Firefox

This tutorial will guide you through downloading YouTube videos and other media using Download Helper. It also covers conversion of downloaded media to iPod, Nokia N95, or other portable media players. [click to continue...]

DownThemAll is another one on my list of must-have Firefox extensions. With DownThemAll you can easily download all images or links on a web page, or a customized subset of them. [click to continue...]

This has got to be one of the most useful Firefox extensions I have ever seen. No more clicking links one by one and selecting Open Link in New Tab. Snap Links allows you to draw a box around the all the links you wish to open and have them open in multiple tabs all at once. [click to continue...]

I’ve often wondered why the Firefox Sidebar was placed on the left side. I personally find that it distracts my focus while browsing when placed on the left. Using the addon RightBar, the Sidebar will be moved to the right side of Firefox. Just install it, restart Firefox, and open the Sidebar. Instead of appearing on the left, it’ll be on the right. That’s it!

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This tutorial will explain how to run separate Firefox profiles at the same time, how to quickly switch between them, and why you might want to use multiple profiles. [click to continue...]

You won’t find any super-advanced addons for “extracting strings from xml and javascript files to simplify mozilla application localization process” or “debug running applets and Java Webstart application” in this list. These addons are intended for “the rest of us” - people who grudgingly have to edit our own web sites. [click to continue...]

One of my (very few) frustrations with Firefox is that by default, you can only open a handful of tabs before you have to use the scroll button to access them. Using this quick about:config change you can alter the size (width) of your Firefox tabs, allowing for more to display before you have to start scrolling. [click to continue...]

Another possible title for this brief tutorial could be “StumbleUpon now automatically includes all the sites you give a thumbs-up as a Firefox 3 bookmark”. But I’ll stick with my first title. [click to continue...]

Miss604 is on a screencasting-roll - here’s one on how to customize the Firefox 3 Toolbar, just in case it installed with some of the buttons missing (or you want to add others). You can subscribe to all of Rebeccas screencasts on Viddler using this feed. The video is after the jump - [click to continue...]

As a part of Firefox 3, the Location Bar got a few upgrades. One of them is that it now uses a XUL richlistbox widget for the auto-complete dropdown. This means that typing in the Location Bar will now search not only URLs, but page titles, bookmark names, and tags. A drawback to this new feature is that if you start typing something like ebay in your Location Bar, the things like thepiratebay will show up (assuming you’ve visited that site, have it bookmarked or its title is in the URL you’ve previously visited. While many folks (myself included) like this feature, some do not. This brief tutorial will show you how to disable that feature.

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve already heard that development on Firefox 3 is pretty close to done. Well as of today, it’s done. The Mozilla crew want to set a world record for most software downloads in 24 hours, so head over to http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/firefox3 and grab your copy today!

As you likely know by now, Google has updated their favicon.ico from the boxed G ()to a lower case (with no box) g (). However, Firefox continues to use the old icon in the search bar.

Old Google Firefox Search Bar

New Google Firefox Search Bar

To switch to the new icon in your Firefox Search Bar, keep reading. [click to continue...]

Google recently changed their favicon.ico from the ever familiar boxed G, to a smaller g. If you’re not a big fan of the new icon, you can install this Greasemonkey script and pretend the change never happened. You will of course need to be using Firefox (or Safari) as your browser to use Greasemonkey scripts.

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 will be organized like never before. [click to continue...]