Are you a Firefox user who regularly cleans the Firefox history and other traces like downloads from the web browser's memory? Do you think that these information are really gone and cannot […]
The designers and developers of the Firefox web browser have shown several design mockups of future Firefox versions in July. These mockups have since then been the source of inspiration for Firefox […]
Firefox by default will not prioritize any of the links. The Firefox developer's now thought that it might make sense to prioritize certain tabs in Firefox. Why would that make sense? The […]
Silence of the foxes is a lightweight software program that can be used to create custom Firefox installations. Custom installations refers to a Firefox setup that can install custom preferences, extensions, plugins […]
Web browser attacks are an increasing threat these days. Attackers not only exploit web browser vulnerabilities but also those of plugins and add-ons that are installed in the web browser. The Adobe […]
The switch to storing data in SQLite databases has caused a problem for Firefox users who use the web browser heavily. The databases grow over time and reduce the startup time and […]
If you want to look up the definition of a word in a web browser you usually have to open a second browser window or tab and open a web dictionary like […]
The Firefox awesome bar, often also called location bar or address bar, tries to match letters entered by the Firefox user to bookmarks, tags and the Firefox web browsing history. Several settings […]
Security researchers over at Trendmicro have discovered a spyware that is installing itself as an add-on in the popular web browser Firefox. The add-on, which is then listed in the Firefox add-on […]
The first Firefox add-on to optimize SQLite databases that are used to store data like bookmarks or history was a Russian add-on that worked but did not please non-Russian speaking users because […]
Disposable email services are a great way of not revealing a personal email account during account signups on the Internet. Many Internet services (and some computer programs as well) require that you […]
Firefox's spell checker can be a powerful tool for users who write regularly on the Internet but especially for users who write professionally or want to make sure that they do not […]
It's All Text is an interesting add-on for the Firefox web browser that enables Firefox users to fill out web forms in an external text editor instead of the form on the […]
The Firefox development team made the decision to switch to SQlite databases for data storage in Firefox 3. While the move worked without issues for the most part, some users of the […]
Firefox users have an almost unmanageable number of add-ons, bookmarklets, user scripts and other tools at their disposal that improve search in one way or another. Most options on the other hand […]
Firefox users can choose between several website and link information add-ons including Web of Trust or AVG Linkscanner that reveal information about websites before they are visited. The Firefox add-on Link Extend […]
Firefox users who want to use the computer keyboard to navigate their open tabs are left with the CTRL-1 to Ctrl-9 shortcuts that allow them to switch to the first eight tabs […]
Users who prefer webmail email services like Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Live Mail over desktop email software programs face a problem that desktop users do not have. They have to visit the […]
The default Firefox history manager is not very comfortable to work with. The information that it displays are mediocre at best even if the the browsing history is displayed in the sidebar. […]
The Firefox web browser comes with the ability to zoom in and out of websites. There is however no way of zooming only specific elements of a website which can be a […]
Snap Links was one of the few Firefox add-ons that was installed all the time on my computers the browser was installed on. It allowed Firefox users to draw a rectangle with […]
Bandwidth and speed are usually not a big concern for many users with broadband Internet connections. It is however something that users who connect to the Internet with slow connections have to […]
Blackout was a browser extension for Firefox that you could use to change the default color scheme of websites to a different one. The extension is not available anymore but Firefox supports […]
A Ghacks reader recently posted a comment asking whether it is possible to download old releases of Thunderbird. The situation was that he switched to Thunderbird 3 beta 3 and noticed that […]
Mozilla's development team introduced several new dynamic bookmark folders in Firefox 3 including the recently bookmarked, unsorted bookmarks and recent tags folders. All but the unsorted bookmarks folder are displayed in the […]
How could version 3.7 and version 4.0 of the Firefox web browser look like? That's something that the Mozilla development team tried to answer by posting design mockups of Firefox 4 and […]
The Direfox web browser does not offer many bookmark sorting options. The only option that is actually provided by right-clicking a folder is to sort the bookmarks by name. This is however […]
Most Firefox users dislike how mouse scrolling is handled in the web browser. It feels everything but smooth and there are no obvious preferences in the Firefox options to change the scroll […]
I'm not sure when the problem started but it was after one of the last Firefox updates. I have placed several bookmark folders and bookmarks in the Firefox toolbar that displays the […]
Chance is you have already stumbled upon a few websites that are posting images as links or thumbnails. The only way to view the full images is to click on the links […]
Most Firefox users make use of the bookmarking feature of the web browser to store interesting or important websites so that they can be visited at a later time again. Many of […]
Google fanatics who regularly work with multiple Google services such as Google Mail Gmail , Google Reader, Google Docs, Blogger, Orkut and a few dozens more might find the Gbutts add-on for […]
The creation of website desktop shortcuts in the Firefox web browser was an easy process but Mozilla made the decision to change Firefox's default behavior when you are dragging and dropping tabs […]
If you run the Firefox browser in full screen mode or on a desktop where the taskbar is not displayed all the time, then you know that the system clock that is […]
The NoScript add-on for the Firefox web browser is without doubt one of the best ways to increase the web browser's security as it disables JavaScript elements on all websites that are […]
If you open the menu to organize (some would call it manage) the Firefox bookmarks you are presented not only with an interface to sort, delete or add bookmarks but also with […]
You have quite a few possibilities at hand if you want to bookmark a website when you are using the Firefox web browser. You can click on the star icon in the […]
You are presented with several choices if you open a new blank tab page in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8. Internet Explorer users have the option to open recently opened websites, start an […]
The Firefox web browser will save visited websites for a minimum of 90 days and a maximum of 180 days in the Firefox history by default. The hard limit is set to […]
The Mozilla Firefox development team has changed the way the web browser stores information to SQLite databases in Firefox 3. Cookies, Bookmarks, RSS feeds and many other information are now stored in […]
