To restore Firefox to its default settings, without having to uninstall it, you had to pass through its Safe Mode: nothing long or complicated, but still something that might be avoided easily. As it is with Chrome!
In fact, restoring Google Chrome to its default settings is really easy as doing three clicks:
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With version 3.5, Mozilla introduced in Firefox a new feature: Private Browsing. For those who don’t know, Private Browsing is a particular state of Firefox which allows people to browse anonymously on the web, without leaving any trace into the browser’s history, cookies, complement data, etc.
Unfortunately this feature in Firefox is not very practical to use: in fact, you have to close your actual session in order to start it.
Luckily there’s a plugin, Private Browsing Window, that lets you open a new completely independent anonymous window, like it is in Chrome’s Incognito Mode, so that you don’t need to close the current browsing session.
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When you need to download something, often you will find that the file is hosted on RapidShare: if you don’t know what it is, RapidShare is a file hosting service where people can upload their files and share them with others easily by exchanging a link.
The only bad thing about it, is that free accounts have to wait a set amount of time before you actually download that file, you can’t exceed a maximum data size (after which you have to wait about an hour), and simultaneous downloads are not permitted.
To avoid this, here’s a great website that does what you want: Rapidshare Premium Link Generator is a site that buys and shares Rapidshare Premium accounts, allowing you to access all of the features that you would not have with the free one. The site is based on user’s donations, and you can borrow a free Premium account at anytime, instantly. Let’s see how:
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If you are a Photoshop heavy user like I am, you are likely to miss it when you are away from home, without your PC or laptop: sure you have Photoshop.com as a great alternative, but it might not satisfy you at all, specially from the layout point of view since it looks totally different from the original version.
Luckily there is a fantastic fully web-based alternative, which will make Photoshop’s absence easier for you: its name is Pixlr, an online full-featured Photoshop-like image editor, which allows you to modify your images without installing any type of software, at begginer’s and advanced levels.
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By default when you first install an operating system on your machine, the default web browser that you find will be Internet Explorer on Windows and Safari on Macs…Only some Linux distributions have Firefox as their default browsing program.
It is really easy to set Firefox as default on any OS, but someone might not have had the chance to learn how yet…so here’s how to do it in two easy steps:
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Google Chrome extensions are a great way to add more features and functionality to the browser. Sometimes, a feature is really useful for some people, but not for everyone. Extensions let you customize Google Chrome with features you like, while keeping your browser free of clutter that you don’t use.
That’s how Google itself describes its new extensions search engine, which all of us were waiting for, and that already features more than 1000 entries.
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Tired of waiting for a file hosting site to allow you to download a file? Do you want to skip all of those boring procedures when downloading files, and do something else during the queue time?
SkipScreen is a Firefox add-on that skips the clicking and waiting time on sites like RapidShare, Megaupload, Mediafire, zShare, and more: just click on the link, let SkipScreen follow the download procedure while you don’t even pay attention to that page and, when the file is ready to download, it’ll just appear for you to save it.
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Did you ever come across a website called Alltop.com? Do you know what it is all about?
Alltop is a news aggregation site that imports stories from top news websites and blogs for any given topic, and displays the headlines of the five most recent stories from each one of them. Its main purpose is to allow visitors to have a unique place where they can find the best news about everything they want: divided by category, you can find sections that space from tech, gossip, sport, health and more.
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Almost everybody who browses the web is using Twitter (or has used it once!): whether if you are a blogger and use it to share your latest discoveries or posts (like we do at Browserland), if you just want to share with people you daily activities, or for any other reason that you can think of.
Twitter is very easy to use, but maybe we could make it even easier and faster to post with, using Firefox.
TinyTweet is a Firefox add-on that allows to instantly tweet any selected web page text, automatically creating a bit.ly link to the page where the text lives on.
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Bloggers and PC geeks usually copy lots of line while working, and maybe use clipboard managers to organize all of their copied text. Well, if you are a Firefox user, a really useful extension may be what you are looking for.
It is called QuickNote, and as the name suggests, it is an add-on that adds a simple notepad to Firefox in which you can copy and annotate everything you want.
Installing QuickNote is really simple, and can be done just by visiting the add-on page and, after this has been done, you have various ways of using it:
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