Firefox
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 [...]
Silencing the “Install Missing Plugins” message in Firefox
Another day, another Adobe Flash exploit – except this time there is no fix available yet from Adobe. Comforting isn’t it? I’ve had enough, the reality is I’m giving up on Flash and have removed the install from my system. In the past few months there appears to have been just as many Flash security [...]
Relocating Firefox’s cache directory off your SSD
Yesterday I detailed the process on relocating Google Chrome’s user profile directory and today I’m going to describe the steps necessary to do the same in Firefox. First, let’s revisit why this may be something you wish to do. Solid state drives or SSD are gaining popularity by leaps and bounds. The performance improvements over [...]
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