Firefox tries automatically to match the domain name or keyword that a user enters in the Firefox address bar. It compares the text entered with the browsing history and bookmarks for example. One thing that I noticed lately was that some of the bookmarks that were displayed in the address bar were no longer of [...]
Keep Firefox Menus Open After Selection
If you ever wanted to open a few websites from a bookmarks folder, the history or the autocomplete option in Firefox you know that it requires more work than it should. The menus close automatically after each selection which makes that selection process time consuming and uncomfortable.
There is no workaround available for this with the [...]
Google Translate Bar Ported From Chrome For Firefox
One of the new features of Google Chrome 5 is a Google Translate bar that pops up automatically if a website uses a different language from the user’s system language. Not all Chrome uses like the new feature in the latest development releases of the web browser which becomes apparent if you read the comments [...]
Google Buzz Extensions For Web Browsers
Every tech blog and website in existence seems to have written about Google Buzz at least once since its release a few days ago. That’s a lot of feedback for a relatively new service that received not only a boost from those technology sites but also from the fact that it is a part of [...]
Explore A Website’s History With WaybackFox
Webmasters and researchers sometimes need to take a look at a website’s history. This is for instance essential when buying a website to make sure that the seller has been running the website for the time claimed and not snatched a dropped domain to make a quick buck. The Wayback Machine at archive.org is the [...]
Firefox About:Support Helps In Troubleshooting Browser Problems
One of the most interesting additions in Firefox 3.6 is a new support page called about:support which can help the Firefox user and technicians in troubleshooting web browser problems. The support page lists important application, extension and modified configuration settings that can be used to troubleshoot problems.
All Firefox 3.6 users can enter about:support in the [...]
Mozilla Promises Better Virus Scanning After Virus Faux Pas
Mozilla performs antivirus scans on add-ons that are added by developers to the add-on repository. These add-ons are then offered as experimental add-ons until they pass a human review which adds them fully to the add-on directory.
It came to light today that two add-ons that have been offered at the add-on repository had been infected [...]
Tile Tabs In Firefox
Internet users with widescreen monitors see lots of whitespace when they run the web browser maximized as most websites are optimized for a width of about 1000 pixels. Options are to either reduce the size of the web browser window so that another window can be displayed next to it or leave it running in [...]