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Editing XPI files to get rid of some version restrictions in Firefox-extensions

December 25th, 2007  |  by Thomas Nybergh  |  published in in English, internet, notes, software

Not much time passed after I posted my previous entry about using Firefox 3 Beta 2 as my main browser until I realized that while I had browsed around for almost a day without much trouble, I hadn’t used Ajax heavy sites such as Facebook and Wordpress’ admin interface.
As soon as I started using [...]

One day of Firefox 3 Beta 2 (and CSLite)

December 24th, 2007  |  by Thomas Nybergh  |  published in in English, internet, software

Firefox 3 Beta 2 has a few quirks and instabilities, but is generally much faster and more pleasant to use than 2.x (I’ve tried the official win32 release and various Linux compiles), so I hope I’ll be able to keep using it. A few non-critical extensions which I normally use, haven’t been updated for this [...]

“Google this site” as a Firefox quick search

December 24th, 2007  |  by Thomas Nybergh  |  published in in English, internet, software

Today when I switched to Firefox 3 Beta 2, I realized it was time to get rid of Google’s toolbar. I haven’t used this rather heavy, bloated extension for anything else than swiftly performing searches of the current website (queries such as site:420.thrashbarg.net wtf), and I guessed that a much smarter way of doing this [...]

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