Webs’ Random Ideas

Time to upgrade Firefox to version 3.03:

Mozilla patched a vulnerability in the Firefox Password Manager feature last week, just days after it released Firefox 3.0.2 to address 11 security flaws. Firefox 3.0.3 was slated to be released this week, but the fix was pushed out late in the day on Friday, September 26. Mozilla became aware of the password problem when, after installing Firefox 3.0.2, some users reported they were unable to retrieve saved passwords or save new site passwords.

Want to synchronize your Mozilla profiles? The directions are pretty straight forward, for Linux you will want to do the same thing essentially, but your folder names and location of those folders will be different. For instance Linux does not have “Documents and Settings”, it has “/home”.

So my setup:
Vista on C:
XP on E:
I want XP on E: to be primary profile location with Vista on C: to snyc to E:

You may want to stop and think a minutre here how you want to configure your setup…

Anyways, now we can start. First we need to copy the profile.ini file from the location the profile will be snyc’d to. In my case I go to XP on E:
E:\Documents and Settings\Devil\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox

Copy the “profile.ini” file by using CTRL+C or drag and drop. Then paste to:
C:\Users\Devil\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox

Now open the file in a text editor. And make the following changes (below is what my finished file look like):
[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=0
Path=E:\Documents and Settings\jgwebe2\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xl5cg5nh.default
Default=1
[Profile1]
Name=Guest
IsRelative=0
Path=E:\Documents and Settings\Yogi\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\Guest

Make sure you set “IsRelative” to 0 as above. Also, the easiest way to get your profile name and full path is to use My Computer and browse all the way to your location, like I did on XP. Then copy and past the location from the address bar.

Then save the file. And you are done.

As a side note, I did this while reading the directions from Mozilla Firefox, while in Vista. Once I was done I closed down Firefox and reopened it. All was well and it was snycing with the Firefox on XP.

Directions adapted from this very useful HowTo…

Firefox is trying to set a World Record for most downloads of a software title in a 24 hour period. Click below to find out more…
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

What’s the AwesomeBar you ask? Well I have been using Firefox 3 for the last month and the AwesomeBar is the greatest thing since sliced bread!!! Well actually Firefox 3 is the greatest thing, but the AwesomeBar is pretty sweet too.

The AwesomeBar is the new revamped full feature URL address bar that can do a hell of a lot of stuff. When you start typing into it a list of possible URLs appears as a drop down list. At first it will likely be filled of sites that are a possible match and items from your bookmarks. But as you continue to use Firefox 3 the list will start searching through sites in your history too (porn surfers beware).

The way Firefox 3 does this is by utilizing a SQL Lite database that keeps track of sites you visit, bookmark, as well as other important info, and this allows for better tracking, management, and meta data applications. From what more intelligent minds than myself say, this is long overdue…

But if you don’t wanna take my word for it, Lifehacker has a 10 ten list of features for Firefox 3. Go check it out! Then download Firefox 3.