// ==UserScript==
// @name           imagehost redirect
// @namespace      imagehost redirect
// @description    Replaces all primary image host links with mirror links
// @include        http://*.domain.com/*
// @include        http://domain.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

var a = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for (i=0;i<a.length;i++) {
  p = /originalimagehost\.com\/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/;
  res = p.exec(a[i]);

  if (res!=null) {
    a[i].href = 'http://www.newmirror.com/scriptpath/?' + res[1] + '.jpg';
  }
}

Greasemonkey script to automatically redirect image host requests to a mirror site is a post from: JasonSamuel.com

More of my posts you might like:

1. Changing the host header for an already existing Sharepoint site/application
2. Change all HTTP requests to SSL/HTTPS on a Netscaler

The solution is to move the profile out of the user folder and into another local folder or onto a network drive/home folder, thus reclaiming the profile storage space. For example, I created "c:\FireFoxProfile" to house the profile. Here is what you need to do to begin using this folder:

1. Edit "C:\Documents and Settings\yourusername\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini" in Notepad and change:

IsRelative=1

to

IsRelative=0

What this does is allow you to use an explicit path that you specify for the profile.

2. Change the next line from:

Path=Profiles/xxxxxxx.default

to

Path=c:\FireFoxProfile\xxxxxxx.default

3. Save profile.ini and restart Firefox. You will notice that immediately, the new profile folder is populated. Keep in mind when you open Firefox for the first time, it will be like a brand new install and you will lose all of your bookmarks, extensions, customizations, etc. unless you restore them from the old path.

4. You can delete everything in your old profile path once you have Firefox working in the new profile path. This will immediately reclaim your roaming profile storage space.

NOTE: If deploying to the entire corporation, there are other methods to centrally manage Firefox and control the deployment. This solution is good for the one off users though.

Using Firefox in an environment with roaming profiles is a post from: JasonSamuel.com

but in Firefox, you only get to download the document.  No option to edit it like this:

The quick solution I found that works for me is to install a couple of plugins for Firefox.  There are 2 ways to get around this:

1. Install the Coral IE Tab plugin – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10909- This allows you to switch whatever page you are looking at into a page rendered by IE but you are still in your Firefox tab.  You can also right click on your page in Firefox and open it in a new tab using IE so you have both versions.  Just use the “Switch Rendering Engine” option.  You can also have it actually open up in IE as well in a brand new IE window.  I PREFER CORAL IE over any other plugin because look how easy it is to change your rendering engine.  Just click the icon in the bottom right and your page is displayed in that browser .

Firefox + Sharepoint:

IE being rendered in Firefox + Sharepoint:

2. Install the IE View Lite plugin – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1429 – This allows you to to right click on a page and quickly load the page up in a new IE window.  Kind of like Coral IE but a “lite” version of it that only allows opening up a secondary window.

I know, not the easiest solution but it works for now until I find a better way.  MS treats Firefox like a second class browser with no AJAX or rich text editing for some reason.  All this will change with Sharepoint 2010 but for the great majority of the world that will remain on Sharepoint 2007 for a while, we have to come up with workarounds.  Looking forward to May 12th, 2010 when it’s officially released along with Office 2010.

You’ll notice a lot of nice little features you are used to in IE missing when browsing your Sharepoint site with Firefox because of this.  One thing I miss but haven’t looked into is getting the “Open with Windows Explorer” action back.  This “Explorer View” uses WebDav (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV) to open a connection straight to your Sharepoint document library in a familiar Windows Explorer interface making it easy for end users to upload, move, rename, etc. in bulk. I am heavily dependent on this feature myself.  I’m thinking Firefox has to have some kind of WebDav plugin installed to get this working.  I’ll look into it and post here if I find something.

One thing to note, and I haven’t tried it yet, is that some guys over at Codplex are working on some basic Sharepoint 2007 + Firefox integration here:

http://wssfirefox.codeplex.com

The only reason I haven’t tried it out is because of the server side components that need to be installed.  I need to get around to trying it on one of my test farms at some point.  Most enterprises are not going to support Firefox anyhow so it’s not a priority issue to get resolved for me.  More of a personal challenge.

How to edit Word and Excel documents in Sharepoint 2007 using Firefox is a post from: JasonSamuel.com

More of my posts you might like:

1. Getting Firefox to pass Active Directory credentials to Sharepoint 2007
2. My favorite 3rd party Sharepoint 2007 add-ons
3. How do you get SharePoint 2007 to read and index content inside a PDF file?

about:config

These are the advanced settings for Firefox where you can customize pretty much anything on the browser.  Click the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button and scroll down until you find:

network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris

Double click on it and press Ctrl + V to paste your URL.  You can add more URLs by seperating them wite a comma like this:

http://sharepointsite1, http://sharepointsite2, http://sharepointsite3

Now trying navigating to your Sharepoint site and it will automatically login.

Getting Firefox to pass Active Directory credentials to Sharepoint 2007 is a post from: JasonSamuel.com

More of my posts you might like:

1. My favorite 3rd party Sharepoint 2007 add-ons
2. How do you get SharePoint 2007 to read and index content inside a PDF file?
3. Changing the host header for an already existing Sharepoint site/application