Web browsers can be configured to open website urls either in the current tab or in a new tab. The developers of Firefox have added options to Firefox that give the user a choice when opening links with mouse-clicks. A left-click opens the url in the same tab, a middle-click in a new tab. I [...]

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Sometimes it is little things that can make a big difference. When it comes to closing tabs in the Firefox web browser, users have options to close the tab with a click on the x icon that is either displayed on the right of the tab or at the end of the tabbar. They can [...]

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Pixiv is a popular Japanese art community that is in many regards similar to Deviant Art. Pixiv artists concentrate mostly on drawings, either on the computer or on paper or other materials, and less on other forms of art. The website supports manga and novels as two other forms of art that can be uploaded [...]

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I had my eyes on the FastestFox add-on for the Firefox browser for some time now. In the beginning, I thought it was just another add-on to speed up the browser like Fasterfox which tweaks the network performance of Firefox. Turned out that FastestFox, and its FastestChrome clone, offer a lot more than that. The [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

The standard location for Firefox add-ons to place icons in is the add-on bar, which was previously known as the status bar of the browser. That’s different from the Chrome browser where extension icons are plastered on the address bar instead. The functionality and information that the icons provide is usually not needed all the [...]

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Firefox cannot be minimized to the Windows system tray, at least not without add-ons or third party tools that add the functionality to the web browser. One of those add-ons is the newly released TrayHotKey extension which, unlike related extensions, has a few aces up its sleeve. Firefox users who have installed the extension and [...]

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I have to admit that I’m not using Firefox’s built-in search bar to search on the Internet. I use the space for other interface elements and search directly on sites that offer search. It is a trade-off, other users make use of the search bar in the browser. One of the things that is missing [...]

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You may remember that I published a news article on November 16 about the release of Firefox 8.0.1. The release was available on Mozilla ftp servers and on third party sites like Softpedia, but not officially announced by Mozilla on the Firefox website. While that has not been a big problem in the past, with [...]

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Every third party script that gets loaded on web sites when a visitor loads the page increases that page’s load and rendering times. Web browsers have made big improvements performance wise in recent times which has speed up page rendering times considerable. The rise of social networking sites on the other hand has seen an [...]

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