One of the few Firefox extensions that I have been using constantly for a very long time is Multi Links (formerly Snap Links) which allows me to open multiple links directly by drawing a rectangle with the mouse around them. That’s handy for instance if you are on a page with multiple files that you [...]
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Want To Open A Website In Another Browser? Just Drag And Drop It
This is one of the things that makes you go uh if you read about it or find out about it on your own. I know many computer users who run multiple web browsers on the same PC. On my PC I have Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer installed. And while that may be [...]
ProxTube Unblock YouTube Videos
When you open the music section over at the video hosting site YouTube you get a list of popular music videos that are currently hosted on the site. You can play individual videos or all of them at once, and while that works nicely in most countries, you may live or be in one that [...]
Relieve Stress With Destroy The Web For Firefox
We have all been in the situation where something on the Internet is not working out as it should. Maybe it is that captcha that you read wrong for the fifth time, the long comment that you wrote that would not post or that darn website that just won’t open at all. While some may [...]
Linkify UserScripts Turns Plain Text Links Into Clickable HTML Links
Some websites display links – usually those entered by users – as plain text links instead of clickable HTML links. This may be by choice, for instance to avoid sending the site as a referrer to the linked website, or by accident if the scripts running on the website are configured improperly. Plain text links [...]
Configure Firefox To Install Add-Ons Faster
I install a lot of Firefox add-ons every week. First add-ons that I may use personally and then add-ons for review here on Ghacks or other sites. One of the things that bothered me for some time now is the artificial delay that Mozilla added to the installation process of extensions in the web browser. [...]
Firefox Delete Download Button
If you are using the built-in Firefox download manager to download files from the Internet and have configured the browser to remember the browsing history, you may have noticed the absence of a delete button in the download window. While it is possible to remove individual files from the listing by selecting them first and [...]
Firefox Boounce, Switch Search Engines Effortlessly
Bing is my default search engine for a number of reasons. I really do not want to rehash why that’s the case. Sometimes I cannot find what I’m looking for using Bing, and my next step then is to open Google and run the very same search on Google’s search engine. And if I cannot [...]
Sync Broken In Firefox 7.0.1 Release
Life over at Mozilla is surely not as easy-peasy anymore than it was a year or two ago. With Chrome breathing down the browser’s neck and Microsoft getting their act together it has become a tough playing field. The rapid release process should have changed it all, and for the better. Bad news however seem [...]
Mozilla Blocks McAfee ScriptScan Add-on
Mozilla has made the decision to add McAfee’s ScriptScan add-on for the Firefox web browser to the so called Blocklist. The Blocklist lists add-ons and plugins that are known to “cause serious security, stability, or performance issues with Firefox”. When users try to open the McAfee ScriptScan or McAfee SiteAdvisor page at the official Mozilla [...]
Privacy Extension for Firefox, Priv3
All Internet users were recently made aware of the fact that social networking sites like Facebook, Google+ or Twitter had the power to track a user’s movement over the web. This is done with the help of scripts such as Facebook Like or Twitter buttons that webmasters add to their websites and pages. While it [...]
Mozilla Talks Silent Updates, Plans Firefox Service
One of the issues that I hear over and over again when I talk with other Firefox users about the rapid release process is that users are tired of updating the browser every six weeks, and especially so if the update turns out to be another “under-the-hood” update where no changes can be spotted right [...]
Firefox 3.6 Update To 7.0
Firefox users who are still running a 3.6 version of the web browser should prepare themselves for receiving an advertised update on Thursday. Users will receive a prompt with the option to update the browser from their version to the very latest. Mozilla is quick to note that this has “no bearing on support levels”, [...]
Firefox 9 Features, Changes
With the release of the stable version of Firefox 7, or more precisely Firefox 7.0.1, came also updates to the beta, aurora and nightly channels of the browser. Each channel has been bumped up a version. Firefox Beta to 8, Firefox Aurora to 9 and Firefox Nightly to 10. Whenever Firefox Aurora gets a bump, [...]
Mozilla Rushes Out Firefox 7.0.1 Update
If you follow this tech blog closely you know already that the latest release of Firefox, which would be Firefox 7.0, contained a bug that hid away some or even all add-ons of a user who updated a version of the browser to the latest stable iteration. Mozilla after noticing the problem stopped the distribution [...]
SurfControl, Time Track Web Usage In Firefox
If you had to write down how much time you spend on the Internet in the past week, could you do that? And would you also be able to list the top 5 sites that you’d consider productive, and the top 5 time wasters in that time? To top that, would you be able to [...]
Context Peek, Display Information In Popups
Sometimes when you surf around the Internet you may feel the need to look up additional information. This can be a definition of a word that you are not sure about, information about a phrase at an online encyclopedia or a location on Google Maps. Whatever it is, it usually leads to opening a new [...]
Fix For Hidden Add-Ons After Updating To Firefox 7
If you have updated your version of Firefox to version 7 you may have experienced a bug that some users experience. According to Mozilla, some users who have updated to the latest version of Firefox have noticed that all their add-ons have disappeared from the web browser. Mozilla notes on a newly created support page [...]
Firefox: Add HTTP Back To Address Bar
Mozilla recently made a few changes to the Firefox web browser that I personally do not like that much. One of the things that the developers changed recently is the way website urls are displayed in the address bar. HTTP websites no longer show up with the protocol http:// in front. Another change is that [...]
Change Default Browser, Quickly Switch The Default System Browser
One web browser is always the default system browser on a computer system. That’s the program that is launched when you click on links for example. The majority of computer users on Windows come into contact with multiple browsers. They got Microsoft’s Internet Explorer installed by default on the system and download and install at [...]