Firefox Extension Showcase - Simplifies Tab Browsing

June 15th, 2009 The next version of Firefox, better named as Firefox 3.6  comes with an interesting and handy feature called about: me. This is a especially designed web page that allows you to view your browsing habits profile highlighting the most visited sites, time of the day and days you navigate most, and how to access the sites.

June 21st, 2006 Paul Adams explains how you can develop Firefox extensions using the handy Extension Developer's Extension. The example is easy enough but don't be fooled.

May 14th, 2007 SearchStatus extension for Firefox is a cool extension which shows Google as well as Alexa rankings for each page. However it synchronizes between rank updates in each tab and literally hangs your browser for extended periods when you are working with multiple tabs.

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.

May 14th, 2007 SessionSaver is a popular Firefox extension which allows you to seamlessly save existing session and restore it automatically at startup. You can also name the session and retrieve them anytime in future.

May 10th, 2005 It slowed my Firefox considerably. Whenever I opened a new tab, closed one there would be a delay of 10-12 seconds! It is that bad.

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.

November 5th, 2005 Firefox 1.5 introduced two new features which drastically simplify extension development - the greatly simplified chrome registration scheme and reworked Extension Manager. Read this article to get started with extensions development.

January 3rd, 2006 Today we will discuss three productivity tips which has helped me most in Firefox last year. Location bar for "I'm Lucky" Google Search In the location bar (where you type in the URL) if you type in a word or phrase and hit [Enter] - the browser does a "I'm Lucky" Google search which effectively does the search and takes you to the first matching page.

April 30th, 2007 I am using a Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4 GHZ x 2), one of the best processor (review) in market today, with 2GHZ of DDR 2 667 RAM (read about my dream computer setup), and yet Firefox manages to hog 97% of the CPU in no time at all. I admit that I open too many windows but its is still extreme, don't you think? So I set upon to find a solution to the CPU hogging problem and you will be surprised to know that it is really very simple.

January 8th, 2009 Now you can browser without a mouse through firefox. Some people who are used to wireless keyboards or drag the keyboard to their laps find it irritable to reach out for the mouse every time they need to click on a certain link because tabbing the link down will make it look abnormal (and the time too).

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.

January 5th, 2009 Just to give you the poor man's Weave experience, here is a pretty useful add-on for Firefox 3, FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension). It allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions.

March 27th, 2009 As its now official that Firefox has more bugs than IE, Safari and Chrome combined, we have more reasons to be worried about its stability while we are doing any web based work. Talk of dependence and there we have it on Firefox because others are just not upto it.

January 13th, 2009 Let's face the fact. Firefox has made our internet experience a lot easier.