Posts Tagged ‘Firefox’

Are Your Passwords Safe In Firefox?

Are Your Passwords Safe In Firefox?

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 [...]

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Enhance Your Browsing Experience With Cooliris

Enhance Your Browsing Experience With Cooliris

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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Mozilla Reccomends Updating of Adobe Flash Player

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 the [...]

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Use External Media Player to Play Embedded Videos in Websites

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 [...]

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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, [...]

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Use Firefox location bar as a search box

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, [...]

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Translate Web Pages with gTranslate

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 [...]

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Back up and Restore your Firefox Profile

Back up and Restore your Firefox Profile

MozBackup is a freeware windows utility that lets you backup all your firefox extensions, saved bookmarks, settings as a single file which you can use to restore your firefox to earlier state using MozBackup.
It backs up the Firefox Profile into a pcv file which you can store at a secured location. You can then easily [...]

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Firefox 3 creates History – sets Guinness World Record

The efforts of Firefox community for the Download day of Mozilla Firefox 3 have brought success. Firefox is now the Guinness World Record holder of most number of software downloads in 24 hours.

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Create a Keyboard Shortcut to launch Firefox

Create a Keyboard Shortcut to launch Firefox

Here’s a nice tip on how to create a keyboard shortcut for launching Firefox in Windows. Just right click on shortcut icon of Firefox and open its Properties dialog.
Under Shortcut key in Shortcut tab press any alpha-numeric key on your keyboard and shortcut will be created as Ctrl+Alt+ [your key] e.g. if you press F [...]

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