I’ve installed Firefox 3, and it looks like they may have rushed it out the door a bit. I’m seeing some sloppy display bugs that are kind of annoying. I’m running Windows XP Pro SP3. See for yourself: Note the clipping along the bottom of the statusbar, as underscores and descenders are cut off. But… Continue reading Firefox 3 Display Bugs?
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Twitbin Fixes Security Flaw
Brian Breslin, of Twitbin, left a comment saying that Twitbin fixed the security flaw I previously pointed out. Cooool! 😎
Twitbin Fails Basic Password Security
UPDATE: FIXED. See the comments below. A couple weeks ago, I installed twitbin, a Firefox extension that loads twitter in a sidebar. But, I just happened to be checking my browser cookies, and I noticed that my twitter username and PASSWORD were stored in my browser cookies in plaintext! This is not even a session… Continue reading Twitbin Fails Basic Password Security
The Firefox "Memory Leak" That’s Really a Feature (Or Vice Versa)
According to Inside Firefox – The Inside Track on Firefox Development: For those who remain concerned, here’s how the feature works. Firefox has a preference browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers which by default is set to -1. When set to this value, Firefox calculates the amount of memory in the system, according to this breakdown: RAM Number of Cached… Continue reading The Firefox "Memory Leak" That’s Really a Feature (Or Vice Versa)
XBEL to OPML
Here’s a tool to translate your XBEL bookmarks to OPML. It’s just a quick hack, but it works. Use Bookmarks Synchronizer to generate an XBEL file from your Firefox bookmarks, upload it, and your bookmarks will be returned in OPML format.
Firefox Extensions Pocket Lint
A few Firefox items I need to record: Hacking Firefox Extensions–ExtremeTech Feature Bookmarks Synchronizer When Bookmarks Synchronizer stops autosynchronizing: When Firefox is started, the bookmarksftp.browsercount is incremented. When Firefox exits, bookmarksftp.browsercount is decremented. Every time Firefox ends abnormally, bookmarksftp.browsercount does not decrement. Autosynchronization only occurs when the browser count is zero. So… Type about:config in… Continue reading Firefox Extensions Pocket Lint
TrackBack Ping Bookmarklet
I’ve made a TrackBack Ping Bookmarklet for Firefox — and mine actually works! Others I’ve seen don’t use the “post” method, which is required by the TrackBack specification. Here’s my TrackBack Ping Bookmarklet. Drag it to your toolbar. Select the URL to which you want to send a TrackBack Ping, then click the Bookmarklet. Fill… Continue reading TrackBack Ping Bookmarklet
Toolbar Button Spacing
Using Firfox 1.0.3, there seems to be a problem with either the Qute theme or the Googlebar extension (I think the former) resulting is a squished looking Googlebar. Very annoying. Here’s a pic. And here’s the fix: /* Less toolbar button spacing */ toolbarbutton { padding: 3px 4px 4px 3px !important; } toolbarbutton:hover:active, toolbarbutton[open=”true”], toolbarbutton[checked=”true”]… Continue reading Toolbar Button Spacing
My Current Adblock File
Here’s my current adblock file: adblock.txt (last updated: 2005-06-21 11:31:53). You can import this into your Mozilla Firefox Adblock extension. It’s comprehensive — at least for the sites I visit.