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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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… (Click the image to see the full size)

  • 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…

  • 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: 1 – Notepad++ I’ve written about Notepad++ earlier, and there’s not much more to say other than the fact that it’s the best simple text editor I’ve encountered, and…

  • 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”…

  • 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: Naturally, this is annoying, but easily remedied. To do this, you need to…

  • 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:…

  • 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:   On one machine, it crashes *constantly* I am unable to add extensions (this happens for *all* of my extensions, and I have tested all of them in…

  • Firefox extensions

    It’s time to actually post a technical blog-post to my blog, so here goes… My web-browser of choice is Mozilla Firefox, for a load of reasons, many of which I’ll go into later on. However, Firefox only gets me that far, and to get the whole nine yards, I use extensions. The reasons vary, but…