If you look at the different versions of Firefox from say Firefox 2 to the very latest versions released recently, you will notice lots of changes. Not only design changes but also changes that removed or replaced specific features of the web browser. FeatureFix is a Firefox add-on that tries to resolve several issues that [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

If there is one Firefox add-on that I don’t want to live without it is the NoScript extension. It is a security add-on that will block all scripts by default which are one of the main attack vectors on today’s Internet. Users can whitelist scripts on specific domains temporarily, e.g. for a browsing session, or [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Android, Mobiles, Nokia

For the last two days I have been receiving popup messages when running Firefox. They stated that “Update Failed. Something is trying to trick Firefox into accepting an insecure update. Please contact your network provider and seek help”. Since I have not changed a thing in that time that would affect Firefox’s update mechanism I [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Back in 2007 I reviewed the Firefox extension Hyperwords which gave you access to a research context menu after selecting text on a website. You could use it to search in various search engines, encyclopedias or news sites. While I’m not 100% sure, I believe that the Liquid Information add-on is the successor of the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

One of the few Firefox extensions that I have been using constantly for a very long time is Multi Links (formerly Snap Links) which allows me to open multiple links directly by drawing a rectangle with the mouse around them. That’s handy for instance if you are on a page with multiple files that you [...]

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When you open the music section over at the video hosting site YouTube you get a list of popular music videos that are currently hosted on the site. You can play individual videos or all of them at once, and while that works nicely in most countries, you may live or be in one that [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

We have all been in the situation where something on the Internet is not working out as it should. Maybe it is that captcha that you read wrong for the fifth time, the long comment that you wrote that would not post or that darn website that just won’t open at all. While some may [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

I install a lot of Firefox add-ons every week. First add-ons that I may use personally and then add-ons for review here on Ghacks or other sites. One of the things that bothered me for some time now is the artificial delay that Mozilla added to the installation process of extensions in the web browser. [...]

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If you are using the built-in Firefox download manager to download files from the Internet and have configured the browser to remember the browsing history, you may have noticed the absence of a delete button in the download window. While it is possible to remove individual files from the listing by selecting them first and [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox