It has been a long time since I spend a lot of quality time with Digg.com, but I know a lot of you might be excited to see they released a new toolbar for Firefox 3. You can divide things into two major features, the new notifications and the toolbar itself. Digg Firefox 3 Extension [...]
Remove the Toolbar Notes in Firefox 3
Posted on Jul 25, 2008 in Hacks
More of a pain than a savior, the toolbar the toolbar tip floating boxes of help and information in Firefox tend to hurt me more than help me. Yes, I know the reload button allows me to reload the current page, I got it! If you want to disable this feature, follow these steps: Step [...]
Browse Through Only the Images
Posted on Apr 22, 2008 in Add-ons, Usability
Wish to access only the images on a page and none of the clutter – like those annoying big words, style and layout? For those out there who want the images and the images only the Browse Images add-on should get the job done. Once installed you can browse all linked images of a page [...]
Mahalo Follow
Posted on Feb 21, 2008 in Add-ons, Usability
I am a big fan of Mahalo – an alternative to your traditional search engine. I didn’t have a clue until now though that they had a toolbar too. Mahalo Follow gives you all kinds of goodies to help you use Mahalo and a handful of other bonus services. Some of the features of Mahalo [...]
Quicker Downloads in Firefox
Posted on Jan 21, 2008 in Usability
Here is an easy trick to speed up your Firefox downloading. First thing you must do is add the “Downloads” icon to your Firefox toolbar somewhere. From there you can do this to download quicker. Drag and Drop onto the Downloads Toolbar Icon Instead of right-clicking on a download link, choosing “save to target” and [...]
Organizing Your Firefox Bookmarks
Posted on Oct 24, 2007 in Support
It seems like every time I see somebody’s browser, they have their links organized in a new way. Some people don’t even bother removing the default bookmark links that came with the browser. Others don’t use bookmarks at all. How do you roll? I figured I’d go over some of the techniques that are out [...]
Use StumbleUpon Without the Toolbar
Posted on Sep 21, 2007 in Usability
I love StumbleUpon as much as the next guy, but the toolbar they provide is quickly becoming cluttered with stuff I don’t really care about viewing. I can understand why they want to get more social and interactive – but the main attraction was to browse through web sites other had marked as interesting. Since [...]
Get More Toolbar Space in Firefox
Posted on Mar 30, 2007 in Support, Usability
I think I have a pretty optimized Firefox setup. Personally I don’t think anybody needs more than two toolbars in Firefox at all times. How can you cut down on the clutter and keep everything accessible with just a few clicks here and there? 1. Shrink Your Main Menu Bar! Install the Tiny Menu extension [...]
Tab Counter
Posted on Jan 25, 2007 in Tabbed Browsing
You can place this one under the “kind of useless but might be of some help to somebody” category. The Tab Counter extension does exactly what you would think. It counts your tabs! After you install it, you get a little number on your toolbar to show exactly how many tabs you have open. The [...]





