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Good, paranoid bookmark design, and Google’s Firefox extentions

Andy — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:01:55 +0000

So, I use Google’s Firefox plugin to synchronise my bookmarks between work and home. It worked well - or used to until I started using Firefox 2 at home. Anyway, for no apparent reason, yesterday it trashed my bookmarks at home. And then today, at work, it decided it would synchronise after all, and trashed my bookmarks at work to.

I guess the lesson is to always maintain redundancy. Fortunately, the guys writing Firefox (presumably ‘cos they had problems with the bookmarks too) took to storing backups of the bookmark file - and that has worked nicely in this instance.

Anyway, it’s enough to put me off - I shall be looking for something else. I gather that Delicious (insert your own dots) has a good Firefox plugin, and works by tagging, which is good also. I’m just a wee bit worried as I really want to have a heirarchy too - so I can drill down, rather than just getting a ‘pool’ of matching tags.

Rounded corners

Andy — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:06:18 +0000

Here’s an interesting attribute in CSS I didn’t know about
-moz-border-radius
The style below is :
font-size: 12px; background-color: #ffffff; -moz-border-radius: 8px; border: 2px solid #3366cc; padding: 7px;

A box with a border! Of course, this only works in Mozilla

Another box with a border!

Another fine plugin

Andy — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 12:06:10 +0000

Venkman Javascript Debugger - All sorts of useful things, like breakpoints and watches. I like it!

Final FireFox plugins (for now)

Andy — Thu, 26 May 2005 12:05:08 +0000

I guess I should include the other plugins I use:

Adblock - the best think in Firefox bar none.

Cookie Culler - a much better cookie controller.

Web Developer Toolbar - Although this might be standard now - I don’t remember installing it last time…

More Cool FireFox Plugins

Andy — Tue, 24 May 2005 09:05:31 +0000

- PDF Download (thank you! I hate PDF in Browsers

- Menu Editor (trimmed down my context menu - another great feature)

- An easier History

Neat Firefox Plugins

Andy — Mon, 23 May 2005 20:05:19 +0000

Some good Firefox plugins:

- Live HTTP Headers

- Link Checker (neat!)

- Colorzilla

- View Formatted Source

Firefox Bug with Textboxes

Andy — Wed, 18 May 2005 14:05:12 +0000

I found my first bug in the Firefox web browser. Basically, if you’ve got a text box with autocomplete=”off” as an attribute, the up and down arrows move the text insertion point left and right. The code for this is:
value="123456789" />
If you’re using Firefox, you can see this here:

Firefox plugin installer code

Andy — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:03:30 +0000

If you’re nerdy enough to care, here’s the code to install a new search plugin…
// Firefox plugin installer code

function addEngine(name,ext) { if ((typeof window.sidebar == "object") && (typeof window.sidebar.addSearchEngine == "function")) { window.sidebar.addSearchEngine( "http://www.example.com/searching/"+name+".src", "http://www.example.com/searching/"+name+"."+ext, name, "" ); } else { errorMsg(name,ext,""); } }

Submitted search plugin to Mycroft

Andy — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:03:23 +0000

Firefox’s search plugins at mycroft.mozdev.org are really neat! There’s no reason that a site shouldn’t publish one of these if it uses GET parameters in a search URL.

Anyway, I submitted my multimap plugin to them. The guys at work seemed quite impressed with these things too.