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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Search For Highlighted Text With Context Search X For Firefox
I sometimes see phrases or words on a page that I need to look up. Sometimes, those phrases can also lead to additional resources about a certain subject that I’m researching. While I could highlight and right-click the phrase to search for it on the default search engine, I do not have options to search [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Close’n Forget Removes Active Sites From Firefox’s History
You sometimes may want to erase traces of web pages that you have visited in the past. This is especially useful on multi-user systems where every user is sharing the same account and profile, but also for privacy conscious users who want to protect their privacy from third parties (for instance during US border controls [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox Profile Switcher Add-on
If you are working with multiple profiles in Firefox you have probably your own ingenious way of launching them. Some Firefox users may use shortcuts to launch their profiles, others the built-in profile manager, the command line or an add-on like Switchy If you are new to the concept, I suggest you take a look [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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UI Enhancer Improves Firefox’s Address Bar Behavior
There is not really a lot that you can do with Firefox’s address bar, other than entering keywords or web addresses. A click on the site’s favicon opens a window with security related information about the site and the bookmark’s star at the end offers to bookmark the site. UI Enhancer improves the Firefox address [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Load The Homepage When Firefox Opens A New Tab
When you open a new tab in the Firefox browser you’ll notice that it always opens up blank. Mozilla announced plans to redesign the new tab page in an upcoming version of the browser, but for now blank is all you get. While tabs open fast because of this, it is for some users not [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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How To Access Grooveshark If It Is Blocked In Your Country
Grooveshark recently started to block German users from accessing the service citing unreasonable costs of operations in the country as the sole reason for the move. German users who try to access the Grooveshark website see an announcement that the service is no longer available to them. There may be other countries or networks where [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Ex.FM Music Discovery Service With A Twist
Most music discovery services let you only play music that they have available in their databases or on their servers. That’s great and all but may be limiting at times. Ex.FM offers a solution. The web service at its core is still a music discovery service, with the difference that it will pick up music [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Don’t Want To Be Tracked Online? Use TrackerBlock
Most Internet users do not know that every step they make on the Internet is likely tracked by one or multiple companies. Tracking can be loosely divided into a first party and third party group. First party tracking is usually connected to the generation of visitor statistics, and less about the individual user. Third party [...]