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I’m looking to finish up Firefox for Dummies this week and I need your help ensuring that it’s a valuable resource for our users. I’m looking for two kinds of submissions:

• Problems to address in a “Troubleshooting” section. Both common and obscure are great. It would save me time if you could include the solution, but it’s not necessary.
• Tips and tricks. I want the book to reveal the little gems that make Firefox unique. This includes both intentional features and clever ways of combining features to make common tasks easier. The basic criteria here is that tricks should be difficult to discover but easy to accomplish. Middle clicking on the Back button meets this criteria, hand-editing configuration files doesn’t, and about:config is borderline. People shouldn’t have to leave the Firefox interface.

Thanks everyone! Writing a Dummies book on a product I helped build has been eye-opening. I’ll write a post-mortem when I finish.

ZDnet reports that the FBI is having trouble with Mork, the god-awful database we use to store history in Firefox 1.0:

“Firefox and Opera store information on typed URLs in a different file than IE does and the files are somewhat tough to decipher, Lewis said. He showed his students–mostly law enforcement agents and private investigators–how to do it.”

Hey, we’ve had to deal with it for years! Oh, and as Vlad says: “they’re going to be unhappy when we replace it with encrypted sqlite.”

When I tell people I lost my innocence at 14, they think I’m talking dirty. Really, I just lost it to Mork.