Firefox "Road Sign" Theme
06-12-07, 07:44 PM
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Firefox "Road Sign" Theme
If you use the Firefox browser and want to be even more of a transportation infrastructure geek than you already are, I found a Firefox "theme" which replaces the default buttons with those that look like standard road signs, like turning arrows and stop signs. I especially like the Home icon. You can download it here. Enjoy!
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06-12-07, 08:36 PM
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Tangentially, I've been really feeling the lack of a vocabulary to define paved surfaces. Asphalt vs cement is basic of course, but I learned just chipseal (I heard the word a while ago, but just this week I learned to spot it and differentiate it from asphalt). It seems like bike commuters and pavement should be like eskimos and snow, and I feel the lack.
06-12-07, 08:49 PM
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Oh, heck yes. For those of you who do use firefox and didn't know, firefox has dozens of these themes. Click on "tools" then go to "add-ons". At the bottom of the pop-up menu, click on "get themes" and it will direct you to firefox's theme page. Again, they have tons of them, just make sure that you download the ones which are compatible with your version, as the other's may not work. Firefox rocks!
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Novel concept.
[grumpy rant alert]
As someone who feels that road signs are one of the largest blights on out landscape, the last thing I was to do is see more of them.
[grumpy rant alert]
As someone who feels that road signs are one of the largest blights on out landscape, the last thing I was to do is see more of them.
06-13-07, 05:18 AM
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I have to say, though, this is one of the more original themes I've seen. Many seem like they just stick in some basic uncreative buttons, make a whole bunch of variations that just change background the color, and call it a "theme family". Another original one, which I've got on our family computer, is "Scribblies_Plain".
06-13-07, 05:40 PM
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Call me old-school, but I always set FF to text only toolbars.
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Originally Posted by JeffS
Novel concept.
[grumpy rant alert]
As someone who feels that road signs are one of the largest blights on out landscape, the last thing I was to do is see more of them.
[grumpy rant alert]
As someone who feels that road signs are one of the largest blights on out landscape, the last thing I was to do is see more of them.
06-13-07, 06:44 PM
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Originally Posted by bigbenaugust
Call me old-school, but I always set FF to text only toolbars.
Haven't gone to text only, I have mine set to small icons tho to reduce the toolbar size, so I have more browsing real estate.
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Bah, Firefox and modern icons are for losers.
Internet Explorer 1.0 is where it's at.
Internet Explorer 1.0 is where it's at.
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D'oh! Busted!
(Firefox is on this machine, and if I really wanted to start trouble, I'd have started it.)
(Firefox is on this machine, and if I really wanted to start trouble, I'd have started it.)
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Originally Posted by bigbenaugust
Call me old-school, but I always set FF to text only toolbars.
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Oh yeah? I'm even more old school... I telnet into port 80 and manually issue HTTP commands!
06-13-07, 08:13 PM
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Originally Posted by pedalMonger
Haven't gone to text only, I have mine set to small icons tho to reduce the toolbar size, so I have more browsing real estate.
Even on my 1920x1200 23" Apple Cinema Display hooked up to my Win2k box at home.
As to text-only browsers, I was a big fan of w3m for a few years. Lynx doesn't cut it anymore.
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06-14-07, 06:39 AM
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Oh my god... Lynx didn't cut it 10 yrs ago, but I kept trying, just out of curiosity...
06-14-07, 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by HardyWeinberg
Oh my god... Lynx didn't cut it 10 yrs ago, but I kept trying, just out of curiosity...
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Links supports some JavaScript, too.
And, in a weird twist, Links is a text-mode browser that supports graphics.
/me has Links for two reasons. #1, when I just want to fire up a terminal and check something, #2, when X is broken and I need to find out how to fix something.
And, in a weird twist, Links is a text-mode browser that supports graphics.
/me has Links for two reasons. #1, when I just want to fire up a terminal and check something, #2, when X is broken and I need to find out how to fix something.
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I still run my own dialup bbs on my old Intel 8086 pc with kickass hercules graphics adapter and 2400 baud speed modem and whopping 1mb of ram. Oh and we're talking DoS.
Lol
I remember Links and the whole mainframe stuff back in college. Goodness it's been 10 years since I was in college... and they had cut out much of the mainframe stuff by then. But it was amazing the trip between dialup bbs's and the internet taking off and where we are at today.
Oh and just to be real... I use Opera. Firefox tends to crash a lot on the pc's I use. I rarely use IE anymore.
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I remember Links and the whole mainframe stuff back in college. Goodness it's been 10 years since I was in college... and they had cut out much of the mainframe stuff by then. But it was amazing the trip between dialup bbs's and the internet taking off and where we are at today.
Oh and just to be real... I use Opera. Firefox tends to crash a lot on the pc's I use. I rarely use IE anymore.
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8086? Why, I ran a webserver, a RealAudio server, and two VNC servers on a Commodore 64, and then posted the link to Slashdot!
And it didn't get slashdotted!
(Note: I did not do that. However, one guy actually DID.)
And it didn't get slashdotted!
(Note: I did not do that. However, one guy actually DID.
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Whippersnapper. Caves hadn't been gouged out of solid rock yet when I was growing up.
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I'm wondering about the reactions of those people on this forum who have never used anything but the Internet Exploiter/Exploder that came with their computer!
They must be thinking WTH?