Fix search Field

Stumbled to a funny Firefox bug, causing a symptom where the search field of particular search engine gets very, very narrow.

Temporary fix can be done via Firebug:

<div class="gb_f gb_rb" style="min-width:600px">

The style of minimum width fixes it when getting annoyed enough. Permanent personal fix is to touch browser’s style sheet as instructed here.  So, create userContent.css  to folder : %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\XYZXYZ.default\chrome

@-moz-document domain(www.google.com){.gb_sb .gb_rb{flex-basis: main-size!important;}}
@-moz-document domain(mail.google.com){.gb_sb .gb_rb{flex-basis: main-size!important;}}
@-moz-document domain(productforums.google.com){.gb_sb .gb_rb{flex-basis: main-size!important;}}
@-moz-document domain(groups.google.com){.gb_sb .gb_rb{flex-basis: main-size!important;}}
@-moz-document domain(www.google.fi){.gb_sb .gb_rb{flex-basis: main-size!important;}}

Note the last line! If you use local versions of google services, then you need to add local variants to the style-sheets to get fixes in all of them…

So, there’s always a workaround, but it just takes a bit of effort to find it. Or patience while waiting for the real and official fix. Also learnt that WP’s code editing block works, but swapping btw new fancy editor, and classic’s Text & Visual had some challenges in retaining the formatting.

Currently listening: , quite “graphic” lyrics when U start to really listen to them, but nice flowing tune.

Backlog tools

In one tool which I use, even the bookmark shows 503 as its name. During one outage started to seek alternatives and stumbled to a Trello, a online backlog tool, which seems to be even free.

Demo Kanban Board

It enables creating boards, and cards to the UI. The UI is so simplistic and functional and logical (I keep hoping that I could design sw as easy as that). Adding a card is matter of typing few characters, and there’s not huge amount of twiddling and settings when taking into use. After logging in, it gives ready-made instruction-board with which you can start to use it instantly. Very clever, recommending.

Currently using it for organizing home/hobby projects, but hopefully finding even more features during the real use.

P.S. Recently listened: Mission Statement by Weird Al.
P.P.S. Meant to write some configuration topic earlier, but stumbled to some problems with syntax highlighting. So, here is instructions how to get proper formatting in code samples in hosted WP.