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Support Links

This page is primarily for Firefox 0.9.x but the links for the author web pages apply to any version.

Many times you can find additional information such as developments and future upgrades.

1. Get Firefox - Click the image below

Open your new Firefox browser and use it for each of the remaining steps

*Be sure and write down the web address www.firefoxie.net or bookmark it now.

2. Hide Searchbar (Hide the default class=" authorline">By Jordan Callicoat

Click: Install Hide Search Bar

Click "Install Now"

The extension will be active after you shut down and restart Firefox.

You may do this now, or continue installing the other items.

After you have restarted Firefox, press "Ctrl-Shift-S" on your keyboard.

3. Googlebar with PageRank class=" authorline">By The Googlebar Team / Nick Stallman / Dan McTaggart

First there was the Googlebar by the Googlebar Team, then there was PRGooglebar by Nick Stallman, Then they were combined together at firefoxie.net to create Googlebar with Page Rank in one easy installer.

Click: Install Googlebar with Page Rank

Click "Install Now"

The extension will be active after you shut down and restart Firefox.

You may do this now, or continue installing the other items.

4. Luna theme By Chris Cook

Click: Install the Luna theme

Click "OK"

The extension will be active after you shut down and restart Firefox.

You may do this now, or continue installing the other items.

href="http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/authorprofiles.php?id=5category=">Chris Neale

Click: Install ChromEdit

Click "Install Now"

The extension will be active after you shut down and restart Firefox.

You may do this now, or continue installing the other items.

6. From the Firefox menu, Select "Tools" then "Edit User Files" ( brings up ChromEdit)

Copy and paste into UserChrome.css and then click the save button

Note: these changes remove (unnecessary) padding to make toolbars more compact

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@namespace url("

!important;
}
.tabbrowser-strip {
max-height: 22px;padding:0 !important;
}

!important; padding:0 !important;
}

1px !important; border:0 1px !important;
}
.toolbar-holder{
padding:0 !important; max-height:28px !important;
}
menubar > menu {
padding: 0 5px !important; border-width: 1px 2px !important;
}
.menulist-editable-box {
margin-top:-2px;
}
#linktoolbar {
max-height:18px;
}

7. From the Firefox menu, Select "Tools" then "Edit User Files" ( brings up ChromEdit)

Copy and paste into User.js and then click the save button

By default, Firefox displays annoying error messages if a connection fails, instead of quietly displaying the error information in the browser window as Internet Explorer does. To turn off the error messages and use pages instead, add the following code to your user.js file:

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Instead of annoying error dialog messages, display pages:
user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true);

Additional Items

8. Gmail (Google Mail) Account

Although not generally available yet, there are a few ways you can get an account

before all the good email addresses start getting snatched up. Basically, you need

an invitation from a Gmail tester. Here are a couple of ways to get one. (I am not

commenting about it. I realize that Gmail will be free when it is released. I'm simply

providing information to help you get one if you really can't wait until it is released

to the general public and just want to get an account. If you're not in any hurry and

can wait, choose the third link to stay updated about availability.)

Try gmailswap.com

http://www.gmailswap.com/

Buy yourself a Gmail Invitation on Ebay.

Here is the link. I used the search keyword "gmail" on Ebay. Many are less than $1.

http://search.ebay.com/gmail_W0QQsokeywordredirectZ1QQfr omZR8

To learn about Gmail and to receive updated availability information sign up here:

http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/about.html#signup

class=" authorline">By Doron Rosenberg

Click: Install Gmail Notifier

Click "Install Now"

The extension will be active after you shut down and restart Firefox.

You may do this now, or continue installing the other items.

class=authorline>By Jed Brown

Now supports GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Mail.com and many more.

(Important: skip this step if you want to use Outlook or Thunderbird for email links)

// Install Webmail Compose

Click "Install Now"

The extension will be active after you shut down and restart Firefox.

You may do this now, or continue installing the other items.

After you have restarted Firefox, choose "Tools" then "Extensions".
Scroll down until you see the WebmailCompose item.
Click once with your right mouse button on WebmailCompose.
Click once with your left mouse button on Options.
"Left Click Service" is where you choose your default webmail program such as gmail or Hotmail.

size=3>By Henrik Gemal

View html source using Windows Notepad or view a page in IE

Click: Install Launchy

Click "Install Now"

The extension will be active after you shut down and restart Firefox.

You may do this now, or continue installing the other items.

class=" authorline">By Chris Pederick

Coolest set of tools for web developers

Click: Install Web Developer

Click "Install Now"

The extension will be active after you shut down and restart Firefox.

You may do this now, or continue installing the other items.

Compare rendering of a complex html page in Internet Explorer and FirefoxIE here (440KB)

Developer code to create identical Mozilla Firefox / MS Internet Explorer web pages here

13. Extension Uninstaller by Jeremy Gillick (Good for when you are trying out new extensions)

This one is just a bit different.

Click: Run Setup for "Extension Uninstaller"

Click "Install Now"

The extension will be partially installed after you shut down and restart Firefox.

Once your restart Firefox, click "Tools" from the Firefox menu.

Click on "Extension Uninstaller"

You will get a message telling you "You need to install the Extension Uninstaller API"

Click "OK"

The extension will be fully active after you shut down and restart Firefox.

You may do this now, or continue to step 14.

*Be sure and write down the web address www.firefoxie.net or bookmark it now.

To do this, hold down the "Ctrl" Key on your keyboard and press the letter "D".

14. Security Settings

Security is actually better with open-source. "If you can find the door, you can lock it." With other browsers the door is inside a closed box. (Applies to O/S's too :) There are now a couple of security spoofs out there for Firefox. Unlike IE there is an easy way to catch them that is not often mentioned. You don't need to install any special program, just use the security settings mentioned in this step. More doors will be locked by default as time goes on.

Simply type in about:config into the address bar.
Then search for and change these settings to TRUE

To change a value double click on it with your left mouse button

Then change the value and click on "OK" with your left mouse button

Screenshot

Recommended:
disable_window_open_feature.location
disable_window_open_feature.status*
disable_window_open_feature.titlebar
disable_window_status_change*

Optional:
disable_window_move_resize
disable_window_open_feature.close
disable_window_open_feature.directories
disable_window_open_feature.menubar
disable_window_open_feature.minimizable
disable_window_open_feature.personalbar
disable_window_open_feature.resizable
disable_window_open_feature.scrollbars
disable_window_open_feature.toolbar

* set to "true" by default in the next release of Firefox

15. Firefox Promotional Buttons for your web site

Click: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/buttons.html

Note from the author of this web page:

I have been an explorer user for a long time.
The question is not whether I like it or not.
The question is, is there something that
can reasonably replace it.
Between spyware and BHO's changing my

home page on a regular basis I was getting

annoyed with IE. I did not like Firefox at first

except for the speed of rendering. For me

there were too many things in IE that I was

used to using to consider switching over.

So I decided to see what could be done

to Firefox to make it more familiar like IE.

Now I can honestly say I have the "feel" of
Internet Explorer without all of the
intrusive problems. I haven't run a spyware
checker for a while now, and my home page
never changes.

Thanks for visiting firefoxIE.net!

Dan McTaggart

(613)834-2833
dan@firefoxie.net
http://www.firefoxie.net

Comments:

david grapka: does this work with mac os X?
(02.10.2004, 14:33)

Dan: You have to download Firefox for Mac and then add everything else
(10.10.2004, 22:34)

Hal Hockersmith: List of things not included: - Changed icon (Still that red fox and globe) - title bar (Mozilla Firefox != Microsoft Internet Explorer) - About Icon (Firefox again) - - Recommendations. - IE icon pack (icons.mozdev.org) - Firesomething(titlebar and about image) - - Just some food for thought.
(11.10.2004, 16:03)

Anonym: How about moving the Navigation bar?
(14.11.2004, 14:56)

Peter da Silva: Does this do anything to deal with sites that depend on bugs in IE, or is it just a matter of cosmetics?
(12.12.2004, 18:39)

Dan: It actually adds functionality similar to IE!
(16.01.2005, 10:42)

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