By a bit of synchronicity, Les linked to an article I’d read this morning on Wired on beefing up Mozilla and Firefox by installing various cool extensions. The article’s okay, but not as useful as that other page I was on… damn, where was it?

Ahh, here it is: a really good post with some great extensions that brings Firefox up from barebones browser to sand-kicking-in-face strength. Very cool.

All of which is an unsurprising ‘mainstream’ trend lately: even microsoft-owned Slate recommends Firefox, fer gawdsakes. Damn.

Anyway, for the sake of information, I’ve given up Slimbrowser (which, while sweet, is just a different frontend on the security-hole-that-is-Internet-Explorer) on my work machine in favor of Firefox, with the following extensions installed: TabWarning (just because I’m an idiot who closes stuff he shouldn’t), Tabbrowser Extensions (which is really useful for getting Firefox to act like other tabbed browsers that I’m used to), TabX, Copy Plain Text (mentioned in the Wired article and darned handy at work when quoting stuff off of vendor sites), and DictionarySearch (ditto :)).

Also, I had to drop in the tiny little RoboForm plug-in to let it work with Mozilla browsers — it’s linked off RoboForm’s FAQ somewhere.

My one and only bitch is that I want ‘Open Link in New Tab’ to be at the to of my right-click menu in Firefox, instead of ‘Open Link in New Window’… other than that, I’m loving it — I’ll probably switch over on my home machine as well pretty soon.

Update: Ahh, I figured out how to do that about ten minutes after I wrote this.

Synchronicity: Another discussion on Mozilla, Firefox, and (my favorite email prog) Thunderbird on Blogcritics.

Okay, so ... how did you do it? (The "new tab" bit).

I'm finding the tabs-vs-windows stuff to be annoying. Though I'm sure once I get the hang of it, it will be tres cool.

Install the tabbrowser extensions... extension.

Open it up and go to 'advanced'. Check all the checkboxes, then set it to Use only one browser always (Single Window Mode). That pretty much takes care of it.

I've got one more little Annoying Thing that firefox does that I'm still trying to figure out, and I'll be 100% happy.

See, there's an error in the MT script that's supposed to display the 'B', 'I', 'U', and 'Url' buttons in both MT comment windows and in the MT-post windows (even in the new versions, to judge by the 3.0MT sites I visit) -- IE just ignores the sloppy-error (like it does with a lot of my lazier CSS), while Mozilla and Foxfire suppress the script (cuz it's broken, natch), which means I can't see those buttons (or use the hot-keys for them) in Firefox.

Although honestly that's not a Firefox problem, it's a problem in the MT code. :(