Glue Firefox Addon – Share and Get Suggestions

Posted on 01. Oct, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra.

Internet users have lately been very occupied by this thing called social networking. Social Networks enable people to get in touch with their friends even with their busy schedules. These web sites act as a great platform to share thoughts and opinions.

Glue is a tool and actually a Firefox Plug-in, which enables you to share your opinions and tastes with your friends. It also serves as a tool to discover books, music, movies and many other things through your friends as you browse popular sites.

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Use Ubiquity to Do More with Firefox

Posted on 29. Sep, 2009 by Chinmoy.Kanjilal.

Are you really satisfied with the Firefox address bar? What it simply does is take you to a destination. Can it answer any of your queries? Can it understand basic spoken commands? Well, the answer might be no, but only till now.

This detailed guide will walk you and talk you through installing, using and enjoying Ubiquity. You are in for a revamped web experience. To start with, you need to install the Ubiquity addon for firefox or you can skip this and read on.

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5 Best Firefox Add-ons for Better Privacy and Security

Posted on 15. Sep, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra.

Mozilla Firefox has undoubtedly been one of the best browsers in the market. When it comes to speed, privacy and security, Mozilla Firefox has always been great. The best thing about this web browser is that it allows you to install additional add-ons according to your requirement.

You can easily find a number of add-ons which would enhance the performance of your Mozilla Firefox browser. Privacy and security has always been an issue when it comes to surfing the Internet. Although Mozilla Firefox has successfully helped us in this particular issue, there are times when we are still left unsatisfied by its performance.

And the best way to enhance the performance of Mozilla Firefox is to use add-ons. There are number of add-ons which will prove to be useful in tackling the problems related to privacy and security. Below are  a few of the best.

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Firefox Plugin Yoono Puts All Your Social Media in One Place

Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by Alex.Braz.

I admit, I’m almost addicted to all this social media thing. I will tweet about my Facebook and post pictures to Flickr just so I can blog about it. Many of you also use MySpace, Flickr, Imeem, FriendFeed, AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Live.

So let me ask you something. Is it fun having to click a hundred times just to check if there’s anything new on your favorite social media websites? It sure is not for me. I’ve tried many different gadgets and applications to tweet from my desktop. I even enabled the sidebar again! But since Firefox is the program that runs for me most of the time, I had to find something to put it in it.

Yoono is great, but I won’t lie to you, it also has its downfalls. However, once you set the gadget, it works pretty well. You can install it from the Firefox Add-On site, of course for free.

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Opera 10’s New Features

Posted on 05. Sep, 2009 by Chinmoy.Kanjilal.

Opera is one browser which could push through the popularity of Internet Explorer, the authority of Mozilla Firefox and establish a place for itself in the current browser market. Opera is the first one to innovate speed dial, trash can, session management and many other cool features.

With all these features present out f the box right from the setup installation, Opera is always one of the first few softwares I install after installing a fresh copy of Windows on my PC.

Opera has an extremely lightweight user interface, and it just released vesion 10, the final release after a series of RC releases and the recently launched Opera 10 has many new as well as improved features.

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Firefox’s Best Kept Secret Tip

Posted on 25. Aug, 2009 by Squealing.Rat.

When I look at most Internet browsers, I always see the same thing. Toolbars. Toolbars are awesome. I use them, because they are accessible, easy, and quick. But one issue that many have with them is that they take up space. Not a whole lot, granted, but still space that could be used by say, reading one of your favorite blogs in full screen.

So, what’s the tip?

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How To Back Up Mozilla Software Using MozBackup

Posted on 13. Aug, 2009 by UzEE.

I’ve always had problems while trying to migrate my Firefox profiles between different machines, and most importantly, when testing out alpha and beta builds of Mozilla’s browser.

The biggest problem is that the user profiles get overwritten so its almost impossible to downgrade to an older version which doesn’t support the new additions. Whenever you fire up different versions, profiles get messed up and at the end of the day, you have bulky profiles that take ages to load up.

Luckily though, there is a solution to every problem, and this particular one cane be solved by using MozBackup.  This tool will backup your profiles from a host of different Mozilla based applications.

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Browzar: Portable Browser for Private Browsing

Posted on 01. Jul, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra.

Browzar is a free web browser that uses the IE shell. It lets you surf with all the privacy you want by having no cache, history, cookies, or auto-complete. Browzar also comes as an extremely small executable.  This allows you to put it on your thumb drive and take it with you to have private browsing anywhere you go.

Lets see what else Browzar has to offer.

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