Rubénerd :)

Today’s Wait, What Screenshot? (hey, that rhymes) comes to us from my installation of Mozilla Thunderbird, taken around lunchtime. According to Thunderbird, it downloaded 4,294,967,295 new messages during that session. There’s a bad pun about the sound a crazy bird makes in there somewhere.

Must be all my hate mail, or all my date rejection letters.

Firefox may still be the best browser to use for its security and privacy extensions, but if you have Chrome or Safari user interface envy you can use the userChrome.css file to pare down the UI to something a bit more spiffy.

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I never knew you could do this!

• In Firefox, click the Bookmarks menu and Organise Bookmarks…
• In the Bookmarks Manager, click the toolbar button with a star
• Click Export HTML… and choose a place to save the exported file

Now you have a tidy, one HTML file backup of all your Firefox bookmarks that you can even open and click links in, and reimport into another machine!

I’ve been a heavy Delicious user since 2003 (so was mum), but sometimes random links find their way into my Bookmarks toolbar. Not enough to warrant use of Mich Kapor’s FoxMarks, but its good to know I can back them up :)

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while you’d know I’m a huge fan of Taco for Firefox, the Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-out extension. Running an update yesterday I noticed there are now two different versions: the classic Taco and a new Beef Taco fork. Ugh, too many food puns.

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I’ve decided to replace all the icons for my Mozilla browser installs with the icon from Netscape Navigator in a fit of nostalgia. Technically, it’s not completely a falsehood, kinda.

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Mozilla’s naming conventions have almost started to confuse me as much as Intel and Ubuntu. Looking for the developer builds of Firefox this morning I had the option to get Namoroka which I expected, but also Lorentz which shared the same 3.6.3 version number.

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For those of you as addicted to Tree Style Tab for Firefox as I am, there’s been a flurry of updates over the last week that address some appearance and functionality bugs as well as improved compatibility with other extensions. Get it!

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Macslocum over at O’Reilly Answers is asking people to submit their favourite browser plugins and extensions. No prizes for guessing which one I chose!

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Having only just sat at Starbucks to do some programming and cleaning out my desktop (I let far too many files accumulate) I accessed the free WiFi and launched Firefox only to see the above dialog presenting me with a NoScript update. Problem is, I’m connected to the WiFi hotspot but not to the open internet! Spooked out stuff.

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Hasn’t yet been officially announced, but is already available from the Mozilla Firefox FTP servers.

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6/