Archive for March, 2004

Update: Dave has an excellent solution to the ButtonListBar .NET control problem. Firstly, the .NET question: does anybody know how to get this Button ListBar Control to work? I was trying to get the.NET Button ListBar control into my VB project’s toolbox – I followed these instructions: To use the control, add either the ButtonListBar.vb [...]

Update: Google’s new look is officially in effect – there is no need for this bookmarklet anymore. Jesse Ruderman, bookmarklet creator extraordinaire, has written a bookmarklet that allows you to view Google search results in its new look. Google has been testing the new look randomly on a small number of users (I myself have [...]

I can’t believe I missed this Link Toolbar extension all this time. It adds a small site navigation widget in your statusbar that allows you to make use of any <link>s that a webpage may have. Opera has it, so does Mozilla. But this extension probably places it in the best and most logical section [...]

In a move that will aid users migrating to Firefox from other browsers, Firefox 0.9 will feature a long-awaited import feature that allows you to import your browser settings and bookmarks from your current browser. Windows users can now import bookmarks, history, saved passwords, cookies, form history, and preferences from IE, Netscape, Mozilla and Opera. [...]

Ben Goodger (lead engineer of Mozilla Firefox) has announced that Firefox profiles will now be stored in a “Firefox” directory instead of the current “Phoenix” (Phoenix was the name of Firefox even before it was called Firebird) directory. This will be activated in nightly builds starting from tommorrow next week Thursday. This change will be [...]