Portable Firefox 1.0 (USB Drive-Friendly)
Portable Firefox is a fully functional package of Firefox optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers.
Nice look of the Mozilla knowledge base (some things are still beta: the plugin FAQ is still terse, better stick to PluginDoc).
Note to self: After installing Real 8.0, install the Help file by clicking on this link.
Installed Firefox 1.0 today. Only intended to clean my profile, but got carried away. Here are the main lines:
I’ve solved some problems the « not necessarily best method » way. Normally, when you uninstall an extension, only the .rdf’s pointing to the directory are removed, but the extension still exists. Sometimes items don’t uninstall or disable at all. When that happens, the only way to clean up a profile is:
- make a zip backup of your entire profile in case the next steps really hose it up. I zip up my program directory too. You have to do this while the browser is shut down or you will get zip errors on files in use.
- use file-explorer to go to the top of the profile tree, and search for « extension name » in the text search entryfield. This should display any .rdf files pointing to the extension.
- edit those files and remove the instances of the extension name CLEANLY… get the
so you dont make xml errors..... or- remove the jar directory.
- restart FF.
This doesn’t work for the Tinderbox status icon. I have to leave the directory, else FF never displays. It would be nicer if the extension directories were not the classId, so it is easier to find particular extension dirs. Clav names his with a simply « cards », or « goup » and they are easy to locate.
This is not a tutorial on writing Firefox extensions because there are already good ones out there on the web (see below). Here I give references to full tutorials, and then provide my own tips about tools and publishing that are not covered in the tutorials.
List computed after browsing SBoulema’s « extension mirror »:http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showforum=3:
« inserts the current date/time into a message with just one keypress »
« You can: change the order of name, folder, subject; whether to include any of those; whether to include a ‘new messages’ indicator (and how many new messages you have) & whether to include the account you are presently on (or email address currently active) »
« [You] get a purge button on your toolbar [wich] acts the same as the « Compact This Folder » folder context menu option; it removes messages marked as deleted from the « current » folder. »
« Adds buttons to the Mozilla Thunderbird windows »
Returns the drop down on Get Msg button
– Check also Get All Mail Button 0.0.4 [Update 15 OCT 04: not needed anymore with TB 0.8]
[Allows you to change the d]isplay[ of] the date in ‘Date’ column in the threadpane [and] display the original date string instead of the formated date in message headers
Adds a button « Send later » to the compose window
Adds a menu item to delete mail marked as junk from the folder that you right click on
[A]dds [‘]get all messages[‘] capability to Thunderbird’s « Get new messages » button by making it context-sensitive
[A]dds an user interface for configuring text and background colors for different quote levels when displaying messages
Adds a toolbar button that allows the easy toggling of vewing all headers
{A]dds a small edit box and a button below the email extended header on the main mail screen. If you type some text and then click the button, a reply is sent to the writer of the currently selected email with the typed text in the body
Delete attachment contents, (…) Zap attachments, leaving NO TRACE of the attachment, (…) Import an eml attachment into the current folder, (…) Import saved eml files off your hard drive
for reading RSS feeds
Had trouble today installing a fresh « Firefox 0.9 » version.
My last problem was triying to remove « pnh toolbar »:, wich did not show in the extension.
« Piro »:http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/entrance/_profile.html (the creator of TabBrowser Extensions, a.k.a. « TBE »:http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_tabextensions.html.en#download) has a very good « Mozilla extensions uninstall help page »:http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/doc/installation.html.en#uninstall (written forTBE, but works for all extensions), wich shows what I found myself, and more… Check also his « TBE FAQ »:http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_FAQ.html.en#tabextensions & « forum »:http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/forum/forum.cgi.
« TabBrowserExtensions »:http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_tabextensions.html.en is a big (some say huge bloated) Firefox « extension »:http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/. It is currently understood that it has « some compatibility problems »:http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.phtml?title=Firefox_:_Tips_:_Tabs, especially when upgrading different plugins and/or Firefox. See « here »:http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=47192&sid=6f8145dac3b9a69d7abe6551da85d3d0 for replacement by a list of smaller plugins.
« Rebuilding TBE »:http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=47192&postdays=0&postorder=asc&postsperpage=15&start=0&sid=6d7174d21ed37239fc8065b02056c5f8 suggested the combination :
« TBP »:http://www.intraplanar.net/projects/tabprefs/ + « Session saver »:http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#sessionsaver + « MiniT »:http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/minit + « Tab X »:http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/clav/ + « Blanklast »:http://v2studio.com/k/moz/ + « FLST (Focus Last Selected Tab) »:http://gorgias.de/mfe/ + « Undo Close Tab »:http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#undoclosetab
and gave the following advice:
* to open tabs to the right of the current tab, instead of the end of the tab bar, when using miniT: open chrome/minit.jar/content/minit.xul (in your profile; .jar is like .zip) and replace
t.ordinal = position;
with
t.ordinal = position = this.mCurrentTab.ordinal-0+1;
* to remove the close tab button from your tab bar, put this in your userchrome.css file:
#content .tabs-closebutton {
display: none !important;
}
* to place your tab bar at the bottom of the screen in the userchrome.css
/* Display the Tabbar at the bottom */
#content > tabbox {-moz-box-direction: reverse;}
And complained : So far, the killer features of TBE not implimented are:
# Duplicate Tab in new Tab/Window (« Clone Window »:http://www.texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#clonewindow is close, but lacks a few features);
# Tabbar/Tab Click/Doubleclick Modifier