Ramblings, ideas, problems, and solutions

Category: Firefox

  • Firefox – Getting the normalsized back-button back

    I don’t mind it, but I know that many users feel annoyed that in version 3, the “Back”-button in Firefox is large and round, as opposed to the same size as the “Forward”-button. Here’s what it looks like:
     

     
    Luckily for my users, this is easily rectified. Simply right-click any of the buttons close to it, click “Customize”, and then select the checkbox for “Use small icons” like so:
     

     
    The result looks like this:
     

  • Firefox – Copy tabs

    One of the reasons why I absolutely love Mozilla Firefox is the fact that the system of tabs is so excellently implemented. At times I want to be able to copy a tab. There are two simple ways of doing this:
     
    Method one: mouse
    By simply holding down the Ctrl-button on our keyboard while dragging a tab (as if to relocate it) you instead create a copy of the tab where you drop the tab.
     
    Method two: keyboard
    Start by clicking Ctrl+L to activate the address bar. Then press Alt+Enter. This will copy the current tab to a new tab located at the far left of the list of tabs.

  • Reducing memory usage in Mozilla Firefox

    If you’re like me, you use Mozilla Firefox as your preferred web browser. However, Firefox has one great weakness; its great love of RAM. I browsed around the web a bit, and found this workaround, which should help a bit at least. I have tried it, and it worked nicely for me.
     
    What this workaround does is move Firefox to your hard drive when minimized, which results in Firefox taking up less RAM. Obviously, the amount of RAM taken up will increase when you maximize the window, but it appears to increase to less than it used to be, which could certainly be said to be an improvement.
     
    The number one objection I have seen to this workaround is that people say that Firefx will take longer to maximize as the cache is located on the hard drive instead of in RAM. However, according to other bloggers out there, any delay is not noticeable.
     
    Now, to the step-by-step:
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  • A glance at different outlooks

    Following monday’s post a colleague of mine sent me the below picture. Although I’ll grant you it is oversimplifying things more than a bit, it still has a vein of truth in it, not to mention the fact that it is more than slightly amusing…

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  • Firefox saving your tabs

    With the release of Firefox 3, users have gotten a few nifty little tools to use, a few of which I noted in a previous post. Another tool, which I had missed was the ability to save the tabs of your current session, so that they’d open the next time you’d open Firefox. Before Firefox 3, to achieve this, you’d have to open the Windows task manager and kill the process.

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  • Software I cannot live without

    Almost anyone that works with computers collect a few programs they can’t live without. For me, there are a few of them, and here they are:

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  • Internet Explorer and me (Or: Why I choose)

    I’ve been using computers more or less actively for about 10 years now. My first encounter with a computer was a hulking 386, which I never really got the hang of. Since then, I’ve encountered computers in many different ways, but the first time I can remember getting a “So that’s what it’s all about” feeling, was back in the summer of 1996. Using Word (!) I constructed my very first website.

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  • Firefox: Disabling the Extension Install Delay

    In a previous blogpost I wrote about my favorite Firefox extensions. One thing that annoys me though, is that whenever I try to install an extension, Firefox shows a dialog box, and grays out the “install” button for three seconds, like this:
    Extension Install Delay

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  • Firefox 2.0.0.13 crashes, unable to add extensions part two – the solution

    My problems have, as I mentioned, been twofold; first there is the universal problem of not being able to add extensions, and second there is the problem of Firefox crashing on one of my machines.
     
    The error data for the crashes look like this:
     
    AppName: firefox.exe
    AppVer: 1.8.20080.31114
    ModName: firefox.exe
    ModVer: 1.8.20080.31114
    Offset: 0019e219
     
    I decided to do a fresh reinstall of Firefox, but wanting to keep my profile, with all my bookmarks etc., I exported the profile folder (as detailed in the Mozilla Knowledgebase). I then uninstalled Firefox, and then reinstalled Firefox. I then imported the profile folder, and I am now able to install extensions, though the problems with the crashes remain. This seems to be caused by the profile, and I created a new profile accordingly.
     
    To create a new profile, I ran the command “firefox.exe -ProfileManager”, and created a new profile. I copied files as detailed in the Mozilla Knowledge base article on recovering data from an old profile, and restarted firefox with the new profile, taking care to delete the old one. Some data was lost, but most of my preferences survived.
     
    The install of Firefox was an updated and patched one, originally installed as 2.0.0.5 or something like that. Most likely problem was caused by my install of Firefox having been updated and patched instead of reinstalled.
     
    To resolve this problem, I relied heavily on the following Mozilla Firefox Knowledgebase articles:  (more…)

  • Firefox 2.0.0.13 crashes, unable to add extensions part one – the problem

    I’ve been using Firefox for a few years now, and love it dearly. After the update to version 2.0.0.13, I have experienced the following problems with it:
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  • Firefox extensions

    It’s time to actually post a technical blog-post to my blog, so here goes…

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