Firebug is a very popular extension for the Firefox web browser that allows web developers to access loads of information about any website that they work on. Among the information are the objects that get transferred, detailed CSS and HTML information, JavaScript debugging and more. The Firebug extension divides the screen in an upper and [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Any Color is an add-on for the Firefox web browser that allows users to change the look and feel of the browser without having to install separate themes. It comes with a set of color schemes that can be applied to the web browser instantly after installation of the add-on. The major benefits of the [...]

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When you log into GNOME are there applications that you wish would start automatically? Are you one of those that fire up your web browser or your email client as your desktop is finishing the loading process? If that’s the case you’re in luck, GNOME (and most Linux desktops) allows you to add applications to [...]

Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

Google Search has always been using a minimalistic design. While this serves several purposes like offering distraction free web searching and fast loading times it does fall a bit short for some users who prefer to access additional information right in the search interface. Google Fx is a Greasemonkey Script which means it works in [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Search Engines, Uncategorized

Want to see what other web browsers have to offer but have no interest in installing any of them on your computer system? You could hunt down the portable versions of those web browsers that you want to try out if they exist; Or, you could use the virtual browsers at Xenocode which allow you [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, The Web

You need to click several times on the photo hosting website Flickr if you want to open a full sized photo from a page that is only displaying the thumbnail image of it. The same is true for websites where Flickr thumbnails or images are embedded on. Users who like to open full sized versions [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, The Web

SSL connections which you can identify by the HTTPS protocol in the address bar of the web browser provide additional security in comparison to the HTTP protocol. This is why many companies use SSL on security sensitive pages of their website which usually involve financial transactions or personal information. To put it bluntly: A bank [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Security

The Mozilla Firefox development team had to react quickly after a working vulnerability was discovered affecting all the latest versions of the Firefox web browser. (read Latest Firefox Web Browser Vulnerable to 0-Day Exploit). After news about the vulnerability spread like wildfire on the Internet a first official statement was released that was suggesting an [...]

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The introduction of the new Microsoft Office XML formats (docx, pptx, xlsx) have caused some confusion by users of previous Microsoft Office releases as their versions were not able to open the new document formats by default. The same was true for users without access to any version of Microsoft Office 2007. Several ways to [...]

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