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 [...]

Categories: Firefox

Several posts have made the round in the last weeks that explained how a specific webmail service could be selected as the default client when the user would click on a mailto link on a website. One article that can be seen as an example would be my How To Make Gmail The Default Mail [...]

Categories: Email, Firefox

Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 has been released and it introduces several new features and improvements to already existing ones. The buzz feature of Firefox 3.1 will definitely be tab previews which opens up a small overlay whenever the user presses CTRL TAB. It looks similar to Windows Vista’s Alt Tab behavior by displaying the tabs [...]

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The email client Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 has been released just a few hours ago and is now available for download on the official Get Thunderbird website but also through automatic updates in the mail client. I had to manually selected Help > Check for Updates to install the new version this way but most users will [...]

Categories: Email

The Orca Browser is based on the Firefox 3 core but adds lots of unique features and options to the table. The first thing that you notice after installation is the speed of the browser. It’s obviously a felt speed but it seems a lot faster than Firefox 3 or Opera 9.5 for that matter. [...]

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Shortly after releasing version Firefox 2.0.0.16 the Firefox development team released another update this time for Firefox 3. The update fixes three security updates that have a critical rating making this a security update. It is recommended to update Firefox 3 as soon as possible to close the security holes. Two of my add-ons stopped [...]

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If you are someone who does not want to leave Firefox for a simply local browsing then Firefly might be the add-on that you have been looking for. It adds a pretty comprehensive file manager to Firefox that can be used to view, open, edit, delete, move and rename files with ease. The installation file [...]

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Many Firefox users know that typing about:config in the Firefox location bar will open a Firefox configuration file that provides access to user preferences that cannot be changed otherwise. Did you know that there are 15 additional protocol links available ? Not all of them are as useful as the about:config protocol link but some [...]

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It never happened to me that I wanted to restore more than two tabs in Firefox and even that happened only once since the feature has been introduced to the browser. A right-click on a tab opens a menu that has an option to undo the last closing of a tab in Firefox. Firefox is [...]

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