Archive for Firefox

Turn On Firefox’s PDF Reader

Firefox 15 has a PDF reader built in but you have to turn it on. Here is Veronica of Tekzilla to show you how. Read More→

How Slow Are Your Firefox Addons

Can’t figure out why your browser takes forever to load? See if your addons are the culprit with this helpful page from Mozilla. Veronica has more on today’s Tekzilla Daily. Read More→

Firefox 4 vs Chrome

I’ve been using Firefox 4 for about a week and I have found it to be fast and reliable not unlike Google’s Chrome browser. What I’ve found is that the plugins for Firefox are much better. I’m not sure what the problem is but Google needs to work very hard with app developers Read More→

Diggin On Some Firefox 4

A few weeks ago I told you I loved the Google Chrome browser. I’ve been testing the Firefox 4 Beta and I’m really happy with it. It’s clean, fast and packed with some great features. Read More→

Firefox 4 Beta

I’ve just been checking out the Firefox 4 Beta. I must say I’m pretty impressed! It’s really fast and it is much lighter with the system resources. Firefox 4 Beta does a really good job rendering HTML5 stuff. Read More→

HTTPS Everywhere

In my previous post Firesheep I told you about a very easy hacker tool that enables the user to log in to password protected accounts of others user where the site is not using HTTPS correctly. Read More→

Firefox 4 Coming Soon

Firefox 4 Beta is now available for download and the product is scheduled for release early this Fall. It promises to have lots of great new features Read More→

Favorite Firefox Extentions

I love the Firefox web-browser. One of things I like the most about Firefox are the extentions.

Here are some of our favorites:

  • FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.
  • 1-Click YouTube Video Download – Download YouTube in a single click. Download YouTube videos in FLV and MP4 (both High Definition and iPod compatible High-Quality)
  • Delicious Bookmarks is the official Firefox add-on for Delicious, the world’s leading social bookmarking service (formerly del.icio.us). It integrates your bookmarks and tags with Firefox and keeps them in sync for easy, convenient access.
  • Gmail Notifier – The original notifier for Gmail. Supports checking multiple accounts as well as Gmail Hosted accounts.
  • LastPass Password ManagerLastpass is a great password manager LastPass Password Manager is a terrific companion to this service.
  • Omnibar – Integrates location bar and search bar into one. Shows search and url suggestions. Quickly switch search engine using search keywords. Provides different auto-complete popup styles for compact displays.

Portable Firefox

Yes you can take your Firefox browser with you and use on any computer. With “Portable Firefox” where ever you go, what ever computer your using you will have the same great functionality of Firefox and the Firefox extensions goes with you. You take you homepage, your bookmarks and all of your customizations. Stick Portable on a flash-drive then stick it in your pocket and go!

While your there take a look at the other portable applications

Delicious

Delicious – Organize, manage and tag your bookmarks (favorites in Internet Explorer) online. Share with others and search bookmarks of others. The best thing about Delicious is the Firefox plugin. I use it as my personal bookmarks manager on my computer.