Three Tips A Day

How to Enable or Disable JavaScript in your browser?

JavaScript, once the buzz on the internet, was one of the leading technologies which made the web interactive. JavaScripts let designers add load of functionality and appeal to their websites making it more and more interactive. But often JavaScript is used to do things we hate – like adding annoying pop-ups to a website. So you might want to disable or enable JavaScripts in order to enrich your web experience. Here is the way to enable JavaScript in popular browsers: Simple steps to...

FoxTab: Stylish 3D Tab Management Addon in Firefox

Firefox is adorable and here is one tool to make in infinitely adorable. Here is a Firefox addon which makes tab management in Firefox look extremely innovative, stylish and breezy. FoxTab brings Windows Vista styling to Firefox with five visually stunning configurations for grouping, filtering, closing and switching tabs in Firefox. FoxTab Features: Five fascinating layouts to display your tabs(and when we say fascinating, we make an understatement!) In-Tab Search for finding a...

How to find if Firefox is faster after optimization or not?

If you found the last post on FireTune useful, you might want to check whether there is any improvement in the browsing speed of Firefox after you've optimized it. Here are a few steps to check whether your Firefox is faster after optimizing it: Step1: Clear the Cache of Firefox - this is very important to get correct results Step2: Navigate to http://www.numion.com/stopwatch/ Step3: Type any URL for which you want to measure the speed(or select one from their list). Time needed to...

FireTune: Optimize Firefox easily and quickly

Everybody loves Firefox(well, almost everybody) and who wouldn't love to have a tweaks which could make Firefox even more efficient? But wait, you need not be a hacker or some big-shot programmer to be able to optimize your Firefox. You can optimize Firefox yourself quickly, easily and for FREE! FireTune is an answer to all your prayers! No need to fiddle with numerous entries in about:config, neither the need to alter any binary or executable file. FireTune is fast, easy, simple and...

Manage multiple Firefox tabs using Taboo

If you are a Firefox maniac and have 50+(or often 200+) tabs open in your Firefox window you always run the risk of losing a whole lot of information if you close your window accidentally or otherwise. Not only this, you might want to save a site for checking it out later. Yeah, we know you can always bookmark it - but Taboo takes bookmarking to another level. Read on. Why is Taboo useful? Taboo is extremely useful because: Taboo lets you save a tab for use at a later time. When you...

Lazarus: Recover lost data in forms easily

Imagine this! You just typed a page-long comment and hit the submit button - and you were greeted with a server time-out error! The page-long comment vanished without a trace, all your efforts to choose the balanced words gone down the drain. If you were a victim of such an atrocity, time to get hold of Lazarus - a magnificent Firefox form recovery tool.   What Lazarus does? Lazarus is a free add-on for the Firefox browser which backups the data you've entered into web forms. It then...

How to delete auto-complete saved form entries in Firefox

Firefox is nice, so nice that it saves all entries you made to a form field. But it only does this when you check the 'Remember what I enter in forms and search bar' check box in Tools>Options>Privacy tab. Once you check this box, Firefox remembers all entries you made to a form field and the next time you type, it mentions all older entries as recommendation. But this nice gesture becomes very frustrating when Firefox also remembers all the wrong entries you made(due to typos or...

Now Pirates Attack Amazon!

Now it's the turn of the popular online shopping portal Amazon's turn to be attacked by online pirates, The Pirate Bay. A Firefox addon called ‘Pirates of the Amazon’ enables users to shop at the Amazon store but leave without paying anything. Instead, on Amazon product pages the add-on integrates links to free copies on The Pirate Bay. Once the Pirates of the Amazon Firefox addon is installed, it integrates a new 'download 4 free' button into the Amazon product page if the same is...

Firebug – The Best Web Development Addon for Firefox

A short while ago we wrote about how to - Inspect web elements using Google Chrome Inspector - and discussed how this will immensely help Webmasters. But if Google can inspect web elements, can Firefox be far behind? In fact Firefox incorporates a very robust add-on which makes web development appear like a cakewalk as-you-browse. Firebug is an essential Firefox add-on for webmasters and lets you edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.   Features of...

Open New Tabs Next To Active Tab In Firefox With Tab Control

Mozilla's widely popular open source browser, Firefox is the favorite of many because of the various customization options apart from a variety of  free addons that are available for the general public. One issue with Firefox is that when the user opens a new tab, it opens next to the last tab on the extreme right. Would it not be nice if the new tab opened next to the currently active tab? Here's a plugin which is relatively unknown but does just that. Tab Control Addon for Firefox is a...