I like programs that put themselves in the tray when I’m not using them and, while extension exist for windows, unfortunately firefox and thunderbird don’t have native tray support. Enter alltray. Alltray is an excellent little program that allows you to minimize pretty much any program to the tray. Just run your program like so
alltray firefox
and marvel at the tray icon glory before you!
The ability to theme and extend firefox through plugins is one of the most powerful features that the browser has to offer. A lot of the addons that I install I end up deploying to more users then myself and luckily firefox has a neat way of allowing you to install additions into the global config. Just use the
–install-global-extension
or
–install-global-theme
flags. An example would be
firefox –install-global-extension /tmp/test-extension.xpi
Now every user will have test-extension installed in their own firefox instance!
