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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There are times when you want to browse the web in stealth mode, without leaving any trace of what you did on the computer, maybe because your boss wouldn’t want you to do so, or maybe because you are planning a surprise for someone and you don’t want them to know…Well there is Firefox Private Mode that allows you to browse the internet without leaving signs about what you just did, but Google has its own in its Chrome browser, and today that’s what we are going to talk about.
Incognito mode is a particular state of Chrome in which the pages you visit won’t appear in your browser history or search history, and they won’t leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. This does not mean that the website you visited won’t have records of you, but just that anything you just on your computer has never really happened.
However, any files you download or bookmarks you create during the incognito session will be preserved, and visible by anyone who has access to the machine.
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In the past we have discussed topics about how to make your Firefox browser look like another one: for example we can actually turn Firefox into Google Chrome with just two add-ons, and can give it the look of Internet Explorer with a single theme.
Today is Opera’s turn, and we will completely change Firefox to look like Opera in a matter of seconds.
Fopera is the theme we will use, and it actually redesigns the aspect of the toolbars, and even the scroll bar, to give Firefox a new look, reminding you of Opera 10.
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Firefox’s address bar is almost perfect, but sometimes we would like it to do more: for example, if I want to search something on Ebay I have to type “Google item“, then browse the Google’s search page and find a page from Ebay.
Quick Search is a Firefox add-on that enhances the address bar’s functionality, as well as adds search options to the right click menu, allowing you to easily make researches on Google, Amazon, Bing and Yahoo.
Let’s see how it works:
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A few days ago, UniverseFirefox.com has suddenly closed without any notice, but now we are back under the name Browserland, with more content and news to come.
The reason why we had to close is that Mozilla claimed a trademark violation for the domain name, so we had to close immediately because we did not ask for permission when we opened Universe Firefox back in 2007.
We used to have almost 1000 visitors per day, and it’ll take a while to regain our traffic and PageRank, but we have tried to work out something in the Google index and maybe they will do something about it…or maybe not!
If you can, spread the word about this domain change, as we continue to work on optimizing the site again.
Thank you all, and sorry for the inconvenience!
Photo Credit: Dez Pain
