Tag: FIREFOX-EXTENSION

I have a love/hate relationship with Firefox. I love the functionality it gives me, but I hate how over time it slows down and acts like a bloated pig. Two of the biggest factors that will make Firefox drag are the amount of history it maintains, and defragmentation of the Places database. We've already told you how to fix both of those issues, but it turns out that there is now an extension that ...

GCal Popup is a Firefox extension for Google Calendar users too lazy to open a new tab when they want to enter a new appointment or check their calendar. Once the plugin is installed, you'll see a little calendar icon in your status bar. Click it and your Google Calendar will pop up, over the top of whatever page you happen to be visiting. Click the close button and it will go away. If you're ...

Have you ever wished you could apply the power of Google's search algorithm to the bookmarks you have stored in Firefox? If you're okay with uploading your bookmarks to a relatively unknown site, you can do just that. Searchmybookmarks.com has a Firefox extension you can install that will upload all of your bookmarks to their server. Then, when you visit the site, you have the option of searching ...

URL shortening services like TinyURL are great if you're trying to convey a lot of information in a tiny amount of space. For example, if you want to share a link with your friends on Twitter. But if you're a cautious web surfer who prefers to know where a link will lead you before clicking, LongURL can help. All you have to do is copy and paste a shortened URL into the text box on LongURL, and ...

If you've just started using Ubuntu and you're the sort of person who likes to have 911 and poison control on speed dial, you might want to check out the Ubuntu Forums Menu extension for Firefox. While Ubuntu is one of the easiest Linux distributions for new users to learn, we can pretty much guaranty that you're eventually going to run into an issue while trying to enable support for your ...

If you're the sort of person who likes to purchase domain names as a hobby, you really need a life. But while you're working on that, you might want to check out Domain Lookup for Firefox. It's a Firefox add-on that could save you valuable seconds. Domain Lookup lets you highlight text on any web site, hit the right-click button on your mouse, and check to see if the domain is available for ...

Are you a Firefox extension junkie? Us too. Most of the extensions we have installed put useful information in the status bar, which is great, but causes quite a bit of clutter. Worse, when we need to launch a child browser window (like we have to all the time to write these Download Squad posts), those child windows are also populated with all of the status bar gunk that comes from our ...

If you're the sort of person who always has a map service open in a browser tab so you can look up locations, directions, and the nearest pizza place to order lunch, have we got a Firefox add-on for you. Mini Map Sidebar opens up Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, or Windows Live Local in your Firefox Sidebar. That's not particularly impressive in its own right. But the extension includes some useful ...