UCSF Chimera and Firefox

I’ve been doing some protein structure modelling using the amazing PHYRE2. Viewing the results summary in Firefox shows a list of models with thumbnails. Clicking on a thumbnail links to the corresponding PDB file and by default the browser will display it either as text or will ask you to download the PDB file. Read the rest of this entry »


Additional toolbar buttons for Firefox

Some time ago, I decided to customize Firefox a bit more, adding functionality. What I wanted to have was a button to clear the search field. Small thing, right? Read the rest of this entry »


Firefox location bar: show “http://”

I like Firefox to show “http://” in the location bar, just like it was once upon a time. A quick search pointed mew to the rather easy solution. Read the rest of this entry »


Package dependency graphs from SBo

There was a very interesting announcement at the LQ forum of Slackware by Gabriel Magno. In his project SlackBuildsViz, he provides scripts to collect and visualize dependency graphs from SlackBuilds.org. He also provided the generated graphs (*.png) and build queue files (*.sqf). Read the rest of this entry »


Firefox downloads dialog

I don’t like the new style downloads dialog in Firefox. Some googling pointed me to a solution. So, I opened the browser, typed about:config in the address bar and promised to be careful. After that I found the following line and set its value to true. Read the rest of this entry »