This tweak is for those sites that still force your browser to open a new window. That behavior is too IE for my taste. In any case, you can always set Firefox to open these links in a new tab. It’s pretty easy to do from the interface, just click Tools -> Options -> [...]

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StumbleUpon changed my computing life. It lessened my time looking for relevant sites and reduced my battle with Google and search keywords. And this news will probably affect all that. StumbleUpon has just recently been acquired by eBay for $75M.
As far as the news goes, there really isn’t a concrete picture of what one [...]

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Hot off the news and into your computer. Google just made available Google Gears (BETA). It’s “an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using JavaScript APIs.” These include:

Store and serve application resources locally
Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness

Imagine web [...]

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Mozilla just released the latest incarnation of Firefox 2 with 2.0.0.4. The release notes emphasize on these important updates:

Security Update: The following security issues have been fixed.
Windows Vista Support: More enhancements and fixes for Windows Vista are included, with the following caveats.
New Languages: Afrikaans (af) and Belarusian (be) are now available. Beta releases for [...]

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Now being a self-professed keyboard ninja, I’ve been a bit biased on featuring shortcuts. Sorry. My bad. So let me make it up to you with this summary of mouse shortcuts for Firefox for mouse ninjitsu practitioners.
These include navigation and display shortcuts that you execute with a some keyboard modifiers. Yes, it involves a [...]

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If it comes from Google, it must be good. Google Maps has just made Street Views available for a couple of cities for you to try out. It’s really amazing. However, it’s only still available where available. Just look at New York and San Diego. It allows you to access street level sights that [...]

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I have a confession to make. I don’t really go visiting websites anymore. For the past month, I’ve just been using my RSS feed reader (Google Reader) for most of my daily reads and research.
Why not? It’s a very streamlined process to get the low-down on what’s new and fresh without the fuss of [...]

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Life is one of those things that you can’t play through “God mode.” But at least in most computing chores, you can. Or at least have a cheat sheet handy. As for Firefox, yes, you can cheat and hack your way through most of the work.
I’ve been featuring mostly add-ons and tweaks here that [...]

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Titlebar Tweaks offers a simple feature but it may suffice for those who want to further customize how their browser looks like without the hassles of going down to the level of code. It lets you do any of the following tweaks with your title bar:

Display the browser name before the page title
Display only [...]

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My sister passed this site to me. Apparently something to keep you busy during office downtimes. I could only wonder if there are people dream of becoming an M&M or even those who think “I wonder what I looked like if I was an M&M.”
In any case, if it just so happens that you [...]

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This might come in real handy for those who do a lot of traveling or dealing with clients and personnel abroad. With the different time zones and daylight saving time in effect, scheduling can be a real problem.
I’ve already featured some world clocks here before but here’s another tool for your arsenal. The World [...]

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This may come in handy for those who always look for exact matches including case. Sure you can always just click on the “Match case” check box in the Find bar. But for those who always use the feature, this little tweak will make sure that little box is checked by default.

Access the about:config [...]

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For those of you who have used Opera, you might miss its great sidebar control features. Firefox is more of a toolbar type of guy and the sidebar’s mostly used up by add-ons and the default options to access the bookmarks or history.
I haven’t really tried out this add-on previously but now that I’ve [...]

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Great news for Gmail users. Gmail is now allowing bigger file attachments up to 20 MB in size. I know this has been on the news since yesterday but I just finally got it in my account.
Here’s the news bit from the Gmail’s What’s New page:
Increased attachment limit– 20 MB!
Now you can start sharing [...]

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