The customized elements from the Firefox. I'm just not sold on the cockpit, I may try to resticker it or paint it. 21 custom parts, 72 total parts.

This past weekend, the OSU Linux Users Group descended on a field in Oregon to create a 45,000+ square foot crop circle of Firefox. The photos and write-up are worth checking out.

 

lug.oregonstate.edu/gallery/firefox-crop-circle/mg_5560

Illustration by Steven Olds.

From Wikipedia:

 

The Red Panda, also called the Firefox or Lesser Panda (Latin name: Ailurus fulgens, "shining cat"), is a mostly herbivorous mammal, specialized as a bamboo feeder. It is slightly larger than a domestic cat (40 - 60 cm long, 3 - 6 kg weight). The Red Panda is endemic to the Himalayas in Bhutan, southern China, Pakistan, India, Laos, Nepal, and Burma. There is an estimated population of fewer than 2,500 mature individuals. Their population continues to decline due to habitat fragmentation.

 

Details:

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mk II

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM and Canon Extender EF 2x II

Exposure: 1/400 sec

Aperture: f/5.6

Focal Length: 400 mm

ISO Speed: 1600

Post Processing:

Imported into Lightroom

Cropped in Lightroom

Exported to CS3

Curves Layer for contrast adjustment

Noise reduction layer

Re-imported back to Lightroom

Added keyword metadata

Exported as 2000 x 1300 JPEG

 

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I took my youngest daughter to Bristol zoo a week and a half ago, the red pandas were amongst her favourites..... she really preferred the giant tortoise though.

A piece or two on the bottom, and this custom microspace fighter is ready for the finishing touches! The cut bricks still need some refining, and I haven't even begun on the cockpit yet. Next is sand and polish, followed by stickers and paint as needed.

 

Reference

   

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Be aware of what you do on the internet.

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Mr Fox performs at The United Church, Marsden. After the Imbolc celebrations. 2010

This is the second draft of the Firefox, and I wanted to show how I lay out the cuts for the wings using graphic art tape, of which I can only assume I have a lifetime supply.

The red panda is a small arboreal mammal. Slightly larger than a domestic cat, it has reddish-brown fur, a long, shaggy tail, and a waddling gait due to its shorter front legs. It eats mainly bamboo, but is omnivorous and may also eat eggs, birds, insects, and small mammals. It is a solitary animal, mainly active from dusk to dawn, and is largely sedentary during the day.

 

Endemic to the temperate forests of the Himalayas, the red panda ranges from Nepal in the west to China in the east. It is also found in northern India, Bhutan and northern Myanmar. Accurate population figures in the wild are difficult to find, with estimates ranging from less than 2,500 to between 16,000 and 20,000. Although it is protected by law in all countries where it lives, its numbers in the wild continue to decline mainly due to habitat loss and poaching.

 

100 Pictures

#17 - Cute

Washington & Battery

mirrored photo image

As I was heating up my sauna, that Fox like figure appeared to the sauna stove window.

Many thanks to everyone for your views, faves and supportive comments. These are always very much appreciated

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A while back, I created the above. A humble tribute to a great browser.

Crop circle art made in the shape of the iconic Firefox Logo near Portland, Oregon, as seen in Google Maps.

 

The Firefox browser is extremely popular, apparently with aliens, too!

  

The mural created in Bogota, Colombia to celebrate the Firefox OS launch there. More on Firefox OS here www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/

 

El mural creado en Bogotá, Colombia para celebrar el lanzamiento de Firefox OS allí. Aprende más sobre Firefox OS aquí: www.mozilla.org/firefox/os/

FireFox Wallpaper

Firefox

 

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deviantart:

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The Personification of Firefox, and Windows 2000, in a desktop background.

At the WTO conference in Hong Kong, December 2005.

 

These protesters were university students.

The firefox (or lesser/red panda) looks up from chomping on bamboo. It shares some behavioural and physical characteristics with the great panda, which is why they've traditionally been grouped together, but unlike its very distant relative, it does not fall into the category of 'bear'. There's been a taxonomical struggle for years to work out whether the two 'pandas' are closer to bears or raccoons. This is harder to do because no close relatives to the red panda exist, so it's tough to trace its steps of evolutionary separation from other animals.

Just a shot of some light Firefox customizing I've done. This is my Fast Dial homepage.

 

Theme:

- NASA Night Launch

Extensions (visible):

- Fast Dial

- Tiny Menu

Icons:

- "ecqlipse 2" PNG

 

Update: Thankye again, Lifehacker.

 

For details on the non-Firefox eye candy in this shot, please see the previous posts in the "Wing" series:

 

Wing (Desktop 14)

Wing Final

Firefox Logo made out of Lego brick by a Mozilla Taipei employee, displayed in the kitchen.

Anuncio del buscador propiedad de microsoft con un título peculiar: "Mozilla Firefox".

Red panda, bear cat, red fox or fire fox / Petit panda, panda roux ou panda éclatant (Ailurus fulgens)

Sagamihara, Japan

Firefox logo

Red Panda, Panda roux, Zoo de LILLE - FRANCE

Update: The complete "Enigma" suite is now available.

 

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I went back and tweaked my Firefox setup just a bit more, after hearing some good ideas in the comments of the last one.

 

Most significantly, I ditched Tiny Menu for Personal Menu, which basically does the same thing and more. The icon isn't quite as pretty as TM's globe button, but that's a small price to pay for the following:

 

- Hidden bookmarks toolbar. PM auto-hides the topmost toolbar; you can press Alt to toggle it. I simply moved my bookmarks into the menu bar; they're now easy to access, which is the whole point of the bookmarks toolbar, but I don't have to look at them. It's nice to have the chrome reduced to a single bar.

 

- Removed status bar. Again, courtesy of PM.

 

- Removed search bar. On Nabeel's suggestion, I re-added all of my search engines as bookmarklets. To search Google, for example, I just type "g [search text]"; for Wikipedia, "w [search text]". It'll take some getting used to, but it's already working pretty well, and it's definitely worth excising the extra bar, especially if I can get them working in Ubiquity.

 

As for the Rainmeter bar on the bottom of the screen: I guess I should have known people would be almost more interested in that than the Firefox stuff. I've put together a big ZIP file that contains 1) the "Enigma" and "Arcs" Samurize configs, 2) the latest "Enigma" theme in Rainmeter, with both sidebar and mock-taskbar widgets, and 3) my custom styles for CD Art Display. I'll upload that for you and post it here tomorrow afternoon.

 

Cheers, and questions welcome.

Firefox is aiming at his target with his OMD and supported by the umbrella stand.

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My photo was captioned on icanhascheezburger.com

 

icanhascheezburger.com/2007/07/07/please-i-can-has-firefox/

Disney has released an official WALL-E Firefox theme.

beautiful FireFox Wallpaper

A picture, I've made during a visit at Tierpark Berlin.

Tristan Nitot receiving the Guinness World Record certificate at the London Firefox 3 party!

embarcadero - san francisco, california

Zoom Erlebniswelt Gelsenkirchen

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Firefox chasing Internet Explorer

Illustration by Alex Woodbury for the Firefox Add-ons 2 Billion Download Celebration rockyourfirefox.com/2010/07/2-billion-downloads/

Foreword

 

First of all, a deep (and entirely unoriginal) apology for being inactive for so long. Just after last Christmas, I was hit in the face by a huge flaming chunk of Real Life, leaving virtually zero time for my pet projects. I have still been answering emails sent to kaelri+lcd@gmail.com, so if you have a question, or you need help with Enigma, please don't hesitate to send a message. I still can't guarantee a prompt reply, but it's your best bet, and it's always great to hear from people.

 

Since it's been so long, I wanted to reward your patience with a real in-depth post. With screenshots! So read on.

 

Although I've had no opportunity to work on Rainmeter stuff, I've used some of my scattered moments of free time to tweak my Firefox setup, based on experiences with Chrome, Opera, and yes, even Safari 5. The beauty of extensible browsers is that whenever one of them gets a great new feature, someone will make it available for the others in short order. This means that the most extensible, customizable browser gets a huge Darwinian advantage. And in that, Firefox is still the undisputed king.

 

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Chrome

 

Even though I've made a lot of behind-the-scenes changes, you'll notice that it doesn't look much different from my previous setup from almost two years ago. That's because I can't really simplify it any more than it is. I've even removed the back/forward and menu buttons now, so typically, the only element that's actually visible is the awesomebar on top.

 

Theme: After all this time, NASA Night Launch is still the best, cleanest, smoothest, most professional dark-colored Firefox theme on the planet. If they charged for this theme, I would pay.

 

Search: I really feel that keyword-based search bookmarks are the perfect solution to this issue of combining the search and address bars. I could never get the hang of Chrome's way of doing things - if I type "wiki lifehacker," will I search Wikipedia for "lifehacker," or will I google for "wiki lifehacker"? An action that is so basic to modern Internet living requires a method as habitual and thought-free as possible, and keywords are the answer. All I have to do is prefix whatever I type with the corresponding code:

- g: Google

- w: Wikipedia

- u: YouTube

- d: Dictionary.com

- t: Thesaurus.com

- tr: Google Translate (This will automatically translate the text which follows.)

To set this up for yourself, copy the link location of each search into a bookmark, and type the desired prefix into the "keyword" field. Thanks again to Nabeel for introducing me to this concept.

 

[Screenshot]

 

Menu: You'll notice that there's absolutely no menu bar or button in sight. That's because I'm using a feature of Personal Menu that I've previously overlooked: adding menu items to the toolbar context menu. I can now just right-click on either side of my toolbar to access the menu. I know it sounds awkward, but it's actually very easy to get used to. I use keyboard shortcuts for most things, which allowed me to condense everything I actually use into a remarkably short list.

 

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Status Bar: Gone, obviously, but replaced with the simplest, most perfect extension I've ever seen. It's called Fission, and it does exactly three things. First, it adds a loading bar to the background of the awesomebar, ala Safari. (You can also have it normal-sized on the far-right side, which I do, because otherwise it's wasted space.) Second, it displays the page status, also on the far right side. Third, when you hover over a link, it changes the address in the awesomebar to the location of the link. In other words, it uses the awesomebar to completely replace all the usefulness of the status bar, and it does so in the most elegant way imaginable.

 

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Sidebar

 

I think the most dramatic addition is the sidebar, courtesy of All-in-One Sidebar. I gave Opera another try several weeks ago, and while I ultimately switched back to Firefox, I was smitten with the sidebar that Opera uses. I found it easier to use, because it's adjacent to the edge of the screen, so it requires less aiming than the regular (horizontal) toolbars, and it saves vertical space, which, as we all know, is more important on a widescreen laptop. Two hours later, I'd found this, and now, my entire interface, other than the awesomebar, has been moved to it. AiOS is wonderful in several different ways:

 

Hide/Show: I probably would not have kept this extension if there hadn't been an easy way to hide it when I wanted to minimize my interface. Fortunately, it offers not only a grabber on the far left (barely visible, but easy to click, since I only need to flick the mouse left), but a keyboard shortcut: F4.

 

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Flexible Buttons: I only have a few buttons, but as you can see, they're stretched out to fill the full height of the window. This is great, because it gives each button an absolutely gigantic click area.

 

Sidebars: This is actually the point of AiOS. As you know, Firefox can open your Bookmarks (Ctrl-B) and History (Ctrl-H) as sidebar panels. AiOS takes this further: it lets you open Downloads, Addons, Page Info, and other tools as docked, collapsible panels. It feels good to have all of Firefox's most important dialogs in a consistent format, and if you're, say, doing a lot of tweaking in your various extensions' options, it saves a lot of time to have it permanently open.

 

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MultiPanel: AiOS adds one more sidebar of its own, called MultiPanel. This does a couple of different things. The one I love most is that you can open a second page inside the panel. It can even render the page in a mobile format, perfect for sidebar viewing. Menus at the top of the panel also offer quick access to the page source (which can be made to open in the sidebar by default) and the "about:" dialogs, including about:config (same).

 

[Screenshot (Full)]

[Screenshot (Mobile)]

 

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Fast Dial

 

Still using Fast Dial as both my homepage and new-tab page. I could save on some performance by replacing it with a homemade HTML file, but for the moment, it doesn't bother me, and it's nice for the infrequent times when I do need to move stuff around. I made the thumbnails myself in Photoshop (not that they're anything special; just jumping on the Helvetica bandwagon).

 

As you can probably tell from the contents, I'm still a heavy and devoted user of Google services, especially since I've finally taken the leap to browser-only messaging. Yes, I have given up Thunderbird (except for making IMAP backups, because I'm still paranoid), and am now using Gmail to manage four different email addresses from a single inbox, which, to Gmail's credit, is working flawlessly, thanks to a combination of forwarding, filtering, and a secure send-from-address feature. As for my feeds, I'm using Google Reader with the gorgeous Helvetireader skin, via Greasemonkey. And as they say, I haven't looked back.

 

[Screenshot (Reader)]

[Screenshot (Mail)]

 

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Bookmarks

 

It took a bit of fiddling, but I was able to add my bookmarks toolbar to the sidebar. Here's the trick: I moved all of my bookmarks into a single, unlabeled folder, so the effect is that it appears as if it's just a button, and therefore takes no horizontal space. The only (nitpicky) downside is that it doesn't really work without the "flexible buttons" option in AiOS; it expands to fill the entire sidebar vertically, which is annoying.

 

One of the things I'm asked about most often is my organization scheme. It's pretty simple, actually. Writer contains the sites where I'm an active member and contributor: forums, wikis, etc. Reader used to contain my daily reading material, before I started using feeds; now it holds my archive of saved posts, news stories and other pages, sorted by tag. (I discovered this completely by accident: Firefox lets you add a tag to any bookmark folder, where it appears as a menu.) Writer is where I save the pages that I don't have time to read. As you can imagine, this grows rapidly, and I have to cull it every few weeks. Resources is a list of useful tools that I may need during the course of the day. (Click the screenshot below to see.) After that, all that's left are a few folders dedicated to each of my currently-active projects. This method has served me well for literally years. I don't know if it qualifies as a "GTD" tactic, but I certainly recommend it.

 

[Screenshot (Reader)]

[Screenshot (Resources)]

 

Readability: This is the newest addition to my browsing suite. After Safari 5 popped up last week - although Safari for Windows is still the trashiest app ever released by a developer of Apple's standing - I was reasonably impressed with the "Reader" feature, and, naturally, I tried to see if anything like it was available for Firefox. Lo and behold, I discovered Readability. It's a bookmarklet which changes the layout of any page you throw at it, stripping all the unnecessary elements and reformatting the text to your preferred reading conditions. It's lovely. (Via Soeren Says.)

 

[Screenshot]

  

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Gestures

 

The last extension I'll be highlighting is All-in-One Gestures. Like AiOS, I grabbed this after being really pleased with the mouse gestures in Opera. I never really thought I'd like them, but it does save an awful lot of time, and of course, it's customizable, so you can define those gestures that are most intuitive to you. It's now just a quick swipe to go back, forward, to the top or bottom of the page, to refresh, to open a new tab, or load the homepage in the current tab. These are just a few of the functions it can be used to invoke. It even has a command to increment a digit in the current page's URL - in other words, scroll through multi-page articles with a flick of the wrist. I admit, this isn't as seamless as Opera's method, which not only finds the page number automatically, but activates it whenever you use "forward" on a page that's already at the end of your history. But this works. I don't have to think about it, which is the most important thing.

 

This is also a great example of how extensions can be used to enhance each other. One of AiOG's other uses is to open a "favorite bookmark." I added the Readability bookmarklet (above). So now, I can reformat any webpage to my liking with a flick of the wrist. Welcome to the future.

 

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Other Extensions

 

I won't go in-depth with these, since they're not really relevant to my browser interface like the others are. But for completion's sake, I'm also using:

- Adblock Plus

- Firefox Sync

- Lazarus Form Recovery

- Resurrect Pages

- Shooter

 

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One More Thing

 

Go to about:config. Find the key called "general.smoothScroll". Change it to true. Instant smooth-scrolling, no extensions needed. Cheers.