Clean Up with the Zotero Reference Test Pane
I’m in the thick of my thesis research, and I wanted to share this awesome Zotero tip I ran across. (Zotero is a great, free research and reference tool. Think EndNote, but free and way better.) Open a new Firefox window. Copy and paste this link into your Firefox address bar: chrome://zotero/content/tools/csledit.xul And then open [...]
Disable new Switcher in Firefox 3.1
User Scott posted a comment on the MozillaLinks.org website describing how to get rid of the new Firefox 3.1 tab switcher that I deeply dislike. Go to “about:config” and change both of these to false, then restart your browser. browser.ctrlTab.mostRecentlyUsed browser.ctrlTab.smoothScroll
Impressions of Firefox 3.1
I have begun to play with Firefox 3.1 beta2, and I have mixed feelings. I installed version 3.1~b2~hg20081014r20486+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~fta1~hardy (which is quite likely the longest, most involved, most unreadable version string in the history of computing) from Fabien Tassin’s PPA site and decided to try it out. The Good: It’s really freakin’ fast. On javascript-heavy sites [...]
Horizon Information Portal Search Shortcut
Just a quick one: I finally got tired of clicking through the Wartburg Seminary website, so I made a Firefox Search Shortcut out of the minimum URL needed. Just copy and paste this into a new bookmark in Firefox: http://library.dbq.edu:8675/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=wts&index=.GW&term=%s And set the keyword on the shortcut to lib. Then you can type lib Your [...]
Custom Firefox search shortcuts
I’ve come across a little trick that isn’t complicated at all, but saves me a ton of time searching through CPAN. You can add a custom search shortcut that allows you to skip typing search.cpan.org, then typing your search term, replacing it with something as simple as p Search::Term in the address bar. To do [...]