Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Tue
16
Aug
2005

Web Design Links and A Firefox Tip

Web Design Stuff

There is a really cool Firefox extention that I found today over at Lockergnome called Web Developer. I haven't really had time to figure out all that it can do yet, but there are tons of features. It has a css editor, view source, outline cetain page elements (tables, links w/o title attributes), the list goes on and on. I'm looking forward to see what all it can do.

Since I'm looking into working for myself, I've been checking out the web design competition. A lot of them say they work with Drupal (a CMS). I figured I'd better post a link to remind myself to look into it.

Cool Firefox Tip

Using Firefox, I had often wondered how popups managed to still popup when I have them blocked. From petebevin.com:
Like you, I love Firefox for many reasons, including popup blocking. So over the last few weeks I’ve been surprised to see occasional popups.

It turns out that some clever people figured out that you could launch popups from Flash, getting around the Firefox default settings.

Fortunately, you can get around it:
  1. Type about:config into the Firefox location bar.
  2. Right-click on the page and select New and then Integer.
  3. Name it privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins
  4. Set the value to 2.


The possible values are:
  • 0: Allow all popups from plugins.
  • 1: Allow popups, but limit them to dom.popup_maximum.
  • 2: Block popups from plugins.
  • 3: Block popups from plugins, even on whitelisted sites.