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tomos:
in case your monitor shops ...-jammo (October 25, 2006, 10:42 PM)
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:D

anyone ever read the book by Bill Bryson about English in America & how it differs from in England/Britain (& Ireland & elsewhere ...)
It's called Made in America & its a fascinating read.

Often pronunciations, meaning & usage of words in the States stem back hundreds of years -
meanwhile they changed in Britain - AND vice-versa (eg Fall was formerly used in England instead of Autumn)
It's the same in Ireland actually - sometimes Irish pronunciations can be similar to English pronunciation of a couple of hundred years ago (Tay=Tee, Faather=Father etc.)

Jammo the OrganizedFellow:
Override version checking and you can reenable them - I didn't find any that wouldn't work (except for RoboForm and they have now released a version 2 extension).
-Carol Haynes (October 26, 2006, 03:11 AM)
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where is the option to disable version checking?

i went to: Tools > Options > Advanced ???

i can find nothing on Version Checking.
:(

Carol Haynes:
Type about:config in the address box and press return

Scroll down to extensions.checkCompatability and double click the value (True) it should change to False. Then restart Firefox.

(Click the thumbnail if you aren't sure and look for the yellow high lights)

Firefox 2 hints and tips

AdIyhc:
Do you guys know how to edit keyboard shortcut keys and rightclick menu?
With Opera, it's in a file. Does Firefox has any file that contains all these??

dk70:
Surfkeys https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2282/ and Functions for Keyconfig https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1537/ show what Keyconfig https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1537/ can do.

You can modify any menu but not so easy doing it manually so there is Menu Editor https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/710/ A few extensions might give trouble but generally it works. Full control over most menus in Firefox.

Mozillazine seems to be slow right now but search for this. Not complicated but lots of details. Here are some of my entries. Kicks rightclick stuff out.

menuitem[label="Send Image..."] {display: none !important;}
menuitem[label="Send Link..."] {display: none !important;}
menuitem[label="Bookmark This Link..."] {display: none !important;}
menuitem[label="Bookmark This Page..."] {display: none !important;}
menuitem[label="Set As Desktop Background..."] {display: none !important;}
#context-stumble-tagit { display:none !important; }
#context-stumble-search { display:none !important; }

Last 2 is for Stumbleupon extension. Anything can be modified which is good since some extensions dont have tickboxes to disable/enable. Check out www.userstyles.org for possibel useful code or perhaps Extensionsmirror http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/ Most info is available somewhere. Not all 1.5.x.x tricks works on 2.0 I think, Im not really into this but anyone can hack a little :)

All this stuff goes into userchrome.css but Menu Editor works directly with localstore.rdf. Gigantic shortcut compared to notepad.

Related is Custom Buttons, I have 5-6 of them - nice effects and you only need 1 extension not 5. Also being transformed to 2.0 status and extension comes as an official and alpha version. A little messy but check it out should you get hooked on modifications. Some have quite unique features, ie. all my top menu is only seen when I hover a Firefox icon. No space wasted. I have menu for starting applications, opening folders. One starts IE with current url, other buttons for Opera etc. Another do not show searchbar but only icon and drop down list of engines, uses urlbar as search and also acts as a go button for it = less pixels, no loss in functionality. All sidebars is accumlated into 1 button. Needs polishing but definitely nice once you find useful buttons, may be 50-75 or so to pick from now. http://custombuttons.phpbbnow.com/viewforum.php?f=1&sid=1bd15e84aff3d4f6a189e0015dd11fe8 You should read threads on each one, as said not all are 100% perfect due to 1.5.x.x vs. 2.0 vs. extension version mess.

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