Usability

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For Pale Moon, see Pale Moon status bar.

[ 1 ] was addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/235283

Provides a legacy status bar on which extensions’ status can be dragged.

Also provides optional and configurable functionality for:

  • Status Text, e.g. when your mouse is over a link, its text is displayed in the status bar.
  • A page loading Progress Meter.

    • I place this in the top location bar. It’s an unobtrusive bar overlayed at its bottom and does not displace the normal text.
  • Download Status. i.e. a download progress meter and text.

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^ 1 was addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/235283

Windows > Windows 8.1 >

This is a fairly complete HOWTO for modifying Windows 8.1 so it’s sensible and “oldschool”.

I want to remove all of that fancy new shit and make it look and work more like the earlier versions of Windows, e.g. Windows XP.

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TODO – THIS IS UNFINISHED – it needs some redoing, clarification and screenshots.
TODO – make a separate page for Gibbed

Borderlands 2 – (2012 game) >

It’s difficult to move items between characters.

Gibbed really helps solve this.

This was tested on Windows 8.1 in late 2015, and on Windows 10 in early 2016.

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