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Get Wolfram Alpha stats next to your Google search results [Firefox Add-on]

Wolfram Alpha Google is a Firefox add-on that displays Wolfram results for your Google queries alongside the Google results. This is a very convenient way for everyone who wants both search (Google) and computational (Wolfram) results for some query.

Wolfram Alpha Google is still experimental, which means you’ll have to select the “Let me download [...]

AST suggests suitable add-ons for Firefox [Firefox Add-on]

Adding and managing new extensions became easier than ever before with Firefox 3. You could simply type in your query in a search box, or simply pick an add-on from the “recommended” list.

Experimental add-on AST (Add-ons Suggestions Tool) goes a step further by suggesting add-ons that other Firefoxians (err??) use in conjunction with your [...]

AdBlock Plus blocks too much of AdSense

AdBlock Plus might be the ultimate ad blocking tool for Firefox users, but it’s seemingly too kin to block anything related with Google’s AdSense. Today I was surprised to find that ABP blocks the Account Settings page of my AdSense account. Here’s the screenshot of the page :

Disabling ABP makes the page load [...]

UnPlug finds and downloads videos and music from web pages [Firefox add-on]

UnPlug is a handy Firefox add-on that finds embedded videos and music on a web page and downloads them to your PC. UnPlug works with most popular video sites like YouTube, Metacafe, Vimeo, Veoh, DailyMotion etc. Downloading a video with UnPlug is dead simple – load the video page, fire up the UnPlug window, [...]

Mozilla releases Firefox 3.5 Beta 4, security update for Firefox 3

Mozilla has released the fourth beta for it’s upcoming Firefox 3.5 browser. The long awaited “Private Browsing Mode” is finally available by default in this development release. Among other stuff are improvements to the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine and Gecko 1.9.1 layout engine, and support for HTML5 <video> and <audio> tags. Firefox 3.5 is fast [...]

Firefox bug? Vista theme reverts to XP theme “automatically” on my laptop!

I had a weird experience with Firefox 3.0.8 on my Vista Ultimate machine today. I had left one tab open while doing something else, and the theme had somehow switched over to the XP one when I checked next. Everyone who has used Firefox 3 on Vista and XP will be knowing that the default [...]

Manage Your Stored Passwords in Firefox

Note -
This tutorial also applies to Flock, an unofficial derivative of Firefox.
If you have been using Firefox for some time, chances are you have saved a good number of passwords for auto-filling of sign in information at some websites. This is a particularly good feature in all new web browsers, but what to do if [...]

Firefox Campus Edition

You may have heard that Mozilla has rolled out a new fork of it’s vastly popular Firefox browser – the Firefox Campus Edition – for quite sometime. Well, it is just Firefox with three inbuilt add-ons – FoxyTunes, StumbleUpon and Zotero.FoxyTunes*****A small and handy add-on to listen to your favorite music while surfing the web. [...]