The rise of online shopping has opened up a world of opportunity for Internet users. One of the most interesting option is the ability to compare prices almost effortlessly. Price comparison services can be divided into two groups: First websites that display price and availability information for product names you enter, and then browser add-ons [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Tab Notifier Informs You Of Website Updates
If you are the kind of person who likes to spend time on social networking sites or messaging services like Facebook, Hotmail or Google Mail, you probably noticed that page titles change whenever updates are available on the site. Tab Notifier now uses those information to notify you of updates on those sites. The browser [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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RequestPolicy For Firefox Gives You Control Over Cross-Site Connections
The majority of websites make connections to other domains when you connect them. Examples are a site that is using Google Analytics for web statistics or Google Adsense for monetization, embeds videos from YouTube, or uses a content distribution network. Sometimes these requests are needed to use all of a site’s functionality. Amazon for instance [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Classicish Add-on Manager For Firefox
Not every Firefox user likes the new add-on manager that the developers have added to the browser some time ago. Veteran users may recall a time when the add-on manager opened up in a popup window instead of a browser tab. The design changed as well, everything feals bigger and less streamlined in the new [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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How To Uninstall Firefox Add-ons With No Remove Option
You can uninstall most Firefox add-ons from the addons manager page in the web browser. All you need to do is type in about:addons in the address bar and tap on the enter key to open the page. A click on remove next to an add-on uninstalls it from the browser. You may need to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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NOverflow for Firefox Makes Sure Your Tabs Stay Visible All The Time
Firefox, like other web browsers, can only display a certain amount of tabs at the same time. This is handled by minimum and maximum width parameters. Once the limit is reached, arrows are added to the right and left side of the tabbar that need to be used to access tabs that are no longer [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Add-on Compatibility Reporter Turned To Reporting Only Add-on
The Add-on Compatibility Reporter add-on for the Firefox web browser was a useful browser extension to force add-on compatibility in unsupported versions of the Firefox web browser. While it was not able to force compatibility for add-ons that were incompatible due to changes in the browser itself, it managed to enforce compatibility for the majority [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Add A Calculator To The Firefox Status Bar
If you have to do calculations regularly you have probably a software calculator or physical calculator accessible right next to you. And even if you do not, you could probably just fire up a search engine like Google for some quick calculations. The Firefox add-on Status-bar Scientific Calculator offers another option. It adds a single [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Mark All Visited Links In A Custom Color
Visited links by default display in a different color than links that have not been visited. These different link colors act as visual indicators on websites, that make it clear on first sight whether you have opened a link on a page or not. This is especially useful on sites with dynamic listings, like Hacker [...]