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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 30th, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Organize Firefox Bookmarks In Tabs

Firefox opens the bookmark manager (which is officially called library) in a new window by default. I always felt that this was kinda weird as it meant to navigate back and forth between the web browser window and the bookmark manager. One could try to place the two windows next to each other or display [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 27th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

PageZipper Makes Browsing Multiple Pages More Comfortable

Ever been to a website that likes to divide articles into multiple pages to artificially increase their pageviews and thus advertisement revenue? I remember websites that would display every item of a top 50 or top 100 list on individual pages with each page consisting of a few sentences and a screenshot.
The Firefox add-on [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 23rd, 2009
  • Comments: 9

New Firefox Tab Manager Tabberwocky

Tabberwocky is a lightweight Firefox tab manager alternative of the popular Tab Mix Plus add-on. It offers popular options like protecting tabs from being closed, duplicate already open tabs, open new tabs next to the active tab and managing several other important aspects of tabs in Firefox.
The Firefox add-on will add several of its features [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 23rd, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Display Website Tracker Information

Most websites have tracking system installed. Some internal to analyze and create visitor statistics and many external by embedding advertisement and external website tracking tools in the code. Many users are not aware of these trackers and even fewer know what the individual trackers do and do not do.
That’s where Tracker Watcher comes into play. [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 21st, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Paste And Go Firefox Add-on To Speed Up Copy Paste Load Operations

I reviewed the first Page And Go Firefox add-on back in 2006. Since then lots has changed with the old add-on now defunct and Paste and Go 3 released offering increased functionality. The basic concept of the add-on remains the same. Instead of having to copy a phrase, pasting it into the address bar or [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 20th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Google Preview

Thumbnail previews in the Google and Yahoo search engines. Love em or hate em. Displaying thumbnails of the websites that are appearing in the search results of Google and Yahoo can contribute to the selection process of the search engine user and to the security of the web browsing experience.
Thumbnails allow search engine users [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 20th, 2009
  • Comments: 16

Fastest PDF File Viewer

Adobe PDF is not the fastest pdf reader that is available these days even with programs like Adobe Reader Speedup which remove some of the unneeded features. There are quite a few popular alternatives like Foxit PDF Reader which provide a similar functionality but offer faster startup and loading times.
If speed is the main issue [...]

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Categories: Adobe, Linux, Mac, Windows, firefox, software

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