Firefox Add-on Speed Dial Updated

June 4th, 2009 The battle of browsers is a perennially competitive space. We get to see lots of improvements in the likes of Firefox, Chrome, Opera each month.

June 24th, 2008 These add-ons are so useful that I cannot work for a single day without them and so I would suspect most web developers and QA Engineers. These plugins / add-ons makes Firefox a formidable web development and testing platform.

May 12th, 2005 A discussion on the update and how to install it.

July 17th, 2006 Share Firefox with a friend. If your friend downloads Firefox before September 15, you’ll both be immortalized in Firefox 2.

July 1st, 2009 A new version of the Internet browser Firefox was released Tuesday, offering users more speed and privacy and greater compliance with new Internet video standards. The release of Firefox 3.5 (download)came as the open source browser is proving an increasingly formidable challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8, which once had over 90 percent market share.

December 16th, 2005 Firefox has its own share of troubles. If I happen to open few sites with Flash advertisements on them and leave it open for some time, Firefox gobbles up most of the memory and becomes dog-slow.

September 2nd, 2007 In Linux, unlike Windows, multiple users can simultaneously connect to the same machine and get a full GUI using windows managers like VNC. However when one of the account has Firefox opened, others are prevented from bringing up firefox which can be very much irritating.

July 13th, 2006 The key new features of Firefox 2.0 beta (with brief commentary) are: Integrated spell-checker - no more excuse for poor spelling in form data Bookmarked web site summary - small updated headlines that sites can create that display in the bookmark sidebar in Firefox Crashed session recovery - finally I can replace tab browser extension Re-open recently closed tabs - this one is a life-saver Anti-phishing warning popup - I hate popups but will let this one slide. Search suggestion - live dropdown of suggested terms while searching Tab close button on tabs - Personally I like ctrl-w better, a close button on every tab just makes it more crowded, not convenient RSS feed preview - provides information on an RSS feed when the user is subscribing to it You can download and test it here.

September 19th, 2008 Gone are the days of buggy, infection prone and troublesome Internet Explorer. The popular product on which I want to throw some light on, needs no introduction.

May 14th, 2007 Fedora Core 6 ships with Firefox 1.5.x version. Firefox 2.0.x is currently in development repository of Fedora Core 6.

June 25th, 2006 There are two Firefox extensions depending on your need. If you need to switch between different proxies quickly then you can use the SwitchProxy extension for Firefox.

December 10th, 2005 If you use Firefox AdBlock extension and you have upgraded to Firefox 1.5 you may notice that Flash is now disabled on your browser. This micro tutorial will show you how to enable Flash on your Firefox 1.5 browser.

June 22nd, 2009 With Google's Chrome 2.0 speeded up after dropping its beta and Opera 10 beta claiming a better browsing speed, all eyes are on Mozilla's new Firefox version hyped to touch Amazing feats of speed. Last Friday Mozilla issued the new browser's first release candidate.

August 10th, 2007 While an individual DNS request often takes small time to execute, when the primary DNS server is overloaded or unavailable it can take quite sometime to resolve your requests. Now what has that to do with improving Firefox performance? Firefox makes DNS requests to convert host name (like blog.taragana.com) to IP addresses (like 72.36.134.131), which is then used to fetch the web page.

March 22nd, 2008 The online US non-immigrant visa application site - https://www.vfs-usa.co.in/ doesn't allow you to submit the visa application using the popular Firefox browser. However it never says it explicitly.