I upgraded to Firefox 2.0 over the weekend as a release candidate for the new version of my “must have” Tab Mix Plus extension had been released. The upgrade seemed to go smoothly. Several extensions had to be disabled as they were not marked as working in Firefox 2.0, but I expected that. Unfortunately [...]
Mozilla Firefox 2.0 is out. While it is not the major upgrade IE 7 was, it is still getting good reviews and is reportedly worth the download. I haven’t downloaded it yet because one of my must have extensions, Tab Mix Plus, has not been updated for Firefox 2.0 yet (although the author is [...]
Like most browsers, Firefox displays a somewhat useless error page when it cannot connect to a web site for some reason. Usually, it has nothing to do with your system as suggested by the error page and hitting the reload button is unlikely to fix problems on the server end. ErrorZilla replaces this error [...]
I discovered a very simple Firefox extension (myurlbar_a) today that made me wonder how I have ever managed without it. It allows you to type site/page names (as well as the usual URLs) into Firefox’s address bar. If you type a name instead of a URL, this extension searches your bookmarks and your history for [...]
If you like music, you’ve probably heard of Pandora, a streaming music discovery web application. You give Pandora an artist or a song you like and it creates an online radio station based on that artist or song — finding and playing songs it considers similar. Amazingly, Pandora generally does a good job understanding “similar” [...]