firefox
Disabling Firefox 3.5’s New Geolocation Feature
Location-aware browsing has taken the world by storm; mainly from the creative uses of the technology in Apple’s iPhone. As a result, many other handset manufacturers have jumped on the bandwagon with their own iterations. For the unaware, location-aware browsing allows me to locate all coffee shops with free WiFi, ordered by distance away from [...]
Using Firefox Without a Mouse
No one would argue the huge importance around the introduction of the mouse and what it meant to interfaces of then and now. The mouse made the computer more approachable and less intimating to unfamiliar users. While I wouldn’t trade away a good set of keyboard shortcuts, I see the value the mouse offers to [...]
Userscripts Updater for Greasemonkey
Greasemonkey is easily one of the best Firefox extensions available and is often the one extension that keeps everyone coming back to Firefox, in my opinion. Greasemonkey provides a mechanism to customize, which usually entails added functionality, a website via javascript components. There are literally thousands of Greasemonkey scripts available that can all sorts of [...]
Disable and Remove Favicons in Firefox Bookmarks
Favicons are those itsy-bitsy icons that appear in your browser’s URL or address bar, browser tab, and bookmarks list. The premise for the icons is to be used to quickly identify or distinguish websites from one another, visually. The idea sounds solid but in my experience it’s rarely as pleasant and painless. Typically, in Firefox [...]
Create Temporary Bookmarks in Firefox
I’m free to admit that the act of bookmarking websites in my browser in order to save them for future visits has died off significantly over the last few years. Most sites that I routinely visit offer a subscription service over RSS where new articles are pulled down automatically every few minutes to my RSS [...]
