Tag Archives: web browser
Move Facebook Timeline Back To The Left
Facebook is at it again. This time changing the layout and color scheme of the profile page. The new, gray, decaying color scheme is more accurate to the product than they realize. Moving the timeline to the right of your about information was a bad move since that’s the content that changes regularly. It should be on the left to meet the reader’s eye. More websites are applying a right or top menu over the [...]
Disable Firefox Tab Drag Preview
Being able to rearrange your open tabs in Firefox is awesome! Having the tabs preview box cover the indicator arrow – which shows where your tab is moving to – isn’t awesome. In actuality, it defeats the purpose of the indicator arrow. When Firefox choose to adopt a minimalistic interface layout in version 4, they moved the Tab bar at the very top of the screen. In previous versions, there was a little blue arrow [...]
Disable Firefox Add-on Compatibility Checking
This article is updated for Firefox 20. In an article I wrote last April concerning the Firefox 4 add-on compatibility checker, I explained how to quickly disable said tool in order to allow older add-ons to run. That tutorial worked great for Firefox versions 4-7, but it has to be updated for Firefox 8+. In this tutorial, I’ll walk through removing the old configuration and adding the new. 1.) Open up Firefox’s Configuration page by [...]
Disable Yahoo’s Annoying Location Popup
A short time ago, Yahoo introduced a new feature to the comment section of their articles allowing readers to view and click the commentator’s location in order to filter all comments by that location. Why they felt this was a good feature, I don’t know. I do find it annoying, however, that a popup appears automatically, thereby hiding portions of comments, in order to introduce this new feature. I guess they believe not enough people [...]
Open Firefox Web Search Results In New Tab
Having a search box with quick access to your favorite search engine is standard among web browsers. Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera all have a dedicated box to the right of the Address bar. Google’s Chrome performs such searches from within the Address bar itself. Before they became standard, this feature was installed from toolbars or browser add-ons. Needless to say, having this quick access to a search tool is very convenient. With a modified [...]
Open Firefox’s Page Source In Your Editor
As a web developer, I’m constantly viewing the source code of websites, mine and yours. I look to fix bugs, improve efficiency, and learn new or interesting techniques. The Page Source viewer in Firefox is right there in the View menu or the shortcut Ctrl+U. I guess I could say the viewer does its job. It’s a basic view of the web page’s client-side code with basic tools like line wrap, syntax highlighting, and find [...]