FireFox Screen Space Tweaks – Tree Style Tab
by ReallyVirtual on October 20, 2008
in Firefox, Freewares, Tips and Tricks
If you are an internet power-user / info-maniac, chances are that you use Firefox as your primary browser, and if you have been a Firefox user for a few months, your have undoubtedly installed a bunch of add-ons and plugins that are now a part of your life. These Add-ons are constantly vying for screen real estate and leaving you on the constant lookout to use the few million precious pixels on your screen(s) more effectively.
Watch YouTube Videos In Firefox Sidebar
by Haris on August 28, 2008
in Firefox, Social Networks
Watching videos online is my favourite time wasting activity after Facebook. I love to watch funny videos, movie trailers etc. I find all these at YouTube, the best video-sharing site!
Now you can watch your favourite videos right from Firefox sidebar while you work or browse the web. YouPlayer is a Firefox extension that lets you play videos from popular video sharing sites in your Firefox sidebar.
Best Firefox 3 Extensions Announced by Mozilla
Mozilla Labs recently announced the best Firefox extension winners in a contest held every year called Extend Firefox 3. In this contest, developers create extensions to extend the functionality of current features of Firefox.
This year’s Extend Firefox was launched back in March, and brought in over 100 entries. But only seven were chosen as the winners within three categories: Best New Add-on; Best Updated Add-on; Best Music Add-on.
View AdSense Earnings In Firefox Status Bar
by Haris on August 21, 2008
in Firefox, Tips and Tricks
Adsense Notifier is a Firefox extension that displays your Adsense earnings in the Firefox status bar and lets you check your earnings at a glance.
This Firefox addon is very simple and is recommended for those who check their Adsense earnings multiple times a day and instead of logging again and again, you can use this addon.
Digg Extension for Firefox 3 Released
Digg today released an official extension for Firefox 3 which adds a toolbar to your Firefox. It works pretty much like StumbleUpon toolbar. With this toolbar, you can know whether the page you are visiting is already submitted to Digg or not.
You can Digg new stories directly from this toolbar and if a story has already been stumbled, it will show you the Digg count and the number of comments on that story.
How To View PDF Files As HTML In Firefox
by Haris on July 25, 2008
in Firefox, Tips and Tricks
Firefox 3 browser does not have any feature to view PDF files in it. In fact it downloads the PDF files and opens them in your Adobe Reader (Foxit Reader recommended), which is a double pain for most of us.
To directly view them in your browser, I use a Firefox extension called PDF Download. Using this addon, you can do whatever you like with the PDF files online. PDF Download by Nitro PDF Software is the leading tool for handling and viewing Web-based PDF files and is enjoyed by millions of Firefox users every day. The browser extension removes the pain often experience when encountering PDF files online, and now lets you quickly convert your Web pages into high-quality PDFs that are ideal for archiving, printing and sharing.
FireNES: Play NES Games In Firefox
by Haris on July 24, 2008
in Firefox, Gaming, Tips and Tricks
FireNES is a Firefox addon that lets you play over 2500 NES games right from your Firefox. This addon fetches games from another online Java powered NES emulator.
This is an ultimate time waster where you can play your favourite old games for hours. Turn your PC into a NES Emulator with this addon and play without downloading or installing any other emulator or separate ROMs.
Tweak Firefox 3 With FasterFox 2.0
This is a very nice tool to perform some nice performance and network tweaks for Firefox. It is one of the most popular tweaking tool for Firefox 2, which due to some reasons never got updated for Firefox 3. It is still left in experimental stages.
Force Enable Incompatible Extensions In Firefox 3
by Haris on June 15, 2008
in Firefox, General, Tips and Tricks
Yesterday, I installed Firefox 3 RC3 and was amazed to see how fast and better my favourite browser has become. I actually use lots of addons with my Firefox 2, and I found that most of them were disabled after upgrading. That’s because they still haven’t been updated yet by their developers and Firefox 3 doesn’t even try to run addons that are not compatible. FEBE is one of the plugins that are not (see update below) compatible with Firefox 3 RC3.
