Create Custom Firefox Skins with Personas

Mozilla has a new Firefox extension, called Personas, that makes it a bit easier to add themes to your browser. Built from a prototype that was discussed and tested earlier this year, Personas aims to extend an option for custom browsers without the need to code. They also have the ability to incorporate online components, supporting HTML, CSS, PNG, JPG, SVG, Javascript and Canvas. Personas also offer real time updates during the creation and editing process, so you can see exactly what you’re getting into. Other feature include the ability to select a Persona from the dynamic menus, and designers can add/update themes at any time without updating any software.

Firefox 3 Beta Goes Portable

Want to test out Firefox 3 beta without messing up all of your precious Firefox 2 settings? Easy, just install the portable version. The Portable Apps developers have been doing a great job of pushing out versions of Firefox that can be run from a flash drive within a few days of every major Firefox release lately. And now that Firefox 3 has hit the beta stage, they've started portablizing (is that a word?) it as well.

Download Firefox 3 Beta Portable here.

Better Gmail 2 Firefox Extensio for New Gmail

If all of your Greasemonkey scripts have stopped working like mine did since the new Gmail arrived, then this might be the solution for you.

First Look at Firefox 3.0

Your Mission: Spread Firefox One Giant Sticker at a Time

Are you ready to infiltrate society and spread Firefox one sticker at a time? Operation Firefox is currently recruiting agents to place huge 3.5’ Firefox stickers where the world will see them. In addition to worldwide notoriety, you might wind up with a new MacBook Pro or a Nintendo Wii.

Operation Firefox began last summer as a project initiated by the Mozilla Marketing interns. We had seen what the Mozilla community produced before, including the New York Times ad, the Firefox crop circle, and the Firefox Flicks contest, and decided to step up to the challenge and create another opportunity for Mozilla fans to show off their creativity.

This newest campaign puts 3.5 foot Firefox stickers in the hands of our community and looks for creative new ways to share Firefox with the world. Ultimately, our goal is to get 50 great photos of the Firefox logo in situations that promote some of the defining characteristics of the Web browser–performance, security, customization, and community.

The contest is two-tiered: first, we’re putting out a call for the 50 best “placements” for these stickers (due November 9th). Then, the most creative agents will receive a fathead sticker to complete their mission: take a photograph and submit before December 3rd. All 50 photos will be displayed on the Operation Firefox website, but the four best ones will receive a new MacBook Pro or Nintendo Wii.

Do you think you have what it takes to be an Operation Firefox agent? To learn more about the contest and how to participate, visit www.operationfirefox.com.

Introducing Glubble

Glubble is a free tool for the Mozilla Firefox Internet browser. It permits each member of the family to have their own custom environment, so that when kids use it they only see the very best parts of the Internet based on selections made by their parents or supplied by trusted family brands.

10 Must Have Greasemonkey Scripts for Digg

Check it out, my comment box sidebar script made the list!

Firefox 2.0.0.4 Released

Use Firefox as a Windows File Manager

Never thought about doing this before, but if you have the IE Tab extension for Firefox you can set it to always open "file:///*" in an IE tab and create bookmarks to your folders. All you have to do is copy the folder location into the address bar with a "file:///" prefix, replace all the "\" with a "/", and replace spaces with %20. Locationbar is also a great extension to go with this because you can then click on the root folders in the address bar (like Windows Vista) to go back.

My about:config List for Firefox

Pipelining
Set network.http.pipelining to True
Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to True
Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to something like 30

Start Rendering Pages Faster
Create new integer and name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0

Paste Multiple Lines as a Single Line
Set editor.singleLine.pasteNewlines value to 2

Limit RAM Usage to 10MB When Minimized
Create new boolean and name it config.trim_on_minimize and set value to True

Stop Pre-fetching Links You Don't Click
Set network.prefetch-next value to False

Use Spellcheck In Input Fields as well as Text Areas
Set layout.spellcheckDefault value to 2

Stop Automatic Image Resizing
Set browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing value to False

Reduce the Number of Reflows
Create new integer and name it content.notify.interval and set the value to 1000000
Create new boolean and name it content.notify.ontimer an select True

Close Button Preferences
Set browser.tabs.closeButtons to any of the following:
0 Display a close button only on the currently active tab
1 Display close buttons on all tabs
2 Don't display any close buttons
3 Display one close button at the end of the tab bar

Open Search Results in a New Tab
Set browser.search.openintab value to True

Open Bookmark Groups in New Tabs (Does Not Replace Open Tabs)
Set browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace value to False

Squeeze More Tabs Into the Tab Bar
Set browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to however small you want your tabs before overflow

Maximize Connections to Multiple Servers
Set network.http.max-connections to something like 32

Stop Graphics Caching
Set browser.cache.memory.enable value to False

Stop Back/Forward Caching
Set browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers value to 0

Change Scrollbar Behavior (Jumps to position when scrollbar is clicked)
Create new boolean and name it ui.scrollToClick and set value to True

Mozilla CEO Speaks Out on Future of Firefox

• Part 1: How 12 people made Firefox 1.0
• Part 2: Where Firefox's $US55million a year comes from
• Part 3: Putting Firefox on mobile phones
• Part 4: business cool on IE7, recontemplating Firefox?
• Part 5: Why no built-in ad-blocker in Firefox yet?
• Part 6: Firefox 3.0 "lock-in branding" -- what gives!
• Part 7: Firefox to go head-to-head with Flash and Silverlight
• Part 8: The touchy relationship between Microsoft and Mozilla
• Part 9: Getting Firefox onto more desktops
• Part 10: Mozilla Japan's cute Firefox cartoon character
• Part 11: The stoush over Linux distros and the Firefox trademark
• Part 12: Mozilla working on "Web 3.0" -- web apps that will run in your browser without an internet connection

Uncensor the Internet Greasemonkey Script

This script takes censored words like sh*t, f**k, a**, and even words like mother****er and makes them whole again. Install the script and refresh this page to see how it works.

Download it here.

My Firefox Extensions

This downloadable package contains 58 extensions to boost your productivity including custom extension images and a custom FoxyTunes skin made for Internauta2000's Vista-Black theme that gives your browser a cleaner look without losing functionality. You can install any of these extensions separately or all at once. The Vista-Black theme is included. Follow the title link to see all of these extensions.

I also recomend the following Greasemonkey Scripts...

Gmail Conversation Preview
Gmail - Zip Attachments and Download
Gmail + Reader Integrator
Googlenlarge

and the following Stylish scripts...

About:Blank Blue Firefox
Gmail with different and bigger attachment icons
Google Image Search - dark gray redesign (vC)
Google Video - dark gray redesign (vC)
Google Web Search - dark gray redesign (vC)
YouTube.com - dark gray redesign (vC)

30+ Tools and Hacks for Gmail

Includes Firefox extensions, Greasemonkey scripts, desktop apps, web tools and work arounds. There is some pretty good shit in here, most of which I already use and some I've never heard of.

Use Firefox to View the Wii Shop

1. Install the User Agent Switcher and restart
2. Click Tools/User Agent Switcher/Options/Options
3. Click User Agents
4. Click Add
5. Description: Nintendo Wii
6. User Agent: Opera/9.00 (Nintendo Wii; U; ; 1038-58; Wii Shop Channel/1.0; en)
7. Click OK/OK
8. Now open User Agent Switcher again and select Nintendo Wii
9. Choose a link and enjoy

Main Channel
User Manual
Nintendo Membership
Sonic The Hedgehog

Firefox Tab Effect Extension

WMP Firefox Plug-In for Windows Vista

If you have Windows Vista and your running Firefox, you may have noticed that you cannot download the missing plug-in for embedded Windows Media. Microsoft doesn't even offer the plug-in for Vista, however, you can download npdsplay.dll, npwmsdrm.dll, and npdrmv2.dll and manually place them into your "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins" folder. Viola, problem solved.

Firefox 2.0.0.1 Released

Download it here.

Awesome Firfox Ad

The Netscape Digg Tracker

Allows you to track and view you Digg friend's activity in your sidebar.