/ July 31, 2006 -
News
First things first, I have to say congrats to the folks over at Firefox. No mater how many folks out there might say that Firefox isn’t the browser for them for this reason or that reason, 200 million speaks volumes. It shows there has been and will be an audience for such a browser.
Here is what Asa Dotzler had to say via the SpreadFirefox.com Web site:
Let me start off by saying that YOU ALL ARE AMAZING! Today [...]
Swiftfox is an optimized build of Mozilla Firefox. Swiftfox has builds for both AMD and Intel processors. The 1.5.0.5 release is based on Firefox 1.5.0.5. The trunk is the most cutting edge of all the builds and is where Firefox 3 is being developed. Branch builds are built from a code base that has been tested much more than the trunk and therefore should be considered to be more stable. The 1.8 branch is where Mozilla develops [...]
Now you have probably heard of the idea of setting multiple start pages via Firefox before. Did you know though that you can set your throbber to open up several bookmarks as well? It will take a little editing in about:config, but I promise it is not that hard to do.
+ Follow the Steps at TheQuicky.net!
How many times can you honestly say that you have used the history feature in Firefox? I have gone back and forward a lot, but I don’t really use the history. Am I weird or are you the same? Well, I have found a new Firefox extension that might get me a little more interested in using it again.
[Learn More About WebMemo!]
A few four letter words got you down? I do not think you will have to worry about it on this Web site, but on others you might have a problem with curse words getting on your screen. If this happens to you and you don’t want it to, you need the Profanity Filter! This script filters profanity from Web sites.
To use this script you must have Greasemonkey for Firefox installed.
[Learn More About the Profanity Filter!]
/ July 29, 2006 -
News
Thanks to Jim for pointing this one out to me. It looks like Portable Firefox has a new edition out with some awesome features not seen before.
Portable Firefox is now Mozilla Firefox – Portable Edition (Firefox Portable among friends), and version 1.5.0.5 has been released. It’s the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you. This new release adds in a [...]
Due to how popular Digg is, you would think there would be more Firefox extensions related to it. I just have not seen too many become too popular. The Digg This! Firefox extension hopes to change all that.
The Digg This! toolbar adds two buttons to your main Firefox toolbar and one menu. With the toolbar buttons you can quickly goto to Digg or Digg the page you are viewing. The menu allows you to goto your Digg profile [...]
Do you really need to know exactly what time it is? With the Fuzzy Time Firefox extension you can get a rough estimate of what time it is. For those folks who don’t like to get held down by the man and his corporate time, this Firefox extension is for you.
[Learn More About Fuzzy Time!]
It has been a while since I changed my Firefox theme. I have been using Mostly Crystal most of the time these days, but I thought I would look around and see if I could find a different one I liked. That is when I decided to take a trip to Planet Mir and I do have to say I like what I see. This theme is different and cute. A real clean interface, and with [...]
Do you have a problem keeping your downloads organized? Sure you can tell Firefox exactly what folder you want it to download it in. What if you want to save multiple files to multiple folders? With FavLoc, you can set up your own downloading system.
[Learn More About FavLoc!]