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Extension for Open in IE

Opera, I understand, has similiar functionality available.

Actually, there is. http://ieview.mozdev.org/

Doesn't let you switch back to my knowledge, but your Firefox window is left open anyway.

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Try the IE View Plugin Here: http://ieview.mozdev.org/

Can't comment on Spotlight (not having used it as I either run Linux or doze for work). ....but you can write your own extensions for google desktop. http://desktop.google.com/developer.html
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Well, if you really want to quibble at an unnecesary level of granularity, the card did "come out" of Canada. It was just made elsewhere first.
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http://adblock.mozdev.org/

Any way to get rid of advertisements and images without losing the formatting as well?

0.0014% and 28.whatever% are less than 100%.

I think you meant too big.
Use that Preview button next time. It's not very fun for the rest of us when you ruin it :(
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Gilligan got hit in the mouth accidently and his filling became a radio

it's not working when I post it here.

I tried tt and ecode, but they both didn't work, so I had to add spaces here and there to avoid slashdot braking the declarations. You can reformat it if you like.

(you need an extension to use a different CSS in Firefox? Unbelievable!)

I guess Mozilla thinks that it's complying with the spec because you can add styles to userContent.css and it will cascade them, but this is inadequate. There should be a way to override the authors styles according to the accessibility guidelines. Most people don't recognize the power of User CSS unless they're long time Opera users, so might not have occurred to Mozilla.

I tried one of your .css files using one of the extensions you nicely linked to... the site look even worse!

The first two were geared towards the Original Light slash that used Tables. NeoSlash is the new one. I'm probably not going to do advanced layout because all the current HTML needs adjusting, so it would be a waste of time when they fix it.

The first few pages are now a column on the left containing what should be evenly distributed along the full width of the page!

Are you talking about how the side bars turn into list items? That's because people think it's semantic and accessible to put groups of links inside UL and LI, then use styles to change them from block to in-line elements that flow. Interesting theory, but ultimately it causes more problems when the style is removed, disabled, or unsupported.

CSS lets you put things anywhere, so those links should be at the bottom of the source, but I think that makes it hard to position in IE.

I just want a sort of light, text only display with no little columns of space wasted on either side of the screen.

Then use my stylesheet and ask slash to move the slash-box code to the bottom of the source... Or hide them.. Well, my sheet does add colors, but they're not too high contrast so they don't hurt my eyes.

I'm updating my NeoSlash Stylesheet to .block{display:none;} and that should get rid of most of the slashboxes, but login is in a .block, and some other sites use .block so it may interfere if you use it at other sites, and I try to design my sheets universal. If there was just a body class=slashdot I could make it apply only to .slashdot .block{display:none;}.

Fine details again:

If you're using EditCSS, you have to:

Action, Clear.
File, Open...

If you Open without clearing, you will just cascade (Join) all the styles together. I tried to make my CSS work cascaded, but it's too much work to undo everything. Therefor, you should clear the styles in order to remove slash's layout.

3. With Web Developer extension it's more involved:

Disable, Styles, All Styles.
CSS, Add Style Sheet...

1. Bookmarklets are the faster way:

First go to squarefree.com...#zap_style_sheets and bookmark zap styles And then paste the styles at the User Style make-bookmarklet page and it immediately creates a bookmarklet from the stylesheet, so simply bookmark the link that it creates. The link is the text with the border that says zap colors. You should change the text to NeoSlash or what ever you want.

I will put another style up in my journal since posting CSS in comments gives errors. This time I removed all the '!important' from the declarations because It was hurting, not helping much, so you're going to have to clear the styles first or you might get author

I know it's easy to carp, but how long is it going to be before Thunderbird can at least support vCard in its address book, and leap into 1998?

Not sure if this will be of use, but there is a lightweight Firefox extension that displays reminders and ToDo's for you.

http://reminderfox.mozdev.org/

This extension was developed to fill this very need; it seems most calendar apps either don't do something that simple, or do more than I need.

-Tom

Try this

Googlebar

My good ole Mozilla extensions must be blocking that tripe well.
Nothing but content on my LCD, baby.

you can't play decent games on a thin client

Wouldn't Xultris run on a thin client that runs Gecko? Heck, there's even a JavaScript tetris clone. What makes a game "decent" other than (the smart-ass answer) that its graphics are at least as complex as those of Descent?

Donwload GreaseMonkey for Firefox and you can fix that problem for yourself. I'm not sure if there is a script for adding a "move to trash" button specifically but I know there are GMail scripts.

Oh I just took a look for it. There is a one delete button script and one smart delete button script.

Remember that only casual users like Mr Mossberg are forced to use "whatever interface they give use". The rest of us can change it into something we want.

you can't add new searches to the "googlebox".

Strange, cos on 1.06/Windows you get an "Add Engines" option which eventually takes you to http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html and more engines to add to the box than you can shake a stick at.

Make a new text doc and paste my CSS in it, then rename it whatever.css and in mozilla I recommend finding the Web Developer extension, or maybe the EditCSS extention.

The /. Light version had no styling before, but now it has stylesheets, so you have to disable All Styles then CSS Add Style with webdeveloper plugin. Don't know a better way at this point, someone Pleas tell me.

You can also try and add it to you chrome\userContent-example.css but it might just cascade.

Opera does a better job with user CSS, and it's now free. Opera is how I got hooked on User CSS.

Press: Alt + P, Advanced, Content, Style options...
Then when browsing, hit Shift + G or hit the glasses and/or the Document button.
(Doing Shift + G without specifying a stylesheet will just strip the styles out.)

Here's another small one:

body,td{font-size:12px;
font-family:verdana,sans-serif;} /* optional */
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,a[name] b{display:block;background:#696;color:#eff;margin: 0;padding-left:3px;}
td td{background:#cdc;}
ul{margin:1em;}
b{font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;} /* font optional */

One of my favourite GreaseMonkey scripts was the Slashdot Live Comment Tree script that allowed dynamic expanding and collapsing of slashdot stories. This made viewing of slashdot stories much more convenient. Of course it had it's downsides such as not working well with long discussions that were multiple pages long when viewed with low thresholds and broken moderation buttons. I guess, I either have to wait for a new version or roll up my sleeves and port it to the new format myself... in my abundant free time.

Eat this:

* http://flgr.dyndns.org/slashdot-less-gay.png
* http://flgr.dyndns.org/slash.css

You can test slash.css with Firefox' excellent EditCss extension: http://editcss.mozdev.org/

I had problems a while ago with Firefox crashing on some ad filled sites which turned out to be caused by the version of FlashBlock I'd installed from the main Extension's page. To get the latest version, you have to go to the FlashBlock homepage, follow the uninstall instructions and install the newer version from there. I don't know why the old version continues to be distributed from the main Extensions page, probably to prevent automatic updates that would bypass the painful uninstall process you have to go through.

use flashblock. Did it for me. Those nasty flash animations were screwing with the memory.

Why do I never have mod points when I see the awesome people?
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...I load up Slashdot, see this story briefly, only to have the Network Solutions banner at the top expand into an ad that takes up about 1/4 of the browser window on mouseover, thus covering it up.

There are ads on slashdot?

It's been awhile since I've tried Opera but I'm very impressed with it. I love the small tabs that minimise screen real estate, the seamlessly integrated pop3 email, the personal toolbar, incredible speed, etc. I would make a permanent switch to Opera if they had features equivalent to these firefox extensions:
Hit-a-hint Noscript Bugmenot Downthemall

That's what Adblock is for. Oh wait, that's a Mozilla extension. :p

I dislike ads. I wish there was some centralised project that maintains a list of sites/paths to block, and Gecko browsers automatically download the list regularly. Hosts files can get big quickly. This project could also block phishing sites.

Try the flashblock plugin for firefox. You won't see any flash movies unless you want to.

Firefox definitely has done some things right -- I for one don't know whether I'd be able to give up AdBlock.

Does Opera have any way to duplicate that functionality?

Links to said Mozilla/Firefox extensions:

AdBlock Plus
BugMeNot
CustomizeGoogle
DictionarySearch
Farkit
Gmail Notifier
Nuke Anything
Plain Text Links
Switch Proxy Tool
Greasemonkey

Links to said Mozilla/Firefox extensions:

AdBlock Plus
BugMeNot
CustomizeGoogle
DictionarySearch
Farkit
Gmail Notifier
Nuke Anything
Plain Text Links
Switch Proxy Tool
Greasemonkey

I knew someone would say that before I had chance! the first reaction of a (recent series) Dr. Who viewer on seeing that page.
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Damn my modpointlessness.
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[The controller] was incredibly responsive to even slight wrist movements-I barely had to move my hand at all.

It also works the other way, though.

Nintendo might not get many 3rd-party games (again) because the interface is different.

Game devs will put out a game for the other two systems, and totally ignore the Revo because their game just doesn't work with its style of control.
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Zelda: 4 Swords Adventure

And for the record most of those [10-games-in-1] units sold for $24.99-$39.99 in the States... about the same as the cost of a new console title.

People with glasses?

I don't want to get blinded every time I walk up to a trade show display.
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"Microsoft Bob" already has meaning, though.
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The only workaround I'm aware of for circumventing pop-up blocking in Firefox is via Flash, and you know you can download a Flash blocker extension, right?

http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

YMMV, but I haven't seen a single pop-up since installing FlashBlock a couple of months ago. And in fact it's gone a long way to improving my browsing experience in general.

They're doing this? To the guy who was going to take legal action on the author of VGCats because he sent the guy an email?
 
Can you say "lawsuit"?
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http://leetkey.mozdev.org/

Yup. Apart from when I've been using PICO, where CTRL+W does FIND!! GRRRRR!

Using the KeyConfig extension, I've been able to change this though! Fantastic! Beat that Internet Exploder.

(Yeah, I'm the same DugUK that posted on his blog last night, and I remembered where I found the link - on a /. article, as ZeroExistenZ already mentioned.)

Oh also, huge thanks goes to Greg R. for pointing me in the direction of the KeyConfig extension for changing shortcut keys.

Hopefully this is useful to LinkLog and a few other people too ;)

[blatent advert]BTW, some more of my favourite extensions are linked at Derp.co.uk[/blatent advert]

DugUK

Yup. Apart from when I've been using PICO, where CTRL+W does FIND!! GRRRRR!

Using the KeyConfig extension, I've been able to change this though! Fantastic! Beat that Internet Exploder.

(Yeah, I'm the same DugUK that posted on his blog last night, and I remembered where I found the link - on a /. article, as ZeroExistenZ already mentioned.)

Oh also, huge thanks goes to Greg R. for pointing me in the direction of the KeyConfig extension for changing shortcut keys.

Hopefully this is useful to LinkLog and a few other people too ;)

[blatent advert]BTW, some more of my favourite extensions are linked at Derp.co.uk[/blatent advert]

DugUK

1. Find UI. I like it where it is, easier to look on the bottom of the screen.
2. Download UI? Check out Download Statusbar. It's an unobstructive small bar that shows your download progress. Latest version added some unneeded cosmetic features, but in general it's very slick.
3. I like it opening an empty page. Again, ymmv.
4. That's indeed annoying, but lately they moved to the IE like error messages, not modal anymore.
5. Go? What's that? Never noticed it :)

>new Tabs cannot be used to go back - well, that is annoying sometimes, but the drawback of showing the previous page is that you end up with disorganized behaviour.
"Duplicate Tab allows you to clone a tab with its history and place the duplicate tab in a new window or in the current window. And it allows you to merge all tabs from different windows in one window. "

There is already a solution like what you propose.

I use firefox and greasemonkey with this script installed.

Problem solved.

Peace

I must agree with the majority of the points there. I can suggest, however, Download Statusbar, to do what he asks of the status bar.

I don't have a problem with the find bar, it has a low profile (more screen visible) and has as much as you really need to search. I would like to see regular expression support (or a subset of), and to highlight all matches to the search word, rather than just the current found word.

Bwahahaha!
but seriously, I find the easygestures pie menu interface to be the slickest thing since tabbed browsing. At least on windows, I haven't got it to work on linux due to the middle-click:paste function over-riding it. On windows, you just middle click and sweep down-left (diagonally) and release the button,and voila! Tab closed.

Thanks for posting the content, AC.

A few responses:

> 1. Find UI. Why does the find dialog appear at the bottom of the screen?

Yeah, it should be movable. I don't see an extension to change this, but I suspect it would be possible to create one.

> 2. Download UI. Here's a case where modeless makes sense (it's never my primary user task), but here we get a dialog box.

I rarely use the download manager UI; I have it set to stay hidden. There are a -lot- of extensions for download modification, though. I suspect this isn't a real problem. Just off a quick search, this one:
http://dmextension.mozdev.org/ seems to address this problem well.

> 3. Tabs and new windows. Firefox goes against IE behavior and starts each browser instance from scratch [with regards to back button history - QT]

I think this has got to be a personal preference thing. I actually prefer that it clears when you open a new tab. But then, I very rarely want to go back more than a page or so. That said, I know there are extensions to manage history differently.

> 4. Tabs and modality. The desired illusion of tabs should be to make each tab a virtual browser.
> Well this breaks when you bring up a modal dialog within a tab: you can't switch to another
> tab. It's an annoyance, not a sin, but when it
happens it reinforces my new window habit, and
> slaps my wrist on my growing New tab habit.

Again, it doesn't bother me, but I also rarely open a modal dialog. When I do, I make my selection and dismiss it quickly.

> 5. The return of the go menu.

No comment; I never paid any attention to it.

Seems like the bulk of these can be changed with an extension.