Quote of the day

George Edward Woodberry:

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

Firefox 3 tweak

I finally figured out how to do this. Well I wanted to open the search results in a new tab whenever I searched for anything using the Google search box (next to the address bar). I thought that it was part of some add-on I had before but I could not remember it. Eventually, I started looking into the Firefox config and found that a little tweak alters the behaviour of Firefox.

Right, so what you have to do is type “about:config” in the Firefox address bar and it will display a list of all the Firefox configurations. Actually it should show you a warning message just say yes to it. Now what you have to do is filter for “browser.search.openintab” in the filter box. So just type this in or copy paste from here. It would filter as you type so once you have finished typing the whole thing it will just display this option. Double click on it to set it to true and restart your browser. Now go and search for something and you do not have to open a new tab for it. It will display the serch results in a new tab. I wonder why was this option not set to true by default.

I am pleased that I figured this one out.

Response from Netvibes team

In response to my rant, Francois from Netvibes team replied and suggested to use a url to reset the cache

I am assuming that it be used after one has moved stuff around to reset the cache and commit the recent changes.

Quote of the day

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896):

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Netvibes - painful experience

I have been using Netvibes Feed Reader for over a year now and never had any issues with it. I have enjoyed the convenience of keeping an eye on the popular blogs and feeds.

But it all changed a couple of days ago…I was feeling a bit adventurous and decided to move some of the feeds around with an intention to organise it in a better way. I added new tabs (groups) and moved stuff around. I refreshed the browser after finishing the rearrangement and none of the recent changes were saved for some reason. All the feeds were categorised in the “Lost and Found” section and all other sections that I had created just disappeared.

I was absolutely perplexed and I had to go through all my feeds again and sort them out into different categories…let me tell you this it was painful and tedious. Well I got home and opened up my Netvibes and there is a whole list of the tabs that I created in the afternoon along with the old ones for some reason. so I had to delete the duplicate sections and sort it out again. I have not been back to work yet and I just hope that it is not all messed up again.

I have sent my feedback to the Netvibes team and I hope they would fix this issue or atleast let me know if it was a user error.