Slim Extension List

The other day I was looking through my Add-Ons (extensions for those folks using Firefox 1.5.0.X) seeing what I was still using with Firefox 2. I came across the Slim Extension List, which does two things. First, being you can not resize the add-ons (extensions) window, this extension reduces the size of the extension entries so you can fit more in the window with less scrolling. Further it will arrange your extensions in alphabetical order, not the default order which is by when they were installed.

But then I wondered wasn’t this ‘fixed’ with the redesign of the add-ons UI? So after disabling the extension, restarting Firefox, adding some extensions and restarting Firefox yet again, I discovered the extension is totally useless in Firefox 2.0! Part of the redesign cleaned up the add-ons window and has all the extensions listed in Alphabetical order now.

The Slim Extension List only works with Firefox 1.5.0.X, so it nice to have for those whose users who want the updated user interface in their extension window offered by Firefox 2.0

Disable Backspace Navigation

Has this ever happened to you? You are typing along in a text-box and notice an error. But for whatever reason Firefox no longer has emphasis on the text-box and when you hit the backspace key you end up navigating backwards (much like Internet Exploiter). The Disable Backspace Navigation extension fixed this by disabling the backspace key from navigation.

Some background on this issue/bug, it has been an on going issue that the folks at Bugzilla said could be fixed with a simple about:config entry change. I tried this ‘fix’ and it did not work so I installed the extension. Then they said it was fixed in Firefox 2, so I disabled the extension. Well, I discovered the hard way while composing a message on Delphi Forms, this is not the case. I had clicked on a button the WYSIWYG Editor and noticed a typo and hit the backspace key and was taken back to the message I was viewing, losing everything I had composed.

This extension works with Firefox 1.0-1.5, but can be forced to work with Firefox 2.0 via the Nightly Testers Tools extension.