Posts Tagged ‘Firefox’
Lighter Linux Web Browser for Netbooks
Posted on February, 21 at 1:15 am | Filed Under Web Tools
My penchant for firefox plugins has had a notable effect on its size and performance of late, so I’ve poked around looking for lighter weight browsers. I still use firefox now and then, but I need something for every day browsing, running Google apps, and so on. I initially tried Opera, but it didn’t run [...]
Firefox 3.1 – Beta 1 Love the Tab Switching View
Posted on October, 14 at 12:47 pm | Filed Under Web Tools
Take a quick peek at whats coming in Firefox 3.1 over at Lifehacker. The tab switching view is pretty awesome, although from the comments, it appears it isn’t quite all there yet. In the meantime, you can install the Showcase Firefox plugin. It isn’t nearly as nice looking but accomplishes the same thing, allowing you [...]
Vim Mode for Firefox – Perfect for Small Screens
Posted on October, 9 at 10:17 pm | Filed Under Collaboration
For those who are keyboard focused, now you can run Firefox using all the same key bindings as VIM. Take a look at vimperator, a VIM mode plugin for Firefox. When you install it, the menu bar, navigation bar and bookmarks are hidden, and all your surfing is controlled through a VIM like input area [...]
More Chrome for Firefox – Every App should have plugins
Posted on October, 6 at 10:17 pm | Filed Under Asus eee, Web Tools
Lifehacker is showing an improved run at making firefox all chromed up. We’ve mentioned most of the plugins and themes before, but they’ve added a few. Chromiglass – Moves tabs to the top of the screen and adds improved graphics for the chromifox theme. Locationbar 2 – Highlights the domain in the address bar. Personal [...]
More Chrome for Firefox – Chromifox
Posted on September, 9 at 11:37 am | Filed Under Asus eee, Web Tools
Here is a great Google Chrome inspired theme for Firefox called Chromifox. I’m running it now and it looks nice on my Asus eee 900 running Xandros. Very nice.
More Firefox 3 tweaks for Asus eee 900
Posted on September, 5 at 9:58 am | Filed Under Asus eee, Web Tools
Here are two additional tweaks you can use to get Firefox working great and save real estate on your Asus eee. Of course it will work great regardless of your screen size. The first is Fission. It mimics the Safari behavior by showing page load progress in the address field in Firefox. This lets you [...]
Give Firefox 3 some Chrome on Linux!
Posted on September, 4 at 8:31 pm | Filed Under Asus eee, Web Tools
Lamentably, Google hasn’t released their new browser beta for linux yet. Â This is too bad, since it appears to be an interesting fit with my Asus eee 900 with its challenged screen size. Â Chrome definitely uses the screen real estate to its best advantage. Â For us impatient types, there is a solution. Â Someone has figured [...]
Install firefox 3.01 on Asus eee
Posted on August, 29 at 9:03 pm | Filed Under Asus eee, Collaboration
There are many guides on how to manipulate the apt sources.list, tricky package changes to do, and strange procedures all to get the firefox 2 default on Xandros upgraded to Firefox 3.01. In my case I really wanted to get Ubiquity on my ASUS Eee PC 900. After looking at all the options, the best [...]
Mozilla Ubiquity – Firefox Rules
Posted on August, 28 at 11:17 pm | Filed Under Collaboration, Web Tools
Ubiquity is Quicksilver++ for Firefox and just might be the ultimate plugin. It lets you do user initiazted mashups of twitter, Google Maps, GMail, Wikipedia, Google Searches … Get it here. So far this runs on Windows and MacOS with minimal issues, and is coming along on linux. Once you install it there is an [...]
