Tag: firefox

  • Bizzare Firefox 3 HR Tag Rendering

    I stumbled across this bizare new rendering bug in Firefox 3. CSS: hr { background: url(“bar.gif”) no-repeat; width: 385px; height: 15px; border: 0; } HTML: <hr noshade=”noshade” /> Here’s what it looks like in Firefox 2. Now Firefox 3. It would appear that Firefox 3 is adding a border-radius value to all <hr/> tags. Removing…


  • Fix Firefox 3 URL Bar

    Firefox 3 has an annoying new URL bar that takes up about 75px in screen real estate for each auto-completed URL. It’s referred to as richResults in about:config. In the previous beta releases you were able to manually add a preference to remove this feature. As of firefox 3 beta 4 (or maybe beta 3,…


  • Firefox 3.0, How To Make Old Extensions Work

    Firefox 3.0 beta 1 is out. As with previous releases of Firefox, the new version number breaks your extensions. Here’s how to fix them. Open about:config (don’t mind the new roadblock) Right-Click the list and create a new boolean ‘extensions.checkCompatibility’, set it to false Restart Firefox Update: This does not appear to work on the…