Fixing firefox quickfind

Ever since FF2 I've been hampered with the quick find. Now, its a pretty handy feature but, why the hell would I need a find where I cannot move to the next/previous result? And the fact that there are 2 shortcut keys to the same thing ' and / will essentially popup that annoying quick find. If I had to use a regular find I'd have to do a ctrl+f (I guess that is to ensure consistency with IE :/..)


Thankfully in the FF world everything is customizable. If you don't want yet another heavy weight plugin/extension to do the job, FF offers you the option to customize it yourself. Just google for what you want and you should be well on your way with it. So, thats what I did when FF2 was released and now when FF3 was released (and I waited till all my favourite extensions supported FF3 ;) before I installed it).


So, here's how you make the quick find the full featured find in FF2. Go find (or create one there is an example present usually) the userChrome.css in your $FF_PROFILE/profiles/xxxx.default/chrome folder and add the following line (courtesy http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2006/10/firefox-quick-search-as-it-should-and-used-to-be/

#FindToolbar > * {display: -moz-box; }

And for FF3

.findbar-container>* {display: -moz-box !important;}

(its in the comments section in the same page)

Down Under

I've been trying to picking up any non-technical books that are available at our office library. And Bill Bryson's Down Under was one of them. It was the first travelogue that I have read (I stick to fiction mostly) and, I enjoyed it. It turned out to be a witty, whimsical guide to Australia.

Australia is one of the most dangerous countries in the world! mostly because there are more things in Australia that could kill you than you have time to read about. Thats something I did not know about Australia. But, wait there's lots more. A prime minister goes for a walk and decides to go for a little swim and disappears. Now, why haven't any hollywood directors exploited that plot for some conspiracy theory movie?

No book about Australia can be complete without dealing about the native aborigines. The happen to be the longest surviving culture passed down unchanged for centuries. The magic of Uluru (Ayers rock). The weird ways in which the Australian government tried to bring aborigines into mainstream society, the most shocking of which is when it abducted aboriginal children to train them to be responsible citizens of white society.