Toolbar buttons galore

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Here’s a great time-saver extension. Toolbar Buttons is perfect for adding tough-to-find functions. They’re there BUT you have dig deep within Tools > Options to get to them. Need to quickly disable javascript, flash and images with just three quick clicks? No problem, just drag and drop the buttons. Here is my current setup:

Firefox set to go mobile in 2008

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

I stumbled across this news alert on Yahoo! News today that describes ’s browser efforts with . This is very encouraging news for web developers. The current lot of that work on handhelds are not that exciting (Opera and Safari on the iPhone respectfully excluded from the list - those two work great). Better and more compliant for handhelds = a better Internet experience for all.

With Intervals we have developing a handheld version on our development roadmap, but we are longing for better that allow the functionality to work as intended without having to make a separate user experience for handhelds.

Firefox CSS Background Rendering Bug

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Just stumbled upon this bugfix and thought I’d post my findings. I was trying to figure out why wouldn’t completely render page background-color on pages without scrollbars. For example:

ff1.jpg

Switching between different tabs would restore the background to its intended value (#887D75), but nothing else seemed to work ( even tried <div class="clear"></div> at the bottom of the page ) until I tried this :

body { position:absolute; top:0px; bottom:0px; left:0px; right:0px; }