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July 15, 2004

Dual Home Page on Firefox

Firefox Have you ever wanted to have two home pages, now you can with Firefox if you put a “|” (pipe) character between the two URLs in the home page text box when configuring the browser. The other way is to first open the two pages in separate tabs and then click the “Use Current Pages” button (never noticed the “pages” text before). Then when you next click the home button or open a new browser the two home pages will open in two tabs. Give it a try.

Posted by Egon Kuster at July 15, 2004 05:55 PM

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I love the new features they're adding. There's another fantastic feature where you can give labels to links and then load pages containing seach strings. An example will do better than an explanation. OK: 1. Create a link to everything2.com/index.pl?node=%s 2. In the firefox properties give it a label of 'e2' 3. Now enter 'e2 smurf' into your address bar. It will instead load everything2.com/index.pl?node=%s I love this feature! :) I use it for java api docs now too. Now I'd like to see them embrace and extend html and other standards within the browser. Start giving ie a run for its money and create a more extensive open source, run-anywhere web platform than the browser currently provides >:) Posted by: Craig Turner at July 24, 2004 07:17 PM

Cool little feature. I like their XUL GUI engine that is used to display everything including the browser itself. XUL will allow developers to create applications that can be run over the web inside the Mozilla browser or as a standalone application installed directly on the users system. This type of flexibility is what I believe we will start to see in the next generation of applications. Posted by: Egon Kuster at July 24, 2004 09:56 PM


	« Oracle ventures into Web Services, SOA, BPEL and J2EE \| Main Blog Page \| An Overview of Business Process Management (BPM) » July 15, 2004 Dual Home Page on Firefox Have you ever wanted to have two home pages, now you can with Firefox if you put a “\|” (pipe) character between the two URLs in the home page text box when configuring the browser. The other way is to first open the two pages in separate tabs and then click the “Use Current Pages” button (never noticed the “pages” text before). Then when you next click the home button or open a new browser the two home pages will open in two tabs. Give it a try. Posted by Egon Kuster at July 15, 2004 05:55 PM Comments I love the new features they're adding. There's another fantastic feature where you can give labels to links and then load pages containing seach strings. An example will do better than an explanation. OK: 1. Create a link to everything2.com/index.pl?node=%s 2. In the firefox properties give it a label of 'e2' 3. Now enter 'e2 smurf' into your address bar. It will instead load everything2.com/index.pl?node=%s I love this feature! :) I use it for java api docs now too. Now I'd like to see them embrace and extend html and other standards within the browser. Start giving ie a run for its money and create a more extensive open source, run-anywhere web platform than the browser currently provides >:) Posted by: Craig Turner at July 24, 2004 07:17 PM Cool little feature. I like their XUL GUI engine that is used to display everything including the browser itself. XUL will allow developers to create applications that can be run over the web inside the Mozilla browser or as a standalone application installed directly on the users system. This type of flexibility is what I believe we will start to see in the next generation of applications. Posted by: Egon Kuster at July 24, 2004 09:56 PM