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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

Download Firefox 3 RC1 - Firefox 3 is out of beta!

Finally Firefox 3 came out of beta and Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is available for download in 45 languages. It includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory usage and speed. I am using it along with Firefox 2 from quite sometime now and below is small list of Continue reading

Foxmarks - Best Extension To Synchronise Firefox Bookmarks!

Two days back, I reviewed Google browser sync, a firefox extension to synchronize bookmarks, history, saved passwords, cookies & session. Now you must be wondering why I am reviewing another extension which sounds similar. Although sounds similar foxmarks is essential if you use bookmarking Continue reading

Google Browser Sync - Get YOUR Firefox From Anywhere In The World!

One of the oldest firefox extension I am using from long time is Google’s browser sync. If you access internet from multiple location like home, college, office, etc, you can install this firefox extension at all places. Once installed it keeps synchronizing your firefox bookmarks, history, Continue reading

Enjoy Clean & Ad-Free Internet Using Adblock Plus [Firefox Extension]

We all love free services! But there is a problem with free services - Ads. While for a service provider it becomes necessary to run ads in order to keep service free some do it so badly that user gets irritate. Some banners and flash ads just take forever to download on dial-up connection and Continue reading

Setting Up Firefox as IDE for Firefox Extension Development! [Firefox Developers]

This article is intended for all geeks who are working on firefox extension development! If you are new to this then you may want to start with shortest tutorial for firefox extension development! This is small but important tutorial for those who seriously want to develop firefox extensions. As Continue reading

Searching Search-plugin from Search-bar! [Firefox Trick]

I know the title is quite confusing! So let me quickly define terms in it… Search-plugin - It provides the ability to access a search engine from a web browser, without having to go to the engine’s website first. Search-bar - A browser toolbar which uses collection of Continue reading