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A minor UI improvement to Firefox has been made to Firefox and it’s currently only available on nightly builds of Firefox: the Stop and Reload buttons have been merged into a single button. This change should make it into Firefox 3.6.While a page is loading, the button acts as a Stop button:When it’s done loading, ... 
The latest Firefox nightly builds have moved the Stop/Reload button into the right corner of the Location Bar. When you’re typing in the Location Bar, a green Go button is shown: That switches to a red Stop button when the page is loading: The thin line you see in the location bar is a progress ... 
For those of you who use the excellent Railscasts TextMate theme and want to replicate the theme in Xcode, you can grab my version from Github. This is what it looks like:Save it into ~/Library/Applicatio n Support/Xcode/Color Themes/, restart Xcode, and open its Preferences. You will be able to pick the Railscasts Color Theme in the ... 
These instructions have been tested on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) 64-bit. Skip right to the instructions if you’re short on time.After being a happy Xen user for several years now, I’ve recently had to switch to an alternative virtualization solution. My colleague Arun (@iamclovin) actually struggled for a week with Xen VMs that locked up on ...
Wow, it seems like I haven’t posted anything this year. Don’t worry, you aren’t rid of me yet. I’m still alive and posting updates to FriendFeed and (less often) to Twitter.If you belong to what I imagine must be now the microscopic population of loyal readers of my blog, please do hook up with me ...
Completely by accident, I discovered that you can now drag a tab out from its current window to a new window in a recent Firefox nightly. A short video 24-second better explains what I’m talking about:This tab tearing capability is a pretty neat feature – I know you can already do this in Safari, Opera ...
I’m a heavy tabbed browsing user – I have around 30 tabs open in my day-to-day Firefox profile all the time. Since the day Firefox 3 was released, I’ve noticed Firefox progressively getting slower with this particular Firefox profile (I use a different profile for web development). When it got to the point where changing ...
A few days ago I noticed that some of the pages on the Hotels app on wego.com were completely unstyled. They turned out looking rather Jakob Nielsen-istic:But we were attached to our ugly shade of green to leave those pages in their naked glory. Preliminary CSI work told me that some cached stylesheets generated by ...
A mini-tip on viewing images quickly in a new tab in Firefox. Useful for web devs who want to look at the URL of an image quickly.As an example, here’s the Youtube webpage of the owner of Maru the Cat:To open the thumbnail image of Maru in a new tab, right-click the image, and then ... 
Some of you might know that I’m a rabid anime fan. I don’t talk much about it on this blog (actually, I don’t talk much on this blog anymore, seeing as I haven’t blogged this year). Anyway, yeah, one of my biggest passions and failings is my love for anime and I can’t stop myself ... 
A minor UI improvement to Firefox has been made to Firefox and it’s currently only available on nightly builds of Firefox: the Stop and Reload buttons have been merged into a single button. This change should make it into Firefox 3.6.While a page is loading, the button acts as a Stop button:When it’s done loading, ... 
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