Technology Bites

Following are some of the best Firefox extensions for language support. These add-ons enable you to quickly translate web pages you are browsing from one language to another. Apart from language translation, other useful features available are translated search, language resources, typing symbols and special characters etc.,

Following are some of the best WordPress related Firefox extensions which make blogging much easier for you. These extensions enable you to install themes and plug-ins, upload images, publish posts and more! right from your browser.

Personas are the light-weight version of themes for Firefox. Mozilla provides you with a wide range of persona’s. You can select a persona and apply it to your browser based on your interest. Persona’s are easy to add, remove and change. They replace the default theme on Firefox with a much better background. It improves [...]

Firefox over the years has garnered millions of fans around the world and has a thriving developer community. Firefox is celebrating five years of success today, part of the success of the browser can also be attributed to the developers who developed thousands of add-ons for the browser.

There are several websites which allows you to download YouTube videos and there is no shortage of tools available for downloading YouTube videos. Some tools are designed to download videos directly to other formats so that you can transfer those videos to your iPod or other devices.

Mozilla folks released some interface designs for the upcoming release Firefox 4. One of the mockup design looks a lot like the Google Chrome browser with the tabs-on-top interface.

Mozilla has added a tip-jar option to the add-on’s site that allows developers to collect donations from the users. The option is not yet available widely but this may change in future as developers opt-in to accept donations for their work. The tip-jar option is a not a bad idea which gives a small amount [...]

Firefox 3.5 release came with a new JavaScript engine Tracemonkey for faster rendering of the JavaScript pages. But the release also has a critical vulnerability that lies in Just-in-time (JIT) JavaScript compiler. Mozilla is working on a fix to patch the vulnerability.

Mozilla Firefox 3.5 final is released today with several improvements and new features. The most notable are new Tracemonkey Javascript engine which will make rendering heavy Javascript pages like Google Docs and others to load faster. Geo location features, and HTML 5 tags support is also included. The release also includes improvements to the Gecko [...]

Aviary has pretty powerful web based graphic editing tools, recently they released an another tool that is quite useful for bloggers. Falcon image markup editor is the latest edition to the Aviary suite of applications. Combined with Aviary Firefox addon Talon it provides a simple and efficient way to take screenshots and add simple markup [...]

Web page load time is an important factor in we design and development, not only web developes but bloggers and site owners need to optimize their web pages so they load faster or else retaining users will be difficult. There are many tools which analyze web pages and show you ways to improve load times. [...]

Jetpack is an API from Mozilla labs that allows anyone who can code for the web (HTML, CSS and Javascript) to write their own Firefox addons. For creating Firefox addons you need to know Javascript, XUL and XMl, but with Jetpack you could create Firefox addons with ease.

By now you might have tried Wolfram Alpha, if you didn’t heard about it yet it is a new search engine launched today. While it may be good in finding answers for complex questions and displaying rich information on places and other things, it is not yet a useful search engine for average user. Of [...]

Desktop is a experimental Firefox addon that allows you to customize the new tab page of Firefox with your bookmarks or your favorite websites. This feature is missing in Firefox but other browsers like Google Chrome and Opera have it, infact Opera has this from long.

Mozilla foundation released public beta 4 Firefox 3.5 browser on Monday, it is available for download from Mozilla.com. This release is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

If you want to download photos of your friends albums from Facebook you have to do it one by one, if the album is large then its pain to download one after another. Facebook Photo Album Downloader is a Firefox addon that allows to download photos of entire album from Facebook.

If you are a user of popular file sharing sites like Rapidshare, Megaupload and others you may already know that you need to click pages to get to the actual download link and then wait for at least 1 min before you can download the file. SkipScreen is a Firefox addon that will skip all [...]

According to Statcounter Firefox 3 is now the top browser in Europe. This is a significant milestone for Firefox and good news for Firefox fans who have promoted the browser in every possible way.

The number of tools available for downloading YouTube is overwhelming, we see new tools for downloading very often. All these tools will allow you to download videos from YouTube and some allow you to convert to other formats. Youtube2Mp3 is a Firefox add-on that allows you download youtube videos directly as MP3 files.

Google Chrome is a fast, elegant and nifty browser that lacks just one thing which keeps me out from using it. The Add-ons. Firefox on the other hand flaunts all its add-ons whole heartedly! But Chrome’s speed and responsiveness really pulls me towards it.