Archive for Firefox

Force Firefox To Display Your Full Feeds [Wordpress Hack]

There is a problem (or feature) in Firefox. For wordpress blogs and few other feeds it always show partial content making it hard to judge for a wannabe subscriber whether your are displaying full feed or partial feed. Many subscribers just hate partial feeds and most of them are unaware of this Continue reading

Save Background Images Easily in Firefox with Backgroundimage Saver Addon

In Firefox, it is always easy to save images. All you have to do is right-click on an image, and select “Save Image As” option. But many time it happens that when you right-click on an image, this option does not appear. Even worse a small transparent image is saved like in case of Continue reading

[Fixed] Orkut countrywide domain side-effect - Secure Connection Failed!

Update: Issue is fixed by Orkut.Looks like Orkut team is reading DW! And those who think orkut.co.in does not exist, check this post for screenshot. Yesterday, I came across one more side-effect of orkuts countywide domains. I was using Friend Finder on Orkut, when I lost secure connection with Continue reading

Download Orkut Toolbar for Firefox 3

Orkut Toolbar, the most famous firefox add-on for orkut users is not updated for latest Firefox 3 version yet. When you go to orkut toolbar page, it says This add-on is for older versions of Firefox… Now thanks to Stanley for making orkut toolbar compatible with firefox 3. You can install it Continue reading

Bill Gates Got Guinness World Record Certificate for Downloading Firefox! Claim Yours!

On 17 June 2008, Firefox 3 set world-record for most downloaded software in a day. Over 8,000,000 downloads were reported in first 24-hours. Download counter crossed 13 million mark at the time of writing this as shown below in following world map… Now as a loyal firefox user, you contributed Continue reading

Download Firefox 3 Final Release [World Record Links]

Long wait is over now. You can download final release of Firefox 3, worlds best & fastest browser! We covered some new and exciting features of firefox 3 here. On personal front, I have only one firefox extension, orkut scrapbook flooder, in public domain which is not updated from long time. Continue reading

50+ Useful Firefox Extensions for College Students

Heather Johnson, has published a nice list of more than 50 firefox extensions for college students. For easier navigation, the list is divided into categories… Research Note Taking Reference General Productivity Fun Looking at extensions included in the list, it seems Heather has taken Continue reading

Making All Greasemonkey Scripts for Orkut Work Again!

With recent launch of orkut’s country specific sites, all greasemonkey scripts stopped working. The reason is most greasemonkey scripts are domain specific and at the time of writing them, they were coded for url http://www.orkut.com which is now changing to http://www.orkut.co.in and so on Continue reading

5 Simple Rules To Fight Against Phishing [Security]

I often receive phishing emails, mostly claiming to be from PayPal, ICICI or similar sites where money involved. Yesterday, I received an email claiming to be from PayPal. Of course, I didn’t fall for it, but it looked so genuine that I thought about sharing few simple rules which I follow Continue reading

Clipmarks - Share Content, Not Just Links!

Clipmarks is available as extension for Firefox and Internet Explorer, which lets you capture the specific content on a web page, instead of linking to entire web pages. This is good way of sharing as very often we want to share a small part of a large web page. There are lots of things you can Continue reading