Stop Firefox from Opening a new White Tab with NewTabURL

By • 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 tab; [...]

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

By • 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. Anyway [...]

Single Key Shortcuts in Opera and Firefox Browsers

By • 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 • 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.

App Tab Brings Chrome-Like Pinned Tabs to Firefox

By • Nov 10th, 2009 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

If you love the Pin Tab feature in Chromium and Google Chrome browsers that crops tabs down to favicon-size, so you gain more tab bar space and would like to give it a try in Firefox, then grab the App Tabs Firefox extension. Pinning tabs doesn’t mean holding them down to a fix position, pinned-tabs [...]

Firefox: Relocate the Progress Bar on each Tab with Tab Progress Bar

By • Nov 6th, 2009 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

Current versions of the Firefox (Firefox 3.5.5/ Firefox 3.6 Beta) browser have the “Progress bar” located at the “Status Bar” but upcoming Firefox 3.7 will introduce a new feature that moves the “Progress bar” into each tab. You can add this feature to your current Firefox by installing this feather-weight extension called Tab Progress Bar [...]

Firefox: An unofficial “Dislike” button for Facebook

By • Nov 5th, 2009 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

For Windows, Linux and Mac: “Facebook Dislike” is a pretty but useless Firefox add-on that adds a “Dislike” button to Facebook that does what it says; it lets you finally dislike those links you formerly had to dislike only with a comment. Facebook right now offers only the “Like” button so without this extension you [...]

Firefox: Omnibar Extension Integrates Firefox’s Address and Search bar into one single box

By • Oct 15th, 2009 • Filed under: Firefox

For Windows, Linux and Mac: The Omnibar extension for Firefox practically integrates Firefox’s address and search bar into one single box. This fusion gives to the Firefox awesome bar an Omnibar (Chrome) feature. With this extension you can quickly switch search engines using keywords like @live.com to search bing Download Omnibox extension for Firefox 3 [...]

Greased LightBox User Script and Firefox Extension Enhances Browsing on Image Websites

By • Oct 3rd, 2009 • Filed under: Browsers, Firefox, Ubuntu, Windows

Window, Mac, Linux: The famous Greasemonkey user script Greased Lightbox has been compiled to a Firefox extension for Firefox 2, 3 and higher – but preserves its name and functions. Greased Lightbox Firefox extension like the user script enhances browsing on image web sites like Google Images, Flickr, MySpace, deviantART, and more. To try it, [...]