How to teach an old Fox new tricks: Firefox Hack
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Firefox, unlike IE has never had its share of good luck from the beginning. For example, the small element blazing Fox coiling around the world that idly sits on your desktop does nothing but to link to the actual executable. Here's a small trick to pimp up your otherwise insignificant Firefox shortcut icon.
The hack involved merging a small .reg (windows registry file) file to your windows registry. This would create a Firefox icon on your desktop with some handy option under the right click menu (featured on the screenshot above).
Download : Firefox Desktop Icon Registry Hack Pack
There are two registry files inside the zip archive.Simply run Firefox-On.reg and refresh the desktop to enable the icon, and run Firefox-Off.reg to remove it.
Points of note: If you've installed Firefox in a drive other than C:\ , you must edit the Firefox-On.reg file. Just replace every " C: " with the drive letter which holds your Firefox installation.
Thanks to Collin Grady for the original idea.
Tags: mozilla, software, internet, browser, google, web, extension, internet explorer, microsoft, extensions, linux, vista, mac, security, apple, freeware, cpu
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sami on 8/23/2007
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