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Using the Stylish extension for Firefox, we can set a custom style for the page, and even embed images into the style to make it really look great.

If you are feeling ambitious you can easily create your own style, or you can skip down further to take a look at some of the styles already created by the people at UserStyles, some of which are really sweet.

Install the Stylish extension for Firefox.Now

click on the icon in the status bar, choose Write Style and then Blank Style.

Give your style a description, and then paste in the text I’ve provided below. This will make a blank white page with your image in the center…

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document url(”about:blank”) {

* {
background:
url(”data:image/png;base64,INSERT BASE64 ENCODED IMAGE HERE”);
margin:0px;
background-position:center;
background-attachment:fixed;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
}

You can just

To insert images into the style, you have two choices:

1. You can directly insert a link to an image hosted on a server by replacing the url() line in the CSS with this one:url(http://www.server.com/link_to_image.png);
2. You can base64 encode an image into text instead so that it’s embedded into the stylesheet, which is the best option for most people. How do you do this? There’s any number of web-based converters that will handle this, including this one that I found: Binary File to Base64 Encoder / Translator – greywyvern.com

Just copy the converted text into your stylesheet where indicated, and it’ll work. If your image isn’t PNG format, you should change the image/png line to reflect the correct type. (most of the converters will give you the correct format).

Or just use the ready-made theme like styles for the ease of use.

Light Firefox – http://blog.mzzt.net/2007/04/10/aboutblank/

Dark Firefox – http://userstyles.org/styles/2433

Brushed – http://userstyles.org/styles/1746

Blue Firefox – http://userstyles.org/styles/1761

You can find a ton of user styles over at userstyles.org.

credit: [How to Geek]

Google Chrome: If you’ve recently moved from Firefox to Chrome, you probably miss the way that Firefox orders tabs. This small Google Chrome extension switches the tab ordering in Chrome to mimic how Firefox handles new tabs.

The default behavior for Chrome is to group tabs together—new tabs open relative their parent tab. If you prefer new tabs to open at the end of the row in the order in which you have opened them, as they do in Firefox, Modified Tab Ordering can make that happen.

In the screenshot above you can see how we opened Chrome, visited Lifehacker.com, then Google, and then returned to the original tab to open a few links from Lifehacker—all the new tabs appeared at the end of the row as they opened instead of appearing, grouped, beside the original Lifehacker tab. It’s a small tweak, but if you’ve got a routine for how you open tabs and read them a little thing like the order they appear in can really throw you off. Note: As several sharp-eyed readers pointed out, as of version 3.6 Firefox has adopted grouped tabs instead of orderered tabs. This extension gives you the old-school-Firefox experience in Chrome for those who prefer ordered tabs over grouped ones.

Modified Tab Ordering is a free extension and works wherever Chrome does.

Atlast firefox for mobile has released. Moving right along from the release candidate, Firefox Mobile has arrived in 1.0 form on phones like the N900 that run Maemo. It’s got add-ons, an AwesomeBar, desktop syncing through Weave, and plenty more to recommend it. We just wish it could work on more devices.

Image from jkOnTheRun.

Firefox Mobile’s features are listed and explained at a helpful Mozilla page, but to see what Firefox Mobile looks like in action, check out mobile-obsessed blog jkOnTheRun’s screenshot tour. You can also see the thinking, and a few action shots, of Firefox Mobile in Mozilla’s own video, ported by the folks at the Android and Me blog to YouTube:

Via [LifeHacker] Via Firefox for Mobile Now Available on Nokia’s Maemo Platform! [The Mozilla Blog]

Google’s Chrome gained browser market share in January at the expense of both Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and IE’s biggest rival, Mozilla’s Firefox, according to data published by netmarketshare.Google Chrome got a share of 5.2% by the end of January. This is around 0.6% increase from last month. Both IE and Firefox Loast its share.

IE fell to 62.18 percent from 62.69 in December and Firefox fell from 24.61 to 24.41. Chrome moved from 4.64 percent to 5.20. Notably, Firefox has fallen for two months straight, a fact that hasn’t occurred in years.

Previously I had posted an article on how to install latest firefox, but it was not even a standard install procedure, and so do it have lots of issues. Now today i found one way to install Latest version of firefox using “apt-get” command, which is indeed a standard installation procedure in Ubuntu.

So here it Goes:

If you are using Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) or later:

The repository to add, if you’re adding it manually to your sources.list, is

deb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main

and you can use the following command to add it to your sources.list in one step:

echo -e “\ndeb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null

If you are using Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) or earlier (due to a bug in apt):

The repository to add, if you’re adding it manually to your sources.list, is

deb http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main

and you can use the following command to add it to your sources.list in one step:

echo -e “\ndeb http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null

Then add the package signing key to your keyring,

by running the following command:

sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C1289A29

Update your package database:

sudo apt-get update

Install your desired package, with one of the following commands:

sudo apt-get install firefox-mozilla-build

Now goes another reason for using these steps, You can install both thunderbird and seamonkey aprt from firefox.

To install them issue the following commands.

sudo apt-get install thunderbird-mozilla-build

sudo apt-get install seamonkey-mozilla-build

In Firefox 3.6 the newly opened tabs are opened at just to the right of the tab they launched from. For some users this may be very nice features, but not for everyone. So mozilla have a tweak by which we can revert back to the old style. For doing it, follow the below steps.

First Goto about:config in the address bar.
Then enter browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent in the search box of about:config.
Now set the value to False.

Thats it, from now onwards all the tabs will be opened at the far right part.

Now you can try the vice verse, I meant just try adding this boolean type in old firefox and set it as true, lets see what will happen. Share it on comments.

Via : Firefox 3.6 tips and tweak [Mozilla Links]