The Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird discussion (Part 3)

[Heeter]

Awesome, just what I needed, Thanks again,

Heeter

 

[gonaads]

Cool, hope ya like it.

 

[Kr0m]

Hmm, I tried to do a search to see if this has been mentioned already but the search didn't work at all...

Neat extension I just found (never knew about):
MinimizeToTray
Works for Firefox & Thunderbird, I initially found it looking for extensions for Sunbird but it's buggy with Sunbird... it loads 2 Sunbird processes.
URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2110/

 

[Heeter]

Hiya all,

trying to figure out how to make Thunderbird open firefox instead IE. Everytime I click on an email link from my thunderbird, it opens IE.

Thanks,

Heeter

 

[bluzeboy]

is a plugin nessary to play music samples from allmusic.com in firefox?
thanks

 

[tdinc]

Microsoft Finally Gives in and develops an Official WMV Plug in for Firefox.

I know for those of us who have to use third party addons, which usually do not work very well for sites that rely on WMV.

"When the [Open Source Software Lab] was created at Microsoft people thought it to be another Microsoft marketing ploy," writes OSSL developer Hank Janssen on his team's blog today, in a post entitled, "We're Writing Firefox Plug-ins?." "Well I can tell you that that is certainly not the case here at OSSL."

While Firefox users have generally been able to play MP3 audio files, and MPEG2 and MPEG4 videos, using Apple's QuickTime player plug-in, streaming of some Microsoft-specific formats such as WMV has sometimes been elusive. Depending on your setup, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. And Web sites that depend on access to the WMP console - including, admittedly, Microsoft co-owned and operated sites such as MSNBC.com - have sometimes responded with cryptic messages saying videos are unavailable. Up to now, MSNBC.com told viewers using Firefox they couldn't see videos from the site...with a video showing an MSNBC anchor delivering the apology directly.

But with the plug-in installed, that's changed; and now, Windows XP SP2 and Vista users who have Windows Media Player 11 can now be assured they can see videos from Microsoft's and other's sites whose video display abilities relies on their accessibility to Microsoft's rights management on the client side. Sites that didn't have this problem in Firefox - such as CBSNews.com - continue to work well.

Download it at PORT25 - Microsoft's Open source labs

LINK

 

[gonaads]

Nice find tdinc, works great.


Hmmm, I wonder what else MicroSquish put in that plugin.

 

[j79zlr]

Hiya all,

trying to figure out how to make Thunderbird open firefox instead IE. Everytime I click on an email link from my thunderbird, it opens IE.

Thanks,

Heeter

Make Firefox your default browser or you could probably do this, which is intended for linux, http://www.j79zlr.com/howto.php?id=57

Change the /path/to/firefox part to "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"

And your profile directory would be in Documents and Settings\NAME\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\PROFILENAME

 

[tdinc]

The User Interface of Firefox 3: Features
Alex Faaborg posted some great stuff about ff3 in his blog. good stuff

Firefox 3 is going to provide a wide range of improvements to performance, stability, and security, and it’s also going to present several new user facing features. Here is a quick recap of design work that’s been going on in the Mozilla community over the past few weeks for Firefox 3, along with information about how you can help contribute, by providing feedback on these designs, or creating your own UI mockups.

continue reading

blog.mozilla.com

 

[tdinc]

Youtube has just started using 10 second video ads in some videos. If you are firefox user, this extension will block the propaganda.

Developed by a Netscape coder so all is well peeps..


TubeStop Firefox extension Install here


http://www.chrisfinke.com/addons/tubestop/

 

[gonaads]

Oooo sweet.

 

[tdinc]

Want Thumbnails in Your Tabs, I Just finished reading a article over at cybernet reviewing a FF extension called Informational Tab. been using it and so far i like itlink

cybernet review:

All it really does is show a small thumbnail and progress bar in each tab. I didn’t think such a small image would actually be useful, but you’d be surprised how many sites have unique color schemes that make them easily distinguishable. After a little bit I almost found myself navigating solely by looking at the thumbnails.

There aren’t too many things that you can configure compared to some other extensions, but I was surprised at how many things I could adjust in such a simple extension:

* Pick the position of where the preview appears on each tab.
* Choose the size of the preview. It can be a fixed size, or it can be a percentage of the tab width.
* The progress bar can be configured to show on the Status Bar, on each individual tab, or both.
* Emphasis can be added to the title of unread tabs.
* Configure the positioning of the close button (on each tab, only on the active tab, or at the end of the tab bar).

Learn Firefox has more screenshots including some of all the different configuration options. You should also checkout our top 10 tab-related Firefox extensions for some similar tools.

 

[gonaads]

Similar to this?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2134

or this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4882

 

[inakaotaku]

Youtube has just started using 10 second video ads in some videos. If you are firefox user, this extension will block the propaganda.

Developed by a Netscape coder so all is well peeps..


TubeStop Firefox extension Install here


http://www.chrisfinke.com/addons/tubestop/

sweet, thanks

 

[tdinc]

Great guide for using gmail IMAP and Thunderbird

http://lifehacker.com/software/geek...nto-the-ultimate-gmail-imap-client-314574.php

 

[Sazar]

Re: Thumbnails, IE does it much better than FF. It's no comparison

 

[oh man!]

Re: Firefox Icons

Came across these today.

Get them here.

Get them here.

nice images man.

 

[nietsche]

I have been using FireFox, I never got a chance to use Thunderbird. But i do like the plugins, especially the IE tab when i need the function of IE.

 

[tdinc]

Firefox, Portable Edition 3 Beta 5

Mozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition is available packaged with Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 5, allowing you to test all the latest features in the upcoming version without disrupting your current Firefox installation. Please note that Firefox 3 Beta 5 is a developer preview release of Mozilla's next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for testing purposes only

Download link

I have to say, FF3 is Rockin... this is the final beta.

 

[Sazar]

It better be. Firefox was upto 200+MB of memory usage on 3 simple tabs last night.

So much for efficiency with the new updates.