Even Easier del.icio.us Links

In a previous post, I noted that you can use RSS Digest to embed your del.icio.us links into your web page. It turns out that del.icio.us offers its own JavaScript facility to do that - they call it linkrolls. Once you're logged into del.icio.us, go to http://del.icio.us/doc/feeds/js and use the form there to customize the JavaScript that you can embed into your web page. Why do I prefer it over RSS Digest?

• No logging into RSS Digest
• No delay in the linkroll output when you update your links

Mac OSX vertical scrolling w/ Firefox

The 2-finger trackpad scrolling on the new iBook causes vertical scrolling to jump really fast on Firefox. The solution is to use a custom number of lines per scroll rather than the default system number of lines. The changes in about:config are:

• mousewheel.withnokey.numlines => 3
• mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines => false

Play around with the mousewheel.withnokey.numlines values. To me, 3 seems closest to Safari's behavior but your mileage may vary.

Mac OSX horizontal scrolling w/ Firefox

By default, the horizontal 2-finger scrolling feature on the new iBook trackpad causes Firefox to move backwards and forwards in the history list - quite annoying. This Mac OSX Hints page tells you the Firefox about:config preferences to set to change that. In short:

• mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action => 0
• mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.sysnumlines => true