This one confused me at first. I mean, who would want to see your history as thumbnails on a filmstrip? I think that’s just an overkill for a tab tweak. At least, that was my first impression of ThumbStrips.
But hey, some people might just find it useful. If you’re some forgetful surfer who loses [...]

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The Firefox cache is its version of Internet Explorer’s Temporary Internet Files. It’s a local storage of files so that Firefox loads some things locally speeding up the loading process and saving both you and the site some bandwidth. Firefox offers access to it by going to a “hidden page” called about:cache.
Last time, [...]

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This just yet end all my about:config tips and tweaks but what a nice way to end it (unless Firefox 3 comes out and we’ve got another set of configuration settings to tinker with). What’s tricky with the about:config tweaks is that you have to strain your eyes for the preference names and manually [...]

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Hallelujah!
One feature that I hoped that Google Reader would have is an option to search through feeds. I usually have a thousand plus items in my Reader and browsing through all of them for pertinent information can be a chore. Besides, that’s what Google’s known for, right? So I wonder why it takes a [...]

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The last time we featured a Firefox torrent add-on was with FoxTorrent. While it was an interesting add-on, it never had me discarding my main torrents application. Besides, all it does is to use Firefox as an interface for another engine that does the torrent download.
Once installed, it effectively uses Firefox to do the [...]

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Okay, okay. I know I’ve been a critic of Windows Vista and you might be wondering why the heck I’m writing Vista tips. I’ve recently acquired for myself a laptop and it came with a free Windows Vista Home Basic OS. Since I figured I’m still paying for it (even if they say it’s [...]

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I was scanning all of the Firefox Quick Tips that I’ve written for the past 5 months and I think I’ve covered a wide range of tweaks and add-ons. But despite all of this, I think I left out one of the most helpful add-ons in Firefox’s arsenal - Greasemonkey. And I’ve been using [...]

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Many of the information you find online is presented via tables. And why not? Data like statistics is best seen in an organized matrix. Citing them in paragraph form would only confuse the viewer. HTML has had the feature to display tables for a long while now and it’s pretty common to find not [...]

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One of the drawbacks of having lots of add-ons is the unnecessary clutter that gets accumulated in Firefox’s menus including the context menu. My menus are getting too messy and I’ve reached a point where right-clicking has become more of a chore than a shortcut.
That’s when I found this (heaven-sent) add-on to help me [...]

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Toolbars can really take up a lot of space and we’ve been posting tips on browsing space recovery. Here’s another way to reclaim browsing space by reducing the padding around toolbar buttons. Even a pixel of reclaimed space can make a lot of difference.

Open your userChrome.css (I recommend using ChromEdit Plus)
Insert this code at [...]

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Here are some keyboard shortcuts for flipping through browser tabs in Mac OS X. If you happen to have different browsers, you might find the keyboard shortcuts a bit different from each other like how Firefox works differently from Safari. Apple Gazette shares these tips:
In Firefox
Hold Option+Command, then use the the left and right [...]

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I love favicons. It helps me associate sites easily with their icons. I don’t have to read through names and descriptions and that saves me a lot of time. But for those who’d rather have a neater bookmarks folder, this little tweak may be of service. You can disable favicons from displaying by doing [...]

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Here’s a tip for those who want more customization with their Firefox interface. This tweak allows you to use a custom background image for your toolbars.

Pick an image in GIF format (it must be)
Place it in the same directory as the userChrome.css
Open your userChrome.css (Here’s how)
Insert this code at the bottom
/*Use a custom background [...]

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For those of you, not familiar with leet (or 1337), it’s a way of writing that substitutes similar looking characters for the letters in a word. For example l in “leet” becomes 1, e becomes, 3 and t becomes 7. It’s supposed to be the elite computer user’s (hacker’s) language.
Now how about transforming typed [...]

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Personally, I think having both the throbber and the progress bar is overkill since both indicate if the page is still actively loading. I prefer just having the progress bar since it also serves as a meter for how far the page is in the loading process.
However, some might find the progress bar a [...]

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