New and improved
I guess that Mozilla released another version of Firebird recently. This one bumps the major version number, so it must be all kinds of better. For example, “Extensions” are now lumped in with themes and called “Add-ons,” and none of the ones that you had before work because extension developers are tired of trying to figure out all the dumb crap that Mozilla pointlessly changed. Well, one of those developers took a half-hearted shot at an upgrade: rmannoy 1.1.2 is now available. This one has actual code changes, so you can’t just modify your local copy of the install.rdf and expect things to work. I’ve updated update.rdf, so using the auto-update thing might work.
And now for a handy Firefox tip. You know how when you go to install an extension, it won’t let you do anything for five seconds, and if you lose the window’s focus the timer starts over again? Man, that’s annoying. It’s like Schilly wrote the extension installer or something. Anyhow, I was going to try making that window less annoying and adding that as a feature to rmannoy, but I found that there’s already a way to disable the timer and just let you freaking install whatever you clicked on. In about:config, set security.dialog_enable_delay to 0. Apparently annoyance is an essential element to a secure system. Enjoy.