OK fine, I cracked. If you install my extension you can now get random pictures of dogs instead of US news on the BBC website. It uses https://placedog.net/ to provide the dog photos. Installation instructions are at the bottom of my ...

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Things I have learned from the AMA with three Chrome devs: about:flags – “Enable better omnibox history matching” (gives you awesomebar-like features, dev channel only)

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No close button on every tab No close button at the right of the tab bar highlight text, right-click, search uses the selected Search Box engine, not Google scrolling tab bar constant switching between “extensions” and “add-ons” between Firefox versions atrocious options pane for Windows users (this is actually a Firefox 1.5+ problem) ...

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Although I’ve been using Thunderbird at work now for almost a year, the only extension I’ve had installed has been Lightning to display my work calendar. Yesterday that changed, and I’m really glad. I’ve installed a few excellent extensions: Quote Colurs

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The thing I really love about Firefox extensions is just how eminently hackable they are. I already know XUL, JS and RDF, but even if I didn’t, changing extensions to do what you want is so easy that anyone could do it. Take Feed Your Reader for instance – it’s a marvellous e...

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I’ve been using Blogger to power this blog for more than two years now, and whilst the frills have become nicer, the core functionality provided hasn’t changed much in that time (except for comments! yay comments!), which indicates (to me at least) that it’s pretty good. In which case, we need better frills. Herewith some frills that I’d like: Per-post comment feeds. Currently I ge...

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Sage is an aggregator extension for Firefox. It’s the spiritual successor to the original RSS Reader Panel. It’s also very good. Tim Bray picked up on it today. He says, variousl...

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XULPlanet has returned! and thank god for that, really. In case you don’t know, XULPlanet is the place to find out about how to write XUL apps for Mozilla and/or do cool stuff with the Mozilla interface (and this includes Firefox and Thunderbird) witho...

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The URIid extension for Mozilla and Firefox (via asa) lets you assign per-site CSS styles. This is amazing. Couple this with the very useful Chromedit and you have an...

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It’s a doddle to install firefox extensions but near impossible to uninstall them unless you know what you’re doing, and if you’re like me, you’ll see a new extension and go “Oooh, that looks good”, install it and before you know it have twenty installed of which you use about five. However there’s one extension you should definitely grab: the

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