Fixing an Acer Nitro: Screen Off, Keyboard Lights On

1. Disconnect primary and RTC CMOS battery.
2. Plug in AC Adapter.
3. Press and hold F2, turn on using the power button.
4. Once in BIOS, reload settings to defaults.
5. Turn off and reconnect primary and RTC CMOS battery.

Note: The above worked on an Acer A515-52N that were exhibiting all sorts of issues: IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL, WHEA, random reboots, etc.

Simplifying Firefox Context Menus

The following CSS entries in UserChrome.css file will do the following to Firefox context menu (right click options):

Remove Send Link to Device

#context_sendTabToDevice, #context_sendTabToDevice_separator {display: none !important;}
#context-sendpagetodevice, #context-sep-sendpagetodevice {display: none !important;}
#contentAreaContextMenu #context-sendlinktodevice,
#contentAreaContextMenu #context-sep-sendlinktodevice {display: none !important;}

Remove Open Link In New Window

#context-openlinkinusercontext-menu {display: none !important;}
#context-openlink {display: none !important;}

Remove Bookmark This Link

#context-bookmarklink {display:none !important;}

Firefox Bookmarks Auto-hide

The CSS below auto-hides the bookmark bar on new tabs like how Google Chrome does it. Got it from this Reddit post. Just copy and paste to your userChrome.css file.

.tab-close-button:not([pinned="true"]) { display: -moz-box !important; }
#PersonalToolbar {
visibility:collapse;
}

#main-window[title^="New Tab"] #PersonalToolbar,
#main-window[title="Mozilla Firefox"] #PersonalToolbar {
visibility:visible !important;
}

UPDATE: A better Chrome-like implementation of the auto-hiding bookmark toolbar:

#main-window #PersonalToolbar {
visibility: collapse !important;
}
#main-window[title^="about:newtab"] #PersonalToolbar,
#main-window[title^="New Tab"] #PersonalToolbar,
#main-window[title^="Nightly"] #PersonalToolbar,
#main-window[title^="Mozilla Firefox"] #PersonalToolbar,
#main-window[title^="Firefox"] #PersonalToolbar {
visibility: visible !important;
}

Moving Firefox FindBar to the Top Right

Got annoyed with the find bar being at the bottom of the page, decided to search around and found a Stylish CSS that moves it to the upper right side of the main window like Google Chrome.

Just and add the following in userChrome.css (feel free to customize):

.browserContainer findbar, #viewSource #FindToolbar {
-moz-box-ordinal-group: 0;
position: fixed !important;
right: 30px;
margin-top: 30px !important;
box-shadow: 1px 2px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, .25) !important;
border: 1px solid threedshadow !important;
border-top: none !important;
border-radius: 0 0 3px 3px;
transition-property: margin-top, opacity, visibility !important;
}

Firefox Nightly’s (57.xxx) Narrow Bookmark Toolbar

The narrow bookmark toolbar and the overly tall tab bar in Firefox Nightly has always bothered me. These are the only things that have kept me from setting it as the default browser in my computer.

Here’s what it looks like one on top of the other:

For me, Firefox bookmarks toolbar feels crowded and the tall tab bar is making it worse. This tall tab bar only happens in Windows 10, by the way. Using compact density only addresses the tab bar, the bookmarks toolbar remains narrow and claustrophobic.

Fortunately, this is easily remedied with userChrome.css. After Googling around and checking out a few forums here and there, I came up with the following:



@namespace url(“http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul”);  /* only needed once */

#personal-bookmarks .bookmark-item > .toolbarbutton-text {
font-size:8pt !important;
}

#personal-bookmarks .bookmark-item {
height:26px !important;
}

 

You actually only needed .bookmark-item but setting the font size to 8, makes the bookmarks toolbar look a lot cooler!

This, and after setting the density to compact, now looks like..

Programming Cignal TV’s Universal Remote Control Unit (RCU)

I’m posting this here before it gets lost in Facebook, Cignal TV did not bother updating their RCU programming instructions on their website. If you were as frustrated as I was trying to figure this one out, well here it is.

First off, definitions..

RCU = Remote Control Unit (see featured image)
STB = Set Top Box
TV = Television (duh)
LED = The red light between the TV and power button

Programming the RCU to your STB

1. Press and hold Power and OK.
2. Wait for the red LED to blink twice.
3. Use keypad, input 982. LED will blink 4 times.
4. Press and hold Power and OK. LED will blink twice.
5. Key in the STB code, use the codes that refer to your model on this link: http://cignal.tv/Article.aspx?id=15
6. Press and hold Power and OK. LED will blink twice.
7. Key in 982. LED will blink twice.
8. Test if STB control works. (Volume probably won’t, I’ll cover this later)*

Programing the RCU to your TV

1. Press and hold TV and OK.
2. Wait for LED to blink twice.
3. Use keypad, key in 991. LED will blink twice.
4. Press minus (-) in CH until your TV turns off.
5. Press the TV button, if TV turns back on, press the OK button.
6. If TV doesn’t turn on, press the minus (-) button until TV turns back on.
7. Press OK to save everything.

*To switch volume control between STB and TV, press and hold OK and VOL+ to use the TV. Wait for the LED to blink twice. Press and hold VOL- to use STB volume controls.

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