Archive for the ‘ extensions ’ Category

Web Mail On Thunderbird

The Web Mail extension lets you check your Hotmail and Yahoo webmail accounts via POP using Mozilla Thunderbird. [via via] Way better than Blue HttpMail Proxy 0.4 i had been using to get at my Hotmail accounts. That ran as a service and constantly ate up a couple megs of memory, even when Thunderbird wasn’t [ READ MORE ]

Extension Learning

I just finished going through the Firefox Toolbar Tutorial at Born Geek. [via via] A first (lazy) attempt at tangibilizing my View Image Toolbar idea. I skipped some parts, so it’s rough and dirty. Just packed it up and installed, and need to restart Firefox to see what happens&#[ READ MORE ]

Status

Fixed a textbox margins problem that showed up with the Flat Bookmark Editing extension. [via via via] That extension adds the contents of the Properties panel to the Bookmarks Manager window so you can edit bookmarks without having to open dialogs. But the textboxes for Name, Location, etc. were being picked up by the toolbar [ READ MORE ]

Triple Select

Select whole paragraphs in Firefox. [via] Found while researching for my Image Toolbar extension idea[ READ MORE ]

Firefox Image Toolbar

Just had an idea for some better image resizing UI in Firefox. While viewing and zooming on some images in Firefox i remembered showing a friend an image that was too big and had been auto-resized to fit the window, but they didn’t know, and complained that it looked funny like the thumbnail they had [ READ MORE ]

The Years