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Blog This in WLW (for Firefox!)
Talk about Christmas coming early. I just found on Microsoft’s new plugin page for Windows Live Writer a plugin that gives me the ability to blog about anything I find in Firefox inside of the awesome Windows Live Writer publishing tool. The Blog This for Firefox add-on is the extension you need, if you wish to do the same, and here is how you get it.
Unwanted Plugins in Firefox
Is it fair that other companies can install unrequested plugins to Firefox? It is happening right now, and there is not a lot we can do about it. Asa Dotzler brought this topic up in one of his most recent blog posts and I do think it is an interesting debate. The three big tech giants out there find it ok to add things to Firefox without asking me first. Google does it. Microsoft does it. Even Apple does it.
Microsoft to Share Firefox Facts?
So that you end your week with something really amusing, I had to share this story I found at CyberNet as it concerns Microsoft’s new browser comparison or “fact” sheet.
So we are to believe that Firefox and Chrome are both insecure, difficult to use, and unreliable? The Internet Explorer team might want to check their calendars, because last time I checked – it is June 26th, not April 1st.
If that isn’t enough – they also have a MythBusting page. What is your favorite “fact” they are claiming?
Add Live (Suggesting) Search to Firefox
Ever wanted to add Microsoft’s Live Search to your Firefox browser?
No, me neither – but they have released and add-on to help you do just that.
The Live Search add-on is a little late to the dance, however I am not going to totally shoot them down. At least they are making the effort, right? What does it do? It gives you the “suggestion” feature for search terms when you search using Live search via the Firefox search box.
Definitely, if you are a fan of Live search, give this a shot. All three of you should be extremely happy.
The Office Theme for Firefox
Wow, a Firefox theme based on Microsoft Office? Your first thought might be this theme is about as exciting as a “watching paint dry” extension for the browser. Thankfully though, I can say it does deliver a pretty nice looking browsing interface.
Extra features: Add one or more of the following pairs of lines to your userChrome.css file to customize your Office theme:
/* change the tab close button to a different and larger close button */ @import url("chrome://global/skin/alt-close-button.css");
/* always use green back/forward buttons */
@import url("chrome://global/skin/alt-nav-buttons.css");
This theme based on Microsoft Office can be picked up on the Firefox Add-ons web site.
IE6 is an Ugly Unbeatable Stepsister?
Joe Wilcox over at eWeek has put together a pretty interesting graph charting the adoption rate for the web browsers out there in 2007. The graph and story along with it are both pulling information from the recent Forrester Research report, “Enterprise Desktop and Web 2.0/SAAS Platform Trends, 2007.”
As you can see Internet Explorer is still pulling head as you would assume it would do, but Firefox still is holding a healthy share of the market. Internet Explorer 7 itself still can’t beat the ugly stepsister that is Internet Explorer 6 though.
Microsoft Inspired Firefox Themes
Hard to think that there are more than a few Microsoft inspired themes out there for the Firefox browser. Now I have no real hate towards everybody’s favorite monopoly – but it is always amusing to poke fun at the biggest dog in the yard.
Want to go back to the Office?
Now I don’t know too many people who say, “I’m such a big fan of Office, I wished all my apps looked like this!” but love it or hate it, the Office look makes for a pretty nice Firefox theme. If your looking for that traditional Microsoft look – but with a little class and style the Office theme for Firefox might be the download you have been looking for.
Stick it up your aero, Vista!
Our next Firefox theme inspired by the Microsoft machine looks like it fell out of Windows Vista. If your a big fan of the way the new Internet Explorer 7 looks then the Vista-areo theme might be up your alley. Sleek blue style with that Microsoft glow.
Crappy, yet classic Microsoft style…
Now this is the style that you know and love. No wait, does anybody really love the classic and familiar look of IE6? No – it couldn’t be.. could it? Well if you do fall in that camp then the Looks Familiar theme for Firefox is a download you might want to do in private. Close the blinds though and make sure nobody sees you using it.
Browser Wars Redux
Looking through the links folks had submitted to me over the past week for the Web site, I ran across an interesting article covering the latest shots fired in the browser wars. Figured you might want to check it out as well (I promise they have pretty graphs!).
The internet browser market has been fiercely competitive of late, with two major browsers being released at the same time in the last quarter of 2006 – namely, the latest version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and the long-awaited second edition of the open-source community developed browser Firefox. There are other bit-players in the market, certainly, but indisputably these are the big two – both released in late October / November of last year.
Firefox Fingerprint Reader
Want your browser to read your finger? Well since I have no Microsoft Fingerprint Reader, I can not tell you how well it works – but the Fingerfox extension might be what you are looking for.
Fingerfox (SE) is an extension that adds compatibility for Microsoft Fingerprint Reader in Mozilla Firefox. Fingerfox (SE), Special Edition, is recommended for those, who has problems with the original Fingerfox extension.
Honestly, with fingerprint reading aside I like this extension just because of it’s name. It is just fun to say! Come on, everybody on the count of three.. one.. two.. three.. Fingerfox!
Now wasn’t that fun?
