Sometimes you may want to mute all sound coming from the Firefox web browser. Maybe you are currently on a page with a Flash animation that is making irritating sounds, or you are about to answer a phone call and need to mute the sounds in the browser because of that. Or maybe you are [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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How To Turn Chrome or Firefox Into A Single-Site Browser
A Single-Site browser serves a very specific purpose. You use it to access one, and sometimes a handful, of websites and services on the Internet. This can be financial sites, your email accounts or other sites with personal information like a medical related sites. The basic idea is to block access to all other sites [...]
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Quitomzilla For Firefox Helps You Quit Smoking
Smoking is one of those things that I could never get my head around. Why would anyone want to pay money for something that damages their health? I have a few friends who are smoking, and one of the things that I witnessed over the years were lackluster and honest attempts to quit smoking. And [...]
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Make The Most Out Of Pinterest With These Browser Add-ons
Web browser add-ons can improve your Pinterest experience significantly. Let me give you a quick overview of what the service is about. Pinterest lets you pin photos and videos to online pinboards. These are publicly accessible, and all Pinterest users can comment on them, share them or pin them to their pinboards as well. Links [...]
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Gridtube Modifies YouTube’s Search Layout
The search results layout on the video hosting website YouTube has a few usability issues. When you search on YouTube, you are presented with a long list of scrolling results. For each result a small low res thumbnail image is shown prominently, and next to that the video’s title, part of the description and a [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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ProxMate Unblocks Access To YouTube and GrooveShark
Depending on the country you are currently in, you may be blocked from accessing part or all of a website. One prime example is the US-only service HULU which blocks all users except those coming from the United States. The popular video hosting service YouTube on the other hand blocks users from specific countries from [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Ciuvo, Another Price Comparison Add-on For Firefox
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 [...]
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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 [...]