My Installed Add-ons – Keyword Search
I love finding new extensions that do things I never even thought to search for. One of the best ways to find them is through word of mouth. In this case, I guess you can call it “word of blog”. I’m doing a series of blog posts about the extensions I…
My Installed Add-ons – gTranslate
I love finding new extensions that do things I never even thought to search for. One of the best ways to find them is through word of mouth. In this case, I guess you can call it “word of blog”. I’m doing a series of blog posts about the extensions I…
My Installed Add-ons – Clippings
I love finding new extensions that do things I never even thought to search for. One of the best ways to find things is through word of mouth, tho. In this case, I guess you can call it “word of blog”. I’m doing a series of blog posts about the…
My Installed Add-ons – Context Search
I love finding new extensions that do things I never even thought to search for. One of the best ways to find them is through word of mouth. In this case, I guess you can call it “word of blog”. I’d like to start a series of blog posts…
Keeping select cookies
Issues with cookies: A lot of websites set cookies to do things that you may not like. A lot of websites set cookies to provide a convenience, like keeping you logged in across sessions. Some websites require cookies in order to work. For the reasons…
Mark Surman on The Agenda with Steve Paikin
This past week, Mark Surman Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation was on one of my favourite TV shows – The Agenda with and Steve Paikin. Here’s the video:
Google Reader alternatives for Firefox
If you use Firefox and need an alternative to Google reader, Feedly isn’t the only option. First, you can try the live bookmarks feature that’s part of Firefox. Here are instructions on how to use it. Second, there are plenty of extensions…
How to disable new tab page in Firefox
Sometimes people complain about Firefox lacking a feature that is already there, but they didn’t notice. A common one is the ability to prevent Firefox from displaying thumbnails of websites you often visit when opening a new tab. I thought most…
Need help with Firefox in Toronto?
If you need help with a Firefox problem and live in Toronto, send me an email and I can meet you in person at a public place to help solve your Firefox problem. I’ve been wanting to put together some sort of system to allow support community…
You can now set the URL Firefox goes to when opening a new tab
In my last post, I talked about Firefox now indicating which feed items are unread. In this post, I’d like to post about the other change I think people should be more aware of – you can now set the URL Firefox goes to when opening a new tab.…