20
Aug
Page Style to Tab is a really useful Firefox extension that displays the tabs that are open in the style of the page. This is helpful because it is so much easier to distinguish the different tabs. You are able to configure this extension further by choosing if the colors of the current website should be displayed only in the tab or the complete browser.
18
Aug
It is time for some new Firefox extensions and the first one that I would like to introduce is called Search With. The Firefox extension adds a Search With option to the right click menu. To use it you select a text, right click afterwards and select Search With which opens a submenu that allows you to select a search engine to search for the selected text.
The feature that makes this extension this great is the ability to customise it. You may not only add normal search engines like Google or Yahoo to it but also specialised ones like technorati or flickr. Search With comes preinstalled with some of the most popular search engines divided into six categories: Web Search, Blog Search, Photo Search, Bookmark Search, Encyclopedia Search and Dictionary Lookup that all contain several search engines and you are free to select the one that you would like to use.
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3
Aug
I´am late, just a day though. Opera 9.01 has been released yesterday and it is officially available at the Opera homepage. Just follow the link above or check for updates in Opera to be lead to the download page. There have been lots of changes in this version, actually more than I will be able to list here at ghacks. For a full list read the Opera 9.01 changelog entry.
The changes are mostly bugfixes or optimisations like newsfeeds that can be renamed again, performance improvements for widgets and solved upload problems with imageshack and similar sites. The chance is pretty high that bugs that you might have encountered have been fixed with this release. Opera is as usual available for windows, linux, mac and several other browsers including mobile ones.
2
Aug
I found a great website that lists 150 popular Firefox extensions and checks if Opera offers their functionality as well. The main part of Rijks comparision consists of a table that has the 150 most popular (based on the most popular category on the mozilla firefox website) Firefox extensions on the left side and one of four possible results for Opera on the right side.
Results can be divided into four different categories each represented by its own color. The dark green category means that Opera has the functionality of the extension built in, green means a comparable addon is available as a widget or userscript; links are given in this category. Light green means the functionality is limited or that advanced customisation is needed to achieve the result. Red finally means that there is nothing like that available for Opera as of know.
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2
Aug
Yeah, you heard right. Just a few days after the mozilla team released firefox 1.5.0.5 to the public a new release hits the mozilla ftp site and will be available on the webpages soon. Firefox 1.5.0.6 can only be downloaded from the offical mozilla ftp site as of know. As always there are not many information regarding this release, just a short note that the windows media player plugin stopped working on some sites with firefox 1.5.0.5.
“1.5.0.6 is a respin of 1.5.0.5 which is to address the external protocol handling regression.” Take a look at the following website which holds at least some information regarding this new release of firefox. (mozilla wiki for firefox 1.5.0.6)