One of my buddies just tipped me off to a must-have tab management add-on for Firefox. It’s called FoxTab, and it’s a cross between Mac OS X’s Expose, Windows Vista’s Flip 3D, and the thumbnail view in Google Chrome. When you’ve got a lot of tabs open in Firefox, this offers a quick way to jump [...]
The ongoing problems with Flash freezing in Firefox 3 after two seconds of playback resemble nothing less than a game of hot potato. Or perhaps watching two parents have a screaming match, with us regular ol’ users playing the part of the sobbing kid that cries, “Why can’t you two just get along?”
Adobe has just [...]
Of the two big browsing features of 2008, one seems to run counter to where developers are driving their browsers. The melding of the location bar to the search bar was expected in Firefox and Opera, thanks to beta versions. Chrome has it, too, calling it the Omnibar. What seems to have caught developers off-guard [...]
Here is how you can get a stick ticker in your Firefox browser (works with 1.0 - 2.0.0.* versions):
Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/183
Click on the green ‘Add to Firefox’ button
Click “Install” on the window that pops up
Restart Firefox to see the ticker appear.
Right-click on the ticker to Edit/Add your favorite stocks
Enjoy!
Annoying ads? Just block them with Adblock Plus, an addon for Mozilla Firefox. Visit this page to download and install the addon. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
You can manually block images and ads by right-clicking on the target banner and selecting ‘Adblock Image’. You can block annoying ads automatically by subscribing to one of the autoblock lists available for [...]
Here are some useful tools to use if you are having spyware or malware problems. ‘How do I know if I have something on my computer’? Well, there is no real sure shot way of knowing that but your computer normally shows some kind of symptoms when it is infected. Your computer might slow [...]
Most new age businesses depend a lot on technology for the efficient running of their operations. Security has found a new meaning for these traditional businesses. With increasing risks to networks from external threats like hackers, spyware, malware as well internal ones like their own employees, it is imperative that businesses assess such risks and [...]
