Enthusiast Answer My Searches reader, Jody writes in with this Firefox tip:

For some absurd reason (I believe PDF downloader - now incompatible with Firefox 2.0.0.6) all of my Firefox extensions stopped working. Upon opening the add-ons screen, every extension said “This add-on will be installed when Firefox is restarted.”

The simple solution is to close Firefox, and delete the following file. Everything should be fine after that. C:\Documents and Settings\[windows user]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[PROFILE NAME]\extensions.cache

Thanks for the tip, Jody!

Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as win32, Firefox at 4:42 PM MST

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Update: Here is a bookmarklet to turn on edit page mode. I couldn’t get the bookmarklet to turn it off to work though.

Edit Page Mode On

This cool javascript that lets you edit any web page. Just copy and paste into your address bar:

javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0

To cancel EDIT MODE enter:

javascript:document.body.contentEditable='false'; document.designMode='on'; void 0

I discovered this trick in this forum post.

Here’s what I used this for today, by the way:

Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Other, Firefox at 11:01 AM MST

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I’m curious how the acronym and abbr tags compare in how much text of the title they show when one hovers the mouse over them. So I figured I’d post them here and find out.

When you hove your mouse over the elements below the title should say:
It’s not often that I get to write a post and answer a question by writing said post. How unusual this event is.

Acronym Tag
TTT

Abbr Tag
TTT

and just for comparison let’s try the a tag:
A Tag
TTT

Well my result in Firefox 1.5.0.8 is that all three show the same amount of text:
It’s not often that I get to write a post and answer a question by writing said post. Ho..

What results do you I.E. users get on mousing over these?

I was just interested in finding a quick way to make a “tooltips” equivalent appear on a webpage. I guess if I want longer text I’d have to make some kind of javascript box show up on the mouse-over event or whatever …

Tags: acronym, abbr, acrynom, anchor, title, tooltip, mouseover

Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Other, Firefox, Idle Curiosities at 4:14 PM MST

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My friend, if a little cursor jumps all around the words on your screen when you use the arrow keys in Firefox, then you may have caret browsing mode turned on. Don’t panic.

Just hit your F7 key while in Firefox. It’s that simple! What it does is toggles caret browsing mode. When that mode is turned on, using the arrow keys and the pageup/pagedown keys will move the little caret/cursor around the text in the browser window instead of scrolling the page like you probably want.

Yeah, so somehow this mode got toggled for you. In Ubuntu it may be the default, at least for me.

Here’s where I found this answer.

Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Firefox at 12:37 AM MST

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This MozillaZine Profile-in-use article will tell you everything you need to know to solve this.

Note: In my case using Ubuntu Dapper I located these “locked” files in this directory:
/home/chiefinnovator/.mozilla/firefox/q5ocj63r.default
More generally that pattern is:
~/.mozilla/firefox/[some random looking letters.default]

Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Firefox, Ubuntu at 10:47 PM MST

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