Firefox Detect if a page is loaded in the "sidebar" (Javascript)

Firefox has this wonderful option when you create a bookmark : you can load a specific page directly in the sidebar. But it's not very well documented on how you can detect as a web developer that your page is actually shown in such a sidebar.
This is the javascript trick I used (validated with Firefox version=20.0.1):

{ if (window.content == window) /* not sidebar */ else /* sidebar */ }

Source :

• http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1309266#p1309266
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/sidebar

Lastest stable version of firefox

Directly from mozilla, have the repository point directly to firefox (found looking for the ubuntu release of firefox 4).

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

firefox shortcuts

A trick I learned at the Parisian Ubuntu party last weekend :

• Ctrl-click on a link opens it on a new tab.

Some others I recently discovered that people around me didn't know :

• Ctrl-Shift-T reopen last closed tab, with history, cookies, etc.


• Ctrl-k go to search box


• Ctrl-l or F6 or Alt-d go to URL/Location box


• Ctrl-f open/go to the "find on this page" box



• Spacebar go down one page


• Shift-Spacebar go Up one page


• Ctrl+Enter complete .com address


• Ctrl+Enter complete .net address


• Ctrl+Shift+Enter complete .org address

(this is not an exhaustive list of firefox shortcuts, so feel free to comment with others you may know).

copy-paste+url (ffox extention) ThiTan

Firefox extension for having a "copy-paste" that also copies the URL of the page. Very useful for citing blogs, webpages, etc. and easily keep the reference of the page ;-)

Announcement of the addon :
http://formats-ouverts.org/blog/2010/03/14/2292-thitan

Page of the addon :
https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/11066/

Tor et firefox (+polipo)

Sous ubuntu, avec firefox :

Il est conseillé d'utiliser Tor, avec le proxy "polipo", et "tor button" (addon firefox)


http://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-unix.html.en#polipo

Firebug, tool for web development.

Remplace avantageusement le DOM inspector, puisqu'il est possible de modifier la page directement "on the fly" :-) (HTML, CSS, visualisation des entêtes, etc. )

Firebug

Fonte moche Firefox sous ubuntu gutsy

Quand c'est moche comme ça :



Une seule solution :

sudo apt-get remove msttcorefonts

:-)

Tags : Fonte bizarre, Fonte moche, ms true type, ubuntu gutsy firefox

Liens ed2k clickables dans firefox

(vu passer sur irc)

Pour ajouter des liens clickables depuis firefox vers amule :

1. Ouvrir la page about:config
2. Ajouter la chaine network.protocol-handler.app.ed2k
3. Avec la valeur /usr/bin/ed2k

Evidement, pour cela il faut avoir installé le package amule-utils, et vous pourrez ainsi télécharger les images .iso de vos distrib Linux préférées en un seul click !