HOWTO run Firefox2 in Ubuntu 8.04. If you’re already running Firefox3, the Firefox-2 symlink will not start the right version of Firefox until you shut down FF3. Now I can test sites in FF2 again without booting my 2k VM.

A good summary of new CSS support in Firefox 3, including new colour-space keywords, block rendering modes, new constants for the min-width/height directives, and more.

It’s funny but I never realized how much Firefox’s non-native widgets bugged me. I installed the Grand Paradiso (beta 5) last week, and was surprised by how much smoother it felt. It’s a combination of things: it’s faster, the XUL widgets behave better, and many of the in-page widgets use the Gnome native controls¹.

1. Textareas don’t seem to use native widgets, however ↩

Here’s Mozilla’s guide for creating search extensions for Firefox. I’ve been meaning to make one of these for our internal websites.

HOWTO: use Firefox3 for deploying XUL apps. My question: when does XUL start to suck less?

A lightweight Firebug plugin for browsers other than Firefox.

A tangent idea found it’s way into my virus-ridden brain: why not replace the window manager with Firefox and a local web app? You could do a consistent desktop metaphor on Windows/Linux easily, and applications would just be links to web apps (some may be google-gears-able). Would be fairly easy to snap it in a Linux distro too …

NutritionData.com has a nifty Firefox search plugin to search foods in their database. Very handy.

I love the concept of del.icio.us, but because it’s separate from the browser it’s a pain to use. Enter the del.icio.us Firefox plugin, which replaces Firefox’s weak bookmark tool with taglicious zen. Most excellent.

Firefox 3 to support offline web apps? (via kottke).