View , Edit Session / Saved Cookies in Firefox – Add N Edit Cookies

On one hand, cookies enable useful features on websites, and on the other, they can pose threat to security. It is difficult to turn cookies off because some sites do not work properly if you disallow cookies. With the firefox  add-on called Add N Edit cookies, you can find out and edit information which is [...]

September 2nd, 2010 by Prasanth Chandra 

Searchbar Autosizer – Expand / Increase Search Field size of Firefox Toolbar Dynamically

The size of the integrated search field of the Firefox browser is not enough when you are searching for longer keywords. You can easily increase the size of the search bar by customizing the toolbar but this consumes a lot of space in your toolbar. It is clever to increase the field size dynamically only [...]

August 2nd, 2010 by Prasanth Chandra 

How to Create / Generate Missing Favicons for Websites Automatically

Favicons are the best way to identify or find the website / blog you are searching for from a huge list of bookmarks. But for those websites which do not have any separate Favicon, here is a simple way to create or generate missing favicons for websites automatically. Previously we discussed about Favicon Generator – [...]

July 20th, 2010 by Prasanth Chandra 

Speed up Mozilla Firefox Internet Surfing – FasterFox

With loads of addons or extensions Firefox may not work as fast as you want. There are several ways to speed up Firefox browser. One such way is a small tool called FasterFox. It can speed up your Mozilla Firefox’s internet surfing capabilities. It makes your browser work faster. We already discussed article on How [...]

December 23rd, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra 

How to Automatically Update and Search Firefox Bookmarks

Many bookmarks keep piling up while surfing. Most of the times they are sorted  into relevant categories, but it is still easy to lose track of which ones are still of  interest. Firefox 3 supports smart folders which remember the result of search queries and automatically update their contents after each new bookmark is saved. [...]

December 14th, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra 

Site Launcher – Open Favorite Websites Instantly Using Keyboard Shortcuts

You open frequently visited websites using the bookmarks toolbar or menu. You want to know whether you can open websites using a quick keyboard shortcut.  You can open websites faster by using the bookmark toolbar. However, no browser offers the option for directly calling up websites using a hotkey ( keyboard shortcut ). Site Launcher, [...]

November 26th, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra 

Speed Dial for Firefox – Access Frequently Used Websites Easily

Unlike Google Chrome and Opera, Firefox doesn’t have a speed dial option which holds frequently accessed websites on the home page, so that you can open them easily instead of typing the whole url every time. With the various addons available, you can get a Speed Dial for Firefox too. Check out other articles about [...]

November 12th, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra 

Create your Custom Theme for Firefox with AnyColor

No wonder than soon with time, Mozilla Firefox have become one of the most favorite Internet browsers for most of the users. There are number of tricks and programs used to tweak and enhance the performance of Firefox. AnyColor is a free add-on which allows you to create your own customized theme for your Mozilla [...]

October 30th, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra 

ProCon Latte – Free Personal Content Filter to Block / Restrict Websites

ProCon Latte is a free Firefox browser add-on which can be used as a personal content filter. It is used to block access to websites with adult content, explicit material or anything that is inappropriate to children. It will allow you to limit the websites which can be opened and can even restrict sites based [...]

October 22nd, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra 

Snipshot – Free Online Image Editor – Edit Pictures from WebPages

Snipshot is a free application to edit your images online. It is used to do small corrections in pictures like  Resize, Crop, Rotate, Enhancement with an option to undo the changes.  This free online image editor comes as a browser addon or a simple bookmarklet code. It will be used to edit images from any [...]

October 19th, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra 

Monitor & Manage Downloads in Firefox with Download Statusbar

When you start downloading a file in Firefox, a dialog box appears on your screen. This dialog box shows you the progress of the file download. It can accommodate more than one download and completed downloads can be cleared off. However, this causes additional system resources to be used up (since another Firefox window needs [...]

September 14th, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra 

How to Open Multiple Homepages in Firefox

Firefox supports tabs that are used to open multiple pages within a single browser window. You can also have the option here to open multiple home pages on individual tabs at once just the way Internet Explorer 7 does it. When Firefox starts up, only one tab is opened and each time you want to [...]

September 12th, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra