Page Bookmarks
Bookmarks are references to websites that are stored on a computer system. They are usually stored in a web browser to make it easier to open a website at a later point […]
Firefox Cookie Editor
Mozilla Firefox offers no way to manipulate cookies directly in the web browser unlike the Opera web browser which comes with those capabilities. (Update: it is possible to edit cookies in recent […]
Add Hostname To Firefox Titlebar
The hostname is basically the root url of a website, for Ghacks it would be www.ghacks.net. Adding that information to the titlebar has two apparent benefits. Number one is related to phishing. […]
Check Multiple Checkboxes In Firefox
If you regularly have to work with multiple checkboxes on a page then you might feel a bit frustrated at performing the same operation over and over again. It might be fun […]
Web of Trust: collaborative online security
Most systems which warn of unsafe websites, like OpenDNS and Google, work in mysterious, non-transparent ways and websites are often deemed as unsafe for reasons other than safety. Web of Trust is […]
Open Random Website In Firefox
Are you feeling bored right now? Don't know what to do? If you want to spend time on the Internet but don't know where, you might let fate decide instead. Random Site […]
Sort Downloads In Firefox
Sorting downloads can be a very good way to control where files will be stored on a computer system. The default option in Firefox is to save them to the standard download […]
Add Trash To Firefox Bookmarks
Deleting bookmarks in Firefox will remove them permanently from the web browser. There is no going back which might sometimes end in chaos and desperation. Some users might feel more secure with […]
Firefox Mass Password Reset
It is a common practice among security professionals to use a password only once. What I mean by that is to use unique passwords for every single account created. The core reason […]
Save And Paste Form Data In Firefox
Many websites require users to signup before their services can be fully used. While that makes often times sense, for instance for user identification, it is sometimes used solely for the purpose […]
Firefox Temporary Bookmarks
Temporary Bookmarks are bookmarks that expire after a certain amount of time automatically. While most users prefer their bookmarks to last indefinitely, some use bookmarks as a temporary means to store web […]
Copy URL To Clipboard When Copying Text In Firefox
When you quote text published on a website you usually need to copy the text itself that you want to quote and the web address (url) as you need to cite your […]
Great Summary Summarizes Web Pages
Don't have the time to read a long article on a web page? Then it might be worth to give the Great Summary service a try. The service extracts the most important […]
Firefox Numbered Tabs
A rather unknown feature of Firefox is the ability to quickly switch tabs with the shortcuts CTRL 1-9. To switch to the fifth open tab in Firefox, you would for instance use […]
Firefox Domain Lookup Add-on
Some webmasters develop a keen sense when it comes to valuable domain names. They may read an article and come up with great domain names or come up with names after they […]
Firefox Image Navigator
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 […]
Firefox Copy Code
While most users want to make sure that copied text from the web browser they are using does not contain any formatting or code, some users might just need that. Web developers […]
Edit Or Remove Firefox Menus
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 […]
Load Multiple URLs In Firefox
How do you load multiple urls in Firefox? You could use the Snap Links extension if they are properly linked on a website; But what if they are not? Say a friend […]
Fasterfox Lite
Fasterfox is a controversial Firefox add-on mainly because of its prefetching setting that causes unnecessary load on web servers and may waste resources on the user side as well. By default, Fasterfox […]
Access Google Calendar Without Leaving The Page
GCal Popup is an experimental Firefox extension that is compatible with Firefox 1.5 to 3.x. It integrates the Google Calendar service nicely into Firefox by providing a button in the Firefox status […]
Firefox is already running, but is not responding
The message "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system" popped up quite frequently on […]
Add Noise To Firefox
There is no obvious option in Firefox to add sound notifications to the web browser. Sound is probably something that most users would not want to let near their web browser because […]
Firefox Drag And Drop Search
Firefox offers many ways to perform searches. It displays a search bar on the top right by default, provides access to keywords that can be used to search using custom search engines […]
Split The Firefox Browser
The Ask The Readers article yesterday asked for recommendations for splitting the browser window in Firefox so that two websites could be displayed next to each other. The general consensus was to […]
Custom Firefox Startpage
Users can practically set one or multiple websites as their start pages in Firefox (and any other web browser as well). Another option are Speed Dial extensions which copy a feature from […]
Win Extensions for Windows
Extensions for Windows isn’t freeware and so this review may seem out of place here on gHacks, however I managed to score some free licenses to give away to you guys, just […]
Firefox URLBar Extension
UrlbarExt is an experimental Firefox add-on that adds a few interesting options to the Firefox location bar. Experimental means that users have to log into an account at the Mozilla website to […]
3 Tagging Add-ons For Firefox
Firefox 3 introduced a new way of keeping an eye on bookmarks in the Firefox browser. Tag supported was added in the version which allowed users of the browser to add descriptive […]
Load URL When Creating New Tab In Firefox
Whenever a user opens a new tab in Firefox, which usually is done with the shortcut Ctrl-t or by clicking on the plus icon in the tab bar, the tab that appears […]
Mozilla Labs Ubiquity Is A Firefox Killer Application!
Amos mailed me today and told me about a new Mozilla Labs prototype Ubiquity which he called phenomenal. I was skeptical at first but after a quick trial I'm convinced that this […]
Paragrasp Improves Article Reading In Firefox
Paragrasp is a free add-on for Firefox and Google Chrome that improves how you read articles online by visualizing the paragraph that you are reading. It is sometimes hard to concentrate on […]
Perspectives Makes Firefox That Much Securer
Perspectives is a research project to improve SSH-style Host Authentication with Multi-path Network Probing by researchers of the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University. The title of the research surely sounds […]
Resize HTML Forms In Firefox
Some web developers like to squeeze small HTML forms on websites which are uncomfortable to use for the visitors of the site due to the size they are presented in. Imagine a […]
24 Firefox Search Plugins You Need
Searching is probably the one activity that every Internet user does on a daily basis. It does not really matter if it is a student doing research for an essay, a cook […]
Remove Traces Of Active Websites in Firefox
Removing traces of just one website that you have been visiting in the past is quite some task. It requires knowledge of the storage locations of the data in Firefox. An easier […]
Span Firefox Tabs Across Multiple Rows
Firefox displays one row for its tabbed browsing feature by default with no apparent option to add more tab rows to the browser. Tabs get reduced in size if the user opens […]
Remove Elements Permanently From A Website
RIP - Remove It Permanently - is a Firefox add-on that adds options to the web browser to remove elements on websites permanently. Elements can be pretty much anything from headers, images, […]
YesScript is NoScript's Antagonist
NoScript is a highly acclaimed Firefox security add-on that protects its user from scripts that are executed on websites. The approach is to block all scripts on a website unless the website […]
Mozilla Snowl Communications Add-on
Snowl is a prototype application from Mozilla Labs that tries to bring various communication plattforms under a single roof. The early prototype supports Twitter and RSS News Feeds currently but the developers […]
