Does Devo for Firefox Whip it? Whip it Good? (1)
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Now we took a look at Ubiquity, which looks to be the next mashup tool plus launcher for the Firefox browser. There is another one, and it’s name is Devo. Here is a little more about Devo from the developers of the Firefox extensions: Inspired by Enso and Quicksilver, Devo is a command launcher for Firefox. This extension allows you to perform complex actions & searches on webpages, Firefox and other Firefox extensions in just ...
Add-on Steals Internet Explorer 8’s New Feature (1)
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Not sure how closely you are following Internet Explorer 8 development, but they do have one cool new feature called Web Slices. This will let you subscribe to only a section of a web page, and easily delete them when they are no longer needed. You can now use this Internet Explorer 8 feature of the future now in Firefox. WebChunks is a Firefox 3’s implementation of Microsoft Web Slices. It allows you to “follow” ...
Badges for Favicons | Firefox Facts (4)
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Think of that wasted space in your tab bar. You know, where the favicon for the web site your visiting rests. Isn’t there enough room there to fit in a little more information about the web site you are visiting? The new Firefox add-on Badges on Favicon takes advantage of that idea very well. It allows you to put a rounded badge over the tab favicon of some pages. Where does this come in handy? ...
Turn Firefox into Netscape Communicator (3)
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Here is a retro theme for you, make Firefox go back in time to the Netscape era: Foxscape is a full featured retro theme for Firefox based on Netscape Communicator 4.8 on Windows. To be honest, I never did use the old Netscape very much. Never did like the look of it. You know what? Now I can not like the look of it again! I am sure this theme will tug on the classic ...
HandyTags - Useful Tag Suggestions for Bookmarks (3)
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As another Extend Firefox 3 contest winner, HandyTag deserves a look. This add-on for Firefox provides a complete set of the most relevant keywords when you bookmark a page. Where do these keywords come from? Many different sources from around the Web. This comes in handy when you bookmark a page, and your not sure exactly with what words it should be tagged with (or you don’t want to take the time to think it ...
Drawing Diagrams with Pencil (1)
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After winning the Extend Firefox 3 contest, I thought it might be worth checking out Pencil to see what all the buzz was about. This add-on for Firefox is an open source tool for creating diagrams and GUI prototyping that everybody can use. As they put it, “With the power of the underlying Mozilla Gecko engine, Pencil turns your excellent Firefox 3 browser into a sketching tool with just a 400-kilobyte installation package”. Some of ...
Ubiquity - Mashing the Web Naturally (4)
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Now when you hear mashing or mashups of services, you think of wacky combinations like Yahoogle or Microdigg. A web site or service that awkwardly brings two or more services together. Ubiquity, a new Firefox add-on from Mozilla wants to turn mashing on it’s head. How? They are going to take a more natural approach to it. Ubiquity takes language based instructions and turns them into action, right where you need them to be. This ...
TraceMonkey (1)
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Thanks to a new JavaScript engine (named TraceMonkey) it looks as if Firefox 3.1 is going to be getting a major boost in performance. Here are the benchmarks thus far: Be sure to check out Brendan’s Roadmap Updates for more. Also here are a few handy links from John Resig on the testing: SunSpider, 1.83x faster (released by the WebKit team) SunSpider ubench, 22.5x faster (released by the WebKit team for testing Squirrelfish) Image Manipulation ...
Text Area Resizer and Mover (2)
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Isn’t there already a text area resizer add-on for Firefox? Yes, there is. Text Area Resizer & Mover however adds some more functionality and class to an already great Firefox add-on idea. To use the add-on, just resize by right-clicking anywhere inside of the text area. With this, dragging becomes an really easy task and the often sensible site layout remains untouched. Here is more help on how to use this extension from the author. ...
Extend Firefox 3 Winners (10)
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The Extend Firefox 3 contest is all wrapped up, and they have announced some great extensions as the winners. Out of well over 100 entries, here are the best of the best. Best New Firefox Add-ons Pencil Tagmarks HandyTag Best New Firefox Add-on (the Runners Up) Webchunks Badges on Favicons Devo Close ‘N Forget Callout Reasy Best Updated Firefox Add-on Read it Later TagSifter Bookmark Previews Best Music Firefox Add-on Fire.fm Big congratulations to all ...
Firefox 2 Support Ending in Mid-December (1)
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For those of you who didn’t like Firefox 3, or haven’t gotten around to updating yet - you only have a few more months left. On the Firefox 2 download page, Mozilla states: Firefox 2.0.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until mid-December, 2008. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 3. Out with the old and in with the new! Just curious, for those who might be lagging behind, why ...
Stylish about:blank Replacements for Firefox (7)
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Tired of looking at an empty screen when you load your new tab up? Well, thanks to the Stylish extension and a few creative people, you can make the about:blank page a little better looking. First step would be to install the Stylish add-on for Firefox. Once you have done that, click on one of the links bellow and add it to your own Firefox installation. For more about:blank replacements, be sure to check out ...
Xavier Tavernier shared as favorite Print Only What You Want in Firefox 3 (5)
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Checking out Michael Horowitz printing tale of woe from Firefox, I have to say he is right. Trying to print this page (test it yourself using print preview) looks like a horrible jumbled mess. Try playing with the example article yourself - it is true! Hold on, there has to be a fix for printing a badly formatted page, right? If you said yes, you win… well, you win nothing, but you do have the ...
More About the about: in Firefox (2)
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Here are all of the useful (and not so useful, but still funny) about: triggers you can type into your address bar. about: — The same page as “Help -> About”. about:blank — A blank page. Useful for setting as your homepage. about:cache — Displays cache statistics and disk cache directory location. about:config — GUI for modifying user preferences. about:crashes — List of Breakpad crash reports, with links and datestamps. Only in products based on ...
Rein Theme for Firefox Does Monochrome Right! (3)
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Rein, which in German means “pure”, is one of the best looking simple themes I have seen in a while. Usually the more colorful themes catch my eye the most but this one is well worth checking into. Here is a screenshot of this awesome monochrome flavored theme: You could definitely say this theme was offbeat and a ‘bit different for sure. You can pick up the Rein theme for Firefox 3 and up over ...
Vixpa Theme Has Vista Style is XP Feeling (1)
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The Vixpa theme for Firefox is an attempt to refresh the Windows XP-style icons with the more polished Windows Vista feeling. Your not getting the same old icons though. All icons have been redrawn from the ground up, with a few original icons to replace those of XP’s. Here you have Vixpa with the normal sized icons: Here you have Vixpa with the small sized icons: Well worth checking out if you are missing that ...
Troubleshooting Firefox Problems (2)
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Firefox works fine, but then the worst might happen (even to you!). Something goes wonky and Firefox goes from a browsing tool to an annoyance. So how exactly do you troubleshoot an issue with Firefox? For most people, I would suggest trying to run Firefox in Safe Mode first. You can use the command line: firefox -safe-mode to get there (for Windows users). On Linux, you can go to your Terminal and run (for Firefox): ...
Tagmarks - Better Tagging Through Icons (4)
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Want to make tagging your bookmarks as easy as clicking an icon? Tagmarks, the add-on for Firefox, hopes to do just that. The idea here is to bring one-click bookmarking in Firefox together with the tagging power of the browser. With Tagmarks, you have a lot of different icons that popup whenever you hover over the traditional bookmarking star you see in the Firefox 3 address bar. When you click in each icon, it will ...
