Overriding extension compatibility check for FF3.5+

Disabling extension compatibility check for Firefox was easy. Go to about:config and create a boolean value named extensions.checkCompatibility and set it to false.

Until Firefox 3.5!

(More specifically, products that are based on < Gecko 1.9.2)

Newer Firefox requires you to append version number to the variable. This will ensure the extension override wont work forever as FF is upgraded to next version. For example, in Firefox 3.6, the variable would be extensions.checkCompatibility.3.6

Explained in detail here:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Extensions.checkCompatibility

Firefox Nepali Dictionary now public

Firefox Nepali Dictionary Plugin has been approved for public status. The plugin is now also listed at Dictionary and Languages page at Firefox Addon site.

For more on the plugin, see this blog post.

Nepali Spell-check Dictionary for Firefox

Under Linux, if you have Nepali Spell-check enabled for OpenOffice.org (instructions here), Nepali spell-check works in Firefox as well. But for those who want it just for Firefox (or, Thunderbird), I've created a small extension which does the job.

Installation Instruction

• Download the installation package here or from Firefox Addon Page.
  
• Drag and drop the file to Firefox and follow the instructions
  
• For Nepali spell-check, right click in the textbox and select Languages > ne_NP

Choose ne_NP from Languages menu

The extension is currently experimental at Firefox Addon Page. Please drop your valuable review/comments there.

My Firefox family

It does feel good that to say that everybody in my family uses Firefox.

My mom n sis share a laptop which i maintain, so obviously has Firefox. I wonder if my mom even knows whether any other browsers exist! But i had no idea about my dad.

But turns out he's also a Firefox user. I'd suggested him Firefox long time ago, but had no idea whether he was using it or not. But last time he downloaded Firefox 3 (thanx to my own blog), it screwed up Flash on his laptop and he was askin me for help.

And then he revealed that he uses Firefox all the time. Out of curiosity i asked him why.

"It's fast", he said.

I've always believed that it's the quality that makes FOSS so ahead of others and now i have a pretty good proof too. I still have a long way to go to convert the OS in my dad n mom's laptop to Linux, but at least Firefox is also a big feat to me.

Download Firefox 3, be the part of World Record

June 17th. Yup, tomorrow! The day Mozilla has set as Firefox 3 Download day to set the record of most downloaded software in 24 hours. And you can be a part of it!

Can it be any easier than this? No eating glass or juggling 50 bowling pins. Jus click the link below and download Firefox 3. Besides setting the record, you know what the best part is? You'll get a brand new Firefox browser - the best internet browser in the world!

PS: While you download, i suggest you listen to Coldplay's new album Viva La Vida or, Death and all his friends which has jus been released. My current favorite!

Firefox font fix

My last post on decreasing dpi got my Firefox fonts so damn small. Tried a lot of ways to fix it, even changed /chrome/userContent.css and userChrome.css but nothing worked.

I later installed a plugin named NoSquint which permanently changes the zoom level for individual or all sites. While this worked fine for me, i was lookin for a permanent solution.

Finally i found out that firefox tries to sync it's dpi with system's dpi, which i've already set low. Now the fix for that is as follows.

• Go to address bar and type about:config
• change the layout.css.dpi value from -1 (or whatever) to 0 (zero)

My Firefox now shows normal fonts.