Archive for the 'Mozilla' Category

Firebug, or the lack there of, WAS the only thing stopping me from using Firefox 3 on a more permanent basis, especially now it’s much faster and integrates better on the Mac and given that Safari seems to be quite selective at what it caches. But not anymore.
With Firebug being such a great tool, I [...]

I was a bit disappointed to read that the Mozilla Foundation/Corporation is seriously considering giving Thunderbird the chop and setting it free from the constraints and support of the Mozilla Foundation/Corporation.
Whilst Thunderbird has been playing second fiddle to Firefox, I think it’s equally as important and really needs the backing of an established name to [...]

Did you know that very few browsers implement the :after CSS property for the “img” HTML tag?
Nope, neither did I until I wanted to use it.
I’m in the process of redesigning my personal site, and one of the things I wanted to do was use CSS to place the Flickr logo after any image I [...]

I’ve been using the Lightning Calendar extension, along with the WCAP extension (’cos we use SJSCS) to access my calendar at work for some time now.
I’ve configured the extension/Thunderbird to remember my calendar login details, added my calendars and all in all it works a treat. However, there is one thing that really started to [...]

Chapin Information Services (CIS) have discovered quite a major flaw in the way Firefox’s Password Manager automatically populates username and password fields on a web form.
Whilst this is a major time saver, it does however allow phishers to gather usernames and passwords without you actually knowing it, especially on weblogs and forums which [...]

I use Thunderbird for all my mail needs (except Gmail as it doesn’t do IMAP) and there are several capabilities within it’s filtering that I wish it had:

Regular expression (regex) matching (Bug #: 19442)
The ability to pipe a message to a shell command (to determine if email matches)
The ability to run a shell command (as [...]

I stumbled upon this really cool plugin for Firefox (and Safari and IE) - Cooliris. Once installed, the plugin allows you to quickly preview the underlying content of links without actually clicking. Just hover your mouse pointer over a link and see the content immediately (well as immediately as your link will allow the [...]

Google has just released a new Firefox extension that, as they quote,
…continuously synchronises your browser settings - including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and save passwords - across your computers.
They’re very good to point out how things are encrypted so it’s harder for some hacker to get your persistent cookies etc, but one thing that [...]