July 18th, 2004
Checked into yesterday’s (2004-07-17) aviary (Firefox 1.0) branch: an option to show/display saved passwords.
To check it out, grab yesterday’s (2004-07-17) nightly branch build, go to Tools -> Options -> Privacy, and select the Saved Passwords option.
Click on View Saved Passwords to see the Password Manager and you’ll see a Show Passwords button at the bottom right. That’s new.
You get a confirmation dialog (supposedly because showing your passwords is an important event). I think the intended use of the confirmation dialog is to save you from inadvertently showing your passwords to someone looking over your shoulder.
And your passwords are then shown in the plain text glory (mine are “pinked out” in the screenshot below, of course).
Looking at my list of passwords, I am beginning to think I’m not a very secure person (identical passwords for different accounts, using the same passwords for long periods, and passwords shorter than 8 characters).
July 18th, 2004
Checked into the Firefox aviary (codename for Firefox 1.0) branch: fixes for bugs 174265, 173762, and 228862. All bugs with favicons and bookmarks: “Wrong favicons in bookmarks“, “Favicons are forgotten after shutdown“, and “Store icons in bookmarks.html” respectively. All fixed by Vladimir Vukicevic with some clever JavaScript that fetches the favicons from the URL of each bookmark.
Pretty!
July 18th, 2004
Cedric asked for Document-splitting in Web browsers and promptly got it (read the comment by Jeff Mesnil in Cedric’s blog entry).
Jeff Mesnil whipped up 2 bookmarklets in the space of less than one and a half hours that allows you to split a browser into 2 frames. How does it do that? It loads the current URL in a frameset consisting of 2 frames (both showing the same URL). A simple, yet genius, idea.
Here’s a screenshot of a blog entry split vertically:
Notice how it could be useful when cross-referencing something on the same webpage, particularly if it’s a long vertical-scrolling page. A perfect use case would be referring back to a long blog entry when making a comment.
Here’s the same page split horizontally.
There are probably lots of other use cases for a webpage splitter. Cedric’s in particular is this:
Just recently, I was reading an article that showed a figure at the top and which constantly referred to this figure in the rest of the article.
Thanks Jeff for writing the bookmarklets and Cedric for thinking of it.
July 15th, 2004
TheDailyWTF is great. If you develop or have developed web applications before, you will appreciate this entry: Admin=False.
July 15th, 2004
With the Google Pagerank extension! This is a Firefox 0.9.x compatible extension that adds a Google PageRank widget to the statusbar.
it acts exactly as the real googlebar on IE: calculate a checksum, send a request to google.com (with the googlebar User-Agent string), and the reply contains the pagerank.
Grab it from installation section or the author’s website. (Note: Firefox should prompt and say something to the effect that the installation has been blocked. You can trust this extension, so click on the “Edit Settings” button that appears and allow the installation.)
It updates when you switch tabs (it could take a while depending on your Internet connection), in case you were going to ask.
Show saved passwords option in Firefox
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