To minimize the amount of chrome in Firefox, I wanted to find a way to autohide the bookmark menubar. I had found a couple userChrome.css tweaks, but they caused the rendered page to shift when the bookmark menubar was shown or hidden. I created the following modified version to eliminate the shifting. The tweak causes the bookmark menubar to fade in and out when the mouse hovers over the top navigation area.

This can be added directly to your userChrome.css file or loaded via Stylish. The top value will need to be modified depending on your OS.

Tested with Firefox 20.0 on OSX and Win8.

A common practice on the iOS store is for developers/publishers to drop the price of their applications to free for a short period. They do this to drive up the number of downloads of the application, which raises the application’s position in the app store. The position and placement within the store is a key factor in generating sales. It goes with the saying in real estate, “There are three things that matter in property: location, location, location.”, the same holds true with the app store.

Side note: Google does not allow developer/publishers to drop the price of a paid application to free on their store. Good or bad, its one less way to game their system.

Bottom Line: The mobile hardware market is evolving in rapid iterations, with the releases between major device generations shrinking to under 12 months windows. This state of change has created a volatile target for those publishing content directed for mobile consumption. Moving forward the pace of innovation does not look to be slowing down, particularly with the emergence of tablet devices into the mobile space.

Welcome to my new site, take two.

After looking at what options were available for publishing small personal sites and blogs I liked what I was seeing with the concept of semi-static site generators. The first option I focused on was Jekyll. Jekyll is a Ruby based static site generator and has an active development community behind it. It is also being promoted by GitHub as a way to publish to their Pages service. While Jekyll has a lot of the options I was looking for, I came across and went with Octopress. Octopress is an active blogging platform based on Jekyll with a clean default interface and a nice array of built-in plugins.