Archive: firefox

Ever need to quickly test some HTML that you copied from some where? If you have Firebug installed, you can open a new tab, go the the HTML tab in Firebug, click edit and paste your HTML and Firefox will render it. This is faster than having to open a text editor, paste the contents [...]

If you’ve ever had that annoying problem where someone has asked you to put a flash banner on a site and it covers up your nice dropdown or pop-out menus, you’ll be glad to know that the current versions of flash don’t do that if you set the right parameter! Yes that even includes flash [...]

If you use FireFox with phpMyAdmin you will be able to resize the left column as required by simply grabbing it with your mouse However in Chrome that doesn’t work. The fix is surprisingly simple, you just need to edit the index.php file and set all the frameborder=”0″ to frameborder=”1″ Job done More Reading:Flash covers [...]

It used to be Tabberwocky but that’s died with FF4 I now recommend Tab Mix Plus which lets you achieve the holy grail, duplicate tabs! Who would have though it was so hard. Maybe FF5 will get some chrome like tab controls but for now this extension does a fair bit More Reading:Firefox 3 Duplicate [...]

If you are struggling to understand why you are getting a popup on the Magento checkout with the simple message “undefined” then here is what you need to do. 1. Use Fire Fox and install the extension Firebug 2. Switch Firebug on and go to the console tab 3. Hit the place order button and [...]

Update: if you have installed the native Linux client, just run these three commands in the terminal: PLAIN TEXT CODE: gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/spotify/command "/usr/bin/spotify -uri %s" gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/spotify/needs_terminal false gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/spotify/enabled true -------- To get spotify links (eg playlist links etc) to work in Linux, I found [...]

Firefox used to have an addon called duplicate tab. It was great, did exactly what it said on the tin. However it is no longer developed and so we are stuck without any duplicate tab functionality - damn. Until that is I discovered tabberwocky. Not the most descriptive name which is probably why it didn't [...]

If your firefox address bar is getting a bit slow and laggy as it tries to find suggestions, I found one single about:config tweak totally sorted it out for me. browser.urlbar.search.timeout = 100 change to browser.urlbar.search.timeout = 10 To do this, open a new tab and type about:config Then agree to the thing that says [...]

Just discovered another great Firefox Addon Custom Buttons.. tired or too lazy to use the right click for that frequent action (view source, reload all tabs) this addon is for you https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5066 More Reading:PHP Force Download with Custom FilenameMagento Custom Product Type as Configurable ProductQuickly testing HTML with FirebugMagento Add Stylesheet to Head for Specific [...]

If like me you miss the duplicate tab extension from Firefox 2, this little tip might cheer you up: Hold down [ctrl] then drag and drop an open tab onto the green + (or any free tab bar space) and you will clone that tab. Unfortunately this doesn't clone the history as well, so its [...]