Archive for the ‘Firefox’ Category
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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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GooglePreview installs the same way most other Firefox add-ons do, and you'll have to restart Firefox for it to take effect.
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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 ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Using the very helpful Toolbar Buttons Firefox plugin, you can add more than 70 'new' buttons to your Firefox Toolbar.
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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 ...
Posted in Firefox, Mac | 20 Comments »
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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
This brief tutorial will show you how to enable spell check in web page forms (text input fields) in Firefox.
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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.
Posted in Bittorrent, Firefox | 2 Comments »
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 ...
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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 ...
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