If you’ve used Firefox on platforms other than Linux, you’ve probably noticed it looks pretty much the same everywhere. That’s part of the Firefox philosophy: make the browser look familiar everywhere, so that it’s easy to move from one platform to another.
That’s all very well. But it’s the little power user features that make an [...]
How many times have you been frustrated that you have to go to a site just to search for a particular post or article? Wouldn’t it be great if you can search your favorite websites or blogs right from the Firefox search bar? The search bar itself does not provide you with any methods of [...]
Some time ago, I told you about my favorite tutorial for people wanting to know how to build their own Firefox theme. I am happy to say that the twisted-one himself, TwisterMc has updated his digital class in Firefox design to cover Firefox 3.
There are a few requirements, such as getting your own unique [...]
Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 was released on October 14, 2008 and it currently comes in 36 fully-localised languages. This beta is based on Gecko 1.9.1 layout engine and according to the official website, this release features “significant changes to improve web compatibility, performance and ease of use”. You can read the release notes on the [...]
Seems like a few people thought I forgot a few favorite extensions with the 25 Tweaks for Your Firefox Status Bar. So, I thought why not revisit the idea and toss in some of the suggestions I received from all of you.
Flagfox - displays a country flag depicting the location of the [...]
Backing up your bookmarks is one of those chores you have on your to-do list but never get around to it. Then when they are lost, you say - I wish I would have. Here are a few Firefox bookmark backup techniques to help you out.
How to Backup Your Bookmarks Manually
From the Firefox [...]
Installing applications in Ubuntu is getting easier and easier. First there is the command line interface, next is the Synaptic Package Manager, followed by Gnome Installer (Add/Remove). Now there is Appnr, a web based tool where you can search and install applications directly on your Firefox.
Appnr makes use of the apturl protocol to initiate the [...]
If you are bothered that you can’t create html signature in Gmail or other web-based email accounts, WiseStamp could probably be the answer to your problem.
WiseStamp is a Firefox extension that allows you to create and insert rich HTML signature for your Web-based email accounts, including Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and AOL mail. After you have [...]
Mozilla has just pushed out Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 to their servers, marking the first major step toward the official 3.1 release. They haven’t yet officially announced the beta release, so the What’s New page is a 404 as of this writing.
There is a huge speed increase in the way that Firefox 3.1 will handle
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Firefox … we use it all day, for everything from managing finances to socializing to playing games. But it’s a large and complicated programs. Are you getting the most out of your browser? In this series, I’ll offer some tricks you can use to spend less time getting more out of the web.
I’ll concentrate mostly [...]
Want to make your mouse work for you in Firefox? There are several handy keyboard and mouse combinations you might want to start memorizing. For those of us who spend our day with one hand on the mouse and the other on the keyboard – these shortcuts can sometimes be faster than doing [...]
I absolutely love google chrome, its fast, sleek, and low on the resources, I can easily kill a tab if it locks up or uses too much cpu since each tab runs at a separate process. That is just one of many features it has, if you havnt already checked out the comic, check it [...]
Now that you have enjoyed the speed of Google Chrome, it’s time to dig deeper and get more out of it. Here are 10 tips/tricks to supercharge your chroming experience.
1) Install flash player in Google Chrome
After you have installed Chrome, some of you will find that you are not able to view Youtube video. [...]
The download manager was dramatically improved for Firefox 3: a progress indicator in the status bar, automatic antivirus scans, a streamlined interface with filtering capabilities, and most notably, download resuming across sessions.
As usual, you can use all these enhancements without touching anything, or go the customization way and tweak a preference or two.
You will need [...]
Googles new free opensource browser Google Chrome took the world of Internet by surprise when it was released a few days ago. Google Chrome is currently in Beta as was many other Googles web application like GMail for a quite long time and is released only for Windows. A linux version of Google Chrome is [...]