webmonkey.com— The active ingredient is XUL, a markup language (the eXtensible [or "XML-Based"] User-interface Language, to be precise) that describes things like toolbars, menus, keyboard shortcuts.
Sep 11, 2006View in Crawl 4
You don't get tab mix plus, it's all about nitpicking. It include options like:What tab should be focused after closing the current tab? the last one you activated? the left one? the right one? Should new tabs open at the very right of the tabbar or at the right of the current tab? And the left? Where does the tabbar go in the screen? Up? down? Autohides? Closing the last tab closes the window? opens a black page? Does ctrl+tab switches to the next tab in the tabbar or the last activated tab?And so on, it reeeeealy smooths the firefox experience, it works better than a thousand usability experts because you get to choose what exact behavior you want.The only catch is that you can't live without it ever after, it just doesn't feel right.
fxmcleodSep 12, 2006
well written, accurate, and might someday help the next wave of user created updates. good dig
baalzebubSep 12, 2006
the only two extensions i bother with is NoScript and TabMixPlus...then again all the extensions are a matter of personal preferences :)have a day :|
mzkwSep 12, 2006
I wish Opera had extensions. Widgets are mostly useless.
mzkwSep 12, 2006
Why don't you use it first? There are a lot of options you won't see by just reading that shallow description.
lowbotSep 12, 2006
Wow Im shocked webmonkey is still in business AND hasnt changed the look of their site in at least 6 years.
requiem18thSep 12, 2006
You don't get tab mix plus, it's all about nitpicking. It include options like:What tab should be focused after closing the current tab? the last one you activated? the left one? the right one? Should new tabs open at the very right of the tabbar or at the right of the current tab? And the left? Where does the tabbar go in the screen? Up? down? Autohides? Closing the last tab closes the window? opens a black page? Does ctrl+tab switches to the next tab in the tabbar or the last activated tab?And so on, it reeeeealy smooths the firefox experience, it works better than a thousand usability experts because you get to choose what exact behavior you want.The only catch is that you can't live without it ever after, it just doesn't feel right.
daem0nxSep 12, 2006
The following gives more detail (8 Sections) with source, and is pretty well written. They have both a tut on v1.0 (and below) and the following link is 1.5+<a class="user" href="http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/toolbar-tutorial/">http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/toolbar-tutorial/</a>
daem0nxSep 12, 2006
Section 4 of BornGeek.com's FF 1.5 tut talks about dynamic dev. Check out the details then head to the link near the bottom for a dev ext - xul / js testing + chrome reloading without restarting FF.<a class="user" href="http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/toolbar-tutorial/ch_4.html">http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/toolbar-tutorial/ch_4.html</a>^Section 4<a class="user" href="http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/extensiondev/index.html">http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/extensiondev/index.html</a>^Dev ExtI hope that helps =)
j00fekSep 12, 2006
sweet!
kbzonixSep 12, 2006
I saw this same article back in June, don't know if it was here or maybe slash-dot. Very good tutorial anyways.
coreydoucoreyApr 22, 2007
Nice indeed. Such things make me a bit dizzy.