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Archive | April, 2008
Research Better with Wired-Marker
The Wired-Marker add-on for Firefox gives you access to one of the best virtual highlighters I have seen thus far. Being able to highlight on web pages in various styles and colors can really help you in a number of ways when doing research or working Online. You can think of it as an electronic [...]
Monitor Everything with StatusbarEx
The web browser is a handy thing to have your monitoring tools in because it is open a lot of the time, and so then the information is always there and in your face. One of the monitoring tools that has caught my eye the most these days is StatusbarEx. It will show you a [...]
Make Menus Stay Open!
It can become a nuisance when you want to click on multiple items in a menu inside of Firefox and right before you get to click that second or third link, the menu disappears and you have to go hunt it down again. If you want to make your menus stay open then you need [...]
Twitzer – Twitter More Text
I twitter, you twitter, we all twitter – right? Wouldn’t you like to break the character limit there though every once in a while? Twitzer, and addon for Firefox will allow you to go over that 140 character limit. Here is a little more about this Firefox extension from the developers: If you want to [...]
Firefox 3 Beta 5 is Out
The last of the Firefox 3 betas has hit the scene, and at this point it is hard to believe they are still finding things to improve on. So where are the improvements from Beta 4 to Beta 5 of Firefox 3? Well this is what Mozilla says: Firefox 3 Beta 5 includes more than [...]
IE6 is an Ugly Unbeatable Stepsister?
Joe Wilcox over at eWeek has put together a pretty interesting graph charting the adoption rate for the web browsers out there in 2007. The graph and story along with it are both pulling information from the recent Forrester Research report, “Enterprise Desktop and Web 2.0/SAAS Platform Trends, 2007.” As you can see Internet Explorer [...]
Giving Up on Firefox, Go IE Go!
I got a surprise in the mail yesterday, there was a large Publishers Clearing House sized check laying by my mail box from our friends at Microsoft. Seems like they think they can buy me off and have me sell Internet Explorer to the masses. You know what, if you saw all the zeros that [...]
Feedback Needed, How Many Posts?
Posted on Apr 05, 2008 in News
I’ve got a quick question for all the wonderful Firefox Facts fans out there. In a dream world, where you got everything you ever wanted – how many posts a day would you like to see here on FirefoxFacts.com? Leave a comment and take our poll to let me know your thoughts. <script type=”text/javascript” language=”javascript” [...]