Tag: Firefox

Setting paper size in Mozilla products

Mozilla products, firefox and thunderbird, seem to have the strange behaviour of overriding the paper size set by the operating system; it scales the page to letter and then prints it to A4. Read More »
By halfgaar, 7 months ago, on August 17, 2009, at 13:08 | No comments

With Vimperator it almost feels as if I can control Firefox

Wednesday, after returning to Groningen from Barcelona, I saw Ying using Vimperator. I was sold immediately. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 9 months ago, on June 07, 2009, at 23:06 | 3 comments

Getting my sister to forget the Google Desktop newsticker

My sister was so fond of the RSS feature that came with Google Desktop's sidebar that she kept it permanently visible at the right side of her screen. (What a news junkie!) Now that I got her stuck with Linux, she misses her precious Google Desktop and I'm trying to figure out an alternative for her. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 year ago, on November 27, 2008, at 21:11 | No comments

The joys of being well-known to Google

The "Places" system in the new Firefox 3 is great. I'm still getting more effective usage out of just the location bar every day. But, sometimes I'm on a different computer, or I haven't been to one of my web pages for a very long time. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on July 12, 2008, at 17:07 | 2 comments

Drag and drop file upload extension for Firefox

I'm not very fond of file picking dialogs. They're much too squeezy to my taste. I much prefer a full-blown file system browser to pick my files. I feel no need to suffer cute, miniature wannabe file choosers. That's why I was very pleased to come across the dragdropupload extension for Firefox today. I upload files very often, and this extension makes uploading using web forms a little less awkward!

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By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on May 20, 2007, at 21:05 | No comments