Fix the Mac Firefox v2 Drag-To-Toolbar Bug
One of the things about Firefox 2.0 for the Mac that bugs me (and only the Mac version--the Linux version is not afflicted by this) is that when you attempt to drag and drop a link from the URL bar to the bookmark bar, a tooltip saying "Drag and drop this icon to create a link to this page" pops up that actually gets in the way of being able to drop the link. An article at LifeHacker points out a way to fix the problem--by disabling browser.chrome.toolbar_tips in about:config, but this pretty much using a tactical nuke to kill a mosquito. It disables ALL tooltips, EVERYWHERE, including the useful ones. I use CookieSafe and Adblock Plus, which have useful tooltips to tell you about the page. Other people use a weather plugin that shows details in a tooltip. Those crafty people who put title= attributes in links are unseen.
I have found a better way, but it involves some shell commands, so isn't for everyone. First quit Firefox and run the following commands.
fibonacci:~ brian$ cd /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/chrome/ fibonacci:/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/chrome brian$ mkdir tmp fibonacci:/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/chrome brian$ cd tmp fibonacci:/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/chrome/tmp brian$ unzip -q ../en-US.jar fibonacci:/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/chrome/tmp brian$ vim locale/browser/browser.dtd
You don't have to use vi or vim to edit the file. Any text editor will do. You just have to find this line:
<!ENTITY proxyIcon.tooltip "Drag and drop this icon to create a link to this page">
...and change it to this:
<!ENTITY proxyIcon.tooltip "">
Then follow it up with these commands (to back up the chrome file, then store your changes):
fibonacci:/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/chrome/tmp brian$ cp ../en-US.jar ../en-US.jar.BACKUP fibonacci:/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/chrome/tmp brian$ zip -r -0 ../en-US.jar *
And that's it. It works like a charm
