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 ...

This is a typical scenarios that you are interested to watch videos related to a particular topic, and you go the YouTube and search for the related videos. But on the search results page you are interested in watching multiple videos. So, for that you will have to click on the first interesting result to view the video, and once you are finished you will go back then manually click on the next interested video that seems interesting, and so on. This manual task can become tedious quickly if you ...

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 ...

By default in Firefox 4 the behavior of the browser has changed a bit in the sense that when you quite, it no longer prompts you to save currently open tabs as it did in Firefox 3.x. You can bring back this behavior by changing a single preference in about:config in Firefox. So just launch the URL about:config and filter the results on the search bar on the browser.showQuitWarning. Then in the window double click on this to enable (true) the  browser.showQuitWarning property. Now even if you ...

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 ...

As we reported yesterday, Firefox 4.0 is officially released by Mozilla. Initial response from the users is quite good, and millions of copies of the next iteration of this popular browser have already been downloaded. As we mentioned many time before despite many advancements and improvements that Firefox 4.0 brings to the table, there are some debatable design/interface changes as well. And bad thing is that user is not allowed to “undo”  these changes for the most part. Well, there is ...

As we know Mozilla had many troubles launching Firefox 4.0 on time and as consequence was delayed by many months. Finally, after many many months wait is over, and Firefox 4.0 is officially available for download. Actually, there are not any noticeable changes if you are using any of the last release code (RC) versions. But Mozilla plans to substantially accelerate the release cycle with the Firefox 5.0 and Firefox 6.0 as we reported earlier. Despite including many exciting features such as hardware ...

People have always complained about the boot up and loading times of Firefox. Some time ago, we mentioned a script which could speed up Firefox loading times in half. Now if you are using Firefox 4 and still feel like things are not speedy enough, we have a new patch for you. Described by its developers as the “hackiest” hack ever for Firefox. It is claimed to decrease the start-up time for Firefox by 50%. This add-on is known as “Start Faster” and is currently available for Firefox 4.0b10pre ...

Default menus in Firefox are although functional but they are not very interesting to look at from a eye candy point of view. You can spice up the Firefox menu by adding very nice icons to the menu-items to make them much more visually appealing.Menu Icons Plus is the extension that will do the trick for you. It iconifies your Firefox menus and includes built-in icons sets to choose from, along with the ability to import/export icon sets. It also provides options for changing other aspects of ...

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 ...