Devil Works

A couple of days ago I upgraded my AVG anti virus installation. One of the features of the update is a link checker that integrates with your browser.

I was having a lot of problems with Firefox hanging and it was giving me a big case of the irits. I spent a couple of days blaming Vista before it twigged that the problems started when I upgraded my AVG installation to 8.0

So after I quick Google search for Firefox and AVG I found it was a common problem with a quick fix.

In Firefox go to the menu

Tools> Add-ons

Then click “disable” AVG Safe Search 8.0

Problem fixed.

Well almost the Safe Search feature of AVG is no longer active but I’ve survived without it this far, so I’m going to take my chances.

Here’s a site translator that shouldn’t be taken seriously

Gizoogle runs a translation on the text in your site to turn it into Jive talk

See the results for this page

I just tried to sign up to the microsoft live service and the sign up screen froze my Firefox browser, funny how it worked perfectly in IE.

One of the reason’s I dislike Microsoft is that big business get’s arrogant, so arrogant that they expect that everyone will be using their product and there won’t be compatability problems.

If only I could convince my relatives to use gmail chat, I wouldn’t be stuck using MSN messenger or whatever it’s branded these days.

I think I can use another messenger program to talk with hotmail users, I’ll be giving that a try very soon.

Back here I expressed a wish to move my Firefox tabs to the bottom of the browser window. The reason I wanted to do this was that it would be closer to the taskbar and make it easier to switch between tabs and applications. This is handy when I’m working on a site and I’m constantly flicking between FTP, image programs, PHP Designer, and the multiple tabs I have open on Firefox. The other advantage is that having tabs and taskbar together reduces the amount of mouse movement I need to do and that’s got to be good for the wrists.

So instead of just complaining about it, I googled it and came up with this answer for moving my Firefox tabs to the bottom.

Unfortunately I couldn’t find a suitable plugin, but I did find a simple hack that did the job.

All you need to do is add the code here to the userChrome.css file. If you don’t have or can’t find your userChrome.css file then this page will help you.

I didn’t have the css file so I had to create it in a text editor and save it to the right spot under my user profile. I restarted Firefox and straight away my tabs were at the bottom of the window.

It’s been a couple of days since I made the changes and it’s only occassionaly that I head to the top of my screen to change tabs.

If you’re not using Firefox then there will be a link at the top of the screen where you can download it for free.