Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on December 07, 2006 by CyberNet.

For awhile I stopped using the Tab Mix Plus Firefox extension because I didn’t like the session restore feature that it had and there was a significant memory leak. It was always unfortunate because once the extension was installed it wouldn’t let me use the session restore feature that was built-into Firefox 2. That’s a thing of the past with the newest version that was just released a few days ago. 

The session restore in Firefox 2 will actually bring back all of the Web pages from the cached versions when the browser gets restarted and that includes any forms you were in the process of filling out. So if you were typing an email to someone and the browser crashed, it would automatically retrieve the content when the tabs are restored in the browser. Other session restore extensions don’t do this and will instead re-open all of the tabs (which is what Tab Mix Plus used to do). Not only does that method take longer to load but it also erases all of the form data that you had filled in.

I am happy to say that Tab Mix Plus now offers an option to use the built-in session restore feature that Firefox 2 already offers. They even go as far as to let you change some of the advanced settings that you wouldn’t have touched otherwise. I’m hoping that this will also keep the memory usage at a minimum because that is very important to me. I’ll cross my fingers but it is looking good for the last hour that I have been using it.

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This article was written on June 19, 2006 by CyberNet.

Firefox 2.0 Alpha users will be happy to know that the final version of Firefox 2.0 is scheduled for August. Here is an overview of the milestone releases:

1. Beta 1 – June 2006
   • all feature work is complete, including UI
   • all strings are complete and available for l10n to start
   • intended for beta users
2. Beta 2 – July 2006
   • based on feedback from Beta 1
   • all feature work is complete, including UI
   • all strings are frozen
   • intended for beta users
3. RC1 – August 2006
   • based on bugfixes from Beta 2
   • should represent final product
   • intended for wide audience of early adopters
4. RC2 (if needed) – August 2006
   • based on bugfixes from RC 1
   • should represent final product
   • intended for wide audience of early adopters
5. Final – August 2006
   • based on bugfixes from RC 2

If Mozilla can stick to this schedule then I will be very impressed. I am still testing out the nightly builds of Firefox 2 and they keep getting better. I was also excited to see that the new UI is still scheduled for Beta 1 because some of their meeting notes were making me a little skeptical that it would make this milestone.

News Source: Firefox 2.0 Release Schedule

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This article was written on October 12, 2006 by CyberNet.

Tutorial Thursday

One thing I hate the most are popup windows but sometimes they just seem unavoidable. JavaScript pop-ups are all over the place and it is frustrating when you can’t resize the window or have access to the navigation bar. That is why I searched for a way to disable JavaScript pop-ups from opening in a new window, and now they will open in a tab.

Here are the few steps that you need to do this:

1. Start Firefox.
2. In the Address Bar type about:config and press Enter.
3. Find the option that is named browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction and double-click on it.
   
4. You now need to change the value based upon how you want Firefox to handle the JavaScript pop-ups. The default option used to be “0″ but they changed it to “2″ recently. If you have Firefox set to open all new windows in tabs then setting “0″ will also force all JavaScript windows to open in tabs, which is the option that I chose. Here is what all of the options do:
   • 0 – Open JavaScript windows the same way as you have Firefox handle new windows.
   • 1 – Allow all JavaScript windows to popup if requested.
   • 2 – Open all JavaScript windows the same way as you have Firefox handle new windows unless the JavaScript call specifies how to display the window.

   

5. Restart Firefox.

This is probably one of my favorite “about:config” tweaks that I have done. I use tabs for a reason and that is because I don’t want to have windows open all over the place. I’m pretty sure that the Tab Mix Plus extension covers this feature but ever since Firefox 2 I haven’t really felt the need to install it.

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This article was written on February 07, 2008 by CyberNet.

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I really wish that Google would integrate a bunch of their services into a single interface, but it doesn’t look like that will be happening anytime soon. Some of their services, such as Google Notebook and Google Reader, would feel pretty natural if they were part of the Gmail interface.

A good example of how it would work can be found in this Gmail + Reader Integrator Greasemonkey script. Once you install the script there will be a new section in the sidebar that lists off all of the feeds, with unread feeds in bold. The reading area for your feeds is located underneath the emails in your Inbox, which can be a little annoying if you have a lot of emails in your Inbox. Unfortunately there is no way to collapse your Inbox. 🙁

There are a handful of settings that can be configured as pointed out by the developer:

You can change the height of the Gmail thread list and the embedded reader by modifying the values in about:config (filter by ‘reader’). You can also revert to the old behaviour of not expanding the folders in the feed list by setting expandFolder in about:config.

The only disappointing thing is that this script is only available for Firefox, and not nearly as nice as it would be if Google had their own system available.

Gmail + Reader Integrator

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ZTE, the China-based device manufacturer that has had its fair share of device releases in the past (not to mention at the recently concluded CES 2014), does seem to be pretty excited about the upcoming Mobile World Congress that is happening in Barcelona, Spain, later this month. It seems that ZTE is working on a new Android-powered device that has a 6” display which will be known as the ZTE Grand Memo II LTE. Apart from that, we will also see more of an updated version to the ZTE Open (which incidentally was announced at last year’s edition of MWC).

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ZTE To Introduce New Android And Firefox Phones This MWC original content from Ubergizmo.