Peter's Blog 14.5.2004

Firefox Extensions

Was reading a Wired Article about free ad blocking tools and noted that most of them seem to be for FireFox. I've dabbled with FireFox before, installing it on my desktop pc when mozilla stopped booting. I've given it another whirl and it may solve some minor Mozilla peeves I have:

• Boots quickly.

• A single click in the address bar selects the whole URL, ready for copying or overwriting. I often found I had to click about 10 times to get mozilla to do that while it selected various parts of the URL.

• Downloaded tool to force 'open in new window' to open in a new tab. Now I shouldn't get 6 Mozilla windows in my task bar.

• New tabs load up the home page (i.e. Google) instead of being blank.

• Many tabs spill into multiple rows of tabs rather than narrow tabs.

• Nice 'Edit CSS' tool to edit the style sheet of a page and see the effects interactively.

I'm happy with it for now and using it to post this.

EasyDialogs

Found this on Python Daily URL. Easy to use dialog library for windows:

This may finally stop me hard coding file names into scripts. I occasionally use the PythonWin librarys to access the common dialogs but that it is a lot like hard work. wxWindows is also hastle if all you want is a file name.

The site also mentions an interesting idea: packing python into executables and then using UPX to compress it.