Extended Statusbar is a Firefox extension that adds a few useful information to the statusbar. Opera users might feel comfortably right away because the functionality has been taken from that browser and was ported – or shall I say cloned – to Firefox by the developer. The extension provides four additional parameters that are displayed [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Removing traces of just one website that you have been visiting is quite some task. It requires knowledge of the storage locations of the information in Firefox. An easier way to remove traces of an active website is to use the Firefox add-on Close and Forget. Close and Forget provides two features. The first is [...]

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No, I’m not referring to something called French Stick – whatever that might be – that has been renamed to Freedom Stick in an effort to punish the French for not siding with the US in their war against terror. Freedom Stick is a software for an USB device that aims at defeating the virtual [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Security, Software

Viewing the source code of a website is a standard function in all web browsers. A right-click usually opens a menu with the option to view the source code of the page. Source code only refers to html source code. There is no way to view Javascript or CSS source codes directly from those menus. [...]

Categories: Firefox

Firefox is offering one row for its tabbed browsing feature. Tabs get reduced in size if the user opens additional websites but that stops eventually and additional tabs are not displayed anymore. The tab bar has to be scrolled to access those websites. Alternatively the icon at the end can be clicked on which opens [...]

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RIP – Remove It Permanently – is a Firefox add-on that adds options to remove elements on websites permanently. Elements can be pretty much anything from headers, images, advertisement, forms to flash content. Want Google without the Google logo? Digg without advertisement and user comments? RIP can do that for you and much more. Two [...]

Categories: Firefox, The Web

Did you know that a Mozilla store existed where you could buy all kinds of Mozilla merchandise? That was a first for me. You can buy Firefox and Thunderbird on CD with nice covers, t-shirts and polos with all kinds of Firefox, Thunderbird and Mozilla motives, gears like backpacks, jackets, posters, stickers, umbrellas and even [...]

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NoScript is a highly acclaimed Firefox security add-on that protects the user from scripts that are executed on websites. The approach is to block all scripts on a website unless the website gets whitelisted by the user. While that is certainly the best security approach it does require lots of manual whitelisting in the beginning [...]

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Snowl is a prototype application from Mozilla Labs that tries to bring various communication plattforms under one roof. The early prototype currently supports Twitter and RSS News Feeds but the developers already mentioned other communication platforms like Facebook, Google Talk or AIM. The first question that obviously comes to mind is how Snowl is any [...]

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