March 12, 2004

Sort Extensions by Name or Category

I just added a neat feature to the extensions listings on Firefox Help and Thunderbird Help that makes it possible to choose the sorting of the table of contents. While working on this, I got to learn some more about PHP, cron jobs, wget and the fact that Unix seems to accept just about any character in a file name. :)

Posted by djst at March 12, 2004 5:52 PM
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For fun, name a file:

/*.*

Now try to delete it.

Posted by: Alex Bishop at March 12, 2004 8:24 PM

Neat!

I have a question regarding the Firefox themes page - sorry if you're asked this many times before. When is it coming back?

Posted by: Cheah Chu Yeow at March 13, 2004 1:22 AM

Argh! Thanks Alex!

I can't believe I actually tried to do that! I blame it on the fact it's almost 2.30am and I've been working on this project for far too many hours now. Still, at least I wasn't silly enough to try to do it as root. :-)

Martin

Posted by: Martin at March 13, 2004 3:18 AM

The Firefox Help page still says "cannot write to file" when trying to switch. The Thunderbird-page seems to do fine (at least does not have that warning on top of the page).

Posted by: Martijn at March 13, 2004 9:05 AM