When I was surfing the internet, If I want to download video from YouTube or any other sites, I must open a downloader first and click many times to start the downloading, It's so annoysing. Now I find a good add-on for Firefox, It can download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites easily. I just surf the Web as I am used to, when DownloadHelper detects it can do something, the icon gets animated and a menu allows I to download files by simply clicking an item. Download Video DownloadHelper and unzip it. Click File in the menu bar of Firefox and select "Open files…", choose our xpi file from folders, a window will pop up to ask your permission, click "Install".
The following article about A Good Theme For Firefox Mac Version, Make Firefox Looks Like Safari is from Recipester. Firefox may be the 2nd web browser on Mac. But even the Mac Version Firefox looks like a windows software, for example: the "close tab" button is on the right, but all the other softwares "cross" button are on the left! I am sure many Mac users like me have the unlucky time clicking the left of a tab in habit with nothing closed. Now let me introduce you a firefox theme called "GrApple Delicious", which can make your firefox "tasts" like Safari and - most important - place the cross button on the left of every tab.
See the firefox with GrApple Delicious theme? It looks like Safari and gives firefox an "apple tast".You can download the GrApple Delicious theme here.
Good news for Firefox fans! We today recommend you two new ways for your Aero Glass Firefox. Let's right now see respective effects and functions. The first one is called All-Glass Firefox, which the specific visual effects quite match its name. There is really an all-scale Aero Glass place. All-Glass Firefox is a nice add-on made by Ambroos and is especially for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users. Almost every piece of the Firefox interface is getting Aero transparency effects. After the installation, restart the Firefox, you will see a shiny new transparency effects jumping into your sight. If you are running the latest beta of Firefox, you will experience even an additional fancy text effects. See what I've tried.
Web design and development play a large role in the technology we've come to know today. Technology for the most part has taken it onto itself to simplify things, but what if we could simplify the way we use technology? This is where Firefox and its add-ons step into place, in this case Firefox allows you to use its browser and enhance it with extensions that aid you in web development and design. It will in every way help you to increase your productivity, save you time, and aid you in the graphical/coding aspects of web design. Which Add-Ons Benefit Me the Most?
Depending on the extent of what your web development and design work may consist of the following extensions offer benefits to a wide range of tasks. Check out a few and try the ones that may appeal the most to what you may be looking for. Web Developer
This first add-on gives your browser the use of a nifty toolbar packed with endless features that allow you to instantly access information about any web page. You can view sites CSS, HTML or XHTML code, disable all of the images on a site as well as the JavaScript, control form fields, and validate codes as well. Read the rest of this entry »
If like me, you like to try newer versions or beta versions of Mozilla Firefox, you must have had the same problem I always have… add-ons (extensions) deny to work and tell you that "This add-on is for older versions of Firefox" even in the Mozilla Firefox add-ons site.
You know, I really love Firefox, and I also love to be up-to-date and the best for me is to try the latest version and take a look at what novelties it brings in the form of features, functionalities and improvements, even under the threat of being unstable. However, I also like that while I'm testing it I can continue using Firefox right in the way I'm used to. Here is where the first obstacle arises, older add-ons wont work. It mostly occurs because developers haven't updated the add-ons or failed to make the code compatible for the newer version accurately. Fortunately Firefox has a few options to get all those lazy extensions to work. In the following paragraphs I'm going to share with you the way of doing that. Lazy add-ons? Nightly Tester Tools will help you to wake them up Nightly Tester Tools is a handy Firefox add-on that will help you to install and run an incompatible extension, it will also turn disabled extension into enabled. Read the rest of this entry »
Many Internet users access the Internet from different computers. With the use of multiple computers comes the desire to have the same set of data available on all of them. One of the areas that has improved quite a bit in the last year is the synchronization of web browser bookmarks. Synchronizing bookmarks means to ensure that the same set of bookmarks are available in all web browsers that are taking part in the process. Foxmarks is one of the more popular bookmarking synchronization services that is making use of the basic principle of all bookmarking synchronization services. The Foxmarks service will automatically be queried whenever the Firefox browser is started to synchronize the local bookmarks with the latest version on the Foxmarks server.
Foxmarks can also be helpful when accessing the Internet from public computers. The website contains a list of all bookmarks which means that it is possible to access them from anywhere in the world easily. It can also be very helpful to copy the bookmarks to a new computer or for recovery after a hard drive crash. Configuring the Foxmarks Service: Start by downloading and installing the Foxmarks add-on for Mozilla Firefox from the official Mozilla website. The add-on will automatically display a wizard after the installation and restart of Firefox. The wizard will aid the user in creating a user account for the service.
Select No, help me register to create a new account. The next page will display a short form that asks for a username, email address and password. Read the rest of this entry »
The following article about Flickr Download is from our content partner Ghacks
If you want to download the full sized images at Flickr you soon notice that this involves clicking your way through quite a few pages before you can finally do so. Many Flickr images are protected by a transparent image called spaceball.gif which is used as rudimentary means of protection. It is therefor not easy and comfortable to download Flickr images from the image host. Enter Flickr Original. A currently experimental Firefox add-on that takes lots of the burden away from the process. It basically provides the means to download Flickr images by right-clicking on a thumbnail. If you visit Flickr you notice that thumbnails are located on the first page that you visit if you perform a search or browse images. All that needs to be done is to right-click a thumbnail on Flickr and select the Download Original Flickr Image option in the context menu. A download dialog will open with the choice to save the full sized image on the computer's hard drive. If multiple versions of the image are available then the largest image will be downloaded.
The second available option is to view the full sized image immediately on Flickr. The add-on is not working on all Flickr images. Images with disabled downloads and the flag "all rights reserved" cannot be download this way. A error message will appear telling the user that the image is not available for download. Oh, and before you ask. That typo is there on purpose.
The following article about Load Websites With Hotkeys In Firefox is from our content partner Ghacks.
Web browsers usually offer several ways on how to access websites quickly. Users can type in the url, assign keywords to urls or use their bookmarks to do that. Something that has not been on the radar yet is the ability to use hotkeys to launch websites. It is actually a very good question why no web browser is offering that feature yet. What's easier and faster than opening a website with a keyboard shortcut? Site Launcher is a Firefox add-on that adds this functionality to the web browser. It does that in two ways. The first is by proving access [via CTRL SPACE] to an overlay menu which displays the configured websites that can be launched from there. Each website is assigned a single key on the keyboard which has to be pressed to launch it. The second method [via ALT SHIFT KEY] is there for keyboard junkies who prefer to press one hotkey for the same effect. Adding websites to the Firefox extension is easy. It is possible to open the Site Launcher Manager right away and add websites manually or add websites directly when they are loaded in the active tab. It is furthermore possible to change the default hotkeys if other combinations suite you better.
It does not really matter which way you choose as you can modify all parameters afterwards. You have to enter a key, a title and an url to add a new website to the application. Each key can only be added once to Site Launcher. There is also only room for lower case characters.
Each website that is opened this way will be opened in a new tab by default. This behavior can be changed in the extensive options. It is possible to change the appearance of the menu and other functionality in there.
Suppose that you’ve arrived in a new city, but you don’t really know where you are and are looking for a place to eat. You feel so helpless! But now you have no worry about it, this Tuesday Mozilla Labs released Firefox Geode which can automatically deduces your location, and serves up some delicious suggestions a couple blocks away and plots directions there. Firefox Geode is an experimental add-on to explore geolocation in Firefox 3 ahead of the implementation of geolocation in a future product release.
It’s very easy to use Geode. When a web site requests your location a notification bar will ask how much information you want to give that site: your exact location, your neighborhood, or your city, which you can get many suggestions from. Furthermore, the potential is for more than just restaurant lookups. For example, imagine an RSS reader that knows the difference between home and work and automatically changes its behavior appropriately. Or a news site whose local section is, in fact, actually local. Or Web site authentication that only allows you to login from certain physical locations, like your house. Future versions of Firefox plan on containing Geode, and now you can download Firefox Geode Here.
Imagine you have invited a friend to the place that neither of you has ever been to. You may want to write an email including a map, so you search the address on a search engine, map it on a map site, and finally copy all links into the email being composed. It's a very simple Web task, but you find it cockamamie to carry out. And actually, you haven't sent a map or any useful information to your friend - only links. A new product of Mozilla Labs - Ubiquity can help us make Web surfing easier. What is Ubiquity
Ubiquity dedicates to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily. The overall goals of Ubiquity are to explore how best to: - Empower users to control the Web browser with language-based instructions. (With search, users type what they want to find. With Ubiquity, they type what they want to do.)
- Enable on-demand, user-generated mashups with existing open Web APIs. (In other words, allowing everyone–not just Web developers–to remix the Web so it fits their needs, no matter what page they are on, or what they are doing.)
- Use Trust networks and social constructs to balance security with ease of extensibility.
- Extend the browser functionality easily. With Ubiquity, a user can, for example, type a restaurant name in an email, select the name, option-click to bring up the Ubiquity command line, type "map" to generate a Google Map centered on the selected restaurant, and then drag that map to embed it into the email so it can be shared.
Initial Ubiquity Released
Mozilla Labs has released an early experimental prototype - Ubiquity 0.1, which is to demonstrate some of the concepts of Ubiquity and the possibilities that it opens up. This release is meant as a illustration of a concept and mainly focuses on the platform. The next release will explore interfaces that are closer to features that might make it into Firefox. Features of Ubiquity 0.1
- Lets you map and insert maps anywhere; translate on-page; search Amazon, Google, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Youtube, etc.; digg and twitter; lookup and insert yelp review; get the weather; syntax highlight any code you find; and a lot more. Ubiquity "command list" to see them all.
- Find and install new commands to extend your browser's vocabulary through a simple subscription mechanism All of the code underlying the Ubiquity experiment is being released as open source software to appeal more developers into the development. The image below is image is the goal of what kinds of language-based services Ubiquity hopes to inspire people to create.
If you want to know details about features of Ubiquity, the video below will give you a reference. You can download Ubiquity HERE.
When I was surfing the internet, If I want to download video from YouTube or any other sites, I must open a downloader first and click many times to start the downloading, It's so annoysing.
Suppose that you’ve arrived in a new city, but you don’t really know where you are and are looking for a place to eat. You feel so helpless! But now you have no worry about it, this Tuesday Mozilla Labs released 
Imagine you have invited a friend to the place that neither of you has ever been to. You may want to write an email including a map, so you search the address on a 
