This article shows you how to change Firefox’s appearance from tabs on top (where the tabs appear above the URL address bar) to display the tabs below the URL address bar.

Before the release of Firefox v57, it was possible to change the location of the tabs by changing a browser parameter setting.  The setting was

FF still retains that setting but its functionality has been disabled; browser tabs remain on top (above the URL address bar) regardless of this parameter’s value.  We will see how it’s possible to change the location of the tabs.{footnote}My earlier articles—Firefox: tabs on bottom and Firefox: tabs on bottom (again)—discuss Firefox before v69.  This article updates that advice following the release of FF69.{/footnote}

If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him.  If he is in superior strength, evade him.  If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him.  Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.  If he is taking his ease, give him no rest.  If his forces are united, separate them.  If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them.  Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”, 5th century BC

When I created my first website on the internet, some twenty-plus years ago, it was a fairly nerve-racking experience.  I had dabbled with HTML and Javascript for a couple of years before that but I knew nothing about cross-browser capable websites or CSS or all the other features we take for granted these days, and this internet thing was a whole new experience.  Suddenly my work would be on show for thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people to see{footnote}I still have a copy of my first website stored on a CD somewhere.{/footnote}.

Over time, as I practised my webcraft, I became more confident and adventurous—exploring the opportunities of DHTML, client-server applications, etc.—and, by the time I left the workforce, I was in a good position to use my experience … perhaps to make some spare change.  Who knows?

My first experiments with Joomla! were a shambles.  I must have created forty or more test websites before I came to terms with it.  I spent entire days just reading:  books, online tutorials, forum discussions, anything I could lay my hands on.  Fortunately, I stumbled onto a group of people who were willing to offer me their help and things just snowballed from that.

It’s probably no surprise that, for the first few years of my involvement with Joomla!, I really had no sense of purpose about what I could do with it in my retirement years.

As nerve-racking as it is to put yourself “out there”—spending whole weeks or months preparing for the journey into the unknown—Twitter comes along and it's life-or-death in 280 characters

Since Twitter changed its terms of use and required its users to pay to become a “verified users” (at about the same time as Twitter was rebranded as X), the ability to embed a Twitter timeline on any website was limited to those special users.  Although the tips contained in this article will work for those special users, embedded Twitter timelines are something of a thing of the past.  For that reason, I have removed the Twitter timeline that I used as a demonstration.  Therefore, the information in this article is theoretical.

There are many extensions that people can install that will add a Twitter timeline to their websites.  I don’t want to deprive struggling software developers of their profit but do we really need additional software (some of which costs money) in order to do something quite simple?  This article shows how to embed a Twitter timeline on a Joomla website without using any additional software.

The process is as easy as 1-2-3:  obtain the URL of the Twitter timeline; copy the URL into the Twitter publish site; copy the generated code into your website  It’s really that simple.

JAdmin Favicon allows the use of a custom (.ico) image to be used on the backend/administration area of a Joomla website. As a bonus, a custom custom (.ico) image can be used independently on the frontend of a Joomla website with this plugin.

Plugin settings

Usage

This article assumes that the reader is familiar with favicons (also known as shortcut icons). The standard favicon image for the Joomla backend is .  The normal way to replace this image is to replace the file ../administrator/templates/<template-name>/favicon.ico.  Whenever the Joomla version is updated, however, this file is replaced with the standard Joomla favicon file.

This plugin allows the adminstrator of a website to use a custom favicon image (for example, ) by uploading a file named <filename>.ico to the website’s /images folder.  Uploading of favicon images is normally done with FTP and not with the Media Manager component unless you change the Media Manager options.  You may upload different custom favicon images for the frontend and backend.

Note:  If you are updating from an earlier release of JAdmin Favicon you may have to reset the plugin settings.

This article shows you how to change Firefox’s appearance from tabs on top (where the tabs appear above the URL address bar) to display the tabs below the URL address bar.

Before the release of Firefox Quantum (i.e. FF v57), it was possible to change the location of the tabs by changing a browser parameter setting.  The setting was

FF  still retains the parameter but its functionality has been disabled; browser tabs remain on top (above the URL address bar) regardless of this parameter’s value.  We will see how it’s possible to change the location of the tabs.{footnote}My earlier article, Firefox: tabs on bottom, discusses an older version of FF.  This article updates that advice following the release of FF65.{/footnote}