Archive for the 'Firefox Extensions' Category

Firefox Extensions: Greasemonkey

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Apple is publicizing another iTunes contest. Like before, they are giving away a prize for every 100,000 songs download or entries submitted. The latter is the typical alternative that all such contests require to claim that they aren’t a lottery or another form of gambling.

In this case, the free entry form allows up […]

Firefox Extensions: undoclosetab

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

This is the third installment of my exploration of useful Firefox extensions

The Mozilla folks are proud of being the popularizers of tabbed browsing, which caused a bit of a revolution in browsing UI. Such a simple concept, but so effective… Tabbed browsing encourages the user to open a bunch of pages in their […]

Firefox Extensions: Web Developer

Tuesday, June 14th, 2005

This is the second installment of my exploration of useful Firefox extensions

One of the most popular and highly rated Firefox extensions is the Web Developer extension. This tool adds one or more of the following to every web page: a handy context menu or a toolbar. Both contain the same list of tools […]

Firefox Extensions: Introduction and Live HTTP Headers

Saturday, June 4th, 2005

Background

Interacting with the web has gotten more fun in the last year or so. Browser technological improvements seem to be getting a higher priority as Firefox, Safari and Opera are competing to present a superior, standards-compliant environment that benefits both developers and end-users. This means that developers can spend less time working around […]