Jefflog

I’m checking out a new Firefox extension for blogging created by Performancing.com that seems to be pretty sweet. The editor appears in the bottom half of the browser screen, allowing you to browse the web while editing, and the editor is much better than the web-based one in WordPress. Of course, it works with other weblog software as well. My initial impressions have me giving this extension a big thumbs up.

If you’re using tabbed browsing in the Firefox browser, most people seem to know that you can cycle between the tabs using Ctrl+Tab. What people generally don’t know about is the ability to jump to tabs 1-9 by using Alt+<#>…Alt+1 takes you to tab 1, Alt+2 to tab 2, etc. For Windows, it’s Ctrl+<#>, Mac it’s Cmd+<#>.

Complete list of Firefox keyboard shortcuts.

The Mozilla project just released version 1.0 of their Firefox web browser for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. If you’re using any other browser, including Netscape’s own browser or Safari and especially IE, you should download this program now. It is hands down the best browser you’ll find.

Mozilla (hence, Firefox) has been able to block images from individual sites for a long time now. I’ve made plenty use out of the ability to right click on a banner ad, select “Block all images from this site”, and never see those ads again. However, this doesn’t work for Flash-based advertisements, because as soon as you right-click on them, the Flash plug-in takes over. I used to just disable the Flash plug-in altogether, but eventually found that there were too many sites made more useful by having the plug-in available.

Today, I found the solution: Adblock. When installed in your Firefox browser, it allows you to block ALL media from any website, not just images, but Flash content too. It’s also more powerful than Firefox’s default blocker; whereas before I would have to censor m1.doubleclick.net, m2.doubleclick.net, etc., I set up a simple rule to block *.doubleclick.net, and it’s all taken care of.

I’ve been looking for a way to censor Flash-based content for years without having to set up allow/deny lists in my router, and now I’ve found it. I’m going through all of the sites I can find just to see if I can block their ads.

The Web Developer Mozilla Extension is another amazing piece of software with a bunch of tools useful for any web developer. See table outlines, hidden form fields, ID fields and more on your site with the click of a button, and much more. Very handy stuff.

I recently discovered some of the CSS extensions to be found in Mozilla, like the -moz-border-radius attribute.

The rounded corners are supposedly a proposed feature for the CSS3 standard, which has not yet been finalized. As such, the Mozilla team is playing it safe by naming it something which is clearly marked as being “Mozilla only”; when and if the W3 team do decided to finalize the spec, a simple change will allow them to support that feature immediately.

See more Mozilla-only CSS extensions.