I love how it lives in my menu bar so I don’t have to fumble around when I need it. Absolutely the handiest way to mount a share available by ssh or sftp. Built to wrap MacFuse.
Firefox 2′s new feature of handling RSS with a HTML Preview can be frustrating if you frequently need to see the raw content of an RSS feed.
To disable it and get Firefox 1.x’s behavior back, you can replace the FeedConverter.js file with this modified version. (This is for: Firefox 2.0.0.1) I know it’s terrible to put this here, but it’s such a pain for some of us that I’ll host it here for now for the lazy. Hopefully in a future version it’ll be made an option.
Just original version of the file that you need to overwrite is at /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/components/FeedConverter.js
If you aren’t feeling lazy or you want to edit it yourself, just take a look at line 196 in FeedConverter to disable the preview mechanism. Thankfully the Firefox developers do a great job commenting their code. Look for the if block under the comment “show the feed page…” and change it from “if (result.doc && …” to “if (false && result.doc && …”.
Update (2-6-08): Just made the editing instructions a bit clearer. Also as an alternative to mucking with Firefox code, take a look at Mihai’s proxy below in the comments.
What the heck to do these symbols mean??? C’mon people! For an OS touted for useability, I can’t imagine why they would use confusing symbols like these. At Leas the 2nd glyph is on my keyboard. What are we supposed to think about the first one? Is it a 2 headed snake? perhaps its something like a fork?
A coworker and I wrote a flurry of Javascript recently for Firefox and IE. Soon afterwards I switched my work machine to a G4 Powerbook and I wanted to make our code run in Safari. I came across this funny bug.
Normally, this code:
Date(“10/31/2005 09:30:00 AM”);
gives you a nice Date object initialized to the date you’d expect. For some reason Safari freaks out when it sees this and gives you the 1901 default date.