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Filed under: E-mail, Google, Mozilla, Freeware, Social Software, Browsers

There are a number of email plugins that look to give you contextual information about the person you’re communicating with. The first one I tried (and arguably the best I’ve seen) is Xobni, an Outlook plugin.

There’s now a similar plugin available for Gmail users called Rapportive. Rapportive [...]

Filed under: Internet, Windows, Browsers

How about this: the much talked-about browser ballot is a website! BrowserChoice.eu, to be precise — check it out.

Hit F5 and watch the order randomize. Scroll right and check out the lesser-known browsers such as Sleipnir or Flock.

Finally, hit the Install or Tell me more buttons and be whisked off to [...]

Filed under: Mozilla, Beta, Browsers

Yesterday you read about Mozilla’s effort to boost Firefox’s Javascript processing speed with the new JägerMonkey engine. Now Asa Dotzler has blogged about another feature — freshly landed in the Firefox nightly builds — which should speed up the ‘fox even more.

The gfx.font value above is a new about:config value which [...]

Filed under: Mozilla, Browsers

Ever since Google dropped Chrome and the V8 Javascript engine on the performance-hungry masses, developers of other browsers have been working hard at leveling the playing field. Opera 10.50’s Carakan engine is blazingly fast and many users report it outperforming V8 on benchmarks.

Firefox users who recently upgraded to 3.6 have seen a [...]

Filed under: Education

Zotero looks like a very useful Firefox add-on for researchers. It has been covered on Download Squad back in 2006. Over three years later, it is still going strong and now has word processor integration. The add-on lets you add citations from anywhere in the web; you find a page which is useful [...]

Filed under: Developer, Browsers

Firebug is an insanely useful add-on, even for those of us who are not all-out web developers. I tweak HTML every now and then, and Firebug is the best tool I know for figuring how why exactly your document doesn’t look right (in Firefox at least, and now in Chrome too). It [...]

Filed under: Internet

Download Manager Tweak is a pretty useful Firefox add-on. One thing that always kind of irked me is that I cannot delete downloads from within Firefox. Well, now I can!

The add-on does quite a few more things. You can see your downloads in a window, sidebar or tab (a-la Opera). It’s quite configurable; [...]

Filed under: Internet, Security, Windows, Mozilla

Security specialists from Russia have made a Windows exploit for a previously unknown security hole in Mozilla’s Firefox 3.6 available to the public. The exploit allows attackers to remotely gain control of your Windows machine. Developer Evgeny Legerov praises his exploit for Windows XP (SP3) and Vista as being reliable, [...]

Filed under: Windows Mobile, Mozilla, Browsers, Mobile, Android

The folks at Mozilla have been working on a mobile version of the popular Firefox web browser for much of the past two years. A lot of that work has been focused on Windows Mobile and Nokia’s Maemo platform. But in October, we found out that a version [...]

Filed under: Developer, Utilities, Productivity

Firebug is one of the most popular add-ons for Firefox: it’s a web development tool that highlights elements in a page’s HTML source, allows for live editing of CSS, and more.

Now Chrome users can get on the Firebug bandwagon, too, with the new Firebug Lite extension. It’s not a full [...]