Firefox In Print 360
hoovernj writes "It seems that O'Reilly is ready to release two books about Firefox in March. The first is Firefox Hacks, which will be targeted at Firefox power users. And the second is Don't Click on the Blue E!, which will be targeted at less-savvy users transitioning from Internet Explorer. Could this be the end of lazy IE-only scripted webpages? (thanks to mozillaZine for the original pointer)." And reader ledmirage writes "Wired Magazine's February issue on Firefox: 'It's fast, secure, open source - and super popular. The hot new browser called Firefox is rocking the software world. (Watch your back, Bill Gates.)'."
Re:22% of which market (Score:3, Informative)
Re:What could firefox hacks possibly cover? (Score:2, Informative)
"You'll even learn how to install, use, and alter extensions and plug-ins"
So plenty of reasons why you'll be needing this book, then...hmmm.
Slashdot (Score:5, Informative)
Could this be the end of lazy IE-only scripted webpages?
Slashdot is not the place to ask. Their site constantly displays incorrectly in Firefox. They'd do well to take heed of their own articles [slashdot.org].
Re:22% of which market (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Perhaps (Score:5, Informative)
Be careful (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Watch out? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:why i still use opera (Score:2, Informative)
1) Restart Firefox and go to Tools > Options... (Edit > Preferences... under Linux and Mac OS X), select Advanced and click on Tabbed Browsing. Then select "Open links ... in: a new tab in the most recent window".
2) Take a look at SessionSaver http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#sessions aver [texturizer.net]
If you'll run into troubles during installation just go to about:config -> extensions.disabledObsolete and set it to false.
PS: more tips and tricks: http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips [mozilla.org]
Re:Slashdot (Score:4, Informative)
I get it very rarely but it is there. The contents in the middle of the page (as in, the article text and comments) are rendered too far to the left and overlap the textual links on the far left.
You can fix it by going ctrl + and then ctrl -.
This is partly due to a Firefox bug of which the fix never made it into 1.0 (but will be in 1.1) and crappy non-w3c compliant HTML that Slashdot uses.
Firefox and Print (Score:5, Informative)
Ironicly the firefox browser prints pages like crap, cutting text in half, and squishing images very poorly. I love the browser, but I always have to reprint pages in other browsers to get better results.
- Bruzer
Re:1.1 (Score:2, Informative)
Get the source [mozilla.org]
Build It [mozilla.org]
Report a bug on it [mozilla.org]
and contribute! [mozilla.org]
This [mozilla.org] is probably a good place to start.
Re:Fast?? (Score:1, Informative)
There's a nice plugin called Minimize to Tray [mozdev.org] for Firefox and Thunderbird that, by using it's -turbo option, can keep a window loaded in the background for you.
Re:In defense of... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:They're overhyping a bit, aren't they? (Score:2, Informative)
That way the tab doesnt need to be active in order to close it.
Also an article in the New York Times (Score:4, Informative)
Custom Tailor a Web Browser Just for You [nytimes.com]
Re:books beat electronic documents? (Score:3, Informative)
It'll only be obsolete if Firefox was changed completely. Most of the hacks I do to firefox (in about config, etc) are the exact same as they were back when Firefox was named Pheonix. Even if new things are added to a newer Firefox that aren't in the book, a majority of the stuff in the book will still work and the new stuff will probably be similar enough that users who read the book can figure out and find the new stuff on their own.
In any event, reading out of a book is less strain on the eyes, and unless you have two monitors, it's easier to manage a book and a notepad or firefox window than a Firefox window and instructions in a PDF...
Re:Slashdot (Score:2, Informative)
Just a couple points:
Re:What could firefox hacks possibly cover? (Score:3, Informative)
Do a search for firefox kiosk browser.jar and see some of the customizations.
I would also hope that there'd be some good chapters on extension writing.