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Massive Extender Adds Batch Installs To The Mozilla Add-On Collector

Mozilla Add-On collections are curated lists of browser extensions by users or Mozilla. These add-on collections are displayed on the Mozilla website where they can be browsed. Most of them are themed, […]

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Upcoming Firefox Performance Improvements

If you have followed the news in the last days about Firefox's new JavaScript engine and the implementation of gpu hardware acceleration, you can stop reading here. Everyone else, especially Mozilla Firefox […]

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Block Websites From Appearing In The Firefox History

HistoryBlock is a free add-on for the Firefox web browser that allows you to specify sites that you don't want listed in the browsing history. Firefox provides users with two core options […]

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Firefox Private Browsing Mode Bypassed By Add-Ons

One of the greatest strengths of the Firefox web browser is the Mozilla development community that has produced thousands of add-ons to improve the browser or the browsing experience in the past. […]

10 Firefox SEO Extensions

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a very important aspect of a webmasters day to day activity on today's Internet. SEO refers to all methods that increase a website's or page's visibility on […]

Firefox Download Manager Tweak Add-on

Download Manager Tweak is an add-on for the Firefox web browser that improves the browser's download manager in several ways. The standard Firefox download manager does not provide many information or options […]

Remove Selected Bookmarks From The Firefox Address Bar

Firefox matches the text that users enter into its address bar automatically with the browsing history, bookmarks, and open tabs to display matches to the user. One thing that I noticed lately […]

Keep Firefox Menus Open After Selection

If you ever wanted to open a few websites from Firefox's bookmarks folder, the history or the autocomplete option you know that it requires more work than it should. The menus close […]

Google Translate Bar Ported From Chrome For Firefox

One of the new features of Google Chrome 5 is a Google Translate bar that pops up automatically if a website uses a different language than the default system language. Chrome users […]

Explore A Website's History With WaybackFox

WaybackFox is an add-on for the Firefox web browser that enables you to open snapshots of the active site created by Archive.org. Webmasters and researchers sometimes need to take a look at […]

Firefox About:Support Helps Troubleshoot Browser Problems

One of the most interesting additions in Firefox 3.6 is a new support page called about:support which can help the Firefox user, admins and technicians troubleshoot web browser issues. The support page […]

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What Is Mozilla Prism Again?

Mozilla Prism is a new add-on for Firefox that can be used to turn any web page into a standalone application on Windows. Beta 3 of Mozilla Prism 1.0 has just been […]

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Mozilla Promises Better Virus Scanning After Virus Faux Pas

Mozilla runs antivirus and compatibility scans when add-ons are submitted to the official add-on repository by developers. These add-ons are then offered as experimental add-ons until they pass a human review which […]

Tile Tabs In Firefox

Internet users with widescreen monitors see lots of whitespace when they run the web browser maximized as most websites are optimized for a width that is not using all of the monitor's […]

Multi-Process Plugins Enabled In Latest Firefox Nightlies

Mozilla enabled multi-process plugin support in Firefox recently which has plugins run in their own process separated from the browser Only Microsoft's Internet Explorer and the Google Chrome web browser are full […]

Check Firefox Add-On Compatibility Before Upgrading

Have you ever thought about upgrading to a new version but discarded the idea because of possible extension incompatibilities? The Firefox web browser does not perform checks prior to installing a new […]

Mozilla Weave 1.0 Final Released

Mozilla Weave is an add-on for Mozilla products that can sync data between multiple installations of the Firefox web browser. Weave can for instance be used by Firefox users to synchronize bookmarks, […]

How to always open tabs at the end of the tabbar in Firefox

A change in the default behavior is often problematic for many users. Firefox 3.6 introduced a change in the way new tabs are opened. Before Firefox 3.6, tabs were always opened at […]

Improve Firefox Private Browsing With Private Browsing Window Add-on

Mozilla added the private browsing feature to the Firefox web browser in version 3.5. It allows users of the browser to switch to that mode so that no browsing data, such as […]

Firefox 3.6 News and Release History

Firefox 3.6 has just been released which might come as a surprise to some users who just read the news a few days ago that Firefox 3.6 RC2 had been released. It […]

Tab Utilities Improve Tab Management In Firefox

Tabbed browsing is currently the state of the art in all popular web browsers. It is not a perfect solution though especially for users who happen to open lots of tabs in […]

Mozilla Firefox Collection Offers Access To Multiple Firefox Versions

Mozilla Firefox Collection is a free program for the Windows operating system that provides you with direct access to multiple Firefox versions. You may remember that we reviewed a program called Internet […]

Clipboard Manager Clipple

Clipple is a free add-on for the Firefox web browser that adds clipboard management functionality to it directly so that you can store multiple items instead of just one using it. If […]

View Item Price History on Amazon, Best Buy And NewEgg

Some people buy items whenever they want without taking actual need or the pricing history of an item into account. It is clear that some items need to be purchased right away […]

Popular Firefox Add-Ons And Their Google Chrome Equivalent

Google's Chrome web browser has developed into an interesting competitive browser ever since its first release. Part of this comes from features that Chrome supports but other browsers such as Firefox don't. […]

Firefox Mouse Zoom

Mouse Zoom is a browser extension for the Firefox web browser that improves the mouse zooming capabilities of Firefox. Among the things it adds are using only the mouse to zoom from […]

More Mozilla Firefox 4 Design Mockups Appear

Firefox 4 is still a long time away but some dedicated developers and designers are already at work to take the web browser to the next level. One of the improvements that […]

Autostart Firefox In Private Browsing Mode

Private browsing mode is a new option that all popular web browsers are offering now (the latest to add this mode was the Opera web browser that had the mode implemented in […]

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Latest Firefox Nightlies Comes With Multi-Process Support

One of the new trends in web browser development is to separate various modules of the web browser, like different tabs, plugins and the core engine, in different processes to increase the […]

Thunderbird And Firefox Plugin Checker

Many Firefox and Thunderbird users feel that Mozilla has not added enough protection in the software to avoid automatic plugin installations. A recent change in Firefox 3.6 made sure that third parties […]

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Use Multifox For Multiple Website Logins

Multifox is a free add-on for the Firefox web browser that enables you to use different identity profiles to separate tasks from one another. Update: The author of Multifox has stopped development […]

Mozilla Considering App Store For Add-Ons

Developers who develop add-ons for the Firefox web browser or other Mozilla software can ask for inclusion on the AMO website where anyone can download those add-ons free of charge. The only […]

Memory Fox Flushes Firefox's Memory Constantly

Memory Fox is a free browser add-on for the Mozilla Firefox web browser that releases memory regularly to keep RAM usage low. Some Firefox users feel that the web browser has grown […]

Voyage Visualizes Your Browsing History

Voyage is an add-on for the Firefox web browser that visualizes the web browsing history of the user by drawing connections between destinations. The Firefox web browser and all other modern browsers […]

Mozilla Adds Language Filter On Add-on's Page

Mozilla, which is not only responsible for developing the Firefox browser, the Thunderbird email client and various other projects has changed several key features of its main website recently. In particular, the […]

Improve Firefox's Bookmarks Management With Incredible Bookmarks

Firefox's bookmark management capabilities are limited. It is for instance not possible to check for duplicate bookmarks or dead links in the bookmarks manager, or to comfortably change the bookmarks that are […]

Add And Use Multiple Source Code Editors In Firefox

The Firefox web browser will display the source code of any website by default in its own interface. There are two configuration parameters that can be set so that another external source […]

Here Is A Little Mozilla Add-ons Secret

The Mozilla website hosts several add-on directories for Mozilla software such as those for Firefox or Thunderbird. If you look at these add-ons you will eventually notice that not all add-ons are […]

Customize Firefox Toolbars With Total Toolbars

Total Toolbars is a Firefox add-on that extends the browser's options to customize toolbars displayed in its interface. One of the biggest additions is the ability to control and customize the icons […]

Mozilla Add-Ons Sort Broken?

The Mozilla website hosts - among other programs and files - the web browser Firefox and the email client Thunderbird. The very same website also functions as a directory for Firefox and […]