How to Open a Private Tab in Firefox 20+
Are you a Firefox user? Like other browsers, Firefox provides a Private Browsing mode, which until Firefox 20, forced you to save and close your normal browsing session.
What if you wanted to take this one step further and open private tabs alongside normal tabs in the same window (feature found in Opera)?
How to Make Websites in Firefox Easier to Read in the Dark
Do you stare at your computer screen at night or in the dark? If so, you’re probably find that looking at a white or otherwise bright screen in the dark is rather uncomfortable and eye-straining.
This Firefox extension can help by turning backgrounds dark.
How to Make Websites in Chrome Easier to Read in the Dark
Do you stare at your computer screen at night or in the dark? If so, you’re probably find that looking at a white or otherwise bright screen in the dark is rather uncomfortable and eye-straining.
Here is a Google Chrome extension that can help.
Scrollbar Click Markers to Easily Scroll to Page Headers [Chrome and Firefox]
Do you frequently browse long webpages? Whether it’s an encyclopedia article, blog post, or essay, long web pages can be difficult to scroll through, particularly if you’re looking for a specific section.
Some sites, like Wikipedia, provide a table of contents to easily navigate to different sections, but most websites don’t. Furthermore, the table of contents only shows up at the beginning so returning to it requires more scrolling.
Here is an extension for Google Chrome and Firefox to help navigate long web pages.
How to Customize Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts
Do you frequently use keyboard shortcuts? Browser keyboard shortcuts such as Ctrl+T (or Command + T on Mac) to open a new tab and Ctrl+W to close a tab are quite universally standard across all modern browsers, but suppose you don’t like these shortcuts. Maybe you rather have something like Alt+T to close a tab.
If you’re a Firefox user, an add-on called Customizable Shortcuts might be able to help you.
No browser restart is required to install this add-on.
How to Search By Dragging and Dropping in Firefox and Chrome
Looking for a quicker way to search the web in Firefox and Chrome? Find something interesting but don’t want to copy and paste it into the search bar?
Here are extensions for Firefox and Chrome that let you search the web simply by dragging and dropping a search term.
Firefox 6 Now Available – What’s New
Have you upgraded to Firefox 5 yet? Well, if you haven’t, forget about doing that because Firefox 5, despite being only 8 weeks old, is now obsolete. Firefox 6 is now available.
This is the second final release as part of Mozilla’s new rapid release cycle.
So what’s new in Firefox 6? Well, just like …
3 Ways to Highlight Active Firefox Tab Without Add-ons
Are you using Firefox? Want to make the current active tab stand out from the rest? This is especially useful if you have lots of tabs of the same site open (same favicon).
This is easily done with extensions such as Tab Mix Plus, but suppose you don’t want to install another extension. Here are three methods to make the current tab stand out using the browser chrome stylesheet.
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