A friend of mine just hates those little beeping error notices. I don’t know about you but for some, it’s like a rusty nail on a blackboard. With Firefox, you may find one of those beeping sounds when you the Find feature doesn’t get a match for your word or phrase string. It’s accompanied [...]

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Last time, I featured this neat plug-in that tries to solve that nasty tab scrolling tendencies by reducing the tab width to the site’s favicon. While today’s featured isn’t really related to the tab scrolling but more on favicons.
Google Icon simply shows the favicon of each of the site in your search results (if [...]

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ASCII art has been around for a long, long time. And generators have been around too. And here’s one of them - Photo2Text. It’s an online conversion site that lets you upload an image and download a TXT of the generated ASCII art.
I could’ve featured this as a web raid. But since it’s got [...]

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We’ve seen similar plug-ins but mostly for IM status messages. Now for Twitterers, here’s an add-on that lets you do something similar - post currently playing songs in your media player to Twitter. Enter TwittyTunes.
But what’s really nice about it is that it also allows you to submit currently viewed webpages and updates. To [...]

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JavaScript is nice. However, there’s a tendency for these scripts to be unresponsive at times and that’s when Firefox immediately bugs you to either continue and wait for the script to run or to just stop it. Now, many websites today run JavaScript and may not display the page properly if you “kill” the [...]

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Here’s a routine for me and some of my Firefoxer friends before we learned about opening display search results in a new tab - Ctrl + T (open an new tab) -> Click on the search field -> Enter search terms -> Hit enter. That’s before we found out that hitting Alt + Enter [...]

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If you’ve been using Firefox since the old days, you may have noticed that in version 2 (Bon Echo), the downloads history list automatically clears itself. This is in contrast to the former behavior (say, in 1.5) where it retains the list. Now this became a performance issue since keeping a long list of [...]

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A really great alternative to browsing is subscribing to sites and blogs via RSS feeds. It’s quick, it’s easy, and you always get the freshest content from you favorite sites. DapperFox is a Firefox add-on that lets you “RSSify any website.”
It’s supposedly a replacement for that RSS button that you have on the address [...]

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Okay, I’ve got to admit, I do have a Twitter but I seldom find time to post stuff since I always seem to forget to have it open. Yes, that means dedicating a tab for that. And I’ve got just too many tabs open. And since I don’t like my mobile phone buzzing me [...]

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Here’s some more Firefox tab customization for you. I’ve been posting some stuff on how to weasel our way out of that darned tab scrolling. So for a change here’s one for tab enhancements.
Tab Scope’s an add-on that lets you preview tab contents through a popup, and navigate directly on the popup. It’s somehow [...]

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Here’s yet another solution to those annoyed by tab scrolling. How about simply reducing tab width to show just the favicon? And that’s what the FaviconizeTab add-on does.
You can simply set to reduce the tab width to show only the favicon by double-clicking on the tab. You can also set the sites to automatically [...]

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Notice that if you make a text selection in Firefox and hit right-click, you’ll see a ‘Search for‘ option there. My browser uses Google as search engine so it says “Search Google for *insert selected text here*.”
This is a great time-saver instead of copying and pasting your selection to your search bar. But as [...]

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The throbber is a little animated icon that notifies you whether a page is loading or has finished loading. Some people just find it annoying or even useless. Well, as for me, I keep mine though I understand why people don’t want the throbber. You have already have the throbber in the main window [...]

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Torrents are probably the most functional way to download and share large files. Okay, okay, so it’s mostly a way for pirates to leak copyrighted material. Heck, using it properly is user responsibility. If you’re a torrent freak and wondering why wouldn’t Firefox have an add-on for that well here’s FoxTorrent.
While as to my [...]

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Yes, another post on dealing with tabs. I really think tabbed browsing is heaven-sent, but the default behaviors still need a bit of tweaking. Also, in the later incarnations of Firefox, it’s a good thing you can drag and drop around tabs to reorder them.
If you’re like me who group open tabs (e-mail tabs [...]

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