Firefox
Nuking the Search Helper extension from Firefox, Internet Explorer
While many Firefox users are rather reliant on their vast collection of installed extensions, few of them actively look at the list of installed add-ons through the browser interface. Users install the add-on they need to provide the functionality they desire; sometimes they get an update notification when a new version is available, but otherwise [...]
Allowing Firefox to install “incompatible” add-ons
Adventurous users are probably already aware that the latest incarnation of the Firefox browser was released as a public beta earlier this week – Firefox 4.0b1. In addition to numerous under the hood feature expansion, the most immediate change to users will be the new user interface which features a rather drastic departure from the [...]
Encrypting your web connections automatically when possible
Recently, the Electronic Frontier Foundation in collaboration with the Tor anonymous routing project released a public beta of their security and privacy conscious Firefox extension. Inspired by Google’s latest SSL encrypted search option, HTTPS Everywhere extends that concept to other websites. Visiting a website known to the extension will automatically switch your browsing session over [...]
Keep your Firefox tabs on tap and under control with BarTab
Think back – can you remember what web browsing was like before the advent of tabs? It’s hard to imagine life without the tab-based interface tweak popularized by Firefox many years ago. Tabs weren’t anything new, at least in the user interface of other applications yet when the style made the jump to the browser [...]
Tweaking Firefox’s spell-check notification
Technology has allowed for us all to become quite lazy with our spelling. Spell-check is common place and unfortunately, more and more people are relying on the software to compose properly spelled and grammatically correct sentences. Clearly there is a lot of good and an equal amount of a bad with this trend. Nothing is [...]
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