I happen to use four instances of Firefox- One each on my personal laptop, office laptop, remote desktop and solaris desktop and find it very tedious to have all the same stuff synced across the browsers.

When Xmarks came, it solved part of the problem by syncing Firefox and Chrome bookmarks. But I was still looking for a solution that could sync my settings, addons. Mozilla Weave partly solved bunch of it by providing settings sync. But wait a minute, .. Read Further »

Addons is something that makes Firefox so rich. Playing around with the available ones often brings out the best of Firefox.
So here we bring 5 Interesting Firefox addons that you can add to change your experience, again.

1. Easy YouTube Downloader (HD)

How to Download Youtube Videos

Now that YouTube is going FullHD 1080p The only good addon that let’s you download YouTube videos is  .. Read Further »

There are lots of Free websites that let you take screenshot of a particular Webpage/Website. But all of these take some time while queueing up the job. Also the features, thumbnail size options are limited.

Here is the Solution – FireShot — Firefox plugin which is very flexible, let’s you choose size of the target image and automatically uploads to a free Image hosting .. Read Further »

There are three ways to achieve this

1) Making Extensions Compatible – THE EASY WAY

All you have to do is to go and download a wonderful Nightly Tester Tools extension. Not only it is compatible with your newest Firefox version, but it will also add a button to your Extensions manager (Tools->Add-ons):

Just click this button and restart your browser. Please note that this is a screenshot taken AFTER making all the xtensions compatible – so as you can see they’re all active already.

I had been using Firefox for 5 years now. I know inside out, even contributed for some development. (fixe around 15 bugs, 3 enhancements and 1 addon). If you’re a decent Firefox user, you may be familiar with the about:config page. The Firefox about:config page is not so much a page as it is a somewhat hidden configuration section. It’s hidden because it’s fairly powerful and not nearly as simple to use as the standard Preferences window. In the about:config page, you have to know what you are doing or you can mess things up a bit. In fact, when you attempt to go to that page for the first time, you have to accept an agreement (which is really just a warning) before you can continue.

How this page works is simple. You reach the page by entering .. Read Further »

The internet is a twitter with Google Chrome’s innovative new features—which means your choice of browser may depend solely on features. Apart from a few specific issues (namely process management), many of Chrome’s best features are already available in Firefox 3, proving yet again the power of extensibility. From incognito browsing and the streamlined download manager to URL .. Read Further »

So, I’ve had some more time to play with the latest build of Firefox, and I liked it so much that I couldn’t use the 1.5 version anymore. And this left me with a problem: hardly any of my extensions were compatible with the latest and greatest Firefox version.

I’ve made a bit of a research out of it, and here we are: I present you with the 3 ways to make extensions compatible with Firefox 3.5

1) Making Extensions Compatible – THE EASY WAY

All you have to do is to go and download a wonderful Nightly Tester Tools extension. Not only it is compatible with your newest Firefox version, but it will also add a button to your Extensions manager (Tools->Add-ons):

Just click this button and restart your browser. Please note that this .. Read Further »