DownThemAll! 2.0 Beta

By Martin Kaba • Jun 2nd, 2010 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source

DownThemAll! a Mozilla recommended add-on, an advanced download manager built inside Firefox has released a preview of its next major version, DownThemAll! 2.0 beta 1 for testing. DownThemAll! is a capable of increasing download speed up to 400%, whilst allowing you to pause and resume downloads at any time.

Personas Rotator Periodically rotates your Firefox Skins

By Martin Kaba • May 24th, 2010 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source

Just as you can rotate your desktop wallpapers periodically with tools like Wally, Personas skins can be periodically swapped with Personas Rotator, a firefox extension that automatically rotates and loads your Personas skins. Loaded skins are chosen from within collection of your choose, you can log into GetPersonas.com and select your own favorites, the add-on [...]

Account Manager for Firefox

By Martin Kaba • Apr 28th, 2010 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source

Account Manager is an experimental Firefox extension that lets you login and logout of web sites by clicking the Account Manager button to ‘Connect’ and ‘Disconnect’ from your online account. It makes the whole damn process of getting in-and-out of web sites easy. The project went public a month ago but then testing wasn’t possible [...]

Mozilla readmits Conduit Toolbars on Mozilla Add-ons (AMO) Firefox

By Martin Kaba • Mar 31st, 2010 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source

In a recent update of its Add-on Policies, Mozilla readmits the once forbidden Conduit toolbars on Mozilla Add-ons, also known as AMO. Conduit toolbars generated with tools from Conduit were removed from AMO principally because of their ‘poor’ quality and privacy standards. Mozilla and Conduit paired up to work on security and privacy issues on [...]

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 Sync [...]

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.