How Did FoxGLove come together?
Alex says: First things first. After setting up Portable Firefox on my thumb drive, I started by adding the Chromifox theme, to set the proper tone. Then I continued as I do when starting any project, by searching Lifehacker for relevant hints. So I loaded up the new Firefox with all those helpful extension that make Google Apps even better: Better Gmail 2 Better GReader Better Gcal Better YouTube (for when I’m not quite so productive) Then I added some more Google add-on goodness: Customize Google Google Notebook Google Toolbar (replacing the FF search bar, and added searches for Gmail, Docs, and Wikipedia) I even found a some instructions for making Google Gears portable. (Plug in USB, launch, sync GReader and GDocs, and only pay for two min of web access). Then I started really customizing: I set Gmail, Reader and Docs as my home pages so they’d all open when I launched. This makes the FF ‘Home’ button useless since it opens all three when clicked, so I pulled it out and also added
