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 3 changed the bookmarking system from a basic html powered system to using sqlite databases. One benefit of using databases is the possibility to run custom queries. Three of so-called smart […]
Firefox 3 introduced several special folders for Firefox bookmarks management, among them the Unsorted Bookmarks, Most Visited, Recently Bookmarked and Recent Tags folders. Unsorted Bookmarks is being used to store new bookmarks […]
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 […]
Firefox analyzes the text that has been entered by the user in the Firefox address bar when the user hits the enter key in the browser. Depending on the configuration of Firefox […]
When a user types a search term in the Firefox location bar (address bar, awesome bar) it is determined if the entered term is an actual web address or a search term. […]
Firefox 3 introduced a new feature called unsorted bookmarks. If you look at the Firefox 3 location bar you see a white star at the right end of the bar. Clicking on […]
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 […]
Keeping up with all the different attack vectors is like the protagonist of Cervante's famous novel Don Quixote. New threats are emerging on a daily basis while protections seem to remain stagnant […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
The time would eventually come that Mozilla would remind Firefox 2 users that a new version of the web browser has been released. Mozilla released Firefox 3 some months ago in 2008. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Viewing the source code of a website is a standard feature in all web browsers. A right-click on any web page opens a context menu with an option to view the source […]
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 […]
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, […]
Did you know that a Mozilla store exists where you can buy all kinds of Mozilla merchandise? That was a first for me. You can buy Firefox and Thunderbird on CD with […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Adblock Plus is a Firefox add-on (Update: now also available for other browsers such as Google Chrome) that blocks advertisement, and sometimes other elements, on websites. It supports black- and whitelists and […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Orca Browser is based on the Firefox 3 core but adds lots of unique features and options to it that Firefox does not support. The first thing that you notice after […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I sometimes connect my Nokia N73 mobile phone to my Toshiba notebook to connect to the Internet and do some urgent stuff like checking and replying to mails, writing articles on my […]
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 […]
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 in the browser's interface otherwise. Did […]
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 […]
Most Firefox users know that they can configure the Firefox web browser to always load a website - the home page - when the browser starts. This can be very useful in […]
