Tag: FIREFOX-ADDONS

There are plenty of Mozilla add-ons already say "Brother, can you spare a dime (if you like me)?" Mozilla is looking to take things one step further with a new Add-ons Contributions Program. Donations will be accepted through Paypal, who offer reduced fees on micropayments under $12. Developers wanting to push the contributions button can do so using the new options in their Developer Tools for ...

Mozilla's Ubiquity dazzlingly cool preview release promises to make commands a great deal easier to remember and use by removing those annoying hyphens. With a totally updated parser -- unimaginatively referred to as "Parser 2" Ubiquity also promises support for a ton of new languages. "[The old parser] was based on a lot of assumptions about English that are not necessarily true in other ...

Add-ons have always been important to Mozilla, and they're one of the big reasons a lot of users decide to browse with Firefox. We've seen a number of innovations recently, like Jetpack and the introduction of Collections (don't forget to check the Downloadsquad Collection out if you haven't already). Mozilla's never been content to sit still - which is why they're always encouraging the community ...

If you hadn't guessed from past posts, most of the bloggers here at Downloadsquad use Firefox - some of us more than others, of course, but it's still a trusted cross-platform tool. Earlier today I showed you Mozilla's new Add-on Collector which makes it easy for anyone to do the whole "Fashion Your Firefox" thing. After going back to the comments you contributed to past Firefox add-on posts and ...

If you use Firefox and want to get a taste of what might be coming in future versions, one addon worth installing is Shawn Wilsher's Asynchronous Location Bar Searches. Mozilla's thinking is that Firefox will never be fast enough, and this addon takes aim at improving the performance of your awesome bar. I didn't include this one in my three must-haves, but it's a close fourth now that I've ...

My browsing habits have changed quite a bit since I first switched to Firefox. I used to think I needed custommize it with a large compliment of addons. Now, not so much. Plenty of the chores I used to leave up to addons can be done with Firefox itself. Search bookmarks, userchrome hacks, and about:config offer plenty of tweaks without adding any bloat to the browser. However, there are still a ...

I'm a big fan of applications that take handles repetitive chores without any input from me whatsoever. Since I've been using Tweetdeck lately, sharing links on Twitter and bookmarking them has turned into a two-step process, and that's one step too many if you ask me. Enter Tweecious, a Firefox addon that keeps an eye on your Twitter feed for any links you share and automatically adds them to ...

I like to keep things in my Firefox UI to a minimum, though for some reason I don't like to utilize the full-screen view. What can I do? Why, go find some addons and combine, compress, and tidy things up a bit. Here are four handy addons that help get the job done - if you've got some others, share them with us in the comments! Personal Menu Nix that needless file-edit-view menu with this addon. ...

Ghostery is a plugin for Firefox that alerts you when you visit a web site using "web bugs," which are basically scripts that track your information for one reason or another. Ghostery currently tracks more than 100 different types of web bugs, and alerts you if a web page is using scripts from sites like Sitemeter, Amazon, or PollDaddy by displaying a purple window with a list of bugs on top of ...

Mouseless has been mentioned on Downloadsquad before, and it's steadily improved since Jordan Running first posted about it. The latest version offers improved support for dynamic web apps like GMail and Facebook. The number of "clickable" links has also been greatly increased and works amazingly well with complicated pages. On the Blogsmith post creation page where I'm writing this, for ...