I often make the decision to buy a certain product, a PC game for instance, when it drops below a certain price that I’m willing to pay for it. While I could check for price changes manually on a regular basis, I prefer to use a program for the tracking and monitoring. This has several [...]
Mozilla Firefox
Cycle Input Focus, Activate Forms In Firefox With A Shortcut
The NoScript add-on blocks the automatic focus of the search field on the Google and Bing search page. That’s a issue for me as I use those search engines regularly throughout the day. While I could whitelist the search engines, I prefer not to do so as it whitelists other services that run on those [...]
Light Switch, Dim Everything But Media In Firefox
It can sometimes be very irritating to interact with elements on a web page if other page elements catch your attention as well. Have you ever tried to watch a video on a web page only to be distracted by an animated banner on the same page? Or maybe you have played games and more [...]
Future Firefox Features, What I’m Looking Forward To
Firefox users who have went along with the update process from Firefox 4 to now Firefox 6 stable were in for a big disappointment as the new versions were not really offering any new features or visible speed improvements. That’s without doubt one of the issues that led to criticism of the rapid release process. [...]
A New Firefox Version Every Six Weeks
The new Firefox rapid release cycle is in full swing. It has been controversially discussed in past months. The release cycle has raised new issues, like add-on compatibility issues or problematic enterprise support, or the fact that the two new stable releases Firefox 5 and Firefox 6, have not really added new features to the [...]
Google Music Downloader, Download Songs From Google Music
Google Music, which has been introduced earlier this year, is still in beta at the time of writing. Users who have created an account can upload their music collection to Google Music’s servers to access them from other devices. Device support currently includes computer systems running Windows, OS X or Linux, and smartphones based on [...]
Firefox To Get Redesigned New Tab Page
When you open a new tab in the Firefox browser you end up with a blank page starring back at you. Other browsers like Opera or Google Chrome display popular sites or bookmarks on the new tab page to provide the user with quick access to often used web services and features. A recent Mozillawiki [...]
Mozilla Drops Plan To Remove Firefox About Page Version
Firefox users are a dedicated bunch. They love their browser and most prefer it to stay the way it is, with the exception of improved performances, web standards support and security updates. I know several Firefox 3.6.x users who stay with that browser version exactly for that reason. Mozilla recently announced plans to remove the [...]
More Tools Menu, Add Extra Toolbar Menu To Firefox
Firefox add-ons can add many different features to the web browser. Some add new menus to the browser, for instance to the context menu when clicking on elements in the browser or the menu toolbar. It may sometimes be a little bit inconvenient to access some of the new toolbar options added by add-ons, especially [...]
How To Run Firefox Stable, Beta, Aurora And Nightly Simultaneously
Can you run multiple versions of the Firefox web browser next to each other on a system? And if you can, how can you configure the different browser versions to either share a user profile, or use their own independent profiles? Maybe you have already installed multiple Firefox versions on your PC. If you did, [...]
Google Date Keeper, Add Date Filter To Google Search
Sometimes when I search on Google, I would like to filter the results by date. This is often the case when I’m looking for a troubleshooting solution for Windows 7, and find only Windows XP solutions in the search results even after adding Windows 7 to the search phrase. Another example would be to find [...]
Firefox 8 Aurora Released, What’s New?
Mozilla has just officially released the first version of Firefox 8 Aurora. Firefox 8 will reach beta stage in about six weeks and a stable release in twelve weeks. We already mentioned earlier this month that Firefox 8 will ship with a new add-on compatibility assistant that is giving users more add-on control the first [...]
Why Firefox is Not Scoring 100 In The Acid3 Test
Have you ever asked yourself why the Firefox web browser is not scoring a perfect score in the Acid3 test? The test checks a web browser’s compliance with web standards. Developed in 2007 and first released in 2008, the Acid3 test has become a standard in testing new web browser versions. When you run the [...]
Disable Firefox’s What’s New Page After Updates
I just noticed that two Ghacks readers have problems with Firefox’s What’s New page after updating their browser to Firefox 3.6.20. The intention of the What’s New page is to provide Firefox users with information about new features and changes. The page will be displayed instead of the homepage currently configured by the user. The [...]
How To Uninstall The Babylon Toolbar Completely
There are quite a few users out there who have installed the Babylon Toolbar after downloading software from Cnet’s Download.com portal. This is not the only way of installing that toolbar though, as it is available for direct download at the Babylon.com website as well, and via other programs and services that use it to [...]
Deactivate Multiple Firefox Add-Ons
Add-ons are still one of the things that set the Firefox web browser apart from other browsers. While there are comparable options for browsers such as Google Chrome and Opera, their implementation is not as wide reaching as that of the Firefox web browser. One of the things however that could be better is a [...]
Firefox 7 May Ship With New Graphics Component Azure
The Firefox rapid release cycle is up and in full swing. The very nature of it resulted in two Firefox versions with barely any new and exciting features. Both Firefox 5 and Firefox 6, which has been released recently, suffered from lack of time to implement features in the browser. This is now going to [...]
Enlarge Photos On eBay Auction Pages
The photos that users upload to eBay are used to populate the search results and category listings. The eBay auction platform automatically displays thumbnail versions of the uploaded photos on search and category pages instead of the, often larger, versions of the photo uploaded by the eBay user. While that may not be a problem [...]
How To Remove Ads On Google.com Search Result Pages
I have been watching an alarming trend in past years. Google, once the up and comer in the search engine market, with excellent results has turned into a behemoth whose primary objective is to keep search engine users on their properties. I’m not the only one who made that observation. In worst case currently, only [...]
Mozilla Plans To Hide Firefox Version
One “by-product” of the rapid release cycle of the Firefox web browser is the version number increase that goes along with every new release of the web browser. Firefox this year jumped from Firefox 3 all the way to the latest version Firefox 8, and we are not even at the end of the year. [...]