Firefox users have several options at hand to delete private browsing data. This includes running the browser in private browsing mode, configuring it to delete the data on shutdown or running the clear recent history module manually to delete some or all data this way. Veteran users may remember a time when the browser displayed [...]
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Firefox Mar Mod, Tweak Firefox Settings
While the Firefox web browser is one of the most versatile when it comes to customizations, there are still a few areas that cannot be changed directly through the web browser’s options or the about:config advanced configuration screen. Mar Mod is a free Firefox add-on that can be described as an advanced tweaker for Firefox. [...]
Firefox Share, New Mozilla Labs Firefox Add-on
Sometimes you come upon links that you want to share with someone else. Maybe a rick roll for your online friends, maybe a new photo gallery for your family, or a work related link that you want other employees or your boss to know about. Most users who want to share links open up their [...]
Get Coupon Code Notifications on Merchant Sites In Firefox
Coupons are a great way of saving money on the Internet. They obviously work best if you can get a coupon for an online shopping site that you want to make a purchase on (and not the other way round). The Firefox extension CouponsHelper is an unobtrusive add-on that informs you about coupon codes on [...]
Remove Google +1 Buttons, Previews From Google Search Results
Search giant Google lately has added Google +1 buttons to nearly every web property the company owns. Most Google users may notice the +1 buttons on Google search result pages where they are placed next to each site url. In addition, users who are logged in see if they or their Google+ friends have recommended [...]
Firefox PDF.js Extension To Open PDF Documents Natively
Browser developers add new features to web browsers all the time. Sometimes those features improve the browser’s usability. This is for instance the case with the native pdf reading capabilities of the Chrome browser. Instead of having to install a third party plugin for that functionality or to download the pdf document first to read [...]
Alternate Firefox Ships With Bing, Big Deal?
One of the stories that dominated tech news yesterday was that Mozilla started shipping a version of the Firefox browser with Microsoft’s Bing search engine as the default search engine instead of Google Search. Some news sites made it look like as if Mozilla dropped Google as the browser’s search provider in favor of Microsoft’s [...]
Why Are 2 Plugin-Container.Exe Processes Running?
I recently discovered that I had two explorer.exe processes running. Odio posted a comment under that article where he mentioned that on his PC 2 plugin-container.exe processes were running instead. If you do not know anything about plugin-container.exe you can check out the informational article about it that I wrote in 2010. Plugin-container.exe basically is [...]
Translate This For Firefox, Translate Web Pages
One of the features of the Google Chrome web browser that I really like is the option to translate foreign web pages automatically using Google’s Translate service. Firefox users can either use an Internet translation service manually or install an extension to add a similar functionality to the browser. One of the extensions is Translate [...]
Firefox Preferences Monitor
Have you ever had a software modify your Firefox settings? It is for instance relatively common that software installations try to modify the homepage and search provider in the web browser. A core issue here from a security point of view is that Firefox – and other browsers as well – do not offer mechanisms [...]
Hack The Web, Remove Elements Before Printing In Firefox
Back in 2007 I looked at two Firefox add-ons to prepare websites before printing them. Preparing in this case meant to remove unnecessary elements like advertisement, chat boxes or sidebar links from the page to save printer ink and get only the relevant information on a printed page (see best way to print websites). At [...]
YouTube Link Title, Play Linked YouTube Videos Directly
YouTube videos can be posted as links or as embedded media contents on websites. It depends largely on the technology powering the website if it is possible to embed videos directly. If you look at sites like Facebook or Google Plus for instance, you will notice that they convert YouTube links directly to embedded videos. [...]
Dormancy, Unload Firefox Tabs To Free RAM
The Firefox web browser is still perceived by many as a RAM eater and a program that pushes RAM usage on many configurations to the limit. When you analyze that you may come to a different conclusion though. Lifehacker recently ran some – limited and non scientific – tests with the result that Chrome and [...]
Switch and Create New Profiles in Firefox with Switchy
Firefox, like other browsers, saves a profile which contains user preferences, passwords and bookmarks. Browsing history is also saved in this profile. This is useful for finding web pages that you have lost track of or did not bookmark and also for monitoring browser usage history. It is convenient to have your passwords saved, but [...]
Firefox, Thunderbird Lagging? Lag Fix Inside
For the last days I have been receiving lags and issues both in the Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird email client. With Thunderbird I’m experiencing lags where the window is not responding for some time. I just have to wait and the window becomes accessible again. With Firefox it is another issue. The browser [...]
Firefox Feature Fix, Add-On To Resolve Browser Issues
If you look at the different versions of Firefox from say Firefox 2 to the very latest versions released recently, you will notice lots of changes. Not only design changes but also changes that removed or replaced specific features of the web browser. FeatureFix is a Firefox add-on that tries to resolve several issues that [...]
Feature-Complete NoScript Add-on Now Available For Firefox Mobile
If there is one Firefox add-on that I don’t want to live without it is the NoScript extension. It is a security add-on that will block all scripts by default which are one of the main attack vectors on today’s Internet. Users can whitelist scripts on specific domains temporarily, e.g. for a browsing session, or [...]
Something is trying to trick Firefox into accepting an insecure update
For the last two days I have been receiving popup messages when running Firefox. They stated that “Update Failed. Something is trying to trick Firefox into accepting an insecure update. Please contact your network provider and seek help”. Since I have not changed a thing in that time that would affect Firefox’s update mechanism I [...]
Liquid Information for Firefox, Research Add-on
Back in 2007 I reviewed the Firefox extension Hyperwords which gave you access to a research context menu after selecting text on a website. You could use it to search in various search engines, encyclopedias or news sites. While I’m not 100% sure, I believe that the Liquid Information add-on is the successor of the [...]
Adblock Plus Parent Company Eyeo GmbH Founded
Eyeo GmbH, the company behind Adblock Plus, was recently founded by Wladimir Palant, the technologies lead developer, and Till Faida. The move from a community driven part-time project to a company backed project (still community driven) is certainly something that existing and future Adblock Plus users would like to know more about, hence the article. [...]