Author Archive
Modify Incompatible Firefox Extensions to make them work with Firefox 3
Ever came across an extension that you badly want to run with Firefox 3 and are in no mood to downgrade to earlier versions of Firefox, and you aren’t comfortable with modifying about:config, the other day I came across this extension called minimize to tray and I badly wanted it to run with Firefox 3 ,actually what it does is that it minimizes Firefox to tray when you press CTRL+SHIFT+M, now whenever I am done with with Firefox I don’t close it instead I minimize it, it is working great so far in Firefox 3.0.1, I am using the same extension as an reference in this post:
first step is to get the .xpi file of the addon you want to make compatible with Firefox 3.0.1, to do that go to Mozilla addons site and open the page of your desired extension, now the problem is that the add to Firefox button is greyed out because its not compatible otherwise we would have right clicked it and chosen “save link as” option but now you can get xpi file by changing your browser e.g Internet Explorer (you can use IE tab too) as it will turn the add to Firefox button to download now button and then you can easily save the xpi file to your hard disk
Read the rest of this entry
Get stand alone installer for windows live messenger and windows live writer
Ever since Microsoft started giving their windows live labelled software through windows live installer I am having hard time installing these software’s because it is hard to download those installers through Windows Live Installer every time you need to install a windows live software especially if you have slow connection and this makes the installation process really slow, thank god windows live installer saves a copy of the installer on your harddisk once you install the software, I will show you how to get the installers
First open my computer open tools menu and select folder options
Add a “Clear list and close Window” button to Firefox download manager
I found this nifty little extension for Firefox while crawling on the web named “clear and close”, the name pretty much describes its function that is it replaces the default “clear” button in the Firefox download manager with a “Clear list & Close Window” button which clears completed or interrupted downloads and automatically closes the download manager window, it basically saves you one click 
.
it is very small and simple extension so I don’t need to write much about it. it’s in experimental mode on Firefox addon’s site so instead you can get it from softpedia.
Monitor Your Adsense earnings from your windows taskbar
The other day I found this nifty little program on softpedia named SysSense, basically it allows you to monitor your Adsense earnings from the windows taskbar, it places an icon in the taskbar and when you hover your mouse pointer over it, it shows a box with the details of your Adsense account.
It can show all the details of your Adsense account including Page Impressions, Clicks, CTR, eCPM, Earnings, Predicted Earnings, current month’s page impressions, current month’s clicks, current month’s CTR, current month’s eCPM and current month’s earnings, you can configure what to show and what not to show. You can also configure at how much time interval you want the statistics to be updated, it can also show details for multiple accounts and the feature I like the most is that one can configure it to show balloon popups when the amount of click changes, good for those who get excited on every single click. apart from that you can configure it to show the earnings in your native currency but the downside is that you yourself have to put the conversion rate so it means that it wont be accurate but its good for getting an idea.
Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 Released
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 was a major hit but because of the lack of time some features that were originally planned to be added in Firefox 3.0 were held and now are going to be added to the next major release of Firefox browser that is Firefox 3.1 code named “shiretoko”, these features include Support for the <video> tag as defined in the HTML 5 specification,Support for cross-site XMLHttpRequests (XHR) which would allow more powerful web applications,Native JSON DOM binding a powerful feature for web developers, full CSS 3 selector support, bookmark tag autocomplete, bulk tagging support, private browsing mode for corporate users,advanced search UI, a lightweight tagging user interface, integration of a browser’s download history and last but not the least Visual Tab switching which adds Thumbnail previews for tab switching (alt+tab). The final release of Firefox 3.1 is expected to be released in the last quarter of this year or first quarter of 2009 and will run on Gecko 1.9.1 Engine.
The most exciting feature of Firefox 3.1 is the Visual Tab switching feature which has been inspired by Ctrl-Tab Firefox extension, when you press alt+tab on your keyboard you are shown thumbnails along with the titles of the pages which allows you to recognise the tab you want to open quickly just like the Windows Vista Aero’s Alt+Tab Feature, to revert back to the old tab switching you need to use keys Ctrl + Page Up and Ctrl + Page Down, To know more about this feature read this.
If you want to try out the new features you can download Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 from the Official Firefox FTP site.
