Firefox is the second most popular web browser after internet explorer, and stats show that its popularity is increasing everyday. But there is a concern with the security that it provides to the user. To steal all your passwords, the intruder just needs to access your system for few minutes as the passwords can be [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Firefox’
Firefox Throttle Controls Firefox bandwidth usage
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 [...]
Mozilla Reccomends Updating of Adobe Flash Player
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 [...]
Use External Media Player to Play Embedded Videos in Websites
Sometimes you come across sites that have external media links such as MP3, Quicktime or Realmedia. Traditionally Firefox offers you to download the the file, open it in external player or opens a new tab and starts playing if you have installed the required plugins. But if you want to open the file in [...]
23 Essential Addons For Firefox 3 Users
There is nothing like firefox, when it comes to the customization of your browsing experience. There are  thousands of addons available to choose from. I have prepared a list of 23 addons that are must for firefox 3.0 users. I have divided them into 5 catogories according to their use which are multimedia, security, comfortness, [...]
10 Must Have FireFox Add-ons
The number of firefox users are growing day by day. Firefox makes things a lot easier by providing lots and lots of addons to choose from. Its really difficult to have a look at each one of them. So I have picked some most useful ones for you. Here’s the list..
Use Firefox location bar as a search box
What you do when you have to search the web using Google search engine ? Very obvious!! If you are a Firefox 3 user you’ll type the query in the search box provided next to the location bar. But what you do when you want to see the results from Wikipedia ?? Again very obvious, [...]
Flock 2 beta 2 – The Social Firefox 3
Flock – The Social Browser based on Firefox has released the Flock 2 Beta 2 version which is based on Firefox 3. Flock has always been based on Firefox but with integration of various social networks including Facebook, Twitter, Del.icio.us, Photobucket, YouTube etc. It is also a great tool for bloggers as it has inbuilt [...]
Translate Web Pages with gTranslate
Today, i had to sign-up with a Chinese web site to use their Document reader software. As the website was in Chinese language, at first i thought of using Google Translate to translate that page to English but then at second thought, i searched for a Firefox add-on that can do translation of web page [...]
Firefox 3 Updates to 3.0.1
Mozilla has released updated version Firefox 3.0.1 for Firefox 3 users with some security and stability enhancements. The update will be automatically available to all Firefox 3 users within 24-48 hours, but if you are so eager to update, Go to Help > Check for Updates to manually update Firefox 3 to 3.0.1. It is [...]
