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I suppose it's to be expected, after a flurry of activity from the Mozilla HQ over the last few weeks, that things would calm down a little. There wasn't much Firefox news this week I'm afraid, but I've done my best to scrape together five fairly-interesting tidbits. Let's start with a neat tip: 1. Overriding the add-on compatibility/version check Most of you have probably updated to Firefox 3.6 in the past week -- except those of you that are hanging on to old add-ons that haven't had updated versions released! Fortunately, most add-ons that work in 3.5 also work in 3.6 -- you just have to override the function that checks. Type about:config into your address bar Create a New Boolean Value by right-clicking in any empty space (New>Boolean) Type in extensions.checkCompatibility.3.6 (copy and paste it if necessary). 2. The problem is that the mobile version of Firefox -- Fennec -- only works on a handful of Nokia phones that no one actually owns.
Create Custom Firefox And Thunderbird Installations. Silence of the foxes is a lightweight software program that can be used to create custom Firefox installations.
Custom installations refers to a Firefox setup that can install custom preferences, extensions, plugins and bookmarks whenever it is installed. This can be very useful for various purposes including distribution of a custom Firefox installation to multiple computer systems. The portable software program will unpack a Firefox setup file to the local computer system. The user then needs to add extensions, bookmarks, plugins and preferences to the paths the installation has been extracted to and pack everything in the end to create a new custom Firefox installation. It is possible to create a custom Firefox or Thunderbird installation with the software program. A Firefox or Thunderbird setup file needs to be specified in the next step. A click on copy my files and then pack will create the custom Firefox or Thunderbird installation file. Display Firefox Browsing History With History Tree. The default Firefox history manager is not very comfortable to work with.
The information that it displays are mediocre at best even if the the browsing history is displayed in the sidebar. Firefox basically display the domain name and the page of each domain that have been visited. It does not however display information about the time the websites were visited or their relation. That's where the new Firefox add-on History Tree comes into play. History Tree can generated a tree structure from the Firefox history in realtime.
The name and time of each website are displayed in rectangles on the screen. Orange: Active Firefox TabYellow: Open TabsBlue: Closed TabsWhite: Pages that can be accessed with the back and forward buttons in FirefoxGray: Pages that cannot be accessed with the back and forward buttons Filters are available on top to display specific tabs only. It is furthermore possible to change the tree view to a thumbnail view of the visited websites instead. Firefox Add-ons. SkipScreen - Firefox Plugin to Skip Tedious Web Pages.