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:

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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So Google has us all nuts with all of their services. And only someone nuttier would probably take score of everything and memorize each and every one of them down to search syntaxes and keyboard shortcuts.
So thank goodness for this guy who just made using Google services a tad easier - the Google Cheat [...]

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Mozilla updated Firefox to address a total of 14 vulnerabilities in the browser. Three of which are flagged critical. However, it failed to address one bug that the memory corruption flaw that enables attackers to put in codes in vulnerable machines just by making users visit a malicious site.
Here’s the list of vulnerabilities fixed [...]

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Last time, I’ve featured a SysSense - a freeware utility that keeps track of your Google AdSense account without having to open a browser window.
But if you’re the type of person that always keeps a browser open, you can also do the same within Firefox with an extension - AdSense Notifier. This helps [...]

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Last time, I buzzed an alert to everyone who uses Firefox to download their favorite add-ons ASAP since Mozilla was supposed to trim down the list.
But as I monitored the Mozilla site, there were still no updates made on the site. The reason behind, apparently, is that, they delayed the site update for tonight [...]

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One things that’s a bummer. Some of us keep two accounts in one e-mail provider. Like for example, some would have two or more Gmail accounts. However, more often than not, you can only open one account at a time in a browser.
One quick way around this is to have two browsers open (usually [...]

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No quick tip for today, read that: emergency! Why? Mozilla Firefox will be relaunching its add-on site by Feb. 12 and part of the launch will be the removal of thousands of add-ons from its list.
Mozilla is apparently doing this to streamline the list for new users. Let’s face it, add-ons have been the [...]

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