Alright, I said I would talk about MinimizetoTray so here it is. At work, I always have to have Thunderbird and Firefox open. It was taking up some valuable taskbar space, so I went hunting for a way to minimize things to the lower-right "tray".

Firefox
1. Click on the green "Install Now" and follow the instructions.
2. Restart Firefox as it prompts.
3. Go to "Tools > Add-ons > MinimizeToTray > Options" to minimize to tray automatically.

Thunderbird
1. It is the SAME LINK as before, except you need to right-click and "Save As..." the file to your computer.
2. Also download this .xpi file.
3. Open Thunderbird and go to "Tools > Add-ons > Install". Find the .xpi file you saved. First do the MinimizeToTray, restart Thunderbird, and repeat steps for MinimizeToTray Enhancer.
4. Go to "Tools > Add-ons > MinimizeToTray OR MinimizeToTray Enhancer > Options" to set preferences.

And as a bonus, I'll tell you how to minimize iTunes to your taskbar! (Note: I am using an older version, but instructions should still be the same.)
1. Load iTunes.
2. Go to "Edit > Preferences" (or hit Ctrl+,)
3. Go to the "Advanced" tab.
4. At the bottom, check both "Show iTunes icon in system tray" and "Minimize iTunes window to system tray".

Enjoy!

PS: Don't forget to close out of these windows! Having them run in the background does take up a load of memory if you are trying to do other things (ie: watch videos or play games).

It is not entirely necessary, but in my workplace, these windows (especially TBird) always need to be open. I am also very anal about taskbar "real-estate", so it's just a way for me to keep semi-organized chaos. It was nice being able to have Photoshop and Flash 8 in my taskbar, and not being too cluttered with my browser or mail client.

You can customize it so that it will only minimize to tray when you: hit Ctrl+Shift+M, when you minimize, or when you close the window. I think that minimizing on close is twice as much work, but at least they have the feature. One downside, however, is that I cannot alt-tab to these windows while they're in the tray. It's Windows, however, not Firefox.



Edit: It was also nice to have my current music player (from projectplaylist), kept minimized to tray. I have no reason to look at it unless I wanna add music.

Top of my head, there is no easy way to add things to right-click.

To change the "Answers.com" result to something else, you need to change the search engine in the upper right (to the right of the address bar). To add more search engines to that menu, go here.

UAH just switched to Blackboard and for some reason Blackboard doesn't work with Firefox. It was bad because at first Blackboard told UAH to use Firefox with Blackboard. My friends and I notice that the discussion doesn't work unless one user is using IE or it works fine as long as you use IE. But what was really bad is that we just took a test on Blackboard and some of the people that used Firefox didn't see the equations for some of the problems. Needles to say it caused a riot and my prof is not happy with Blackboard at all. So, my prof called Blackboard and Blackboard said that they meant for us to use IE. Blackboard says that they know about the problem with Firefox but are not in any rush to fix it. They told us to just use IE when using Blackboard for now. Sorry Drew but this time you need to use IE.

I'll try to keep you updated as I learn about Blackboard and Firefox because, like you, many people want to use Firefox with Blackboard so my prof is keeping us informed with the situation.

Hey.. earlier when i was on my laptop i went to start firefox and it said it was installing updates, and whenever it was finished the box just closed and now i can't open firefox anymore.

it's not a really big deal - i can still use internet explorer.. but i was just wondering if there's anything i should try to do with it before re-installing firefox..

but anyway.. i'm gonna get running to chinatown.. so i'll ttyl! thanks

list of things lauren did before re-installing firefox:

cooked nick a chicken sandwich and dessert
realized that nick never gave her his address so she just ate them herself
did something with hard drives and goat pr0n
=P

I think you found out that your Windows was corrupted. Please let us know when you get things fixed. You likely need a reinstall or to load up a restore point (Dell offers a restore to factory settings on their CD).