ForexWatcher is a firefox add-on (extension) for watching forex rate and gold price on your Firefox status bar. It has following features:

• Rotate among the major currencies exchange rates and gold price and daytime change percentage
• Display only selected group of currencies
• Up/down change indicated in red and green color
• Alert of new high/low price

Install ForexWatcher

* If you cannot install the addon directly, right click the link and choose “save as” and then drag and drop the xpi file into Firefox to get it installed

Usage

Internet Explorer

document.all.div_id.style.JS_property_reference = “new_CSS_property_value”;

Older Netscape’s (4.7 and earlier)

document.div_id.JS_property_reference = “new_CSS_property_value”;

Netscape 6.0+ and Opera (and other Mozilla)

document.getElementById(div_id).style.JS_property_reference = “new_CSS_property_value”;

Note the use of parentheses instead of square brackets in newer Mozilla’s “getElementById()” reference.

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This article presents a little-known use of XUL (Mozilla’s user-interface language) and shows how to take advantage of its superior performance and accessibility over HTML while maintaining cross-browser compatibility. I will illustrate this using a proof-of-concept JavaScript library that can render UI widgets using either XUL or DHTML.

If possible, you will want to open this page in Firefox. The side-by-side examples below will not make much sense otherwise.

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• Firefox private build (MMX/SSE/SSE2/SSE3)
• Pigfoot’s builds (MMX/3DNow/SSE/SSE2)

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Swiftfox is an optimized build of Mozilla Firefox. Swiftfox has builds for both AMD and Intel processors. The 2.0.0.7 release is based on Firefox 2.0.0.7.

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XULRunner applications may have situation where they wish to open a URI in the default browser. This will often be an HTTP or HTTPS URI, but can use any scheme for which an external handler exists. This can be done using the nsIExternalProtocolService interface:

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WebRunner is a simple XULRunner based browser that hosts web applications without the normal web browser user interface. WebRunner is based on a concept called Site Specific Browsers (SSB). An SSB is an application with an embedded browser designed to work exclusively with a single web application. It doesn’t have the menus, toolbars and accoutrement’s of a normal web browser. Some people have called it a “distraction free browser” because none of the typical browser chrome is used. An SSB also has a tighter integration with the OS and desktop than a typical web application running through a web browser.

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