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Close button missing from first tab in Firefox 3.5

By Surferbill - Last updated: Saturday, July 11, 2009

I just upgraded to Firefox 3.5 and while it’s still fairly familiar, there are a couple of things that have changed that aren’t to my taste. The main one that bugs me is with the tab close button. In Firefox 3.5, when you only have one tab open it doesn’t have a close button. You [...]

How Do I Get People To Follow Me On Twitter?

By Surferbill - Last updated: Tuesday, February 10, 2009

It started off with Jonathan Ross talking to Stephen Fry about it on his show, and suddenly every man, woman and child in the UK is using Twitter.* Since then, celebs like Phillip Schofield, Andi Peters and Chris Moyles have joined the party, broadcasting their Twitter names on TV and radio so people can ‘follow’ [...]

Firefox: Open a Search in a New Tab

By Surferbill - Last updated: Monday, May 5, 2008

Revision3‘s Tekzilla has a great daily tip on how to open a search in a new tab in Firefox: open a new tab type about:config in the address bar and press return in the filter bar, enter browser.search.openintab double click the entry in the list to set it to true restart Firefox for it to [...]