Firefox info/help thread!

[garnet_abx]

Originally Posted by Jliao

This is a freshly installed FF

Perhap the install is corrupted in some way.

[SupDawg]

Originally Posted by PCBruiser

???? Haven't seen that issue, except if your profile is corrupted. As to why that would happen, no idea for that either.

So I figured out how to make the settings stick. I had to manually edit the user.js file. It kept my settings after a restart of FF.

Thanks Kongo---

[Fraoch]

Thanks to kONGO, I discovered that to stop all animated .GIFs you just press the escape key. You can also permanently stop animated .GIFs as explained here:

Go to the page about:config and locate the key image.animation_mode. set its value to ‘none’ to stop all animated gifs !

To stop animated Flash objects, use the FlashBlock extension. Apparently AdBlock will do this now, but FlashBlock is more flexible. FlashBlock replaces all Flash objects with a play button. If you want to see the Flash, click the play button. FlashBlock will allow you to put certain sites in its exception list where it will always play Flash (for example, www.homestarrunner.com )

[SupDawg]

Testing a new extension.

[sub]
Generated Wed Jan 12 2005 15:01:04 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)

Enabled Extensions: (21)

Adblock 0.5.2.039 - Filters ads from web-pages
Autofill 0.2 - Automatically fill out HTML forms
DictionarySearch 0.7 - Looks up selected word in an online dictionary
Disable Targets For Downloads 0.8 - Prevents download links opening a blank window.
Download Manager Tweak 0.6.3 - A modification of the Firefox download manager that changes its appearance and allows it to be opened in a separate window, a new tab, or the sidebar.
downTHEMall! 0.9.4 - Filter the extensions of all the links present in a page and download the selected files ot the pictures in just one click!
DragToTab 0.1.2 - Drag links, text or files on to the New Tab and New Window icons in the toolbar to open them in either a new tab or in a new window respectively.
fireFTP 0.86.1 - FTP client for Mozilla Firefox.
FoxyTunes 1.0 - Control any media player from Firefox and more...
Gmail Notifier 0.4 - A notifier for Gmail accounts.
ieview 0.84 - Open pages in IE via Firefox menus
Image Zoom 0.1.7 - Adds zoom functionality for images
ListZilla 0.5.1 - Outputs an alphabetical list of either extensions or themes to a text, vB code, or HTML file.
OpenDownload 0.2.1 - Allows you to open any file from the internet into the OS assigned program.
Print It! 0.2.1 - Adds a print and print preview option to the context menu.
SmoothWheel 0.43.1.20041107 - Scrolls the document smoothly when scrolling the mouse wheel
SpellBound 0.7.1 - Adds spell checker support to web forms and extensions.
Tabbrowser Preferences 1.2.2 - Enhances control over some aspects of tabbed browsing.
TripleSelect 1.5 - Select a paragraph by triple-clicking on text.
Tweak Network 1.0 - Tweak network settings.
WeatherFox 0.5.1 - Get the weather in any toolbar or statusbar!
[/sub]

Pretty cool-- Its called ListZilla-- See above for description.

[k0NG0]

Originally Posted by Fraoch

Thanks to kONGO, I discovered that to stop all animated .GIFs you just press the escape key. You can also permanently stop animated .GIFs as explained here

Yeah, I like being able to stop annoying animated GIFs. In IE it was always possible to press the stop button and that would take care of it, but the stop button is disabled in FF. Esc is your friend, in any case.

[switch_abx]

techsmith.com, the developer of the SnagIt screen capture utility, has available for download a Firefox extension for it's latest version of SnagIt 7.2.

Grab it from here: http://www.techsmith.com/products/snagit/firefox.asp

[ronbo 613]

These configuration settings seem to speed up page loading with my SBC DSL.
Newbie with Firefox, working my way through all the options. Got Spellbound, ieview and Tabbrowser Preferences extentions for starters.

[drpino]

ronbo, there's also an extension called "Tweak Network Settings" that does what you linked to above.

[ronbo 613]

DOH!
Got the training wheels out.

[SupDawg]

Ok guys.. I use the Spellbound extension, and it's a great idea. However, its dictionary is severely lacking vocabulary, ebonics, slang, etc.

Does anyone know a way I can rip microsofts dictionary out of word and import into SB extension?

[Underwater Mike]

Got another issue, between FF and Logitech iTouch software:

When you program keyboard soft keys with a menu of Web sites, and IE is the default browser, the software works fine. That is, if I choose ABXZone from a list of sites I've programmed as an iTouch menu item, the site opens fine in IE. But when I set FF as my system default browser, those sites don't open at all. It's like the URL is not being handed off to the browser properly.

Anyone else experience this, or know of some registry settings I can mess with to get it working? I have a zillion site menus set up with iTouch....

[garnet_abx]

Originally Posted by Mike Donatello

Got another issue, between FF and Logitech iTouch software:

When you program keyboard soft keys with a menu of Web sites, and IE is the default browser, the software works fine. That is, if I choose ABXZone from a list of sites I've programmed as an iTouch menu item, the site opens fine in IE. But when I set FF as my system default browser, those sites don't open at all. It's like the URL is not being handed off to the browser properly.

Anyone else experience this, or know of some registry settings I can mess with to get it working? I have a zillion site menus set up with iTouch....

In the ITouch configuration box. Instead of choosing a "web site", choose "program" and then enter the path as C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe www.abxzone.com
Make certain you have a space between the end of firefox.exe and the start of the web page address.

[Underwater Mike]

Thanks Garnet! Works like a charm!

Wonder why it didn't work as expected without doing that?

[Fraoch]

Hmm...I just learned of a neat feature HOSTS File Manager has. In IE, it will add two entries to your "Links" toolbar. One is to call up the HOSTS File Manager program itself, the other is to add a URL to the HOSTS file, thereby blocking it.

Now that would be very useful - don't you hate that when you mistype a URL and get directed to one of those shyster sites? Try www.abitusa.com for example.

The problem is, both these "Links" commands are actually program shortcuts rather than URLs. For example, the add URL button points to "C:\Program Files\HOSTS File Manager\Add URL.exe". You can't add these to the Firefox Bookmarks. If you do, it will "download" the program from your computer to your computer.

Is there any way to add custom shortcuts to a Firefox toolbar?

[fischyfinger]

Originally Posted by Fraoch

Hmm...I just learned of a neat feature HOSTS File Manager has. In IE, it will add two entries to your "Links" toolbar. One is to call up the HOSTS File Manager program itself, the other is to add a URL to the HOSTS file, thereby blocking it.

Now that would be very useful - don't you hate that when you mistype a URL and get directed to one of those shyster sites? Try www.abitusa.com for example.

The problem is, both these "Links" commands are actually program shortcuts rather than URLs. For example, the add URL button points to "C:\Program Files\HOSTS File Manager\Add URL.exe". You can't add these to the Firefox Bookmarks. If you do, it will "download" the program from your computer to your computer.

Is there any way to add custom shortcuts to a Firefox toolbar?

I can put shortcuts there by dragging them to the bookmarks toolbar. I figured this out when I accidentally did that today.