One of my favorite Firefox extension writers is Josep del Rio. He writes two of the best Firefox extensions and incidentially they are available for the nightly builds of Firefox 3. Two of his popular extensions are Firefox Showcase and Speed Dial.
Showcase is the Firefox version of the IE Quick Tabs feature. It allows you [...]
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Favorite Firefox 3 Extensions
Posted in firefox, mozilla on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Howto: Use Firefox to Save Protected Media
Posted in firefox, open source on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
You can save protected, or otherwise hard to get media items from any website using Firefox. Here’s what to do:
Navigate to the page where there is a picture or other media item you want to save, but can’t for some reason
Click on Tools>Page Info on the Firefox menu bar
Click on the Media button at the [...]
Firefox Command Line Arguments
Posted in firefox on September 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I thought this was really interesting. You can do a few very cool tricks with this stuff.
Start>Run and type:
firefox -profilemanager
firefox -safe-mode
Source: MozillaZine
Learn Firefox!
Posted in firefox on September 25, 2007 | No Comments »
This is a great site from CyberNet News - Learn Firefox! It’s just been redesigned with a new graphical interface and I love the new site. Please check it out and see what you think. It’s a great way to find out everything you wanted to know about Firefox and how to use it. Enjoy!
Firefox is a Public Asset
Posted in firefox, mozilla, open source, software, technology on August 9, 2007 | No Comments »
This is from a blog entry on Mitchell Baker’s Mozilla Blog. Everyone should read this…
Firefox is a Public Asset
Recently a Mozilla observer and contributor asked why Firefox isn’t treated as a typical for-profit, commercial effort, and why we are giving up the chance to get rich. This is a great topic for [...]
iTunes 7.2, Firefox 2.0.0.4, & Live Messenger 8.5
Posted in Instant Messaging, apple, beta stuff, browsers, firefox, microsoft, mozilla, open source, software, technology on May 30, 2007 | No Comments »
iTunes version 7.2 is now released. This version has lots of bug fixes, Vista compatibility, and support for DRM free music in the music store! Very cool.
You can also download the new security update for Firefox which is version 2.0.0.4. It will be pushed via automatic updates soon.
You can get a Beta version of the [...]
Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin
Posted in browsers, firefox, microsoft, open source, software, technology on April 16, 2007 | 3 Comments »
This is a really cool plugin installation for Firefox that installs a comprehensive WMP plugin set. It will make Firefox and Windows Media work very well together. Check out the download below, it takes just a few seconds.
Download - WMP Plugin for Firefox
Mozilla’s New Add-Ons Site!
Posted in browsers, firefox, mozilla, open source, software, technology on March 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Mozilla has finally updated their add-ons site with a new look and better functionality. The number of extensions and themes have been dramatically reduced so that the quality of extensions and themes can be upheld. So only the themes and extensions that Mozilla deems of high quality will appear on the site.
The left-hand sidebar has [...]
Firefox 2.0.0.3 and OpenOffice 2.2
Posted in browsers, firefox, mozilla, open source, security, software, technology on March 20, 2007 | No Comments »
Well it looks like you can now download the new security update to Firefox 2.0.0.3. Mozilla had to release this quickly because of some stubborn security risks that remained in 2.0.0.2. You can get the new version here:
Download Firefox Setup 2.0.0.3
Also on the OpenOffice front, they updated their wiki yet again to display a potential [...]
Firefox 2.0.0.3 to 2.0.0.4
Posted in browsers, computers, firefox, mozilla, open source, security, software, technology on March 5, 2007 | No Comments »
Mozilla is going to very quickly release an update to 2.0.0.3 because of some high security threats that were left behind for 2.0.0.2. They plan to have builds available on Wednesday. The next regular security/stability update will be 2.0.0.4.
Source: Mozilla Dev News











