Firefox Plumber is an interesting new application that claims to fix the memory leak issues that Firefox is historically famous for. Although, with each new upcoming version Mozilla has improved the memory management of the browser and less and less bugs remain there. However, even if you use the latest Firefox 4 and make heavy use of it by opening many tabs with multimedia rich content and for sure after say an hour memory consumption shoots to 500MB or even more. This is particularly true if you ...

Speed Dial is one of the many useful features included in the Google Chrome apart from it’s lightening fast startup and page rendering speed. However, I do feel that it is not as customizable as Firefox to a users preferences. In particular, many of the Google Chrome features (or of any other web browser) can be included in Firefox using 3rd party Firefox extensions. Take an example of the Chrome’s speed dial feature for today, it is one of the most touted and of course useful features of that ...

After a few days delay (from the planned release schedule) finally Mozilla has released the first official beta of the Firefox 5.0. As we mentioned some time ago that based on their experiences with the Firefox 4 delays, Mozilla is shifting to a more rapid release cycle with the Firefox 5, 6 and future versions. Idea is to include only some incremental/small improvements in each new version but bring it to the market much faster. This is somewhat similar to the Google Chrome release cycle. Based ...

Java Script is an essential part of any modern web browser these days. In fact, many complex and media rich interactive websites depend upon java script for the proper functionality. On the other hand this is java script that is a potential source for bringing infections to your system through some rogue scripts that can be injected by nasty malware based websites on the web out there. What a user most probably want in the web browser is a quick mechanism to enable/disable it based on the needs. ...

Insanely popular Angry Birds game is now available for free if you have Google Chrome browser! Game uses WebGL API for the graphics and stores a local cache to give you the uninterrupted play incase you go offline. Mighty Eagle add-on will be available using new Google Payments in-app purchasing feature at some time in future. If you are on another browser such as Firefox or Internet Explorer, you can still enjoy the game! Although the additional content might be exclusive to the Google Chrome. ...

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 ...

Latest incarnation of the Mozilla Firefox namely Firefox 4 may be the most refined and fastest version yet of the popular browser. However, apart from all the positives aspects one cannot help but feel for some of the controversial decisions on Mozilla’s part. I have already talked about them at great length in some previous articles. So, I will not go in to that, but here I want to point-out a new “feature” in Firefox 4 related to the visual transparency effects that it adds to the Windows ...

I think Firefox 4 tab management system is one of the best when compared against all other available current generation browsers such as Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer. One of the things that might bother some power users that tend to do a lot research & keep open a dozen or more tabs at the time is that tab width also starts to decrease as Firefox have to accommodate more tabs in the same tab-bar area. As a result visible area of any tab title also starts to shrink. If you prefer to widen ...

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 ...