Firefox 5 has been released ahead of the schedule and final version of this popular browser can be download right now. Firefox 5 includes a number of incremental enhancements as compared to the Firefox 4.  Some of the new features include the CSS animations support, Do-Not-Track header preference that has been moved  to the privacy section for increased visibility. Another notable thing is Firefox development channel switcher that has been introduced in previous Firefox beta has been now ...

FindBar that we have at our disposal in Firefox is pretty nice. However, by default FindBar does miss some small but very useful features, for example, you can use the Ctrl + F shortcut to bring it on screen, but if you press the same shortcut again it will not hide it! – a toggling for show/hide that some of you might be expecting is not there. Another feature that could be handy for some users is the placement of the FindBar according to the user preference as I noticed some users prefer the ...

Firefox 4 users can make a much better use of the status-bar (or new “add-on bar” as they call it) by installing some extension that shows useful information in this area. As in new Firefox 4.o add-on bar is supposed to be used by the Firefox extension developers to show some useful information to it’s users. One of the extremely useful extensions that I have come across recently is called StatusbarEx. After installation it adds some useful information to the Firefox add-on bar like Memory/CPU ...

Firefox has a long history of being one of the slower internet browsers around. I mean, most of us has a general impression that Firefox boots slow (particularly from a cold start), and after start becomes “laggy” when you open too many tabs or use it for extended periods of time without a reboot. Sounds familiar right? But on the other hand we also know that Mozilla has made substantial optimizations to speedup and optimize the memory usage in recently released Firefox 4.0. However, one thing ...

There are times when we come across a file on a website that we know is plain text file (it can be understood in text mode) but has some other strange extension that Firefox will not allow to open with in the browser. Instead it offers to open it with an external associated program to view the file. But now no problem! as this kind of problem can be easily resolved by using an extension called View as Text for Firefox. Basically this extension provides a functionality to force any file to open as ...

One of the issue that many people are facing that have moved to wide-screen LCDs/displays is related to the less vertical space available on the display. This is a consequence of having wide screen displays. This limitation is particularly evident when working in an application with a lot of toolbars for example in Firefox (assuming that you are a power user and have enabled the bookmarks bar in addition to the tab bar). This kind of GUI setup in the Firefox not leaves much free vertical space. If ...

Tab Badge is very nice Firefox extension that is pretty lightweight (only 6KB!) in size and has only one function on agenda. And that function is to add nicely superimposed visual badges to the tabs in Firefox. These badges shows you the number of unread messages in Facebook, unread emails in Gmail and so on… There are many use cases for this extension as this extension is more general and should work on many websites by showing badges without problem. Note that the badges are also visible for ...

Well, we are all used to seeing a horizontal tab-bar in almost all modern web browsers that support tabs. This tab-bar becomes populated with the open tabs list and then a user can easily switch to the desired tab by just clicking on the desired tab on the tab-bar. Easy isn’t it? Yes! but there is one problem that some of you might feel more than the others that relates to the fact that modern computers and laptops have widescreen support. It means that they have more real estate for the vertical ...

If you are a real hardcore Firefox user and a “tab junkie” as well, you might have noticed a problem when opening too many tabs. After you open say a dozen tabs the tab-bar becomes full and then a scrolling arrow appears at the right edge of the tab-bar which you have to click to scroll through the tab-bar in that case to reach the tabs at the far left or right of the tab-bar. This quickly becomes tiresome because you spent most of the time on scrolling through the tab-bar then just clicking ...

As we already know that by-default in Firefox, we have one buttons toolbar which is horizontally placed in the main interface. However, this toolbar can quickly get crowded if one tends to put a lot of buttons on it. This is particularly true if you are using the awesome Custom Buttons extension. If due to this problem, better organization or for some other reason you are in the mood to have vertical toolbar then look no further as we have an extension exactly for this purpose.Vertical Toolbar ...