Firefox 3 displays five bars at the top of the application window before it is starting to show the website’s contents. There is the title bar, the menu, the navigation toolbar, the bookmarks toolbar and the tabs of course. They take up about 132 pixels in height on the screen which is more than a [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

One relative unknown feature of Firefox 3 is the ability to manage plugins in the browser’s interface. Many would be surprised that this feature is now available in the Firefox Add-ons menu. The add-ons menu has been revamped in Firefox 3 to include new features such as searching for and installing Firefox add-ons right from [...]

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Greasemonkey scripts can really increase the usability of a web browser which is especially true for scripts that improve a day to day activity. If you regularly search for and download files at Rapidshare you might have felt the frustration when a link was not working anymore. Most Rapidshare Search sites and search engines give [...]

Categories: Browsing, Software

Google Multi-Column View is a Greasemonkey script that can display Google search results in two or three different columns instead of the default display. Doing that can be extremely useful for users with widescreen monitors who want to use all of the screen estate when working with Google. A test on a 1920×1200 LCD monitor [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google, The Web

Some webmasters develop a keen sense for spotting valuable domain names. They might be reading an article, thinking about something or discussing something with friends or coworkers. It makes “pling” suddenly and they have the idea for an excellent domain name. If only it would be still available. The usual way to check that would [...]

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Image browsing is still not a strength of most web browsers. Sure you can click on a picture, look at it and repeat the process to view all the images of a page but there are no controls to really navigate through all images on a page with lots of them. Some websites provide scripts [...]

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While most users want to make sure that copied text from their web browser does not contain any formatting or code some users might just need that. Web developers for instance might be inclined to copy the html instead of the plain text to be able to process it further or use the information to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

The latest nightly build of Firefox 3.1 included a first version of the long awaited private browsing feature. Private Browsing is basically browsing the Internet in a sandbox that does not write any data of that session on the computer’s hard drive. Unlike Google Chrome’s Incognito Mode Firefox will close all tabs that have been [...]

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A few Firefox extensions can remove unneeded menu items from the web browser to provide only access to the functions that are required and used by the user. One basic example would be to remove the Work Offline menu entry from the file menu if that function is never used in Firefox. Custom Menus is [...]

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