Firefox Hash Algorithm Check
One would think that it would only be natural if browser developers would add an option to their browsers that would make it possible to check the hash of downloaded files as […]
Web Updates Check with Fireclip
Update: Fireclip is not compatible with the most recent version of the Firefox web browser. Alternatives are currently not available unfortunately. Fireclip is am interesting Firefox add-on that enables you to select […]
Outwit Hub Firefox Web Collection Tool
Outwit Hub is an interesting Firefox add-on. It serves two purposes at the moment: information gathering and organizing. This is done by separating each website into different parts, like images, links, text […]
Download And Use Wikipedia Offline With Firefox
Update: Zipedia is no longer available. The add-on has been pulled from the Mozilla Add-ons repository and the official homepage seems to have received the last update in 2008. We suggest you […]
Text Highlighter For Firefox
Wired-Marker is a text highlighter add-on for Firefox that can mark selected text in different colors just like a marker would with text on paper.Doing so can be useful if you are […]
Firefox Mail From Lets You Pick A Webmail Service
Several posts have made the round in the last couple of weeks that explained how a specific webmail service could be selected as the default client on a PC running the Windows […]
Delete Flash Cookies
Flash Cookies, or Local Shared Objects, are stored on the user system by Macromedia Flash applications. They function a lot like cookies and can be used to store session information or save […]
Add Favicons To Websites Without One
Favicons are a great way to identify websites visually and it is even possible to display only the Favicon in tabs with the FaviconizeTab add-on for Firefox. (Update: Firefox's pin to tab […]
Move Firefox Tabs To The Sidebar
Update: Sidebar Tabs is no longer compatible with recent versions of the Firefox browser. We suggest you use the Tree Style Tab add-on for Firefox instead which offers similar functionality. Everyone is […]
Firefly Firefox File Browser
Update: The file browser for Firefox has not been updated since 2008. It is no longer compatible with recent versions. An alternative does not seem to be available. If you use Firefox […]
Firefox Beer oClock extension
Beer day is the day of the week where you go out with the guys from work. More often than not it's Friday afternoon. The Beer oClock extension for Firefox puts a […]
Cybersearch Firefox Extension
I'm a huge fan of the Awesome Search, now Searchery, add-on for Firefox 3 which added the capability of performing Google searches in the Firefox 3 location bar. I loved it so […]
Firefox is phoning home once a day
Firefox and Thunderbird are phoning home every 24 hours regardless if update notifications have been disabled in both applications. This caused some stir yesterday when a post made the Reddit frontpage that […]
Snap Links for Firefox 3
Snap Links was one of the most useful Firefox 2 add-ons in my opinion and it was one of the few add-ons that I missed dearly after switching to Firefox 3. The […]
Open It Online
Open It Online is a Firefox extensions that is compatible with Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 and offering the user a way to open and edit documents directly online. The benefit of […]
Load Links with the Keyboard in Firefox
About a month ago I reviewed a Firefox add-on which added numbers to Google's search results so that you could open the search result links simply by pressing the corresponding number on […]
Show Location Bar Results when correcting typos in Firefox 3
The location bar, also dubbed awesome bar, has already created some controversy among Firefox users. A group of Firefox users does not like the fact that bookmarks are displayed as suggestions when […]
5 Essential Firefox 3 Add-ons
While it is definitely true that some add-ons get a wider coverage and more downloads than others it is still a fact that each Firefox user had his own share of add-ons […]
Grab and Drag Scrolling in Firefox
Grab and Drag is a Firefox add-on that provides several additional options to scroll pages on websites. The browser extension is only compatible with versions of Firefox released before Firefox 57. The […]
Firefox Themes Website Updated
Not long ago the Firefox add-on website was relaunched and users were slightly disappointed that the Firefox themes websites was not changed at that time as well. There is however no reason […]
Firefox Catalog of Auditing Extensions FireCat
FireCAT (Firefox Catalog of Auditing exTension) is a mindmap of the most efficient security auditing extensions for Firefox. This mindmap is constantly updated to reflect changes in existing add-ons and add new […]
Firefox: what to do when add-ons don't work
Update: While the tip below refers to Firefox 2 and 3, at least some of it applies to newer versions of the Firefox web browser as well which means that it can […]
Display Google Search Results while you type in Firefox
Awesome Search, which I reviewed two days ago, is probably the best application when it comes to Firefox extensions that display Google search results while you are still typing the search phrase. […]
Firefox Passive Recon
Security professionals sometimes need to find out as much about a domain as they can without alerting the owner that someone is requesting all those information. Passive Recon is a Firefox extension […]
Add Search to the Awesome Bar in Firefox 3
I'm getting some very good tips from readers of my blog lately, it's really appreciated. This time it was Dark Kosmos who tipped me of on a new Firefox 3 extension called […]
Secure Firefox with Firekeeper
Update: Please note that the project appears abandoned. It has not been updated for a long time and won't work in recent versions of the Firefox web browser anymore. Mozilla has added […]
Email Information directly from Firefox
If you send information regularly to friends or colleagues using email you may find the Email This extension for Firefox quite handy. Lets say you want to share a website you just […]
Firefox Pronounce
If you are not an English native speaker you will encounter words that you do not know. This does not only include the meaning of the word but also its pronunciation which […]
Firefox Bookmark Permissions
Bookmark Permissions is a security add-on for the Firefox browser that is compatible with Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 beta. The idea is to set specific permissions for individual bookmarks that override […]
Access Search Results with the keyboard
I was always annoyed by the fact that I had to click the links on search result pages instead of having another way to open them by using the keyboard. I'm a […]
Increase Number of Recommended Add-ons in Firefox 3
One of the new interesting features in Firefox 3 is the revamped add-ons manager that now recommends add-ons that are compatible to a user's Firefox version. It would be interesting to see […]
Manage Flash Cookies with Better Privacy
I have written an article about Flash Cookies last year and it turned out that several users did not know they existed and were grateful that they were now able to take […]
How to control Referrers in Firefox
Referrer is a variable that is automatically transferred with your requests that you make on the Internet. If you click on the link to the RefControl Firefox add-on on this site, the […]
My first experience with the Firefox RSS Reader Brief
Stefan covered the Firefox add-on brief a few days ago which is an add-on for Firefox that adds a very basic RSS Feed Reader to the browser. I use Netvibes as my […]
Take a look inside Archives without downloading them
Have you ever asked yourself if a certain file is inside an archive that has been published on a website? Did you download the archive from that website only to find out […]
Lockr: Access Control for Web 2.0
The major issue that I see with all those Web 2.0 social networking websites is that there is no central administration for all the sites that you are a member of but […]
OPML Support for Firefox
I read Stefan's review of the Firefox Brief today which I found interesting in itself. I did learn about dynamic bookmarks in Firefox from the article on top of it. I have […]
Brief - RSS Reader for Firefox Dynamic Bookmarks
The concept of RSS or newsfeeds in general seemed quite appealing to me the moment I first heard (or read?) about it. But I never managed to find a way to utilize […]
Open Multiple Bookmarks in Firefox at once
In the last days I have been looking for a Firefox extension that would make it possible to open multiple bookmarks (and History items) at once. What I mean with this is […]
10 Useful Firefox Add-ons That Don’t Get Glamorised
Not all Firefox add-ons get the news coverage that they deserve. Some are mentioned on every tech site in the world while others are known to only a handful of Firefox users […]
