There are many users who like to use the history of their web browser, as it provides them with faster access to websites, as well as a way to find websites again that they have opened in the past. There are also users who prefer to block the history completely, as they value their privacy [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Many users who work in a web browser need to occasionally open another application on their computer system. Webmasters might need to use a screenshot taking tool or sftp client to manage their websites. Other users might want to launch a music player, news reader or email client. The usual way of accomplishing this is [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

The Firefox extensions website at Mozilla.org got a long needed overhaul. The design of the website has been changed drastically making it more welcoming and eye pleasing to visiting users. The various extension categories are listed on the right while the main part of the screen is reserved for extension recommendations sorted by topics like [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

There is quite a discussion going on currently about the future of the tab-driven web browser. The Mozilla Firefox team seems to be serious to discover a new way of handling multiple open websites in a web browser without using tabs as the primary means of managing those open pages. The Firefox extension Showcase changes [...]

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You do not get a blank page whenever you open a new tab in the Google browser. Google Chrome displays thumbnails of the most visited websites together with a search function and a list of recently closed pages which can be a great time saver if the user intents to open a website that is [...]

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Page Speed is a new and interesting website optimization add-on for the Firefox Firebug extension. This means that Page Speed requires the Firefox web browser and the Firebug extension for Firefox before it can be installed. Two new tabs will be added to the Firebug menu which can be used to analyze the performance of [...]

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The technical world and the advance of the Internet has made it a necessity for many users to speak English. This does leave many users with at least two languages that they read and probably also write in which is usually not a big problem if the languages are closely related, say Dutch and German [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Uncategorized

Many Ghacks readers use Google Reader as their main RSS feed reader. It offers an impressive list of features and options and is generally considered to be one of the best RSS feed readers available. One prime advantage over desktop clients is that the update process does not use resources of the local computer system. [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Mashlogic is a popular Firefox add-on that adds text links that display information when hovered over. What makes the add-on interesting is the ability to customize what kind of information are provided. This ranges from usual sources such as Wikipedia, IMDB or Twitter to niche information such as a currency converter, job search, document search [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox