The default theme for Firefox has made some nice improvements over the years but it may still seem a little drab in today’s advancing Web 2.0 world. If you haven’t got your theme on, then click over to Firefox’s Addon Site where you can add a million different appearance tweaks or utilities. But if you’re an avid Firefox user, even …
Sync BookMarks Across Browsers
Today at work I really wanted to find a way to sync my Firefox bookmarks with the IE8 Favorites. I figured you could do this with Dropbox but all the stuff I was reading only explained syncing FF profiles, which is not something I wanted to do, just bookmarks. I have to mention first though that I love Firefox on …
Upon Installing Firefox….
In my last post I covered how to manage Firefox profiles. Well, now we need to extend on that topic. I created a new profile for Work, but my default profile, I believe, was garbled up a bit from customizing that it was actually running slower than my newly created profile. So, I deleted it and created a new default …
IE for FF
Since I started my new job, I have been using windows and PCs more often. The sensation is kind of like when you go away to a distant country for a very long time, then return to the land of your fathers and revisit things that you now think were important to you before you left-it’s that instance of-[picking up …
Firefox 3.1 beta 1: Faster than ever
Here’s a quick and simple post: I just downloaded Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 (for OSX, of course) and it’s crazy fast. Download.com informs us that the fastest settings are not turned on by default (who knows why) but it’s dead simple to turn the new javascript engine on. I’ve posted how below: “To activate it, type “about:config” into the Smart …
Force Firefox to Save Passwords: Simple
This article assumes you’re using Firefox 3 and that you know how to save a bookmark. Some lousy webpages won’t save your passwords, like hotmail, their related sites like Windows Live Skydrive (file storage), sometimes blogger, and there are others. Maybe you frequent a site and you have to type in your obscure username and password each and every time. …
Firefox 3: Display richer colors
If you didn’t join the other 8 million citizens of earth on Firefox 3’s HUGE download day this last Tuesday, don’t worry. It’s not too late to click over and download it now. Besides excellent internet security, pop-up blocker, themes, addins, and tabbed browsing farrrr more superior to that of IE or the like, FF3 brings to the browsing world …
Current Firefox Add ons
I thought I would take the time and post a post about the greatness of Firefox. But first I must say a few things about some other browsers. Let’s just start with the oldest of the selection-Internet Explorer. IE has come a long way, always being THE browser to be built in as a core component of any windows based …