Archive for October, 2008
Want to add a few more features and functionality to your Firefox status bar? Here are a some common tweaks you may want to make, and how you can get them added to your own browser.
Extended Statusbar - check out speed, percentage, time and loaded size and more
Organize Status Bar - clear the clutter out [...]
Need to brush up on your typing skills?
Having both my free time projects and my job very keyboard focused, I have developed a pretty good skill at typing. Here recently though, I have been looking at a lot of free solutions to help my two nephews get more familiar with typing on a keyboard. [...]
Running out of room in your bookmarks toolbar? You could do some spring cleaning - but winter is quickly coming upon us. Next idea? Well the Smart Bookmarks Bar add-on for Firefox promises to simplify your cluttered bookmark rat’s nest.
It shrinks your bookmarks down to only the favicons. So what? Well, the magic happens [...]
One of those pesky things that bug me is when somebody writes a link in that I want to click, but there is no HTML code included to make it into a click-able link. Thankfully several add-ons for Firefox have figured out how to turn URLs and e-mail addresses not marked up as a [...]
One of my favorite features of the old Google Browser Sync was the ability to sync my passwords between my laptop and desktop computers. Till now, no other program has gotten that right. That was the case till Foxmarks decided to roll out this new feature.
Password Synchronization is an optional feature for the newest version [...]
Tired of having the stop button taking up too much room in Firefox? Well, you could remove it from the interface all together or hide it, until you need it. The Smart Stop/Reload extension for Firefox will combine your stop and reload buttons into one.
This is to save you toolbar space, plain and simple. [...]
/ October 14, 2008 -
News
Tis’ the season to be getting more Mozilla and Firefox news than I can handle! Here are some of the most recent Firefox headlines to catch my eye.
Firefox for Windows Mobile images surface
But Mozilla says a Windows Mobile version of Fennec is on its way and that an Alpha release could come within the [...]
Don’t you have it when you have lost your perfect spot for your browser window in your desktop layout and you have to put it back by dragging it over, then resizing each corner till it is back in that perfect spot yet again? Well, with the help of a little JavaScript you can [...]
Say, you like the fact that Google has started to thumbnail YouTube results in search, but you just want a ‘bit more. GoogleTube, an add-on for Firefox, will allow you to play the YouTube videos inside of the Google search results window.
Once installed, all you have to do is hit the YouTube icon next [...]
What do you do about misspelling words in text boxes? Well, you use the built-in Firefox spell check feature. However, by default it does not work with ALL text fields. That can simply be rectified though your about:config settings.
Just type in about:config into your address bar to get started. Next, into the filter text [...]
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