Firefox Hacks

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New: Firefox Hacks

New: Firefox Hacks 03/30/2005 11:47 AM
O'Reilly released Firefox Hacks, which includes coverage of migration from Internet Explorer, anonymous browsing, increasing security, creation of tags and widgets, and more.

Firefox Hacks - Reviewed

Firefox Hacks - Reviewed 03/31/2005 03:09 AM
Interested in getting under the hood of the fast and versatile Mozilla browser? O'Reilly provides an all-access pass to the Open Source browser that has Microsoft shaking in their boots.

This volume will open to you the secrets of Mozilla's XUL, extension development and chrome interface engine. Read my review of this hacking-how-to here.

Spread Firefox Download Counter
Relaunched, Firefox Downloads Top 44
Million

Spread Firefox Download Counter
Relaunched, Firefox Downloads Top 44
Million 04/11/2005 11:59 PM

Blake Ross on Firefox Developer
Recruitment and Why Firefox Will Never
Grow Up

Blake Ross on Firefox Developer
Recruitment and Why Firefox Will Never
Grow Up 02/01/2005 10:05 PM

adbar for Firefox: Opera's least popular
feature comes to Firefox!

adbar for Firefox: Opera's least popular
feature comes to Firefox! 08/18/2004 06:48 AM
adbar for firefox .. Adbar

squarefree.com/extensions/adbar
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The History of Mozilla Firefox: From
Phoenix, to Firebird, to Firefox

The History of Mozilla Firefox: From
Phoenix, to Firebird, to Firefox 03/31/2005 07:27 AM

Mozilla Firefox Reaches 1.0PR, Still
Named Firefox

Mozilla Firefox Reaches 1.0PR, Still
Named Firefox 09/14/2004 02:50 PM

Firefox 1.0 Preview Release and
Thunderbird 0.8 Released - Mozilla
Foundation Adds New Features to Firefox
and Thunderbird as New Apps Near 1.0
Launch

Firefox 1.0 Preview Release and
Thunderbird 0.8 Released - Mozilla
Foundation Adds New Features to Firefox
and Thunderbird as New Apps Near 1.0
Launch 09/14/2004 03:22 AM
The Mozilla Foundation today released the Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Preview Release web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 email client. Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Preview Release is an innovative, secure, lightning fast web browser that is rapidly gaining global market share. Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 is the Mozilla Foundation's next generation email client. These releases bring Firefox and Thunderbird one step closer to their much anticipated 1.0 releases, scheduled for later this fall. [PRWEB Sep 14, 2004]

FirefoxIE - Test IE Compatibility Inside
Firefox, www.firefoxie.net Fully
Equipped and Ready for Firefox 1.0PR

FirefoxIE - Test IE Compatibility Inside
Firefox, www.firefoxie.net Fully
Equipped and Ready for Firefox 1.0PR 09/17/2004 08:22 AM
FF/IE Compatible Web Pages - There is a new development in the web design world, web pages that can be viewed equally in Firefox or Internet Explorer. [PRWEB Sep 17, 2004]

Two little CSS hacks

Two little CSS hacks 03/11/2003 10:46 AM
Workarounds to vertically align nested blocks and to emulate the CSS's min-height property in MSIE.

Mac OS X Hacks Put to Bed

Mac OS X Hacks Put to Bed 03/11/2003 11:41 PM
Mac OS X Hacks was just sent to the printer, which means it'll be appearing in online bookstores and on your local brick-and-mortar bookstore shelves in a couple-three weeks. Whew!

BSD Hacks

BSD Hacks 07/27/2004 02:44 PM

New: "Panther" Hacks

New: "Panther" Hacks 07/16/2004 09:59 AM
O'Reilly's latest "hack" book digs down into Mac OS X "Panther" internals.

OCSmart Hacks 1.0

OCSmart Hacks 1.0 08/03/2004 08:01 PM
Extends services of any Cocoa application, with tear-off menu support and more.

New: Flash Hacks

New: Flash Hacks 07/13/2004 10:03 AM
O'Reilly's Flash Hacks, written by Sham Bhangal, contains 100 tools, tricks, and techniques for Flash, including scripted and timeline-based visual effects, page turning animation, and more.

Gaming Hacks

Gaming Hacks 06/05/2005 11:56 PM

New: O'Reilly's IRC Hacks

New: O'Reilly's IRC Hacks 09/07/2004 10:25 AM
IRC Hacks, by Paul Mutton, starts with the basics of IRC clients, then delves into the protocols and services beneath the surface, and culminates with building autonomous IRC clients.

"Life Hacks"

"Life Hacks" 03/30/2005 05:17 PM

New: Excel Hacks

New: Excel Hacks 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
O'Reilly's Excel Hacks offers 100 tips and techniques that include hacking pivot tables, designing charts beyond the basic types, specifying dynamic ranges, using XML, and more.

Google Hacks

Google Hacks 03/30/2005 05:47 PM

Looks like NEWS HACKS get to run the CIA
again

Looks like NEWS HACKS get to run the CIA
again 06/27/2004 05:58 PM
CIA Puts Harsh Tactics On Hold .. Washington Post report .. information

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Mac OS X Panther Hacks

Mac OS X Panther Hacks 08/11/2004 06:15 AM
I finally got round to reading my copy of the wonderful O'Reilly Mac OS X Panther Hacks book, which, like all of the hacks books, is clever, informative, well-organised and useful; this one has the additional merit of having been co-written by my pal Rael Dornfest, who edits the line, and is witty, silly and very imaginative indeed. The hacks assembled in the text range from surprising things you can do with iTunes and iCal to hacking AppleScript to making OS X cooperate with perl and Python, but my favorite of all is the iOscillate: an iSight camera mounted to the top of a de-bladed oscillating desk-fan, so that the fan sweeps the iSight back and forth in a steady, 180-degree arc, covering all those seated around a table or in a conference. The hack is truly worthy of the appellation "hack" -- it's ingenious, funny, and actually useful in a seriously bent way. Link

Gmail Hacks

Gmail Hacks 06/26/2004 07:45 AM

Lots of Gmail hacks are already showing up. I surely do love programmers that are curious enough to figure out how stuff works to write mini utilities to let us utilize our time more wisely. [G-mailto]

phpAdsNew Hacks

phpAdsNew Hacks 08/16/2004 10:15 PM
phpAdsNew 2.0.2 CVS 2004-08-16 Released

Developers eye PSP hacks

Developers eye PSP hacks 04/05/2005 05:24 PM
Blog: Keep your multiplayer racing games and widescreen movies. For some people, Sony's PlayStation Portable won't be really cool...

IM hacks way up in first quarter

IM hacks way up in first quarter 03/23/2005 12:56 PM
The number of combined IM- and Web-based attacks increased by 300 percent in the first quarter, Websense says.

PSP Hacks and the Mainstream

PSP Hacks and the Mainstream 04/07/2005 01:03 PM

Mac Mini Hacks

Mac Mini Hacks 03/19/2005 02:07 AM
The Mac Mini is opened with a Putty knife as instructed by Apple however this method is leaving peoples Mac Mini in damaged conditions in many cases including scratches, seperation gaps and other...

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Excel Hacks

Excel Hacks 05/06/2004 06:58 PM
for all you dorks who were geeking out in the Excel Pile thread

OCLC Hacks

OCLC Hacks 02/01/2005 10:09 PM

OCLC is is loosening up and having some fun in a Google Labs kind of way!

OCLC Research Software Contest

“In celebration of libraries and their heritage of technological innovation, OCLC Research is sponsoring a software contest to encourage innovation in the use of web-based services for libraries.

Prize

• $2,500 in cash
• Visit with OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc., in Dublin, Ohio
• Potentially have your code incorporated in OCLC services for libraries

The challenge

OCLC is providing a set of bi bliographic records extracted from WorldCat plus a set of services:

• Research Works
• Terminology Services

You may also use Open WorldCat, either by simply incorporating links to publicly accessible records or by enrolling in Open WorldCat's Partner Access program. Contact us if you wish to discuss enrolling in this program for the purposes of this contest.

Your mission is to write a program that does something interesting and innovative with the WorldCat data using at least one of the OCLC-provided services. You must submit a working prototype.

Part of your job is to convince us of why your program is interesting and why it will help libraries and/or library users; other than that, you're free to implement whatever strikes your fancy.”

And they were smart enough to ask Jon Udell to be a judge – good call! I hope we see some really cool stuff come out of this, in more than just a proof-of-concept way. Makes me wish I could actually program. Entries are due by midnight on May 15. If you’re entering, good luck!

New: O'Reilly's PDF Hacks

New: O'Reilly's PDF Hacks 09/16/2004 09:41 AM
O'Reilly's PDF Hacks by Sid Steward shows how to use a variety of PDF tools--not just Acrobat--to create, rearrange, customize, and present information as PDF.

TiVo Hacks Put to Bed

TiVo Hacks Put to Bed 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
My month of a thousand hacks ended this morning as I put TiVo Hacks to bed (read: sent it to production).

Raffi, my young TiVo Jedi friend, good on you, mate! I've learned more about my TiVo over the past month than I'd ever wanted to. Now where'd I put that screwdriver...

The book will be in brick-and-mortar bookstore shelves sometime in August, but you can of course pre-order it from Amazon.

Wireless Hacks

Wireless Hacks 10/30/2003 11:48 PM

Hacks.O'Reilly.com

Hacks.O'Reilly.com 03/11/2003 09:43 AM
The full-blown version of O'Reilly's Hacks Series site is now up at hacks.oreilly.com. In addition to info about the current crop of books (Linux Server, Google, Mac OS X), there are listings of published hacks, some complete hacks, and each has its own discussion forum.

Gotta Hack? Got a non-obvious solution to an interesting problem? Throw your hack into the ring and it just might be in a Hacks book-to-be. Not a hacker yourself but have a hack or Hacks book you'd like to see? Suggest it and perhaps it will be so written.

Spidering Hacks

Spidering Hacks 11/01/2003 12:57 PM
The latest book in the O'Reilly Hacks series, "Spidering Hacks," (written by Kevin "Morbus Iff" Hemenway and Tara "ResearchBuzz" Calishain) is out. It's the site-scraper's bible, with 100 tips and tricks for sucking in data from the Web.

Spidering Hacks takes you to the next level in Internet data retrieval--beyond search engines--by showing you how to create spiders and bots to retrieve information from your favorite sites and data sources. You'll no longer feel constrained by the way host sites think you want to see their data presented--you'll learn how to scrape and repurpose raw data so you can view in a way that's meaningful to you.

Written for developers, researchers, technical assistants, librarians, and power users, Spidering Hacks provides expert tips on spidering and scraping methodologies. You'll begin with a crash course in spidering concepts, tools (Perl, LWP, out-of-the-box utilities), and ethics (how to know when you've gone too far: what's acceptable and unacceptable). Next, you'll collect media files and data from databases. Then you'll learn how to interpret and understand the data, repurpose it for use in other applications, and even build authorized interfaces to integrate the data into your own content.

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The MIT Gallery of Hacks.

The MIT Gallery of Hacks. 01/04/2004 05:52 PM
The MIT Gallery of Hacks. Good-natured creative pranks by MIT students. The pinnacle was possibly 1999's Great Droid, with the Great Dome made to resemble R2D2's head to mark the release of some film or other at the time. In the spirit of the tradition, students left detailed instructions for the safe removal of the decoration.

NetNewsWire Display Hacks

NetNewsWire Display Hacks 09/23/2004 07:41 PM
In the full version of NetNewsWire 2.0 are a couple display hacks. One is document ed by Jon Hicks. Another is a hack to add indenting to the datelines and summaries display in the headlines table.

We added the ability to show datelines in the headlines table mainly for the benefit of people using the widescreen layout. (Choose View > Layout > Show Datelines in Table.) This removes the columns and puts a dateline below each title. (Thanks go to Alex King for suggesting this feature.)

There is no exposed preference for adding indenting to the datelines—but you can add it manually via the Terminal.

1. Quit NetNewsWire if it’s running.
2. Launch /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.
3. Type the below and hit return.
   defaults write com.ranchero.NetNewsWire summaryTableIndentPixels 15
   (Make the number the number of pixels you want to indent.)
4. Launch NetNewsWire. (Be sure that showing datelines and/or summaries is turned on, or you won’t see any effect.)

You end up with something like in the screen shot above (click for a larger version).

Another hack, similar to the above, allows you to set the number of summary lines when showing summaries is on. The key is summaryLinesToInclude.

We call these hacks because you have to use the Terminal to change the settings and also because they’re unsupported. But I couldn’t resist telling you about them.

Ubiquity of Hacks or I, Hobbit

Ubiquity of Hacks or I, Hobbit 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
Anil Dash posits that the popularity of Google Hacks really has something to do with hobbits.

I'm thinking part of the reason the book is doing so well is because of the current resurgence in popularity of the Lord of the Rings books. I mean, don't the names "Tara Calishain" and "Rael Dornfest" sound like hobbits or something?

Maybe it's just me.

"Hmm," Rael mumbled, staring thoughtfully at his furry feet.

Amazon Hacks Online

Amazon Hacks Online 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
Amazon Hacks is now online as part of the O'Reilly Hacks site. There are 10 hacks in their entirety along with the usual discussion space for the other 90 and, of course, you can contribute your own Amazon hacks to the site.
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CutePDF Writer

CutePDF Writer 02/01/2005 09:08 PM

CutePDF - Create PDF for free: A good, free PDF printer without any pop-ups (like PDF995, for instance). Can't find a downside yet.

GooglePreview Firefox Extension

GooglePreview Firefox Extension 04/08/2005 06:44 PM

GMail Firefox Extension

GMail Firefox Extension 07/09/2004 08:34 AM

GMailC ompose: If you have a GMail account and use Mozilla or Firefox, this extension is right up your alley.

Makes mailto: links load a google mail compose window and adds a GMailCompose link to the context menu.

Apparently Google has created a URL spec for doing just this. Good for them — client integration has always been a weakness of Web-based mail.

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Firefox extension for Allmusic

Firefox extension for Allmusic 08/03/2004 09:38 PM
Last month, people voiced their disappointment with AllMusic's for-the-worse facelift, and a week later someone at holovaty.com wrote a Mozilla Firefox extension that "routs around the damage" and allows for cleaner browsing. Some are pondering the legal consequences.

GooglePreview, firefox extension

GooglePreview, firefox extension 07/25/2004 03:42 PM
adds thumbnail images to search result pages

Checky Extension for Mozilla and Firefox

Checky Extension for Mozilla and Firefox 04/25/2004 09:53 AM
Checky 2.1 - Extension for Mozilla and Firefox

Firefox readies new extension for
unwanted pop-ups

Firefox readies new extension for
unwanted pop-ups 04/05/2005 01:10 AM
If you've noticed pop-up and pop-under ads sneaking into your surfing despite your browser settings, you're not alone. Firefox users will soon have a new tool to fight the annoying ads.

Scribe, Mozilla Firefox Extension

Scribe, Mozilla Firefox Extension 05/18/2004 05:50 AM
scribe, mozilla plugin for text areas .. Scribe

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FireFox Extension Creates Stir

FireFox Extension Creates Stir 03/23/2005 05:18 PM

A new FireFox extension called Greasemonkey allows users to modify webpages as they view them. It gives users the capabilities to manipulate DHTML of a page to prevent ads from appearing, transform links, make a page more printable, change colors, ad your Amazon ID’s in links, change the way links open, and much more. There are literally hundreds of GreaseMonkey userscripts. This all sounds like a great idea, but news.com has some security concerns. 

The trouble with Greasemonkey and user scripts in general is that scripts can be used for both good and ill, and end users scanning through lists of enticing scripts might fail to distinguish between malicious and benign code."A user JavaScript file can in no way harm your computer or stored data, but badly written files can slow down Opera, and malicious files can spy on your browsing," read the browser maker's caveat. "Never install and use a script library from someone you don't know and trust--if in doubt post in the Opera forums, newsgroups or mailing lists and ask if the script you would like to use is well written and exploit-free."

User scripts also could facilitate password-stealing schemes, said security consultant Richard Smith, who runs the Computer Bytes Man Web site."The bad guys could likely create a script for stealing usernames and passwords in login forms using this tool," said Smith. "They would still need to break into someone's computer to install the script, but the tool would make the theft process much easier."

"Google Preview Firefox Extension"

"Google Preview Firefox Extension" 07/26/2004 09:11 AM

Mozilla Firefox Extension Update
Screenshots

Mozilla Firefox Extension Update
Screenshots 04/25/2004 03:20 PM

Terri Schiavo status Firefox extension

Terri Schiavo status Firefox extension 03/25/2005 01:56 AM
Xeni Jardin: Boing Boing reader Nik says,

I wrote a Firefox extension that sits in the status bar of Firefox, and tells you at a glance the morbidity status of Terry Schiavo.

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Firefox extension google preview plugin
thumbnails

Firefox extension google preview plugin
thumbnails 07/25/2004 08:50 PM
GooglePreview website .. GooglePreview

ackroyd.de/googlepreview
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Flexbeta - 13 Reasons To Use Firefox
Over IE - Page 1

Flexbeta - 13 Reasons To Use Firefox
Over IE - Page 1 02/14/2004 09:14 AM
Here are 13 reasons to use Firefox over IE

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Firefox Speed Hack

Firefox Speed Hack 01/03/2005 10:17 AM

Speed up Firefox: This hack has been floating around quite a bit in the last week — I've read about it in four different places now. I did it, but didn't notice much of a speed increase. Anyone else?

This tip will speed up your Firefox significantly, but will mainly work for broadband users. To achieve this speed increase you need to alter certain settings of Firefox to speed up page requests and the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

Flexbeta - A Guide To Firefox Extensions
- Page 1

Flexbeta - A Guide To Firefox Extensions
- Page 1 09/07/2004 06:36 AM
Flexbeta has a guide to Firefox extensions

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Speed up Firefox for broadband
connections

Speed up Firefox for broadband
connections 12/30/2004 12:06 PM
forevergeek.com has a useful guide on speeding up Firefox for broadband users. Basically, after getting to the hidden config settings, you set the browser to request more data that it usually does. Type about:config into the ...

How To Speed Up Firefox (Helpful Vanity)

How To Speed Up Firefox (Helpful Vanity) 12/27/2004 02:30 AM
FreeRepublic.com: How To Speed Up Firefox (Helpful Vanity) .. improve Firefox's performance

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Drag and drop links to set home page in
Firefox

Drag and drop links to set home page in
Firefox 06/04/2004 10:50 AM
I don't know if this has been mentioned, and I found it by accident. In Firefox, you can drag a link (or highlight a URL in the address bar) and drag it to the 'Home' icon (just to the left of the address bar) to make that li...

FireFox Find In Page Now Searches
Textboxes and Textareas

FireFox Find In Page Now Searches
Textboxes and Textareas 04/16/2004 07:37 PM
The excellent Burning Edge, which reports bug-fixes and continued regressions in Firefox daily builds (for all platforms) is reporting that the trunk build for April 16th contains searching within text forms. It is the one feature that IE has that I've longed for in Firefox, and finally it's here. That's one fewer reason to use IE, which I only use from time to time to see how the other 85% of the web is living.

"FreeRepublic.com: How To Speed Up
Firefox (Helpful Vanity)"

"FreeRepublic.com: How To Speed Up
Firefox (Helpful Vanity)" 12/27/2004 11:25 AM

Two-Page Mozilla Firefox Advertisement
to Run in Tomorrow's 'New York Times'

Two-Page Mozilla Firefox Advertisement
to Run in Tomorrow's 'New York Times' 12/17/2004 06:35 PM

Turbo-Firefox: Speed Boost for
High-Bandwidth Connections

Turbo-Firefox: Speed Boost for
High-Bandwidth Connections 02/06/2005 03:30 AM
Firefox browsing performance can be boosted in a very significant way by following a few detailed instruction steps….

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