Mike’s Musings

I’ve been working with Cesar Oliveira from Seneca College to put together some initial attempts at group policy support. Here’s his comment from bug 267888:

Since there doesn’t seem to have been any communication from the assignee for
over a year, I am guessing that he is no longer working on it. With big help of
Michael Kaply […]

Ever wish the reporter extension could be used to report problems with internal websites? Yuriy Krylov has an excellent post up about customizing reporter for your intranet. Definitely worth a read.

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One of the complaints that seems to come up a lot with regards to Firefox in the enterprise is the lack of support for management via Active Directory (using Group Policies). There have actually been a couple attempts to solve this including FirefoxADM and WetDog. There is even a company, FrontMotion, that makes custom Firefox […]

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 […]