I visit the Mozilla Firefox add-on repository on a daily basis, mainly to see if add-ons have been updated or released that I can review or use on my own. Mozilla recently redesigned the add-on repository which in my opinion is not as intuitive as before. When you open the new homepage you will see [...]
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Mozilla Firefox 7 Released
With the rapid release cycle and all, we are seeing more releases of the Firefox browser than before. Mozilla just pushed Firefox 7 to the official ftp server to prepare for today’s release of the browser. Firefox 7 is actually the first version of the rapid release cycle that is showing big improvements over previous [...]
Facebook Friendly Gaming Simplifier For Firefox, Chrome
I have to admit that I’m not playing games on social networking sites like Facebook or Google Plus. To be honest, I’m annoyed by status messages that contain gift, bonus or game information. Thankfully though the networks have improved filtering so that those information have been reduced to a minimum in recent time. Still, I [...]
InFormEnter, Fill Out Forms With Preconfigured Text
Automation can speed up a computer user’s workflow immensely. One of the areas where computer users can save lots of time is when they are filling out web forms. This can be a comment form where they have to enter a name, email address, web address and comment or a customer support form where they [...]
Mozilla Proposes Extended Support For Firefox
Mozilla as you may know switched to a rapid release process this year which basically had the consequence that new Firefox versions get released more frequently. Not every user, and especially not organizations and businesses, have welcome this new process. One of the concerns that users had was that there was not enough time to [...]
Facebook Side Ticker Remover, Hide Facebook Ticker
I have to admit that I’m not a huge fan of the Facebook sidebar ticker that is now displaying on every page on the social networking site. The ticker displays the latest activities of friends on Facebook. The annoying thing about it is that it updates in real-time, which means that you see constant movement [...]
Firefox History Disable Button, Private Browsing Mode Lite
Firefox’s private browsing mode is handy in cases where you do not want to leave a record of your browsing activities on a computer. Firefox does not record information like the visited pages, form and search bar entries or downloads during private browsing mode. Sometimes though you do not want to switch to private browsing [...]
Make Firefox Start Faster On Windows
Back in January we reported that Mozilla Firefox would get faster startup times on Windows. The patch, proposed when Firefox 4 was still in beta, has been implemented in Firefox 7, which is currently available as a beta version for all supported operating systems. Without repeating what has already been said, the patch basically preloads [...]
Display All Modified Firefox Preferences
If you are using Firefox as a web browser you have probably made some modifications to it. This can be something simple like a different home page or more sophisticated customizations like about:config under the hood changes. Modified parameters in about:config are highlighted in bold, but there is not a way to display only those [...]
Password Protect Firefox Bookmarks
Firefox bookmarks are accessible for all users of a computer system if one user account is used instead of individual user accounts. This can be a issue if you want to protect data from being seen or accessed by other users. But even if there are multiple user accounts, chance is that some may have [...]
Delete Old Extension Preferences In Firefox
I’m not really sure why extension preferences that are generated during installation are not deleted when the extensions are uninstalled. That’s in my opinion a serious flaw in the browser. Why would someone want to delete those old extension preferences? First to keep the preference file clean and tiny, second to limit privacy implications and [...]
ShareMeNot, Block Automatic Social Media Button Information Sharing
When you load a website on the Internet that has social media buttons embedded, you are automatically sharing information with those social media sites. And this happens even if you do not interact with those buttons at all. Facebook, Twitter or Google can use the data to track your movement on the Web. The absolute [...]
Firefox Preloader, Start Firefox Faster
The start up time of the Firefox web browser ranges from almost instantly to half a minute or even more on some systems. This disparity stems from different hardware configurations, installed add-ons, session restore and other Firefox configuration settings. Add-ons for example can increase the start up of Firefox significantly. Firefox loads slower as well [...]
Rapportive, Richer Contact Profiles For Gmail
When you read or reply to emails in Google’s mail service Gmail, you see the email addresses and contact names of the recipients and senders. But that’s it. Sometimes you may want to find out more about a person on Gmail, for instance before you reply to an email. While you could do that by [...]
IPvFox, Display All Connections A Web Page Makes
Chance is that the web pages that you are connecting to with your web browser load elements from different web servers, and not from one. This is for instance the case if a Facebook Like, Twitter or Google Plus button is displayed on the site. Sometimes though you may want to get an exact list [...]
Search For Copied Photos with Who Stole My Pictures for Firefox
There is a high chance that people will copy your photos or images that you post on the Internet. Some do that with attribution, others without. Sometimes you may want to know where your images have been posted on. A simple example is your profile photo on Facebook or your Google Profile. Maybe you want [...]
Customize Shortcuts, Firefox Keyconfig Alternative
The Keyconfig extension for the Firefox web browser was released in 2004. Back then it allowed Firefox users to change both native and third party shortcuts in the web browser. This was for instance extremely useful if an extension developer picked the wrong shortcuts for an extension, or if you have installed two extension that [...]
Verify That Amazon Items Are Shipped To A Selected Country
You may remember that I buy most of my computer games and media at the Amazon UK store and not the store in Germany. I benefit in two ways here: First, prices are a lot cheaper than they are in Germany. I sometimes pay 50% less for the same item. Second, I get games and [...]
Google+ Manager For Firefox
Google is supporting its social networking service Google+ with Google Chrome extensions. This includes the Google Translate for Google+ extension for instance that allows users to automatically or manually translate posts on Google Plus. Google+ Manager is a relative new extension for the Firefox web browser that combines access to several handy features in one [...]
Firefox 9 Gets Big JavaScript Performance Boost
Good news for all Firefox users, especially those running the latest Nightly builds of Firefox 9 or those planning to upgrade to the new version of the web browser once it becomes available in other Firefox release channels. Mozilla developer Brian Hackett worked on a new feature called type inference for over a year. You [...]