Visualize blue https sites in Firefox 3 in a better way
Firefox 3 introduced a new coloring scheme and design for secure websites. You might remember that Firefox 2 displayed a yellow url bar when the user was accessing a https site. This […]
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 […]
Change the number of results in the Firefox location bar
The default number of results that are shown when you type in a phrase in the Firefox location bar is 12 which may seem a bit like an overkill to many users. […]
Trim down the Location Bar in Firefox 3 to show results in one line
By default Firefox is displaying each suggestion underneath its address bar in two rows. The first row is showing the title of the result while the second row contains the url of […]
Making use of the new Firefox Page Info menu
The Page Info menu, introduced in Firefox 3, has been designed to provide users of the browser with additional information about the website that is currently active in the browser. The easiest […]
Disable Bookmarks in the Firefox 3 Awesome Bar
There have been more comments than usual on an article that I wrote about the Firefox 3 Location bar also known as the Awesome Bar. Many users who voiced their opinion said […]
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 […]
Firefox 3 News Archive
Update: This is the news archive for all Firefox 3 updates that we have reviewed in the past. Firefox 3 is no longer supported by Mozilla. You can download the latest version […]
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 3 Location Bar Controversy
Most users who have tried one of the beta versions or release candidates of Firefox 3 like the new location bar also called the awesome bar. A group of users however who […]
How to move bookmarks in Firefox
Firefox 3 changed the way bookmarks are stored on the computer. Before they were simply saved in a bookmarks.html file in the user's profile folder and it was easy to add the […]
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 […]
How to export live bookmarks in Firefox
After I realized that the Brief Firefox add-on was - at least partially - responsible for the high cpu and disk usage of Firefox every 45-60 minutes I had to find another […]
Fix Excessive Firefox 3 CPU and Hard Disk Usage
I switched from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3 a few days ago and love the speed of the new version of Firefox. It's not a speed gain that's only appearing in benchmarks […]
All you need to know about the Firefox 3 Location Bar
The location bar (or address bar, awesome bar, smart bar) has one main function and that is to provide the user with a sophisticated tool to load websites. In old times the […]
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 […]