Most image search engines, and image hosting sites for that matter, use thumbnail previews of images that link to the image directly or another web page with the original version of the image. If you use Google Images or Bing Images for instance, you see a list of image results. These results are small thumbnails [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

One of the things that you should always do when shopping online is to compare prices. You can use price search engines for that, or manually visit some of your favorite stores and online shopping portals to buy for the best price. We have taken a look at price comparison add-ons for Firefox (see Firefox [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Every Google Search user may access search settings to configure some settings, like the number of search results per page or if search results should be opened in a new window, or not. The options available are limited, and third party developers have created numerous tools to modify Google Search one way or the other. [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google

I recently switched from the stable Firefox 3.6x browser to the beta of Firefox 4, mainly because the beta appeared to be relatively stable at this point in development. Naturally, some of the add-ons that I used to work with were not compatible with Firefox 4, either because the developer did not update the add-on [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Userscripts are great. Sure, you need to install Greasemonkey first if you want to run them on Firefox, but they are afterwards easier to install than extensions and have a lesser impact on the overall performance of the browser since they are executed on page loads only, and not resident in memory all the time [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

When it comes to online translations, it is Google Translate that gets the most attention from Internet users. The popular service is not only accessible through the official website, but thanks to its API also through third party tools like browser add-ons or desktop applications. The translation is the only constant when it comes to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google

I did not pay much attention to Youtube or any other Flash based video portal on the Internet ever since I have uninstalled the Flash Player on my PC. Still, I sometimes have to visit the site if something newsworthy is happening. A new YouTube userscript that has not been reviewed yet is probably not [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

You sometimes may not want that others see what site you are visiting currently. That’s not so much a problem at home but at public places like work, libraries, Internet cafes or airports. Switching manually to a safe website takes time, even if it is open in another tab in the web browser. Even worse, [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

As a Google Chrome user you probably know that the Google browser supports userscripts next to extensions. Userscripts are small JavaScript code snippets that change the behavior of a website. They can for instance add information, remove unnecessary elements or change existing data. Google Chrome, unlike Firefox, where the Greasemonkey extension is needed to install [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome