Web - Goodies slowly growing and improving !

I haven't been posing anything on my blog lately and somehow I felt that I need to update you visitors and theme users out there.

Not much work has been put in theme development lately. Sure there are some things which I need to work on but for the last 2 weeks or something I've been focusing on my website http://web-goodies.comli.com/ With it I'm trying to collect video tutorials from the internet and put them in one place. Hopefully these tutorials will help you learn how to create your own website or improve you web-design or image editing skills.

If you have visited before you'll notice the difference. Each page has more content, new tutorials have better description, I've added a comments section (users can use their tweeter, facebook or google + accounts to comment), share buttons, floating menus, improved backgrounds and much more. 

Design before :
http://web-goodies.comli.com/lessons/gimptuts/gimp-lesson-1.html

Design now :
http://web-goodies.comli.com/lessons/csstuts/css-lesson-1.html

As written in the title this site is slowly growing. It has 64 tutorials and nearly 100 pages. I am almost done with the updates and after that I'll probably pay more attention on theme development again. I need to fix few things in Orange and Pink Fox.

That's all for now. Be sure to check the site :  http://web-goodies.comli.com/
Have a nice day! : )

Custom themes and Personas at the same time is possible!

I haven't been posting anything here last week but now I have found something which may sound interesting to you. I've been searching Firefox stuff on the internet a lot lately. I love visiting mozillazine.org .People are friendly and there's always someone who can help you when you have problems with Firefox, extensions or theme development ect.

While reading the theme development forums I've come across an interesting article called: Custom themes and Personas at the same time is possible!

When I first saw the title I said to myself this probably requires some Firefox modifications but I was surprised to see that  a developer with a nick name David.Vincent has developed and add-on which allows you to use a custom theme and a personas skin at the same time. I tried it and it works. There's only one tiny problem. It requires multiple restarts. Anyway the add-on is called Toggle Persona and you can download it from the Mozilla add-ons site or by clicking here : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-persona/

Here's how to use it :

This simple add-on install a button in the add-on bar.
With this button you can enable/disable Personas with one click (Grey : Persona disable - Blue : Persona enable).
This add-on works with default Firefox theme and all other themes (if they support Personas).

Instructions for personas for all themes :
* Choose a Personas in the galery (or in your themes manager if you already have downloaded personas)
* Restart Firefox.
* Select your theme in the theme manager.
* Restart Firefox.
* Enable Persona by clicking on the add-on bar button ('P' button icon must be blue).
* Restart Firefox.
* That's all. You have now a new style theme.
If you want to test an other persona, you must repeat all the steps from the beginning.

This add-on avoid to enter in the 'about:config' and toggle the preference 'lightweightThemes.isThemeSelected' to true. For novice users it is better, and confirmed users will save time.

If you have no Persona in the Themes Manager, the button will stay blue even if you click on it. It is not a bug.

If you don't want Persona display just for a moment, disable it with the button. Restart Firefox.
When you want to come back to the Persona, no need to reinstall it. You have just to enable Persona with the button. Restart Firefox.
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As you can see the developer has given very detailed information about how to use Toggle Persona. I tried it and everything works great! Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-persona/ ,give the add-on a try and give the developer credit (write a review or something) .He did a really really nice job. It's not easy to create add-ons, trust me! : )

Download Toggle Persona from : HERE!

New version of Bloody Red waiting for the editors review.

New version of Bloody Red waiting for the editors review!

Version 7.0.10.10.11 of Bloody Red includes the following changes :
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*Added two new awesome Bloody Red designs
*Fixed bug with nav-buttons in add-ons manager 
*Added Firefox 9 support

The two new designs : Bloody Red pattern and Bloody Red rainbow (images below) can be activated by adding these lines of code to your userChrome.css document :

@import url("chrome://browser/skin/skins/skin3.css");  for Bloody Red pattern

@import url("chrome://browser/skin/skins/skin4.css"); for Bloody Red rainbow


If you want to learn more about the lines of code, how to edit or use the userChrome.css document and other Bloody Red sub-skins please visit this page : http://firefox-goodies.net63.net/sub-skins/bloody-red-sub-skins.html
There I've given more information about that. Hope you like the new sub-skins. Have a nice day! : )

Bloody Red pattern

Bloody Red rainbow

 

Over 50 tutorials on web-goodies!

You all probably know that I develop themes for Firefox. That's cool and all but at the same time I have been working on my website called Web Goodies. I have uploaded over 50 tutorials on it. The idea of this site is to collect video tutorials from the internet and put them in one place so that you can learn or improve you web design or image editing skills! : ) This is a perfect opportunity to thank all youtube users who gave me permission to upload their videos. The site has html, css, javascript, jquery, sony vegas, photoshop, gimp and more tutorials. Soon I'll start a php tutorials series.

Hope you like what I'm doing. Leave a comment if you have something to ask or just want to give your opinion. Link to Web-Goodies : http://web-goodies.comli.com/

Happy holidays Mozilla! Chrome beats Firefox on December?

I have been following this whole who's the most popular browser statics thing and recently I have come across something interesting. The internet is full with topics such as Chrome beats Firefox on December 2011. Here's a popularity diagram which shows how many people worldwide use IE, Firefox, Chome and other browsers.

I've taken the text in italics from a topic on the internet :
If you’ll check statcounter’s global stat graph, you can see the plotted green line (chrome) is growing steadily for the previous years hitting 23.6% share (we’re talking the percentage of worldwide users here) while Firefox continues to dip. If the projections are correct, we should expect Google’s browser to beat Firefox on December having a share of 26.6% while Mozilla Firefox at 25.3%.

However, it’s not clear though if this chart represents the totality of all Chrome versions and Firefox releases including 3.5. Then again, this is not really a cause of surprise since Chrome already beat the orange browser in UK last July.

If you can still remember, we reported on December 2009 that Firefox 3.5 is the most popular browser at that time. But within a span of two years, it’s bound to lose its spot to number 3 already. Obviously, everyone’s wondering if there’s a chance Chrome will beat Internet Explorer staying ahead on the lead at 41% in the near future.

We’ll see! 


The text in italics has been taken from http://pinoytutorial.com but you can find the same articles all over the internet.


My opinion is that Mozilla should do something about this. They should stop coping design of other browsers and come up with something fresh and new, something which nobody has experienced yet. I don't like Chrome because it's way too simple looking and it is not that fast compared to Firefox as well. On the other hand in Firefox you can change the appearance however you like. Tabs on top - 2 clicks and bam. Tiny menu - 2 clicks and bam you have it.

What's your opinion on this? Will Chrome be the 2nd most popular browser after IE? Leave your interesting responses in the comments below! : )

Firefox 10 Nightly Released

After they released Firefox 7.0.1 Mozilla released Firefox 10 nightly. Firefox 8 moved to Beta channel, and Firefox 9 moved to Aurora channel. Firefox 10 has already landed to the nightly channel of Firefox. The most recent nightly build version is Firefox 10.0a1 (alpha).

Compared to Firefox 9 Firefox 10 nightly has nothing new for now besides the version number change. Firefox team has a long list of new features for the Firefox 10. Some of them currently being considered by the team are : Add-ons default to compatible, plugincheck functionality in add-on manager panel, improved display of location bar results etc. Firefox Mobile may get new features like Text Readability, Flash support (on Android platform) etc. 

Along with these features, the final version of Firefox 10 will bring many new tools for developers like Console Object Completion, more powerful and integrated Code Editor, Style Inspector and Editor. 

Firefox 8 beta short review!

Been using Firefox 8 beta for 24 hours. Here are my first impressions!

Compared to Firefox 7 Firefox 8 beta doesn't feel faster. It actually feels the same as Firefox 7. Maybe there are some small improvements when it comes to speed but when I was using Firefox 6 beta it felt much faster than Firefox 5. Same goes for Firefox 7. When I was using the beta it felt much quicker than Firefox 6.

The are no design changes as well. Maybe mozilla are focusing more on performance rather than design. They are probably fixing known issues and stuff. The new and cool thing I've noticed is the new tab animation when you have 3-4 or more open tabs. If you want to move the active tab left or right it doesn't drop like it used to be. It moves the inactive tab. It's a bit hard to explain. You have to see it yourself. Another thing I've seen on the internet is that it's faster on 64bit machines. I'm running a 32bit windows but if you have 64bit machine and you feel any difference in performance in Firefox 8 beta let us know by sharing your thoughts in the comments below!