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Firefox 3 How to: Store Bookmarklet in Bookmarks Bar
Last time, I've compiled an article about Bookmarklets for Mac Safari. Actually, those bookmarklets also can be used on your Firefox 3. Because those bookmarklets are running with javascript. As long as you have your javascript turned on, you can use them.
"A bookmarklet is an applet, a small computer application, stored as the URL of a bookmark in a web browser or as a hyperlink on a web page." ~ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It's a bit tricky to store your bookmarklets on Firefox 3 Bookmarks Bar. Simple favicon drag and drop, unfortunately, cannot work in Firefox 3. You still can do simple favicon drag and drop to bookmark a certain page of your visited site. But I don't know why, it just can't work on storing bookmarklets.
Therefore, you need another way to store the bookmarklets on bookmarks bar. I have two alternative ways here and I will explain you the details on how to make it. This is the case if you're willing to read through the article though. You can also watch the short video tutorial at the end of this article.
Back Button in Firefox 3
Few days ago, we got the new Firefox 3 running smartly and happily. Overall it's quite good and I've encountered no crash up to this point. But there is a thing that maybe will make you feel unhappy: The Big Back Button.
There is a way to make it smaller or even split it with forward button. Here are the things that you should do to achieve that:
- Open Firefox
- Choose View ▸ Toolbars ▸ Customize..
- Look for checkbox labelled Use Small Icons and tick it
- If you want to split Back and Forward buttons, choose the option box: Show Icons and Text
Quick Way to Set Image as Desktop Picture
There is a bunch of ways to set an image as your Desktop picture, such as using Quicksilver or using Automator.
Recently, I've found another quick way to do that. Do you want to know what's that?
Bookmarklets for Mac Safari
Above: Safari splitted by two. Done with bookmarklet.
There is a way to quickly run short script in your Safari web browser; It's by using bookmarklets. Bookmarklets are bookmark items and bookmark items are not limited to only url address; We can also make short javascript function as bookmark item by simply dropping the favicon to bookmark bar.
Impressive Safari Plugins
Safari has been optimized for Mac and because of that, it becomes the best browser for running on Mac. However, with Firefox empowered by plenty of plugins, it's confusing to determine which one to choose: Safari or Firefox?
After searching around the web, I found several impressive plugins for Safari, such as del.icio.us bookmark, StumbleUpon toolbar, Tab Exposé, Greasemonkey script customizer, and many others. Interested?
Set Default Web Browser
You can use Safari to set your default browser. This can be done by following several steps:
- Open Safari
- Go to Safari ▸ Preferences.. or Using Keystrokes Command-Comma
- Choose General Section
- Select Default Web Browser and Done
Opera - Installing User-Defined Script
With Opera, you can do something similar to Firefox add-on called Greasemonkey.
Greasemonkey is used to customize webpage to be displayed as your own preference. However, if you're not Firefox user, you also can do this by using Opera.
How to do that? Let's explore those steps.