Extensions are great but I love customizing Firefox without them. One of my favorite extensions is Stop/Reload, a simple extension that merges both buttons into a single one that toggles between stop and reload intelligently. You can replicate this functionality with a simple edit of userChrome.css file. In Windows, you can find it at: C:\Documents

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Firefox Add-ons Manager has finally got extended to feature complete integration with Mozilla Add-ons (AMO) site through a new page added to the Add-ons Manager. The Get Add-ons page features a search box, a browse all add-ons link that takes you to Mozilla Add-ons, and a list of recommended extensions and themes by default. Enter

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In preparation for Firefox 3, Mozilla Add-ons recently underwent a number of important updates to support the new Add-ons Manager which tightly integrates with it to provide recommendations, search and install from a new Get Add-ons page. With the necessary interfaces now in place, the Mozilla Add-ons team is working in visual updates to the

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  Today Firefox reached an important milestone on its way to provide an alternative for millions of web users: 500 million downloads* served from Mozilla servers since the initial Firefox 1.0 release back on November 9, 2004. To celebrate this achievement, Mozilla invites to visit FreeRice.com, a web site that donates 20 grains of rice

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As The Simpsons Movie premiere approaches, 20th Century Fox has just released a Firefox theme to bring Springfield’s yellow and donut infested glory to your beloved browser. The theme is pretty extensive and complete as you can see in the Options window screenshot. And fortunately the very few text pieces in German don’t reduce the

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Firefox 4 integrates better with some Windows 7 features, including taskbar tab previews, download progress bar in the taskbar icon, and jumplists. Here are some way to enable, disable or customize the different options. 1. Enable taskbar previews. In the Firefox menu, select the Options item to open the Options dialog. Change to the Tabs

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Mozilla’s Dave Townsend has made available the very first testing builds of Firefox for the Palm Pre, code named PreFox. A one man effort at this point, PreFox is not an official Mozilla project but since it is based on Fennec (Firefox for mobile devices code name), it brings and immediately better experience with better

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Great news for a large number of Firefox users. The most recent Firefox 3 nightly (a.k.a. Gran Paradiso) to be released today will include full page zoom support. For years and since the days of now defunct Mozilla application suite, Gecko-based browsers users have claimed for full page zoom that scales images as well as

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Mozilla has released a quick Firefox update to patch the security vulnerability discovered and exploited last week during the Pwn2Own competition that challenges hackers to break the latest versions of the most popular web browsers. Internet Explorer, Safari, and Firefox got hacked during the contest and the vulnerabilities disclosed to each browser maker. The flaw

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According to W3Counters, a free web tracker from Awio Web Services, all Firefox versions currently account for about 25% of global browser market share. The latest report, released on June 20, includes about 29 million unique visits to 4,817 sites using the free tracker. While these numbers differ significantly from XiTi’s global report, two facts

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David Bienvenu has announced that the ability to open messages in tabs has been added to Thunderbird in-development code. It’s pretty simple and useful, right-click in a message and select Open Message in New Tab. As you can see in the screenshot, the folders and messages lists are kept in a separate tab. It’s still

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Mozilla has confirmed that it will release the first update for Firefox 3.5 later this week to address a critical security vulnerability disclosed a couple of days ago that could lead to malicious code execution. The update will most likely also address a bug related to slow startups due to large Windows temporary^A folders being

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Mozilla has released another alpha of the next Firefox (either 3.7 as the nightlies name suggest, or 4.0 like most people expect), conservatively labeled Mozilla Developer Preview. On Windows at least, besides the new toolbar icons introduced in Alpha 3, there is now an option to place the tab bar above the navigation bar (right-click

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Mozilla Labs has released an alpha version of Account Manager, its latest project that takes on the problem of online authentication. So there is a problem? Actually several. First of all, the process of logging on and off a web site is usually different from site to site, and it so common that becomes annoying

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After making its appearance in the latest Firefox 3.5 RC 1 candidate builds, Mozilla has officially introduced the latest update to Firefox’s icon. Started several week ago, the design happened completely in the open through 14 iterations (released in small batches) so people were able to provide their feedback on what needed to be retouched.

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After about two years in the works, Pioneers of the Inevitable have released Songbird, a Mozilla-based music player, with which, POTI aims to do for music what Mozilla did with Firefox: provide an open source customizable multiplatform music player. On first sight, it doesn’t look much different than several other media players like iTunes. Like

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Firefox development lead, Mike Beltzner, has announced a slight change to the way Firefox opens new tabs, that will be featured in future releases. Currently, when you open a link in a new tab it is added to the end of the tab bar, and the relationship with its parent tab exists only in the

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Firefox 3 introduces support for web-based protocol handling so instead of a desktop application taking care of irc:, im:, ftp:, mailto: and other protocol link, these addresses are passed to a defined web service provided that it is capable of parsing and processing them. Firefox 3 ships with Yahoo! Mail and 30Boxes as bundled web

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In preparation for Firefox 3.1 Beta 2, due around mid-November, the Firefox development team is furiously completing and landing important features to the code base. Today’s nightly features the long ago announced tab preview panel that replaces the All tabs list it used to feature in the far right side. As you can see it

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A common complaint about Firefox 3’s location bar is that the autocomplete menu is too long because of the big font sizes, that the page title grabs too much attention compared to the address or that the address is too difficult to read. While the default colors and sizes is still under review, you can

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