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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 15th, 2008
  • Comments: 6

Move Firefox Tabs To The Sidebar

Everyone is used to access the tabs in Firefox just below the Firefox header that contains the navigation elements and address bar. While that seems to the the natural placement for now I remember times when tabs where accessible at the bottom of the screen just above the status bar instead.
And the Tab Sidebar add-on [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 14th, 2008
  • Comments: 9

Firefly Firefox File Browser

If you are someone who does not want to leave Firefox for a simply local browsing then Firefly might be the add-on that you have been looking for. It adds a pretty comprehensive file manager to Firefox that can be used to view, open, edit, delete, move and rename files with ease. The installation file [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 2nd, 2008
  • Comments: 5

Cybersearch Firefox Extension

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 [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 26th, 2008
  • Comments: 6

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, [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 25th, 2008
  • Comments: 33

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 [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 21st, 2008
  • Comments: 5

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 [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 18th, 2008
  • Comments: 19

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 [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

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