Archive for the ‘Firefox’ Category

How to replace your Firefox Bookmarks with Google Bookmarks

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Using the amazing Firefox Addon GMarks, you can import your Firefox bookmarks to Google Bookmarks, and then add a GMarks menu item to replace your Firefox bookmarks. And you get a number of extra features, one of the best being quick search. Follow the instructions outlined below and your bookmarks ...

How to set up and use PortableApps on your USB thumb drive

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

The PortableApps.com Suite is a collection of free portable apps including a web browser (Firefox), email client (Thunderbird), office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, sudoku game, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably. This guide will take you through installing and setting up PortableApps to best ...

How to add favicons to your Firefox 3 Bookmarks Toolbar in OS X

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

This brief tutorial will take you through the steps required to add favicons to your Bookmarks Toolbar in Firefox 3 Beta 5. This is a tutorial requested by the friendly How-To Geek. click to enlarge

How to add thumbnail previews of websites when you use Google search in Firefox

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Using the Firefox Add-on GooglePreview, you can have thumbnails displayed next to each search result for both Google and Yahoo. click to enlarge GooglePreview installs the same way most other Firefox add-ons do, and you'll have to restart Firefox for it to take effect.

The Ultimate Firefox for OS X

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

If you're a Firefox fan, but get frustrated with the number of times it crashes on your Mac, or would like to squeeze some extra performance out of it, you should give Firefox Mac Community Builds a look. They have G3, G4 and Intel specific builds of Firefox - from ...

How to add 70+ useful buttons to your Firefox Toolbar

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Using the very helpful Toolbar Buttons Firefox plugin, you can add more than 70 'new' buttons to your Firefox Toolbar.

How to run Greasemonkey scripts in Safari

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

If you're a die-hard Safari user, you may want to check out one of Firefox's best features - Greasemonkey. Using the free software SIMBL and GreaseKit, you can run most of the scripts created for Greasemonkey - in Safari. And Mailplane. And all WebKit apps. So now you can use ...

Folders4Gmail updated for latest version of Gmail

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

One of my favorite Greasemonkey scripts is Folders4Gmail - and it was updated today to work with the latest version of Gmail. Once again my Gmail filters are folders.

How to view the page source in a new tab using Firefox

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

With the very helpful Firefox addon Source Viewer Tab, you can view a pages source code in a new tab, rather than a new window (which is the annoying default).

How to use FTP from within Firefox

Monday, October 15th, 2007

This tutorial will guide you in setting up and using FireFTP - a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox.

How to open multiple sites in separate tabs each time you start Firefox

Monday, October 15th, 2007

The following brief tutorial will show you how to open multiple web sites, each in their own tab, every time you launch Firefox.

How to enable spell check in Firefox text forms

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

This brief tutorial will show you how to enable spell check in web page forms (text input fields) in Firefox.

An introduction to AllPeers

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

AllPeers is a Firefox addon (plugin) that allows you to use Firefox as a bittorrent client. This brief tutorial shows you how to use it to download files.

Using the Shareaholic Firefox plugin to tag web pages using multiple services

Friday, August 10th, 2007

I'm not sure if that's the best title I've ever come up with, but it's late and I'm tired. Shareaholic is a Firefox add-on (plugin) that allows you to quickly 'share' or save the page you're currently viewing, via many of the popular social news and bookmarking sites. If you ...

How to access your Windows files and folders via a Firefox tab

Monday, July 30th, 2007

While writing 10 (more) Windows Explorer alternatives compared and reviewed (the article that kept this site offline for about 12 hours, and forced me to switch hosting providers), I came across a very cool Firefox add-on (via Lifehacker) that allows you to use use Firefox to access Windows Explorer. Since ...