Loading ...Firefox 3 introduced tighter OS integrating across all platforms, and even different Strata (Windows theme) flavors for Windows XP and Vista. However the result was not optimal and there is room to make Firefox feel more native.
In Firefox, from the File menu, select New Tab. Or press Ctrl + T. Or double click on the tab bar. The result is the same: a blank page that does help you get where you really want.
The Firefox development team is well aware of this and is currently experimenting with several ways to predict what you may want to do when you open a blank tab: a search, check a recently visited tab, a new web feed item, or just one of your favorite sites. Read the rest of this entry »
My past list of six dark themes for Firefox was not meant to be comprehensive, but just share a few ones I stumbled upon on Mozilla Add-ons. Many users made some interesting suggestions for additional dark themes so I decided to take a more complete picture and found there were a lot worth a screenshot.
For dark computer desktop fans, here are ten more Firefox themes that should suit your taste. Pictured on Windows XP with the Royale Noir theme variation. Read the rest of this entry »
There’s been a flood of posts on the web about the discovery of Minefield, an enhanced new web browser by Mozilla, that just leaves Chrome and the others biting the dust due to its serious performance superiority.
As most Mozilla Links readers may know, Minefield is the main code repository for Firefox (the trunk) where patches and new features that are meant to be included in the next Firefox release first land.
When a milestone is approaching (alpha, beta or final), the trunk is frozen so nothing but stuff related to the goals set for the next milestone will go in. The frozen code is used to make a build, the build is QA’d, mirrored and released as an alpha or beta (code name Shiretoko for Firefox 3.1, Gran Paradiso for Firefox 3, all names of national parks).
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On the latest blog post by Mozilla’s Laura Mesa, she shares the results of a survey conducted on past September 23 to randomly selected Firefox users updating to 3.0.2 and 3.0.3.
When asked how likely they were to recommend Firefox to a friend in a scale of 1 to 5, 89% of the 30,272 respondents answered 4 or 5 (most likely), “which can also be understood as an 89% customer satisfaction rating”, said Laura in her post.
… because Dora, the explorer, says so.
Dora, the “explorer”. Swiper, the “fox”. It was inevitable. By J8d on deviantART.
For those inclined to black or dark desktops, here are six nice Firefox themes you want to give a try.
Pictured here on Windows XP with the Royal Noir theme for darker effect. All available from Mozilla Add-ons, but for those marked experimental you will need an account.
avant.garde.10011:nerom created by Rob Holian. (experimental)
Used Hide Caption by Ji Shiping, to hide the title bar. Cons: have to aim below the window control buttons to move the window; need a Mozilla Add-ons account to download.
Fission by Zeniko, adds a progress bar to the location bar so you can hide the status bar. Cons: no room for extensions’ status bar icons or download status.
Compact Menu 2 by Milly C., to reduce the menu bar to a blue button next to the location bar. Cons: an additional click for menu only actions.
Searching with keywords only, hence, no search bar. Stop and reload buttons combined via CSS. No global throbber.
Enjoy.
Greezmo is an experimental Firefox extension developed by Gilad Kutiel that provides a simplified interface to search YouTube and make and control playlists of selected videos.
The interface is somewhat strange because of its size, location and the fact that it is overlaid over the content so you can switch tabs and the manager is visible at all times.
Mouse gestures and spatial navigation are two recurrent approaches to making user interfaces more intuitive and efficient, and Drag & DropZones combines pieces of them both to provide an innovative interface.
This Firefox extension, developed by Captain Caveman, lets you define a grid of drop zones in the content area, and associate each of of them to a search engine or a page context menu action. When you make a selection in the current page, just drag it a bit and a translucent grid is overlaid showing the zones you can drop the selection over to perform the action defined. Read the rest of this entry »
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