No single-tab in Firefox

Posted: 2013-11-10 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: , | Leave a comment

I am not going to whine about developers constantly changing the interface of the most popular browser. However, my adventures in reverting Firefox to what it used to be continue. This is version 24.1.0 and the option to hide the tab bar when only a single tab is left is gone. Read the rest of this entry »

UCSF Chimera and Firefox

Posted: 2013-10-18 | Author: | Filed under: academic, desktop | Tags: , , , , , | 1 Comment

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

Posted: 2013-09-30 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: , | Leave a comment

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://”

Posted: 2013-08-08 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: , , , | 1 Comment

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 »

Firefox downloads dialog

Posted: 2013-07-07 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: , | Leave a comment

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 »

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