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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 11th, 2008
  • Comments: 9

Open Multiple Bookmarks in Firefox at once

In the last days I have been looking for a Firefox extension that would make it possible to open multiple bookmarks (and History items) at once. What I mean with this is that I wanted something like the CTRL left-click in Windows Explorer that lets you pick several files at once. My main problem was [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 20th, 2008
  • Comments: 5

Firefox Link Alert Add-on

Links are neutral at the beginning. They can display any text and link to any kind of file they want. This can be sometimes confusing, sometimes misleading and scammers use this method to lure inexperienced Internet users in their trap. To be more precise, a link always consists of at least two parts in html. [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Security, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 17th, 2008
  • Comments: 2

Hide the Tab Bar in Firefox

Tabbed browsing is one of the main improvements that actually has a long history dating back to the year 1997. It first became widely popular when Opera began to use it and today all browsers, at least the most common ones, are using tabbed browsing.
While the tab bar is providing a great way to [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 14th, 2008
  • Comments: 11

Firefox Configuration Mania

Many Firefox settings can only be changed in the about:config dialog that appears when you type the phrase in the Firefox address bar. The settings in there however have rather cryptic names and it can sometimes be quite hard to figure out what they do, actually not that hard because every setting is explained on the Mozilla website. Still, it takes some time to look them up.

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 11th, 2008
  • Comments: 6

Open multiple links at once in Firefox

There are not many Firefox add-ons left that I have never heard about but this one caught me by surprise. Snap Links is an excellent Firefox add-on that I have immediately added to the list of add-ons that are installed permanently on my system. It’s basic function is to provide a way to mark several [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 26th, 2008
  • Comments: 2

Share, bookmark and e-mail links with Shareaholic

People use dozens of social news and bookmarking websites nowadays. All those sites offer toolbars and buttons for various browsers including Firefox, it’s just to much if you want to install all of them. Webmasters are looking for ways to submit their sites and articles to those sites with less effort.

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Categories: Browsing, Online Services, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 2nd, 2007
  • Comments: 5

Numbered Tabs for Firefox

The Firefox add-on Fancy Numbered Tabs replaces the red X with numbers. Replaces is probably not the best term for this because the X is still available if you hover your mouse over the number. You might wonder why numbering the tabs could be useful, let me explain.

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

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