Firefox

Digg on Safari

July 30, 2007

Every now and then when I get bored with browsing on Firefox, I switch to Safari and the one thing I like in this browser is the rendering of web pages. Each site looks different and nice . Today I was trying to login to Digg and I found that the login form just wouldn’t [...]

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Theme update for the site

July 11, 2007

There are thousands of WordPress themes available out there;every now and then I stumble on amazing themes which I would love to use for my site. The only thing keeping me off from doing this regularly is the effort required in modifying/customizing the theme. I have made another theme change (4th) and this time I [...]

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Safari – Now on Windows

June 12, 2007

One of the announcements made by Steve Jobs in WWDC was the availability of Safari Web Browser on Windows. As soon as I saw the news (it was around 1AM IST), I was tempted to try it out. The windows installable is around 8MB. The Browser setup optionally installs the following components: Bonjour Networking Service Apple [...]

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Foxit – Open PDF’s faster

April 3, 2007

I had heard and read about Foxit reader a number of times(including Digg) but unfortunately never tried it out. A couple of days back I had to install a software on a freshly formatted system and the installation guide was in PDF format. I had 2 options to open/read the file. Install Adobe Acrobat Reader [...]

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Google Reader in GMail (Another Greasemonkey script)

November 6, 2006

Google Reader, the online RSS reader from Google had a major upgrade some time back. Check this post to know more about Google Reader. Mihai Parparita, one of the lead developer of Google Reader has written a Greasemonkey Script to add Reader into GMail. The script added a “Feeds” link within GMail as shown below: [...]

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Firefox Extensions

November 3, 2006

One of the nice feature of Firefox Web browser is the ability to add new features via extensions. Extensions are small add-ons that add new functionality to Firefox, from a simple toolbar button to a completely new feature. They allow you to customize Firefox to fit your own needs and preferences. Note that extensions shouldn’t [...]

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Mozilla gets a cake from Microsoft

October 26, 2006

I am not sure how true this is, but it seems that Mozilla got a cake from Microsoft IE Team for the release of Firefox 2.0 ! Checkout some interesting comments for this post on Digg even their cake probably has bugs in it It was a nice gesture from the IE7 team. I guess [...]

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Firefox 2 is out !

October 25, 2006

Firefox 2 (codenamed Bon Echo) is now officially released and is available for download here. I checked for updates from within the browser, however I was prompted with a message saying that no new updates were available. This means that Firefox 2 is not being pushed via the update mechanism as of now ! I [...]

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Clickless Browsing

September 21, 2006

Some time back Saarr was released which helped in previewing a summary of a search result. The end result was that it helped in reducing the number of clicks. I was introduced to 2 more tools CoolIris and Browster (via Labnol) which unlike Saarr shows the complete page when you hover over the link. Browster [...]

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Secure Browsing

July 25, 2006

Search engines are the entry points for most sites. Recently I found 2 tools which scan the search results and protects you from visiting sites that spread malicious viruses or spyware. 1. Scandoo Scandoo integrates with all the popular search engines i.e. Google, MSN and Yahoo. Recently support for Ask.com was also added. When you [...]

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