Browsers
Add a different search to your firefox toolbar.
Jan 3rd
Did you know that you can add or change the search engine that sits in your upper right corner of your fox browser?
One of our readers, Alex wanted to replace his default live search with ask or Google. What you have by default depends on where you downloaded your fox from.
Are you always the last to know?? This should help you on your quest for porn Knowledge
Are there any FireFox 3 Features I Don’t Know About?
Dec 31st
MozilliaLinks.org has a cool list of 8 things that you probably don’t know about in the newest release of FireFox 3. Here are the top 5 and you can click through to see the rest! They work on any platform that runs FF3.
My favorites are clearly number one and number two. These make my daily browsing SO much easier!
Are you enjoying FireFox 3? Got any tips or tricks for us?
Do you have a favorite feature that was left off the list? If we use one of your tips you may be eligible for some awesome AskTheAdmin.com Swag..
Hit us up in the comments…
Alright, alright enough with the chit-chat here is the list:
- Duplicate tabs. Press Ctrl while dragging a tab to create a duplicate of the dragged tab including its history. Note that this feature doesn’t work on Mac.
- Move tabs to another window. Just drag a tab and drop it on another window to move it. If the dragged tab is the last one in its window, it will be closed.
- Resize the search bar. When the search bar is placed next to the location bar, you can drag the handler between them (invisible on Windows and Linux) to resize it.
- Add keyword search. Select Manage Search Engines… in the search engines menu to open the Search Engines Manager, select a search engine, press Edit Keyword… and enter a few characters to define one. Now you can enter the keyword followed by your search terms in the location bar to search with that plugin.
- Discontinuous selections. Make a selection with the mouse as you usually do. Then press and hold the Ctrl (Cmd on Mac) key to make additional selections and create a larger discontinuous one so you can copy or print just what you need.
[Via MozilliaLinks.org]
Question: How can I diagnose a slow loading website – for free and easily?
Nov 3rd
So you have a website or a blog and it takes forever to load but you have no idea if it is your 800 images or your mp3′s playing in the background or wait…
Maybe its the 192 scripts you have running. Sound familiar?
Well we got a free website for you!
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
From Their Site:
Try our free web site speed test to improve website performance. Enter a URL below to calculate page size, composition, and download time. The script calculates the size of individual elements and sums up each type of web page component. Based on these page characteristics the script then offers advice on how to improve page load time. The script incorporates best practices from HCI research and web site optimization techniques into its recommendations.
You know AtA has mad love for free web based apps right? So this one will let you plug in your html or point it to a url. It will tell you where your load times are going and where you are hanging.
Amazing free resource for you webmasters or bloggers! Let us know your favorite free web apps! Put the AskTheAdmin readers on! Hit us up in the comments!
_TheSlowAndSteadyDoesntWinAdmiN_
Edit: Check out the Firebug extension to Firefox. It has great functionality for this, in addition to other valuable tools for web development.
Lets help FireFox break a world record.
Jun 17th
AskTheAdmin.com is proud to help sponsor Mozilla’s attempt at breaking the world Downloading Record! Read on and we hope you participate!
The New York Times ad…Firefox Flicks…the Firefox crop circle…Operation Firefox…you name it!
Are you ready to make history? Are you ready to set a World Record? Today is Download Day. To become part of the official Guinness World Record you must download Firefox 3 by 17:00 UTC on June 18, 2008, or roughly 24 hours from now.
The Firefox community is always up to some cool, collaborative way to declare their passion for Firefox. What better way to do this than band together to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours?!
It’s a whole lot easier and safer than donning a beard of bees or underwater jump roping. All you have to do is download Firefox 3 when it goes live on Download Day — some time in June. In the meantime check out Download Day Headquarters and pledge to download Firefox 3. We’ll let you know when Firefox 3 goes out the door, kicking off our 24-hour attempt.
Here are some other ways you can help in the run up to Download Day:
* Get the word out; tell your friends, your neighbors, your grandma, anyone and everyone to participate in Download Day.
* Host a party to download Firefox; you provide the people and we’ll provide the party favors.
* Put a Download Day badge on your blog, profile or website.
With your help the Firefox community can go down in history! If you have any questions or ideas please drop us a line at worldrecord @ mozilla.com. [Mozilla Blog]
The Admin has already submitted his suggestion on boosting the numbers and giving everyone a little more enjoyment out of downloading Mozilla’s latest and greatest!
Are you ready to make history? Are you ready to set a World Record? Today is Download Day. To become part of the official Guinness World Record you must download Firefox 3 by 17:00 UTC on June 18, 2008, or roughly 24 hours from now.
Firefox 4.0 Alpha Anyone?
Apr 30th
We found this directory up on Mozilla’s servers today with this note in place:
Welcome! This directory contains pre- pre-pre-alpha builds of Mozilla2. They are not yet representative of what Firefox 4 will look like. These builds are not regularly tested - use at your own risk. For those interested, the source code is here.
Hmm this is exactly what virtual machines are for! Let’s see what Mozillia has in store for us! Who’s going in? Feedback in the comments guys!
Why my new favorite web browser is FLOCK
Apr 14th
I was a hard core Netscape user before the days of FireFox and before that I was all about IE4 . (Sorry for the re-run but Kayla didn’t let us sleep this weekend!) So I have realized change is good and you live and you learn. So when I heard about Flock, I decided to give it a go. For you Face-bookers. Flickr’ers and Bloggers you can take advantage of the built in blog editor, Facebook galore in your sidebar and the ability to view yours and your friends photo streams right from Flock. Its neat, has a cool GUI. Flock is Fire Fox like but quicker and customized for what I do. I really dig it so far.
Oh did I mention it not only uses existing Firefox plugins but has its own as well??
This truly is the social web browser. There are downfalls to parts of it like no image uploading using their blogger interface but hey, this is only a beta. It does show integration with the top blogging software and has lots of new stuff I will be exploring throughout the week. If you want to give Flock a try you can grab it here.
From their website:
Flock is a social web browser based on the open source project Mozilla. It can be called a social browser, because of its tight integration with many social networking and social media services. Changing the purpose of a browser from a non-integrated window into the web to a more participatory portal to your favorite interactive sites, Flock seeks to gain significant market share by bringing your favorite social applications one step closer.
With Flock users can do many community involved activities such as uploading photos directly to Photobucket and Flickr, accessing news aggregation services, or using blogging tools. A full list of social media/networking extensions for Flock can be found here.
