I use the Dictionary Tooltip extension for that.

Cheers

That should be any easy extension to create. Anyone?

There's also a "small icons" option when you right-click and customize the toolbar, though small may already be the default.

Cheers

Here's a sample/simple extension I created on request from SWMBO: Open a new tab with Google in it (yeah, I know, just middle click a google icon would also work, but SWMBO..).

You could use this as a template to perform similar simple actions. I originally adopted it from something else, way back when.

I'm readying for the switch.

The find as you type in Firefox isn't as nice as Safari's - the highlighting sucks.

I did find out that the search field does have history. Except you can only accedd it from the keyboard by Up or Down cursor keys in the search field. And here's the most dumb-ass part... The most recent searches are at the bottom of the list that pops down. Doh! Even if only for consistency with the "Back" page history it should be in reverse order.

I tried a few Mac OS X "themes" and found they generally suck. They don't quite get there and apart from making the toolbar buttons more like Safari's, some of them are no more Mac-like than the default theme in FF.

I'd love an extension to get rid of the throbber and instead provide a progress bar within the URL field. I've gotten so used to that in Safari, though I disliked it when I first saw it years ago.

To remedy the lack of a toggling stop/reload, I've just removed both buttons from the toolbar. I can type Cmd-R to reload and stop is Cmd-.

I don't think I am running any.

The crashes always seemed to come after downloading a file.



I had my default location in FF2 set to Desktop. When I did the FF3 update, the default went back to the ordinary default location -- C:\users\[username]\downloads, or something like that. A perfectly logical location, but not easily found if you don't know that's the default. Easy with 20/20 hindsight, I guess.

tanstaafl.

Another threadjack.

Is there an extension to log or record the messages in the status bar? ie: Waiting for google.com, Connecting to spyware.net.

I want to see what servers are sending data to me so I can block them at the host file if I don't like them. All I can find online is a reference to "Capture Me", which looks like a screen shot program.

Thanks!

I haven't looked into that specifically, but Firebug has all sorts of debugging and profiling functionality that lets you see what requests are being made, how long they take, etc. It might be a bit of a roundabout way to do what you want, but it should get the job done.

Happy Birthday, Bitt!

Oo. Race condition with your AV software?

Excellent.

How about something to get favicons next to bookmarks? I find it an odd design choice that they appear for History but not the bookmarks menu.

Does anyone know how to create Smart Folders in the Bookmarks menu? FF3 starts with a few already (such as "Recent") but if I delete them, I can't see a way to put them back nor make new ones.

In general I don't really like the Bookmarks editing window and find it somewhat unresponsive compared to native windows. Safari has done this better in my opinion, but then again, FF bookmarks can have more metadata associated with them (like descriptions and tags).

I notice that FF lacks polish in a number of areas and that's where many add-ons really shine. One thing I noticed after a few minutes yesterday was that there still exists problems bringing the Firefox window into focus. It might launch behind other applications, won't come to the foreground when certain parts of the UI are clicked, window can only be dragged by clicking at the very top of the title bar (Other Mac apps can be dragged by any part of the unified title/tool bar).

I have seen Firefox3 saying "Scanning for viruses" when I download a file on Vista 64, even though my Wintendo has no antivirus software on it. So you might be on to something with Firefox trying to feed the file to the scanner at the same time the scanner is doing something on its own.

Simply asinine: Restoring Firefox's default Smart Bookmarks and Creating your own arbitrary Smart Bookmarks

You can also "Save" searches for a simple text string as a smart bookmark.

Lots of holes in the software that need to be filled by the core team, not add-on makers...

On a brighter note, I did find some other add-ons that address some of the other things I was looking for. Will post in another message next week once I've installed them.

Works for me out of the box.

Thanks!

Happy Birthday Bitt.

On a semi related note to Firefox 3. I've been having an issue with it and the Cisco SDM Java web app. When I close SDM, it will just instantly kill all of my Firefox windows. If I use SDM in IE then it just closes like you'd expect it to.

Check out Smart Bookmarks Bar, Favicon Picker 3, IdentFavIcon and FaviconizeTab.

Thanks Tony, I'll check it out. Those sneaky websites won't be able to hide for long.

Great (not!).

FF3 no longer stores "bookmarks" in a nice, easy to use/edit html file. Now it's some kind of queer format thing with no line breaks.

Ugh.

sqlite, supposedly.

Okay. No HTML file bookmarks but SQLite is a major improvement for all the other data files that are used in Mozilla projects. Mork is dead and I'm sorry that it didn't get thrown out earlier. It is one of the most bizarre and badly designed file formats I've seen.