Mike’s Musings

I have an update for Activities that adds preview and fixes some bugs. If you just want that, skip to the end of the post.

One of the things I realized as I worked on this extension is just how amazingly easy it is to write Firefox extensions. When you combine great technology (Firefox extensions), great […]

I’ve made lots of progress since yesterday. I hope to have a new version available today. I thought I’d start the day by calling out Microsoft for not even following their own spec (and you too Yahoo!). What part of 320×240 preview window do you not understand? (And yes there is stuff offscreen even if […]

After looking at Microsoft Activities in IE8 and noticing that they look suspiciously like my ideas around actions in Operator, I decided to implement them in Firefox.

For your downloading pleasure, here is a first pass at Activities support in Firefox. I haven’t actually looked at IE 8, so what I did was based on the […]

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 […]

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 […]