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A quick and dirty way to update old Firefox extensions

Submitted by venutip on August 26th, 2008
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What do you do when your favorite Firefox add-on hasn't been updated for the latest version of Firefox? Par example: one of my favorite add-ons is Statusbar Clock. Unfortunately, the folks over at Cosmic Cat Creations haven't updated their widget in well over a year.

The clicks, they do nothing!

Clearly, this little kitty has been put to sleep.

Getting the RSS feed icon to appear in the address bar

Submitted by venutip on March 12th, 2008
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I'd been wondering for some time how to get the familiar little RSS icon to show up in Firefox's address bar, like so:

RSS icon in the address bar

Turns out it's remarkably simple. Just add one line of code to your <head>:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" 
      title="Your Feed Title"  href="/path/to/feed.xml"  />

It's just that easy.

Adding Flash that links to an external site

Submitted by venutip on February 16th, 2008
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It should be so simple.

All you want to do is embed a Flash file in one of your pages. You want it to display properly in IE and Firefox (sorry, Opera!), and you also want a new window to open when the user clicks the link.

Seems easy, but there are a few problems that you'll probably encounter:

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