in the browser. You don't need to install additional software!<br />
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If you click on a link to an ePub-file, you are normally prompted by the Firefox "save as" dialog. With EPUBReader installed, the ePub-file is downloaded, processed and directly displayed ready to read!"Unfurl
Notes"BarTab intercepts when a tab is loaded in the background (e.g. after a browser restart) and will only load the content when the tab is actually visited."Unfurl
Notes"Weâre excited to bring you the third release candidate of Firefox for Maemo. Since RC2, we fixed several usability bugs that were found, as well as addressed a number of performance issues. Based on feedback weâve received so far, we were able to find and fix several crash bugs. To improve page load times and responsiveness, we tuned a number of preferences and improved several algorithms. Weâve sped up zooming and made our panning even better."Unfurl
Notes"Frecency is a score given to each unique URI in Places, encompassing bookmarks, history and tags. This score is determined by the amount of revisitation, the type of those visits, how recent they were, and whether the URI was bookmarked or tagged. "Unfurl
Notes"I need to be clear here: If you have Firebug installed you are probably not getting fast Javascript. Firebug doesnât have to be active on your current page. If you have the grey icon on your status bar, you have probably disabled the JIT."Unfurl
Notes"Often, web applications will prompt the user to select a file, typically to upload to a server. Unless the web application makes use of a plugin, file selection occurs through an HTML input element, of the sort <input type="file"/>. Firefox 3.6 now supports much of the W3C File API, which specifies the ability to asynchronously read the selected file into memory, and perform operations on the file data within the web application (for example, to display a thumbnail preview of an image, before it is uploaded, or to look for ID3 tags within an MP3 file, or to look for EXIF data in JPEG files, all on the client side). This is a new API, and replaces the file API that was introduced in Firefox 3."FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"A JetPack for rsstodolist is available to add current URL by a single click.
To use it, first, install JetPack, then, come back on that page and click on the upper-right "install" button.
You should then have a new item in your status bar (at bottom) allowing you to type your feed name and use the "add url" button to add the current url to your feed."Unfurl
Notes"Last night, I checked in some more work from Mark Steele (who's focusing on the Firefox WebGL implementation), and along with that, enabled WebGL in trunk nightlies. (Finally!)"Unfurl
Notes"Ever notice an annoying, persistent lag every ten seconds or so when you're watching a YouTube (or other) video in Firefox? Reader Bernard Sandberg has, and he's written in with a smart about:config that solves the problem for him."Unfurl
NotesAww, shucks! "Les Orchard isn't just a cool domain name. He is a person. A person who has done a great job detailing HTML 5 drag and drop that you can use today in Firefox 3.5."Unfurl
Notes"For a long while now (even before Google Chrome was announced), Mozilla has been examining ways to make Firefox better by splitting the work of displaying web pages up among multiple processes."Unfurl
Notes"The fun comes when I kill -9 this gecko-iframe, the âtabâ containing mozilla.com. To the non-geeky, invoking kill -9 on a program causes it to crash IMMEDIATELY. This simulates what would happen if, say, you tried to run a buggy plugin and it got itself into trouble. Notice that only the âcontentâ disappears when the page crashes; the user interface itself keeps running as if nothing happened. This is a big step forward! If I were to kill -9 the current version of Firefox, everything would die, user interface and tabs."Unfurl
Notes"IE8 is certainly leaps and bounds better than IE6, but neither claiming to support nor actually supporting the functionality of Firefoxâs top add-ons is the best way to compete with Firefoxâs add-ons ecosystem. Web slices sound delicious, but my personal opinion is that most new features of web browsers today should be implemented as add-ons and not as core features. Thatâs not to say I think Firefox is there, but I think weâre going in the right direction. As we like to say, one size doesnât fit all."Unfurl
Notes"The new version of the increasingly popular browser carries a clearinghouse of features, some 5,000 in all according to Mozilla. Headlining for the raft of changes includes: HTML5 streaming video, IP geolocation for location-sensitive websites (think restaurant searches), a knockoff of IE8âs InPrivate browsing mode and a dupe of Chromeâs webpages-as-apps feature."Unfurl
NotesI'm sure Opera Unity is more than this, but it doesn't seem so radical. "Turn the web on its head with the Plain Old Webserver (POW), which adds a server to your browser."Unfurl
Notes"Starting today, visitors to the add-ons website will see a brand new look with collections of add-ons front and center. Weâve integrated collections throughout the site, and created a Collection Directory that showcases all of the add-on lists created by our users."Unfurl
Notes"I abused the power and wasted the enormous trust capital gained by the NoScript add-on through the years to prevent Adblock Plus from blocking stuff on four internet domains of mine, without asking an explicit preemptive user consent." The rest of the blog entry is basically sorry-but-not-really.Unfurl
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Creating the new SUMO Knowledge Base: From zero to code
Firefox 4 Beta for Mobile is Now Faster and Sleeker
The new stats pages on AMO
fx-home: Summary (mercurial repo)
EPUBReader - Read ePub just in Firefox
W3C FileAPI in Firefox 3.6 at hacks.mozilla.org
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