Reader Chuck recently asked about enhancing new labels for Thunderbird:

I’ve been trying to figure out how to change some of this stuff for a long time. My one question though – how do you change the label backgrounds for additional labels you have added(other than the default 5 that come with Thunderbird).

I realized that this is probably more common than one might think. So I’m going to share my answer with all of you.

This customization goes back to Personalizing Thunderbird’s chrome, but note that you can also do this with the Stylish Add-on for Thunderbird. In this case it’s not necessary to dig into your userChrome.css file, but if you want to than here are instructions.
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First I wanted to mention that one of our brilliant readers, erlando, has made a nice suggestion for Highlighting Search Results script that makes it even better! It really is quite brilliant so you should check it out!

Also, I have been busy adding a few new features here which you probably noticed. I thought I might give a quick overview of new stuff you’ll find around here that might be useful to you:

• New contact form
• You can now register and login with your OpenID
• Security upgraded for login and spam blocking
• Upgraded search, of course
• A bunch of little stuff that you might notice…

Anyway I hope you like the changes and feel free to contact me at emwendelin [at) gmail (dot] com if you have a question about it or want to ask how I did a certain component :)

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For those of you who haven’t seen this in the news lately, there is a new kid in web-development-tools town. A new extension for Firebug called Firecookie that allows you to Create, Read, Update, and Delete your stored cookies for the site you are viewing. I know there are other tools out there but even at version 0.0.4 I think that this one is one to watch.

Features

Firecookie adds a new tab to Firebug with a list of cookies for the current site. You can go to Tools > Show All Cookies… for a window allowing you to search all of your cookies and view their values. Right-click on a cookie and select Edit Cookie to get a dialog to edit the cookie. You can log all cookie changes to the console by turning on Options > Show logs in console. Finally, you can copy and paste cookies by right-clicking as well. Continue reading →