One of the nicest features that the Opera web browser is offering is the so called Scroll Marker. This feature – when enabled – will display a transparent line at every page break of a website to aid the user in navigating it. This is very helpful on websites with huge amounts of texts as [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera

Web browser users can normally enable or disable web proxy servers in their browsers. There is usually no way to configure a different web proxy server based on the visited website or an option to switch between web proxy use and no proxy use easily. Auto Proxy is a new experimental Firefox add-on that tries [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Since I always go through a lot of ‘phases’ in the way I use software, I am really interested to know how you guys use your browsers. Basically in the beginning I knew nothing of addons and such, so I just used it as is (this ws when tabbed browsing came in). Once addons were [...]

Categories: Firefox

If you use Firefox you probably have had to enter the address about:plugins to see if the plugin you just installed actually did install. But did you know there is another “about” address you can use to do some serious tweaking in the famous open source web browser? That address: about:config. The about:config address is [...]

Categories: Advice, Firefox, Linux, Open Source, Software, The Web

A new update to the popular Firefox web browser is currently distributed to mirror sites across the world. The release is already available at selected mirror sites and raises the version of the Firefox web browser to 3.0.7. The beta release notes which have been published in the end of February are mentioning that Firefox [...]

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The video portal Veoh is unlike any other video portal on the Internet. One of the main differences between Veoh and other video portals like Youtube is that Veoh is limiting the playback of some of the larger videos on their site to a five minute preview. Veoh asks its users to download the web [...]

Categories: Browsing, Entertainment, Firefox, The Web

If you are a Facebook regular with a solid amount of friends and activities you might have thought about downloading some of the contents, especially pictures but other multimedia content would do as well, from Facebook to the local computer. Think of photo albums that have been uploaded by friends, family or colleagues. It is [...]

Categories: Browsing, Facebook, Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is already a complete web browser. Its extensions, user generated add-ons for the web browser, heave it to the next level and make it a browser that sticks out of the masses. This article will list the most important extensions to download files with the Firefox browser. The following list contains the most [...]

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Up until recently there was not a single add-on available for the Mozilla Firefox 3 web browser that would check the bookmarks for invalid or duplicate entries. Several add-ons existed that were able to perform the checks in Firefox 2. The reason for the missing add-ons was a change in the storage location for Firefox [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox