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 ...

Statusbar in Firefox can be very useful to the users for a number of reasons for example, it shows the URL when you hover over a link and other status information when a website is loading. It can also show some other extension specific information(or buttons) if some extension is installed that makes use of the Firefox statusbar to show useful information. If you are annoyed by the fact that statusbar takes a lot of space at the bottom in the Firefox interface you can use the Status Bar: Compact ...

Starting from Windows Vista Microsoft has introduced a revised start menu that promises to revamp the interface and bit more tidy as all the installed programs are listed in a sorted single column list. There is scroll bar on the right that can be used to navigate the list of installed programs if installed programs are too many and they don’t fit at once on the screen. One thing is for sure that it looks clean and tidy and saves a lot of space also by the forcing programs list to be single ...

One of the key strengths of the Firefox is the level of extensibility that it provides through the use of extensions. Because of the open-source nature of Firefox and some other related reasons there is a huge community of developers that are actively building new extensions and updating the older ones to be compatible with the new versions of this browser. Already official Firefox extension repository is approaching 2,000 Firefox extensions(currently hovering at 1989) and there are many other extensions ...