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Sync Firefox Addons, Settings

Taranfx — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:23:39 +0000

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 Read further »

5 Awesome Firefox Addons

Taranfx — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:33:36 +0000

Firefox may be slow but Addons is what keeps it all alive and kicking. Most of use lots of them, still hungry for gettings handson new ones. Here are 5 Awesome FirefoxAddons you shouldn’t miss. 1. AutoPager: Tired of browsing through pages while you are looking for something? Paginate no longer with this addon you can get AJAX like page loads while you scroll. The plugin is compatible with most websites [atleast all search Read further »

5 Interesting Firefox Addons

Taranfx — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:39:52 +0000

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) Read further »

Firefox 4 Theme Transform

Taranfx — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:35:18 +0000

Firefox 4 brings state of the art user interface. Surely, it’s inspired from chrome but goes a step further by making it a sweet eye candy. Have a look at Firefox 4 – Screenshots Of course, it isn’t released but confirmed that work is being done on it. But we will assist you in getting the same Look and feel on your existing Firefox 3.x. Follow the Steps Below: Form the menu View > Read further »

How to Dislike on Facebook

Taranfx — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:21:32 +0000

Ever wanted to hate/dislike a post or share having rubbish text, images, URLs by friends on Facebook? Why is this partiality of ability to only like it? Don’t worry we got a quick solution for you. All you need is Firefox and a plugin Download Plugin What’s ridiculous is just this morning there were at least two new pages requesting the addition of a “Dislike Button” ( Read further »

How To Write Google Chrome Extensions

Taranfx — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:31:31 +0000

Chrome 4 is long-lived Google’s dream. Till Chrome 3, Chrome had the inherited disadvantages which prevented it from replacing Firefox — The Extensions. Chrome 4 is not just developer friendly and Cloud sync enabled, It’s faster than ever. Chrome 4 is now the fastest browser on PC, MAC OS X. Before we begin the fun of creating an Extension on Chrome 4, Don’t forget to download Chrome 4.0.201.1 — Follow this link. Note: If you are not a developer you can download the extension directly Read further »

Taranfx’s Web Addict Must-have Firefox Addon Collection

Taranfx — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:49:58 +0000

We’ve compiled a collection of must have Best Addons for Firefox - Audience – WEB Addicts, Daily Internet users, Developers, Geeks. Nightly Tester Tools Useful tools for the nightly tester. Must for Making all extensions work with just any version of Firefox. Check the guide here. Read further »

Create Website Screenshot/Thumbnail in Firefox

Taranfx — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:47:21 +0000

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 instantly. When Installed, It sits in the right corner of Statusbar and gives you alot of options to chose from for capture. You can capture and Edit, Upload, save, Read further »

Make Old Extensions Compatible with Firefox (any version)

Taranfx — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:02:16 +0000

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. The advantage of this way is that it’s really easy to make all your extensions compatible with any Firefox until Firefox 3.0 (that’s what this extension puts as the MaxVersion for each Read further »

Making Firefox extensions are Easy

Taranfx — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:15:32 +0000

An intriguing new add-on from the team that’s still developing Ubiquity extends the promise of a browser that you can change yourself to suit your own purposes. When you’re a developer with Mozilla Labs or another open source laboratory, one of the things you’ll often find yourself doing is “launching” a project before it’s anywhere near complete. That’s what it means to be truly open. In the case of Aza Raskin and his design team, last night, he “launched” (that’s Mozilla’s term for it) a project to encourage Web site developers to build simpler but more accessible add-ons for the Firefox browser, by means of a JavaScript API and Firefox plug-in called JetPack. Although Firefox is itself an exercise in JavaScript, crafting plug-ins to do simple Read further »

Make Old Extensions and addons Compatible with Firefox 3.5

Taranfx — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:00:15 +0000

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 is a screenshot taken AFTER making all the Read further »