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How Slow Are Your Firefox Addons

Mark — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:45:40 +0000

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.

Firefox 4 vs Chrome

Mark — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:39:46 +0000

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 to get quality plugins or FF4 is going to take back it’s market-share. There are some apps that are not rewritten for FF4 but developers always catch up.

Firefox now has browser-sync like Chrome but I think it’s more secure than Chrome’s. The “App Tab’s” feature is a great also. Features

There is a lot to like about Firefox 4.

Diggin On Some Firefox 4

Mark — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:31:11 +0000

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.

I know a few weeks ago I was all hyped up about Chrome and you think this is just a faze. There are a lot of great things to say about Chrome but the extensions are are to buggy. Google should really help developers build them better. The Firefox extensions almost always work great. I’m sorry this is such a showstopper for me. I’ve been dependent on the extensions for quite some time.

Firefox 4 isn’t even out of Beta and I’m already hooded. They’ve stolen some of the best features of Chrome and added them to the great pluggin platform to create a great browser.

Firefox 4 Beta

Mark — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:38:02 +0000

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.

As I said, I only just now started using it so I haven’t a clue what it’s capable of so for now, will I be going back to Firefox? It’s hard to say. I only recently moved to Chrome. I will be using Chrome for the near future. I will play with F4 at least while it’s in Beta. It looks promising!

HTTPS Everywhere

Mark — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:31:37 +0000

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.

Today I found a tool that will provide some protection. HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension that forces a site to use HTTPS if it is available. This can prove invaluable if we are going to continue to use open WiFi hotspots. Although it does not work in every case. The site may not use HTTPS.

HTTPS Everywhere is brought to us by the great people at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who is the leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the digital world.

Firefox 4 Coming Soon

Mark — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:25:14 +0000

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 including…

new tab location. On the top like Chrome.
a new easier to use add-ons manager.
support for the new HTML5 standard.
Crash Protection. When a application (Flash, Quicktime or Silverlight crashes in your browser it wont effect the rest of Firefox.

There will be many more features to come soon.

I started to use Google Chrome because it’s clean and fast but I missed how well the extensions worked in Firefox. All of the extensions for Chrome are crude and not implemented well. Now Firefox 4 will have many of the same features as Chrome and still have those great extensions. Developers really need to bring it with the extensions for Chome.

Favorite Firefox Extentions

Mark — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:16:43 +0000

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 Manager – Lastpass 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

Mark — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:45:34 +0000

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

Mark — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:51:03 +0000

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.

Consolidate Firefox's Chrome

Mark — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:28:22 +0000

This tip from Gena Trapani of Lifehacker.