I’m a huge fan of the Awesome Search, now Searchery, add-on for Firefox 3 which added the capability of performing Google searches in the Firefox 3 location bar. I loved it so much because it helped me get rid of the search bar in the main Firefox 3 toolbar which in turn gave me more [...]
Firefox is phoning home once a day
Firefox and Thunderbird are phoning home every 24 hours regardless if update notifications have been disabled in both applications. This caused some stir yesterday when a post made the Reddit (thanks Ryan) frontpage that informed users about this. Firefox and Thunderbird are apparently contacting a Mozilla server transmitting information about the IP address, the time, [...]
Snap Links for Firefox 3
Snap Links was one of the most useful Firefox 2 add-ons in my opinion and it was one of the few add-ons that I missed dearly after switching to Firefox 3. The add-on could be installed with a little tweak of the install.rdf file that can be found in every Firefox add-on installation package but [...]
Load Links with the Keyboard in Firefox
About a month ago I reviewed a Firefox add-on which added numbers to Google’s search results so that the links could be loaded by simply pressing the corresponding number. That add-on was only working with the first ten results in Google, other search engines or websites were not supported by it.
HaH which is an acronym [...]
5 Essential Firefox 3 Add-ons
While it is definitely true that some add-ons get a wider coverage and more downloads than others it is still a fact that each Firefox user had his own share of add-ons that he considers essential. This can be mostly attributed to different motives in using Firefox. A web developers is using a different set [...]
Firefox Themes Website Updated
Not long ago the Firefox add-on website was relaunched and users were slightly disappointed that the Firefox themes websites was not changed at that time as well. There is however no reason to be disappointed anymore because the themes website received an update that makes it look and feel similar to the new Firefox add-on [...]
Firefox Catalog of Auditing Extensions FireCat
FireCAT (Firefox Catalog of Auditing exTension) is a mindmap of the most efficient security auditing extensions for Firefox. This mindmap is constantly updated to update existing add-ons and add new extensions that might prove useful for security professionals but also interested users.
FireCAT 1.4 is currently available for download as a browsable html file or pdf [...]

