Even if you are living in a big city like me, you sometimes need to know the times the sun or moon rises and sets. Maybe you want to photograph the sun or moon at a specific time, go fishing or believe in something that requires you to know the exact times. Or, you simply [...]
Mozilla Firefox
How To Disable Strict Add-On Compatibility In Firefox
One of the biggest issues that Firefox users have with the rapid release cycle introduced earlier this year is the fact that updates often disabled their add-ons in the browser due to incompatibilities. Most of the time though those incompatibilities can be attributed to the maximum compatible version number assigned to an add-on, and not [...]
KillSpinners, Stop Pages From Loading Forever
Have you ever been on a web page that would not stop loading? That would go on forever until you tapped on the ESC key to stop it? When you search on Google for “page loads forever” and comparable phrases you come up with thousands of pages filled with user reports about that problem. A [...]
How Mozilla Intends To Speed Up Firefox’s Update Process
We do know at this point in time that Mozilla is investigating means to update Firefox more effectively. Back in October we revealed that Mozilla was planning to add a silent update process to the browser to streamline the process and make it more comfortable and unobtrusive. Firefox engineer Ehsan Akhgar is now discussing another [...]
Mozilla Releases Firefox 8.0.1
Mozilla is about to release an update for the latest stable version of Firefox. Firefox 8.0.1 will be released less than two weeks after the release of Firefox 8, the latest stable version of the popular Internet browser. A fast release like this usually indicates a serious problem that needs to be addressed right away. [...]
Add Bookmark Here, Better Firefox Bookmarking
Web browser bookmarks seem to have lost much of their appeal in past years. The same can be said for bookmarking sites like Delicious which have seen a drop in user count. Question is: What are users doing instead? Are they posting interesting links to their social networking profiles to have them available there? This [...]
Image2Icon, Create Free Avatars For Web Profiles
Avatars are profile photos on social networking sites, web forums and other places where users can create accounts and post publicly. Some users like to use their own photo, that of their cat or car as their avatars, while others find use images that they find on the Internet for that. It is often possible [...]
Firefox 10, What’s New?
After having some initial troubles getting my add-ons to work under Firefox 10 Aurora I had time to look at the changes and new features of this release. Firefox 10 will be the next but one stable release of the web browser which means that stable channel users will have to wait about 12 weeks [...]
Firefox 10 Aurora Released, How To Force Add-On Compatibility
Firefox 9 Aurora was updated to Firefox 10 Aurora a few minutes ago. The update dialog listed several incompatible add-ons which I ignored at that time as I’m using the Mozilla Add-On Compatibility Reporter to make add-ons compatible. When I started Firefox 10 after the upgrade installation I noticed that the web browser listed all [...]
Sort, Filter, Manage Tables In Firefox With TableTools2
Having to work with tables in a web browser is not the most pleasant experience, unless you are on a site like Google Docs that offers more than just the ability to copy table cell data into other programs. Tables are displayed using the HTML table tag or by formatting elements with the help of [...]
Reddit Enhancement Suite, Get More Out Of Reddit
With the fall of the once popular Digg social voting site came the rise of better alternatives like Reddit. If you look at Digg today you will notice that the site took a big dive in recent years. From thousands of so called diggs (that is votes) for popular stories to one or two hundred [...]
Show Anchors, In-Page Linking
Sometimes when you are reading a page full of contents you may come upon a passage or element that you want to bookmark for later use or sharing with other users. While you could send the page url to someone or bookmark it, you would need to explain or remember where that element or content [...]
Mozilla Firefox Will Become More Memory Efficient
The Mozilla Firefox web browser has quite the bad image when it comes to memory efficiency. You see claims all over the Internet that the browser is eating up more memory than other browsers. Comparisons often are not entirely fair to begin with, considering that most Firefox users have their fair share of add-ons installed [...]
Google Reader Minimalistic Style
While I have not used my Google Reader account for a long while, thanks to the awesome desktop RSS reader RSS Owl, I have been following recent news with interest. Especially the latest Google Reader update has infuriated part of the service’s user base. The update has been part of a larger scale redesign of [...]
Firefox 8 Has Been Released, Download Links Inside
If you are on the Firefox stable channel, which most users certainly are, you are currently working with version 7 of the browser. The next update for the web browser is said to go life on the Mozilla website on November 8. As always, Firefox releases are available early on Mozilla ftp servers where they [...]
How To Restore Firefox Bookmarks
One of the things that I migrate to new computer systems that I build or but are my bookmarks. I have a collection of a few hundred sites in my bookmarks that I use regularly thanks to browsers recommending bookmarks when entering text into the address bar. A corrupt or accidentally deleted bookmarks file could [...]
Mozilla Profile Manager Final Released
You may already know about Mozilla’s plan to retire the built-in Firefox profile manager to replace it with an external program called the Profile Manager. This new program, available for all supported operating systems that Firefox runs on is not only compatible with the web browser but also with other XULRunner-based applications like Mozilla Thunderbird [...]
Low Quality Flash, Improve Flash Performance In Firefox
Flash applications can be very taxing performance wise. If you ever had to run Flash apps on underpowered hardware, e.g. a netbook or tablet PC, then you know that you may experience frame drops and other performance related issues. Most performance issues are caused by games which can be very taxing. I remember that I [...]
Supercharge The Firefox Reload Button With Reload Plus
Did you know that there are actually several reload options available for page reloads in the Firefox web browser (actually those reload options are available in all modern Internet browsers)? When you click the reload button you do a standard reload of the web page which will use the browser’s cache for faster page rendering [...]
How To Turn Off Automatic Updates For Individual Firefox Add-Ons
Automatic add-on updates can be a fine thing. You save some time and make sure that your add-ons are always up to date. That’s great to resolve security or stability issues as soon as possible. It can however also mean that you get feature additions that you did not want or expect. I just read [...]