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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 suit your needs. [click to continue...]
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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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Using the Firefox Add-on GooglePreview, you can have thumbnails displayed next to each search result for both Google and Yahoo.
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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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 v1.5 right though to the nightly builds of Firefox 3.
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Using the very helpful Toolbar Buttons Firefox plugin, you can add more than 70 ‘new’ buttons to your Firefox Toolbar.
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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 the genius that is Folders4Gmail while using Safari. [click to continue...]
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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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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). [click to continue...]
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This tutorial will guide you in setting up and using FireFTP - a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox. [click to continue...]
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The following brief tutorial will show you how to open multiple web sites, each in their own tab, every time you launch Firefox. [click to continue...]
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This brief tutorial will show you how to enable spell check in web page forms (text input fields) in Firefox.
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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. [click to continue...]
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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 save or share content via a number of different services (like del.icio.us, Stumbleupon, Facebook, ma.gnolia etc) this one add-on may allow you to uninstall several.
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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 I didn’t really consider it an ‘explorer alternative’, I didn’t use it in that list. But it is pretty cool, so instead I’ve created this brief tutorial that will show you how to use IE Tab to access your files and folders though a tab in Firefox. [click to continue...]
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Menu Editor is a Firefox add-on that allows you to remove or rearrange menu items from the main context menu (right-click menu) and main menu bar (File, Edit, View..). For a brief tutorial on using Menu Editor, keep reading..
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