Having tabs open in a browser can pretty much slow it down and bloggers and developers often have 10 to 15 tabs open on their browser. Firefox is pretty much a favorite and one of the main fears of any person having to restart Firefox is the dread you face waiting for all tabs to open and restart.

As China celebrates- The year of the Tiger, the Internet is probably celebrating – The years of social media networking! Twitter, Face book, Orkut etc etc. The list is endless!  How often do we grimace with the pain of logging separately onto each website? One workaround is to save cookies, but then again, we risk getting hacked!

With Google flooding Chrome with one extension after the other, Firefox users probably felt…

Firefox two days ago announced that it is coming out with a release candidate (RC) version of Firefox 3.6. Previously you might have read up on Firefox 3.6 beta version update. Now with this Release candidate version Mozilla will probably start the transition towards version 3.7 and the much awaited and hyped Firefox ver 4.

Firefox 3.6 has had over 5 beta versions and using it I am very satisfied with…

I often use Firefox browser for following the news. One problem with a website dedicated to news is that not all of them refresh automatically.

There is a Firefox addon which refreshes the page automatically can be downloaded from the Firefox Addon page.

Once we install a plug-in for the browser we are using we hardly pay attention to it being outdated or up-to date. Plugin versions tend to be noticed and looked up only if we encounter problems while using the browser. Often the crash can be because of a outdated plug-in.

Mozilla reckons that 30% of browser crashes happen due to outdated Plugins. This means roughly a little under 1 in 3…

This is a new add-on feature with Firefox browser which will allows users to test the Firefox Browser and help Firefox build a better browser. This add-on for the Firefox browser automatically lets you know of what test to carry out and helps you collect data on your browser usage.

For people interested in testing this can be quite an insight into how browsers are tested. And for enthusiasts like me,…

Mozilla Labs has another beauty in the works. It is a service that will allow your Firefox browser through an add-on to sync with other Firefox browsers across desktops and mobile phones.

Basically you can now access your Firefox browser’s history, bookmarks, tabs, forms, preferences and passwords from anywhere.

A very neat add-on is available at Firefox Labs.

It is called Prism and it can convert webpages into Windows Application by using Firefox Browser.
How to use Prism?
The Prism Add-on can be installed on Firefox by visiting the Mozilla Labs page. You can either download it as a Firefox Add-on or a standalone application.

Once the installation of the add-on is complete visit the website you want to convert into an application with Firefox….

Considering how competition in the browser market is heating up, I was trying to look around what Mozilla Firefox 4 was going to offer even if there is almost a year for it to be released. I came across some information on the Mozzila Wiki site and was quite impressed with the peek into the future.
Changes with Firefox 4 that you can expect.

The search bar and the address will be…

A couple of weeks ago, Rosa Golijan posted a tip in Lifehacker, wherein, she mentioned a few sentences using which as Email signature massacred the Gmail ads automatically. Though it was a quite interesting tip, but it is not always practical to use an irrelevant signature on your email so that the receiver of the email may not see those distracting ads within Gmail. You can remove such unwanted…