Mike’s Musings

Before we get started on this next topic, I need to make one correction. In earlier posts, I said to use collapsed=”true” to hide XUL menuitems. A better option is to use hidden=”true” instead. Using collapsed doesn’t hide the margins, so you get a lot of whitespace in your menus.

I also mentioned customizing the toolbar […]

Now that we know where to add our XUL changes in a CCK XPI, let’s take a look at what we can change. You’ll remember from the previous post, we added this line:
<menuitem id=”menu_preferences” disabled=”true”/>and we were able to disable the Options… menuitem. The obvious questions then are, what else can I do and how […]

Computerworld has an article out today about Firefox in the enterprise that contains some quotes from me. There’s also some slashdot discussion, but most of that seems to be from people who don’t really understand enterprise requirements.

Unfortunately I didn’t respond quickly enough to the request for information, so my stuff is kind of tacked on […]

Now that we know the basics of XUL Overlays, we’re going to look at using an existing CCK XPI to make our changes. The reason we’re using the CCK XPI is because we want to take advantage of code that has already been written for us. We’ll start by examining the contents of an XPI […]

I get asked a lot of questions about customizing Firefox that are beyond the scope of the CCK. Most of these questions involve how to prevent users from doing certain things or hide certain options in the UI. My typical answer is “you can write an extension for that,” but most people don’t want to […]