If you’re a sports fan, particularly of the NBA then this add-on is for you – the NBA Scoreboard add-on. What it does is that it adds an NBA drop-down button to your Firefox toolbar that lets you in on the following:

NBA.com Scoreboards (today, yesterday and previous)
Boxscores (today and yesterday)
Recaps (today and yesterday)
Previews (today)
Team News [...]

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One comment about Firefox is its tendency to hog RAM. Well, sad to say, but it’s true (still not as much as the other browser :p). What’s comforting about it is that, Firefox’s customization allows you to tell Firefox not to use up too much RAM. Here’s how:

Access the about:config page (here’s how).
Find the browser.cache.memory.capacity [...]

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Hey, hey, hey. Our favorite browser just released an update with Firefox 2.0.0.3 it fixes a few security issues and website compatibilities.
The security update fixes the MFSA 2007-11 FTP PASV port-scanning vulnerability. Here are some details about this:
mark@bindshell.net reported that a malicious web page hosted on a specially-coded FTP server could use this feature [...]

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One of the ways Firefox offers a faster browsing experience is that it has a pre-load feature that will download pages behind the links that you might click. I don’t know how Firefox does this but it does.
So if you’re just coursing through a page, you might just be wasting bandwidth and hard drive [...]

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Here’s probably why it’s really easy for web designers get the job done a lot easier when designing for Firefox. For starters, most of the time what you put into the stylesheet, you get (though I still have to experience not getting it). No more guess games like with the headache Internet Explorer brings. Another [...]

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I’m a keyboard ninja, and I’m more in favor of using keyboard shortcuts than the mouse. Not that I hate the mouse, it’s just that I’ve been using computers even before the mouse was an integral part of GUI computing. (No mouse movements for the command line, right?)
However, nowadays, most of the people I [...]

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Following a hyperlink is always a guessing game. Wouldn’t it be nice to see what lies beyond the link even before clicking it. Time’s precious so why not get to see a preview of the target page? Cooliris Previews lets us do just that.
It’s a Firefox add-on that lets you do the following:

See a [...]

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Firefox blazed the trail for tabbed browsing. And it sure has made browsing so much streamlined (and fun!). Multiple windows sure are irritating. Along the line, Firefox tweaked its tabs (like having a close button for each tab). But one thing our friends over at Mozilla didn’t incorporate is tab thumbnails.
Good thing Firefox Showcase came [...]

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For quite some time, I’ve been using this handy-dandy toolbar (as extension) in Firefox – StumbleUpon. This is just so fun, you just might get addicted and forget to do what you have to do. :p
Here’s a cursory list of features according to their site (yes, focus on the “and more” part):

Channel surf the internet [...]

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Computerworld came out with this excellent article showing 7 ways to keep your identity from being completely profiled by search service providers. Google for example can easily keep track of your search footprints and identity because they can easily cross-check your search queries (your IP addresses are apparently logged) with your log-in information, say for [...]

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By default, Firefox’s search bar can only handle around 30 characters (depending on your resolution and number of buttons). Which is kind of a pain especially when your search string is quite long. And I do have made bad searches because of some unseen typos in the first part of my string that I didn’t [...]

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I flagged a warning nearly three weeks ago that Mozilla will be revamping their add-ons site. I also, fell into the panic/rush of things to download the XPI files of my favorite add-ons. But for the past few weeks, we see no changes on the site.
Mozilla addresses that with a link to their webdev blog [...]

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We’re all victims of URL typos. We wonder why we reached a DNS server search page even if we darn well know Google virtually doesn’t have a downtime. Then we look at the URL we typed and lo and behold it’s “google.con”
And our friendly Firefox extensions have just the right tool for such a problem. [...]

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Malicious websites and hackers exploit the browser’s capability of running apps and scripts like Java, Javascript and other executables to wreck havoc on your computer.
Here’s a helpful Firefox add-on to help you stop malicious scripts from running – NoScript. It allows you to filter from which trusted sources your browser will allow to run scripts [...]

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Firefox 3, which is due out later this year, will probably contain a slew of new features. As as Firefox junkie, I’m all too anxious to get my hands on the final version.
As news has it, 3 will probably include features like offline support for Web applications. One thing they’re also looking at is [...]

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