See the true URLs in Short URLs
A lot of social networking websites like Twitter use URL shortening services like TinyURL to short long URLs.
This can be unwanted on many occasions since you do not know which website the link points to. This is where a Firefox addon like Long URL Please comes handy. It supports as many as 30 URL shortening [...]
Fennec releases Alpha 2
Fennec, the mobile version of Firefox for Nokia Internet Tablets has been released by Mozilla.
The new features in this version includes:
Faster panning
Faster zooming
Improved responsiveness while pages are loading
New content manipulation hooks for extension authors
Look and feel improvements to improve usability
You can see a screenshot here.
Visit their website to download a version you can play with; [...]
Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts
This is Part 2 in the series on browser shortcut keys. Part 1 covered Internet Explorer.
The shortcuts below have been referenced from The Mozilla Support website and is specific to Windows. You can visit the same page for keyboard shortcuts for Linux and Mac.
Internet Explorer Keyboard Shortcuts
This is Part 1 in a series of posts that will cover browser shortcut keys. This post covers keyboard shortcut keys for Internet Explorer. This has been taken from the Microsoft Support Website.
Here goes…
How to View and Explore Web Pages With Shortcut Keys
To view and explore Web pages with shortcut keys:
Firefox 3.0.5 released. Supports Bengali and Hindi
Firefox 3.0.5 has been released and it officially introduces support for two Indian languages – Bengali and Hindi, besides several other international languages.
The release also has several bug fixes. Also, the End-User License Agreement has been replaced with a new “Know Your Rights” [...]
Chrome now the default browser in Google Pack
Google Pack has officially transitioned to using Google Chrome as the default browser. Firefox is currently still offered in the pack, but is not the default browser available for installation.
As per the Google blog post:
Google’s official alternative to Internet Explorer is now Chrome.
Google Chrome out of Beta
Google Chrome is now officially dropping the BETA tag; something unusual for a Google product to do within 100 days of its launch!
Google claims that there are over 10 million active users of Chrome. The new version is supposed to be quite stable and the performance figures rank it right at the top compared to [...]
Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 available for download
Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is available for download.
Firefox 3.1 will be introducing several new features:
The Private Browsing Feature (aka ‘Porn Mode’) is something that most blogs have covered in great detail!
Enhanced UI features like tear-away tabs that can be dragged and dropped from one Firefox window to another
Improved features for Web Developers, like TraceMonkey, web [...]
30+ Essential Firefox plugins for Web Developers
There are numerous plugins available for Firefox. This post covers a few that might be useful for web developers.
Web Developer
Adds a toolbar with tools to analyze CSS and live edit CSS amongst a host of other features. This is a must have for all web developers.
GreaseMonkey
Greasemonkey scripts enable you to customize any aspect of your [...]
Dark Themes for Firefox
Mozillalinks has a published a set of dark themes for Firefox. If you like such themes head over and get them right away!
