Want to coat your favorite browser in Black Steel? The Black Steel theme for Firefox might not exactly be my cup of tea, however it does have a simplistic dark appeal that I am sure many will love. If your searching for a black theme, it is one of the best looking ones of the bunch too.
The entire theme is very sleek and polished feeling. One feature that it provides that many other dark themes are lacking is that [...]
/ April 29, 2009 -
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Have you seen the new menu item on FirefoxFacts.com? I have gone through the four years of archives I’ve posted here to find all of the “best of” Firefox-related posts. Here is just a small sample of the posts you will find there:
Tweak up the Bookmarks Bar in Firefox
10 Popular Web Designer Tools for Firefox
Turn Your Firefox into an Arcade
10 Great Money Saving Add-ons for Firefox
7 Amazing Musical Add-ons for Firefox
Be sure to check out the new “Best of [...]
Now that spring is here, everybody is keeping an eye on the sky. Tornados, thunderstorms, and more are taking over the countryside, so time to take a look at some of the best weather related extensions for Firefox to help you stay in the know with watches, warnings, radars and severe weather.
1-ClickWeather
This add-on for Firefox enables users to view their current weather conditions, doppler radar, and international satellite maps. It will also gather warning and 10-day forecast information from weather.com. [...]
Need a new way to shorten your links? Foxy URL hopes to be the extension you turn to, in that situation. This add-on for Firefox keeps it nice and simple. After you install it, you just add the icon for it to your navigation toolbar. Once that is done, click on the icon and your link is shortened.
Click the “copy to clipboard” button and you are ready to share your link with the world. That is it. No fancy [...]
A popular add-on for Firefox, to help you download all the links, movies and audio clips on a single page at maximum speeds, is FlashGot. Created by the same man who brought us NoScript, this lightweight and reliable external download manager will let you download a plethora of information with a single click.
While this extension has many good features, my favorite might be the FlashGot All. By selecting this from the menu (or by hitting Ctrl+F3) you can [...]
While checking out my Google Analytics stats for Firefox Facts, I thought it might be fun to look back and see what (so far) have been the top ten most popular items posted here on Firefox Facts. We have some classics here, so I hope you enjoy.
Best 5 Firefox 3 Theme Alternatives
Darkest Popular Themes for Firefox 3
The Best Greasemonkey Scripts
Change the Default Search in Firefox
Super Mario Bros 3 Firefox Theme
Security Zone Policy Error in Firefox 3
20 Tips to Tweak Your [...]
In a nutshell, Greasemonkey is an add-on for Firefox that allows you to customize a web site’s look and function. Now you don’t have to be a coder to use it though, because there are already hundreds of scripts out there available for free that you can use to help you do a number of different things.
How Do You Use Greasemonkey?
Once you have installed Greasemonkey, you will see the little monkey’s head come up in your status bar. From [...]
There are a number of different ways you can reload or refresh a window in Firefox. For such a simple task, you would have never imagined that people have put so much work into making it easier. The truth of the matter though is they have, and I want to share with you all the tab reloading secrets that I know of (and hopefully you can share your own favorites with me).
Here are the add-ons to help you with your [...]
There are many ways you can customize Firefox to make it fit your personal needs. Don’t like the fact that the tabs are just a little rounded, and wish they were more rounded? No need to try to find a theme that fits your needs. I have for you, four ways to round off your tabs in Firefox using the Stylish extension. You can round off all tabs, one tab corner, just the selected tab or forget about all this [...]
I always love to look at any kind of stats, because they interest me. I like to know what people are doing, how many people are doing it and where they are coming from. With that said, there is a new Firefox add-on that will let you keep tabs on your tabs. All hail the New Tab King!
The New Tab King extension for Firefox gives you one spot to see all the web sites you use the most. Instead [...]