Showing posts with label firefox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label firefox. Show all posts

Saturday, June 28, 2008

How to enable kerning in Firefox 3?

http://ubuntu-snippets.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-enable-kerning-in-firefox-3.html
"If you don't know about kerning please visit wikipedia article on kerning. Kerning deals with space adjustments between letters to make words more readable. Now a days most of the fonts are shipped with kern hinting but very few applications make use of this extra information. Firefox 3 now officially supports kerning for text elements.

Please make sure you only apply kerning to the elements which use larger font sizes because you won't observe much difference with smaller ones. And use kerning carefully as it could slowdown page rendering because of extra math calculations.

With Firefox 3 you can use the css property text-rendering to enable or disable kerning. text-rendering takes following 4 possible values.

  • auto - default value of text-rendering. Gecko will try to guess which one of the following option to use probably based on some kind of global setting.
  • optimizeSpeed - will disable font kerning.
  • optimizeLegibility - this option enables kerning & ligatures.
  • geometricPrecision - this option also enables kerning."

Mashable: 30+ Must-Have Updated Firefox 3 Extensions

http://mashable.com/2008/06/26/firefox-3-extensions/
"We’ve put together a list of 30+ must-have Firefox 3 extensions that we know you’ll enjoy, whether you’ve upgraded to Firefox 3 and are looking for something new to add to your browser, or have yet to make the upgrade and are looking for a reason.

We cover everything from useful tools to social bookmarking and more. Let us know which extensions are your favorites."

Friday, February 22, 2008

Mozilla Blog: 500 million Firefox downloads: complete; 500 million grains: in progress

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2008/02/21/500-million-firefox-downloads-complete-500-million-grains-in-progress/
"Firefox just reached 500,000,000 downloads. This is an absolutely phenomenal milestone for Firefox. It is sort of hard to imagine what that number means. For some perspective, that’s roughly the audience size of 10,000 Rome Colosseums combined. It would be the weight, in kilograms, of 8,500 Boeing 747 airplanes. In dollars, for $500 million you and 15 of your friends can fly to the International Space Station."

Friday, November 23, 2007

Top Best 50 Firefox Extensions For Web Design

http://www.emmaalvarez.com/2007/11/top-best-50-firefox-extensions-for-web.html
"Each day there are more people that use Firefox. It is much faster than Internet Explorer, and has a lot of extensions and themes. Regarding the extensions, many of them are much more than interesting. Some of them ease the work of designers and developers. Here follows a list of 50 of the best."

Saturday, June 2, 2007

User Experience Design at Mozilla: The User Interface of Firefox 3: Features

http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/06/01/the-user-interface-of-firefox-3-features/
"Firefox 3 is going to provide a wide range of improvements to performance, stability, and security, and it’s also going to present several new user facing features. Here is a quick recap of design work that’s been going on in the Mozilla community over the past few weeks for Firefox 3, along with information about how you can help contribute, by providing feedback on these designs, or creating your own UI mockups."

Friday, May 4, 2007

Gmail Super Clean (CSS styling through Greasemonkey on Firefox)

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7646
"Gmail is an amazing email service, its by far the best email service that I’ve come across. The only thing I’m not happy about Gmail is the way it looks. Google guys have done beautiful stuff like Picasa, but Gmail has remained pretty much the same. So, I made “Gmail Super Clean” a simple little skin for Gmail, using Greasemonkey."

blog: http://gmailsuperclean.wordpress.com/

Thursday, April 26, 2007

viiloader.net: Download, search and convert videos from YouTube, Google Video, Pornotube, Putfile, Dailymotion, Metacafe

http://www.viloader.net/
"What is this and how does it work?

From this website you will be able to download with only one click the videos published in the main video websites, for example Video Google, Youtube, Pornotube, Yuvutu, Metacafe...

You have two options:

1.- Paste the url in the upper form and press the download button

2.- Even much easier: install the Internet Explorer addon, the Mozilla Firefox addon or the Opera addon"

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Lifehacker: 10 Must-have Firefox Extensions

http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox-extensions/lh-top-10--must+have-firefox-extensions-246127.php
"If ever a software application was built to be more than itself, it's Mozilla Firefox. Over the past 2 years we've tried, loved and posted dozens of feature-adding extensions for our favorite web browser. But today we have the master, grand daddy list of 10 must-haves.

Narrowing the huge field of available add-ons down to the ten best was quite a challenge. Your Firefox extension choices have everything to do with your needs, but the ten add-ons you'll find in the following pages are highly-evolved, robust and have proven their usefulness over and over."

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Computerworld: 20 must-have Firefox extensions

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9011975&intsrc=hm_ts_head
"These plug-ins give you souped-up functionality, better look and feel, and streamlined development tasks. And some are just plain cool."

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Lifehacker Code: About This Site add-on (Firefox)

http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox/lifehacker-code--about-this-site-addon-firefox-232375.php
"When you happen upon a new web site - or you're just interested in finding more about one you frequent all the time - it's difficult to get a sense of how popular it is, how long it's been around, what people are saying about it and how much it's been bookmarked. The About This Site Firefox extension offers one click access to web services that compile just that kind of information for you."