In Firefox most convenient way to access the bookmarks is though the bookmarks toolbar (if it is turned on). In this way no need to go through the Firefox Menu Bar to access them and most importantly your mouse have to travel the minimum distance (from the webpage to the bookmarks toolbar). But there are occasions that you might want to turn off the bookmarks tool bar for example to gain some extra horizontal space which is already at premium for the users that have widescreen displays. Another reason ...

Back in 2008, I posted an article on how you can use a Firefox extension called External Application Buttons to create buttons and add them to the Firefox toolbar to launch any Windows application. It was really nice to have such flexibility but some users experienced difficulties in using that extension with the newer versions of the Firefox 3.0 and 4.0 betas. Another disadvantage is that if you want to create buttons for too many application – Firefox toolbar will be quickly filled up.Today ...

Many of us spent a large portion of their time on computer browsing Internet for variety of purposes such as surfing websites, checking email, chatting, passing time on social interaction websites, blogging and many other activities. A lot of us are using Firefox as their browser of choice for the surfing/browsing needs on the Internet. Sometimes when busy on a task in FireFox we need to quickly launch an external application from windows such as calculator to do some calculation, a note taking/reminder ...