Archive for the ‘Firefox’ Category
Jan 7th, 2010 by
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Cooliris is a firefox addon for viewing and browsing photos and videos on the internet or on your computer in the form of a three dimensional wall. You can effortlessly scroll through the content from Facebook, Youtube, Google images, Flickr and more. Cooliris supports browsing from hundreds of sites and it also offers you to [...]
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Jan 1st, 2010 by
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Firefox Throttle is nice, little plug-in for firefox that might come handy for some people that have limited data plans. It keeps a check on the download and upload rate for all open windows/tabs and downloads. You can check the data usage in the current session and also the total data usage.
It also has the [...]
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Sep 5th, 2009 by
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Mozilla has become the first browser company to reccomend its users to check for updates to the adobe flash player. It has been found that 80 percent of the users operate on the vulnerable versions of the adobe flash player.
When you land on the Mozilla’s what’s new page you will be asked to update the [...]
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Sep 4th, 2009 by
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1. FEBE(Firfox Environment Backup Extension)
Febe is an extension for firefox that helps you back up the Firefox profile in a very easy way. It goes beyond backing up your profile and it saves all your extensions as installable .xpi files. Febe backs up your extensions, bookmarks, passwords, history and everything that firefox offers.
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Aug 18th, 2009 by
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Invisble hand is a firefox extension that helps you make online purchases in a smarter way. It works in the background while you are surfing. Whenever you are browsing any e-shopping website it notifies you if the items you are looking for are available at cheaper prices on other sites in its network.
The sites monitored [...]
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Jul 25th, 2009 by
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Keeping yourself safe while browsing the internet is extremely important as with increasing number of phishing or other types of attacks, internet has become unsafe for average users. Here are 5 Firefox extensions that’ll help you keep safe while browsing the web.
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Jul 20th, 2009 by
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You may think you are secure in Web2.0 but there are websites that are able to retrieve your browsing history through some simple scripts. WebCollage2.0 does just that, it will build a collage of icons by sniffing your browser’s history. This application limits itself to displaying only polite sites. In a similar way some other [...]
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May 6th, 2009 by
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You might be aware of Google’s site: operator that lets you restrict the search results to a specific website. Search Site is a Firefox add-on based on Google Search’s site: operator, that lets you search the opened website for selected text on a webpage.
Select some text on a webpage and right click on it [...]
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May 1st, 2009 by
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Looking for a quick way to shorten that long URL in address bar, then try Foxy URL. It is a tiny and simple Firefox add-on that’ll place a button on your Firefox toolbar, clicking on which will get you the short URL instantly and which you can then copy to clipboard.
And if you are looking [...]
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Apr 30th, 2009 by
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You never know where that shortened URL you clicked on is going to take you, but here’s a nice Firefox add-on known as Long URL Please that will replace every shortened URL on a page with its original URL so that you have an idea where the link is pointing to before you click.
Once [...]
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