Zipedia (via Instant Fundas) is actually the second (Wikipedia Taxi was the first) application that downloads Wikipedia and provides offline access to it’s contents. The main difference between Wikipedia Taxi and Zipedia is that the latter is a Firefox add-on which adds the Wikipedia offline search right into Firefox. The contents of Wikipedia can then [...]

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Wired-Marker (via Download Squad) is a text highlighter add-on for Firefox that can mark selected text in different colors just like a marker would to paper text. The information are saved so that the highlights are visible whenever the page is visited. The information are stored in a local databases which can be moved to [...]

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Adblock Plus is a Firefox add-on that blocks advertisement, and sometimes other elements, on websites. It supports black- and whitelists and is very flexible. One thing that is missing is an option to generally whitelist all bookmarks. Some users might prefer do whitelist websites on a per-site basis and that is perfectly reasonable. Others prefer [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Several posts have made the round in the last weeks that explained how a specific webmail service could be selected as the default client when the user would click on a mailto link on a website. One article that can be seen as an example would be my How To Make Gmail The Default Mail [...]

Categories: Email, Firefox

Flash Cookies, or Local Shared Objects, are stored on the user system by Macromedia Flash applications. They function a lot like cookies and can be used to store session information or save a game progress. The real problem that many users have with them is that they do not know that they exist because they [...]

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Favicons are a great way to identify websites visually and it is even possible to display only the Favicons in some tabs with the FaviconizeTab add-on for Firefox. Favicons are not only displayed in open tabs and the location bar but also in the Bookmark’s menu. I would like to introduce two ways to add [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Beer day is the day of the week where you go out with the guys from work. More often than not it’s Friday afternoon. The Beer oClock extension for Firefox puts a little reminder about that special time of the week in the Firefox status bar. Not the usual “x days y hours till Beer [...]

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