Firefox for Nokia’s Maemo Platform Now Available [Firefox Mobile]

By Martin Kaba • Jan 30th, 2010 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source

Mozilla enters directly into the mobile browser market with the release of its first ever mobile browser. Fennec ‘Maemo’ 1.0 is now available for Nokia N900.
Opera Mini the leader in this sector should watch-out as Firefox intends to bring all its desktop experience to mobile devices – for example Mozilla rolled out Weave [...]

Weave Sync 1.0 for Firefox and Fennec

By Martin Kaba • Jan 29th, 2010 • Filed under: Browsers, Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

image from the Mozilla Blog

‘Private Browsing Window’ for Firefox 3.6 and Higher

By Martin Kaba • Jan 25th, 2010 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

Private Browsing Window is a Firefox extension that permits you to start a private browsing session in a completely new incognito window alongside your existing session – like you do in Chrome. This extension greatly improves Firefox’s behavior as far as “private browsing” is concerned – before Firefox would automatically close all windows and tabs [...]

Clipple – a Clipboard Manager for Firefox

By Martin Kaba • Jan 13th, 2010 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

In Ubuntu you can extend your clipboard functionality with an application like Parcellite Clipboard Manager, but if most of your work is concentrated in the Firefox browser why not get a Firefox specific clipboard – Clipple. By default Clipple extends your clipboard with 15 entries – but that’s just for starts, you can increase the [...]

Fx4 and Fx4 Options bring the Updated Firefox 4.0 Design Features to Firefox 3.5

By Martin Kaba • Jan 11th, 2010 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Windows

Windows-only: Mozilla Product Visual Designer, Stephen Horlander recently posted on his personal blog some iterations of the Windows design mock-ups for Firefox 4.0 – if you liked these proposed designs then know that the Fx4 theme closely reproduces some of them.

Stop Firefox from Opening a new White Tab with NewTabURL

By Martin Kaba • Dec 15th, 2009 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

Mac, Linux, Windows: Firefox by default offers a white space when you open a new tab. Chromium for example by default opens the Speed Dials. If you’re not happy with Firefox’s white space tab thing than grab NewTabURL.
This extension offers three possibilities;
it lets you open a custom URL when opening a new [...]

Print Context Menu adds Print Preview to Your Firefox Right-Click Menu

By Martin Kaba • Dec 4th, 2009 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

Windows, Linux and Mac: Print Context Menu is a Firefox extension that adds the Print and Print Preview options to the context menu of your Firefox browser. That’s all.
This little extension adds to Firefox’s right-click menu a feature that most other browsers like Opera, Internet or Google Chrome have out of the box. [...]

Single Key Shortcuts in Opera and Firefox Browsers

By Martin Kaba • Dec 1st, 2009 • Filed under: Browsers, Firefox, Ubuntu, Windows

Single key shortcuts in Opera 10 and previous versions remain a fascinating but uncovered feature. No keyboard combinations, a single key is just enough. Single key shortcuts were part and parcel of Opera 9.2 and previous versions but are disabled in Opera 9.5 and higher version. To enable them launch Opera browser and check the [...]

Weave Sync 1.0 Beta 1 now available for Download

By Martin Kaba • Nov 17th, 2009 • Filed under: Browsers, Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

For Windows, Mac and Linux: Mozilla made sync that comes in the form of an extension for Firefox and Fennec (Mozilla’s mobile version of Firefox) browsers is now close to version 1.0. Weave Sync add-on v1.0 tries to close the gab between it and more popular Xmarks by adding features already present in the latter. [...]