Maggie's Farm

The one particularly annoying, puzzling, baffling thing about Firefox is its inability to save an icon to the Desktop.  It's a far more sensible way of temporarily saving pages than opening them in a new 'tab'.  Once you do that, you're forced to keep the browser open until you finally get around to reading the article, whereas if you save it as a Desktop icon, it sits there awaiting your reading pleasure.

Pic: Doc renames the browser FireFoxy

Normally, I don't miss the Desktop feature because I usually use IE to browse with, but I was just now using FF to edit a page, then wanted to check something out quickly in Google, then saw a page I wanted to read later, wanted to save it to the Desktop and... and I'm using this stoopid Firefox!

Well, now I'm angry, and as anyone here at the sanitarium can tell you, Angry Doc Syndrome (or ADS as it's known in the field) isn't a pretty sight.  And that big butterfly net really chafes when they pull the drawstring tight.

So I cruised over to the Firefox add-ons page, tried two 'Save to Desktop' add-ons, and neither worked.  I hunted around and came up with this little gem.  Works a peach.

After it's installed, go to Tools menu, Add-ons, click on the 'Create Shortcut' entry's Options.  Select 'Use default' at the top, uncheck the 'Overwrite' box, delete the 'Shortcut to'.

You save a page with the right mouse button, 'Create Shortcut'.

The other add-on I use gets rid of that annoying box that pops up down at the lower-left whenever you hover over a link.  The add-on's name is Status-4-Evar, download page is here.

After it's installed, open its Options.  Both drop-down menus should be set to 'Toolbar'.  Click on the 'Progress' button at the top and uncheck both boxes.  It's some goofy download progress bar you don't need.

Update: Okay, three add-ons.  The third is CacheViewer, which allows you to pluck items out of the cache, such as YouTube movies.

And, if you're using Firefox, there's a half-decent chance you're using Thunderbird, so I thought I'd mention I recently did an update on it.

Digital Symbiosis