Posts Tagged as ‘Firefox’

June 16, 2008

Taking (full) web page screenshots (Update)

If you are looking for a tool to create website screenshots have a look at the Firefox extension FireShot.
Besides taking screenshots from the visible part of a web page it can also create images of the complete page, which is what I was looking for.
I stumbled across this extension in Stuart Herberts blog post about [...]

November 24, 2006

Firefox: Focusing popup windows

If you find the code snippet:
<body onload=”self.focus()”>
not work in Firefox 2, this is not a bug. Firefox has an advanced Javascript option called “Raise or lower windows” which is deactivated by default. You may find this option under:

Tools
Options…
Content tab
Advanced button next to “Enable JavaScript”

Once enabled the above code will work again. But only on [...]

November 22, 2006

Firefox 2 for developers

The mozilla developer center has an article about new features for developers in Firefox 2.
Among others it covers how to create a custom search plugin.

November 20, 2006

Firefox: Save session state

By default Firefox 2 recovers tabs and windows after a crash only. However you can tell it to always “Show my windows and tabs from last time”:

PS: Applies to Firefox 2 which is the current version as of this writing.

October 30, 2006

Firefox: Open search box results in new tab

After updating to Firefox 2 I decided to try to get rid of some extensions, which I don’t really use.
One of them was an extension for tabbed browsing which is now supported by Firefox to full extent.
To open results from the search box in a new tab follow these steps:

type ‘about:config’ in adressbar - press [...]

August 4, 2006

FireBug - a web developer must-have

FireBug is one of the best Firefox extension I came across so far. It is the best companion for developing (and debugging) javascript.
Here are some links which demonstrates its features:

Debugging With Firebug
Screencast

July 5, 2006

SEO Toolbar for Firefox

SEO toolbar for Firefox released as Beta.

June 6, 2006

FootieFox

Do you like Firefox & Soccer ?
If you answered both questions with “yes” you should have the FootiFox extension, which brings you all the soccer results directly to your browser.