Archive for Firefox Basics
· July 3, 2008 at 6:44 am · Firefox Basics
As some of you might have noticed, there were no new posts yesterday. This is due to the fact that we are in the middle of a big server move for Firefox Facts. No more cheapo hosting account for us. We have gotten just about everything moved over to FastServers.net. After the recent surge of popularity after the Firefox 3 release - I realized it was time I looked for help from the pros, and well FastServers.net is about as pro as you can get.
So all is going fine here, and if your not seeing this post now, you should within a couple of days. Then again, if you can’t see this post how would you know your missing it? Quantum theory aside, expect the same ol’ Firefox goodness, just at a new home.
What can you do to help? Get your friends, family and even that creepy Internet Explorer loving neighbor of yours to come visit and also pass them our RSS subscription link too. Did I also mention you can get e-mail updates too?
· June 23, 2008 at 7:10 am · Firefox Basics, Firefox Hacks
No doubt that Firefox 3 and the new places query syntax is going to lead into a lot of new and creative ways of managing the bookmarks saved on your machine. For those unsure what these are they would be your "Recently Bookmarked" or "Recent Tags" selections you see in your bookmarks menu now with Mozilla’s newest browser.
You can think of them as commands for how you wish to pull up your bookmarks.
When creating one, you do it the same way you would create a bookmark. Hit Ctrl+Shift+B to bring up your Library window. Click on Bookmarks Menu (or any other location you would like to create it) then right click where your bookmarks are listed and select "New Bookmark…".
Tearing Apart Your Places
Now in the new popup window, instead of typing in an address, we are going to type in the places query syntax. For an example:
place:queryType=0&sort=8&maxResults=10
The queryType=0 is telling us to only look at the user’s history and not the bookmarks. 0 would be history, 1 would be bookmarks, and 2 would be both.
The parameter sort= gives us the information on how to organize the results. Here we are using 8 which means to sort by visit count, descending.
Last but not least you have maxResults=10 and it is probably the one you’ll know right off the bat. This number setup here will tell your smart bookmark how many results to show. Setting this number to 0 would give you all the results returned.
Yes, it might still be a little more on the geekier side of things, but play with it some, tear it apart and see what you can come up with.
· June 11, 2008 at 6:25 am · Firefox Basics
Need a Firefox add-on that may fuel your creative juices when it comes to blogging? I know you. You said you might almost want to try it again but you just don’t have the time - or you think it is too complicated.
DashBlog has high hopes to save the day for you and many other wanting the task of sharing things with friends a lot easier.
This extension lets you quickly gather and post videos, images, text/quotes, songs and screen-captures from any web page and publish them to your blog. Right now they have support built in for Twitter, WordPress, Tumbler and Blogger. The promise here is to give you “the fastest and easiest way for you post video, text, quotes, images and songs to your blog”.
You can pick it up at Mozilla Add-ons or the DashBlog site.
· May 20, 2008 at 6:33 am · Firefox Basics
Sure there are tools, downloads and services that may do this for you, but what fun is that? Just in case you don’t feel the need to download another addition to the browser just yet - here is how you can backup your Firefox saved passwords the manual way.
First, navigate yourself to your profiles folder and then you want to copy three files, they are named:
- signons.txt
- signons2.txt
- key3.db
Copy and past them into the place you want to back them up to, and you are done. You can also move these three files to a new Firefox profile (say on a new computer, for example) if you wanted to have the same password information on your laptop.
· April 14, 2008 at 6:30 am · Firefox Basics
In the Online world, the idea of shopping alone with no help at all is more than a little out dated. If you take a look around there are so many services and add-ons for Firefox that will turn you into a shopping and deal finding juggernaut.
You just have to know where to look and which are the best of the best.
Shopping Bag - This add-on promises to help you never miss a deal again. It is a free add-on that works with Firefox to help you find deals via iBakeSale.com. Cash-back at hundreds of online stores? Sounds interesting to me.
Pronto Shopping Messenger - The next extension on the list here brings you instant price comparisons when you shop online via a small message window that alerts you of potential savings.
Shopzilla - Easy search and save tool that makes Online shopping a little easier and cheaper too, if you use the tool correctly. Browse through sites like eBay and Amazon to find the best deal possible on the product you most desire.
Grocery List Generator - This add-on would be more helpful for “real world” shopping and hunting down of deals. The Grocery List Generator helps store your lists you need regularly.
Coupon Craze - This is one of the many coupon alerters out there that will help you keep track of the latest coupons, deals and offers when visiting your favorite shopping sites.
RetailMeNot 2.0 - Shopping has gone Web 2.0! If you find yourself always a day late and a dollar short when it comes to finding deals, RetailMeNot is the addon for you. It automatically informs you of sites its’ users have shared discount coupon codes for.
Woot Watcher - We all love Woot, right? I just feel silly typing that, but they do find some great deals. Woot Watcher monitors the Woot web site and keeps you updated on the current item, price and if it is sold out yet or not.
As you can see Firefox can be turned from a normal everyday browser into a shopper’s best friend. Toss in a few add-ons, and you can then brag to your friends that you too are saving money and finding the best deals on the Web.
· October 24, 2007 at 6:10 am · Firefox Basics
It seems like every time I see somebody’s browser, they have their links organized in a new way. Some people don’t even bother removing the default bookmark links that came with the browser. Others don’t use bookmarks at all. How do you roll? I figured I’d go over some of the techniques that are out there.
Basic Old School Organization
This one is probably the most widely use way of doing things. Keep all your bookmarks in folders, and keep those folders in your main bookmarks folder. Organize them by topic and then you can always find what your looking for - even though you have to go down a few levels to find it.
Favicon Pretty Picture Organization
I did this one for a while, and I liked it till I needed more bookmarks than my Bookmarks Toolbar could handle. Here you remove the titles and navigate from web site to web site by only using the favicon to go by. It does make things less cluttered - but hard to work with if you have too many links. An easy way of getting it done without much fuss would be to use the Smart Bookmarks Bar extension.
Everything in my Face Organization
Last but not least, you have the technique I am using right now - having almost all your bookmark folders sitting inside the Bookmarks Toolbar. Here I have drop down menus of each category and it doesn’t usually take more than two clicks to get anywhere. For less important bookmarks I still need to visit once in a blue moon - I’ll still put them in the bookmarks section outside of my toolbar links folder. Might sound busy, but it does work.
So, with those three new ways of organizing your bookmarks - is it time for you to clean house?
· September 4, 2007 at 6:09 am · Firefox Basics, Guest Authors
Since the beginning of AllPeers, there have been many different collections of plugins offering BitTorrent functionality to Firefox and its other Gecko-based variants of Flock, K-Meleon and Wyzo, a Mozilla Firefox-based browser that fully integrates BitTorrent functionality into its core along with Firefox 2.0 code.
There have also been numerous plugins as well:
AllPeers (http://www.allpeers.com)
FireTorrent (http://www.wyzo.com)
FoxTorrent (http://www.foxtorrent.com)
BitFox (currently in development)
Firestorm (http://firestorm.mozdev.org).
FireStorm and BitFox, are both currently in active development. Wyzo is in alpha stage of development and have an alpha release (not for deployment in a production environment). FoxTorrent has been reviewed a few times before and installs a background DAEMON process to handle the transfers.
Wyzo/FireTorrent are both in alpha release although the Firefox extension is still available to download for testing purposes. From the list, it is plain for all to see that there is no shortage of BitTorrent extensions for Firefox at all.
However, the nature of Mozilla’s open-source platform and of the BitTorrent protocol mean that this list is by no means exhaustive and other projects are sure to take advantage to Firefox’s modular nature.
Posted by Si Howard - Si Is currently studying for a Bachelors in Computer Science and turned to Firefox and Thunderbird after many years as a Netscape user. He maintains a personal blog at devastator.wordpress.com
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