One of the things I love about Google Chrome is that it shows all the tabs at once – even if it has to get really squishy. By default, Firefox limits them to 100px wide, then starts scrolling. Since Firefox 2.0, you’ve been able to use browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to disable this. As of Firefox 4.0b2, however, this functionality has been moved to userChrome.css. Add the following CSS to your userChrome.css to make it act the same as Chrome:

.tabbrowser-tab[fadein]:not([pinned]) {
    min-width: 1px !important;
}

Another great feature of Chrome is having the tabs in the title bar, as it reduces wasted space. Again, you can get the same functionality very easily with Firefox 4, by adding the following to your userChrome.css:

#appmenu-button-container {
    position: fixed !important;
}
 
#appmenu-button {
    padding: 3px 18px 3px 18px !important;
    margin-left:3px !important;
    background-color: rgba(54, 121, 166, 0.2) !important;
}
 
#toolbar-menubar {
    margin: -25px 100px 5px 100px;
}
 
#navigator-toolbox[tabsontop="true"] #TabsToolbar {
    margin: 0 125px 0 95px;
}

Note that I’ve tweaked this for Windows 7 – you may need to alter the values for other platforms. Feel free to post your tweaks in the comments!

As a bonus, here’s a screenshot of these tweaks in action – lets play “guess which websites Gary has open”.

UPDATE: 2010-09-08: Firefox 4 beta 5 changed how this worked a little bit, so I’ve updated the userChrome.css code.

To that end, I strongly recommend all WordPress users install Akismet, and the DoFollow plugin. All it does is disable the nofollow attribute on external links in the comments. With the help of Akismet, you can safely do this without providing assistance to spammers.

And to everyone who has contributed to my blog in the past, my apologies for giving you your proper due. That has now been remedied.

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="width:480px; height:385px;" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/p1QMoQ3jbjc">
    <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/p1QMoQ3jbjc" />
</object>

You just need to replace the two URLs with the one for your video, and set the appropriate width/height. YouTube’s defaults are 320×265, 425×344, 480×385 and 640×505.

There you have it! It’s a simple as that. And to prove it works, here’s the same code from above:

All up, a good variety from some of Australia’s microbreweries. Particularly worth mentioning is Holgate’s Temptress Dark Ale, which is probably the best chocolate beer I’ve had. Buckley’s Beers also gets a second mention, for making my two favourite beers for the night, though the Original Ale just beats the Pilz Lager.

• For iPhone/iPod: WPtouch. Lots of options, looks good on the iPhone browser.
• For all other mobiles: WP-viewMobile. This one is particularly handy, because it gives you the option to define the user agent strings it should activate for. To make it play nicely with WPtouch, I just had to remove the iPhone and iPod entries.

For both of these, setting them up was as simple as turning them on. I also added the various search engine mobile crawlers to WP-viewMobile. At the moment, the list of user agent strings I have are: Googlebot-Mobile, Y!J-SRD/1.0, msnbot-mobile, MSMObot. If anyone knows any others, please let me know.

So now, if you desperately want to check my site from the road, you can read it a bit easier on your mobile screen.

To give a brief description of the problems I had:

• Apache is horribly slow. To the point that some RSS readers were having problems subscribing to my blog.
• Apache setup is weird, and causes all sorts of problems.
• FTP access is mind-boggling slow, only allows one connection at a time, and at one point, wouldn’t let me download directories.
• MySQL is sickeningly slow.
• More expensive than better hosts.
• Really bad web interface for site management.

Now, I’m happily away from them. Never again.