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Firefox to Show Extension Recommendations
For the first phase of Contextual Feature Recommender (CFR) system Firefox to suggest useful add-ons, once ready, this could run as Shield Study where recommendations to install extension will be shown to a subset of users. Mozilla... More of this article »
Get Vivaldi Quick Commands feature in Firefox
If you love Quick Commands in Vivaldi, which lets you find and open what you’re looking for in open tabs, history and bookmarks from one window, then let me tell you, you can get the same in Firefox browser also. Thanks to... More of this article »
DownThemAll 3.0.2 released for Firefox with e10s Support
DownloadThemAll add-on, which lets you download links or images on a webpage in Firefox browser has (major) version 3 released –DownThemAll 3.0.2 – is available on AMO with e10s support and is compatible with Firefox 45-50.... More of this article »
Permanently Mute Specific Sites in Firefox with MuteLinks add-on
Firefox’s mute tab feature is great, but you’ve to mute that annoying site every time when you visit in the browser, how about muting certain sites by default, like Facebook.com? So that those sites always will be muted... More of this article »
Mozilla removes YouTube Unblocker add-on from AMO because of malicious behavior
Popular YouTube Unblocker extension hosted on AMO has been blocked and removed by Mozilla. The extension which lets you watch blocked videos on YouTube via Proxy in Firefox browser, once installed, has been found to install a third-party... More of this article »
Mozilla officially recommends this add-on as the Tab Groups Replacement
This is the best tab groups replacement add-on we found so far. As you all know Mozilla is going to remove Tab Groups aka Panorama from Firefox, we’ve said Tab Groups add-on developed by QuickSaver on Firefox Panorama code... More of this article »
This Firefox Tab Groups add-on built on Panorama Code is really Excellent
A real and better Tab Groups alternative add-on for Firefox is here. Firefox 45 to ditch Panorama feature, we’ve already covered about an add-on to replace to Tab Groups in Firefox browser, an add-on developer Quicksaver has... More of this article »
Remove Unused Firefox Menu Items with Menu Filter Add-on
How many menu items of a menu in Firefox browser do you actually access or use? If your answer is not that many? Go and customize Firefox menus or context menus by removing unused or not used items by using the Menu Filter add-on. Remove... More of this article »
This Add-on enables the Official Developer Theme in Firefox Release and Beta Channels
As we’ve said before you can no longer activate the Firefox developer edition’s beautiful dark theme in current Firefox 40 stable channel or future release versions by visiting about:config and toggling the ‘browser.devedition.theme.enabled’... More of this article »How to disable Extension Signing in Firefox 40
Preference to turn off add-on signature check is now available in Firefox 40. Mozilla will enforce extension signing from Firefox 40 version (scheduled to release on August 11th) onwards, Firefox browser vendor has already reviewed... More of this article »
Noise Control Add-on Shows Audio Indicators for HTML5 Video Playing Tabs in Firefox
Chrome natively shows audio indicators for music playing tabs in its browser, Firefox users miss this feature, fortunately, Noise Control add-on now shows audio indicators for HTML5 video or audio playing tabs in the Firefox browser.... More of this article »
Firefox Tab Data add-on shows memory used by Each tab in its Title
We’ve already an extension available to know which add-on is using more memory, how about knowing how much memory each tab is using in Firefox? New Tab Data add-on (works with Firefox 30.0 and later) shows memory usage for a... More of this article »
Ublock for Firefox now available on Mozilla Add-ons Site
Ublock add-on for Firefox is now available on Mozilla add-ons site for download, so you no longer need to visit the developer site or the add-on releases page on Github to install it. Ublock –now supports Firefox 29.0 -39.0–... More of this article »
Mozilla introduces extension Signing for Firefox
Like Google, Mozilla doesn’t want to restrict the install of add-ons to AMO only and they don’t want their users to suffer with bad add-ons that are not hosted on their site also, to balance this, the company has introduced... More of this article »
Ublock (Beta) is now available for Firefox
UBlock, a light-weight Ad-blocker that isn’t CPU and memory intensive like AdBlock Plus has its first version officially available for Firefox in Beta on GitHub. You can soon expect this to appear on AMO. At present, you need... More of this article »
Install this Add-on to access Google Inbox in Firefox
Google Inbox, an email app built on top of Gmail for iOS, Android, Google Chrome browser on a computer and android wear watches, currently needs an invitation to join. If you’re a desktop user, you need to be using Chrome... More of this article »
Quickly Close All Tabs of a domain in Firefox with this Add-on
If you were used to open a lot of tabs of same domain for research or to browse the contents in it, it would be nice if you can close all open tabs belonging to that domain more easily by right clicking on that domain tab and selecting... More of this article »
Mozilla Picks ‘The Fox, only Better’ as the Best Add-on for Australis Interface
Mozilla held a contest for add-on developers between March 11 – April 2014 to create add-ons for Firefox’s new look (Australis), and the contest consisted of three categories: Best Overall add-on, Best Bookmark add-on and... More of this article »
FEBE 8.0 Beta Drops Box Support, adds Dropbox’s
FEBE, (pronounced as Fee-bee) Firefox Environment Backup Extension which lets you backup Firefox extensions and themes has now eighth beta for version 8 available for testing. This beta has added support for Dropbox and removed of... More of this article »
Firefox 26+: Get Downloads in a Separate Window
Mozilla has introduced panel based download manager with Firefox 13, but till Firefox 26 they’ve offered preference in about:config to restore old download manager UI that shows downloads in a separate window, now the code for... More of this article »
How to Enable Add-on Bar in Firefox Australis
With Firefox 4, Mozilla has introduced Add-on Bar, new menu and ditched Status bar. While Add-on Bar that appears at bottom of Firefox window if enabled by you is for the placement of Add-on icons. It has been removed in Australis... More of this article »
Get Tabs to Bottom in Firefox Australis
With Firefox 4, Mozilla has introduced a new user interface, where tabs always remained on top by default, but they offered the option at that time till Firefox 15 on the Options sub menu to bring them to the bottom, that option was... More of this article »
Change Curved Tabs in Australis to Rectangular ones with Firefox Tab Mod
Visual design overhaul for Firefox or new theme for Mozilla browser, Australis has been landed on Nightly and available for testing since few days. New design ships with curved tabs similar to Chrome. If you don’t like these... More of this article »
Automatically deactivate newly Installed Firefox Plugins
It takes more time for us to have plugin-free web, plugins are never safe and secure-especially from Java are often suggested by security researchers to disable or remove. Mozilla already made plugins in Firefox to click to play except... More of this article »
Restore Gmail’s Old Compose Interface in Firefox and Chrome with These Extensions
Not getting used to Gmail’s new compose?, you can get old compose in Gmail back easily without much difficulty. When Google has launched new compose experience for Gmail that opens in a pop-up window, they’re offered the option... More of this article »![Image for Firefox 26: Send Findbar back to bottom [Updated]](https://techdows.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/findbar-on-top-in-Firefox-25_thumb.png)
Firefox 26: Send Findbar back to bottom [Updated]
Send Find bar in Firefox back to where it is before Firefox 26, that is at the bottom. Do you know this change? much like to Chrome, from Firefox 26 on wards Findbar will appear on top below the address bar. And on other side, one... More of this article »
Firefox 23: How to Always Use/Set Different Search Engine for Searches in Address bar
Mozilla has released Firefox 23, and one change you might’ve not noticed or don’t know and why it matters for some users?. The change is: keyword.URL preference has been removed and now when you select search provider... More of this article »
Keyboard Shortcut to Pin or UnPin Tab in Firefox
With Pinned Tabs or App tabs, Firefox allows users to pin their favorite websites like Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, etc. You can keep these tabs open and work on other tabs, these tabs doesn’t occupy space on the tab bar and will... More of this article »Firefox Download Panel Tweaks Add-on
Do you like Download panel, new download manager introduced For Firefox with version 20 if you don’t, read how to disable it. If you like it, how about tweaking it to get more. Download Panel Tweaks Add-on for Firefox (restart... More of this article »
Open Windows Applications from Firefox Add-on bar with Easy Access Add-on
How many times in a day you close the browser and work with other programs on your computer?. These days most people spend their times on web in browser by visiting social networking sites YouTube, Google+ and Facebook. If you use... More of this article »How to Make Find bar in Firefox to Hide Automatically while Changing between Tabs
Find bar in Firefox browser which you use to search for particular content on web page always brings some inconvenience to the user- it stays open and visible for all the tabs you’ve opened in browser and there is no way to make... More of this article »
Get Per-tab Private Browsing for Firefox with Private Tab Add-on
Do you want Per-tab Private browsing feature in Firefox? sadly Mozilla natively won’t offers it for the browser but you can add to it with Private Tab add-on. Latest Firefox v20 offers per-window private browsing which lets... More of this article »
Know Which Firefox Add-on is Consuming More Memory
Want to know which Firefox add-on is eating system resources?, you can easily find that by installing an extension. By default Mozilla offers about:memory page for Firefox browser which shows too much technical information that users... More of this article »Block/load Images on websites in Firefox with a single Click
If you’re on a slower connection you can make the sites you visit in Firefox to load faster by disabling “Load images automatically”option under “Content” tab of Options window. But what if you always want the browser to... More of this article »Automatically Close Duplicate Tabs in Firefox
We’ve covered Deduplicate -tabs extension in the past that alerts you with its icon when duplicate tabs were found and allows to remove them with a single click, how about automating this? meet Duplicate Tabs Closer add-on for Firefox... More of this article »
DownThemAll 3.0 Beta adds Support for HiDPI and Per-window Private browsing
First beta for 3.0 version of DownThemAll has been released for Windows, Mac and Linux and is available for download from the developer website. This version will be snappy, more responsive and brings new UI and features. Notable changes... More of this article »
How to backup and Restore Firefox Extensions
Do you want to transfer your installed extensions in Firefox to another PC? or planned to format your PC or wants to uninstall Firefox completely along with profile data folder that includes add-ons, or thinking to reset Firefox -all... More of this article »
View History Menu for a Selected Tab with a Click in Firefox
To view tab history for a particular tab in Firefox browser you need to hover mouse pointer over back button and need to right click on it or you can pull down back button as history shown in drop-down manner, both methods are not... More of this article »
Automatically Resume YouTube Videos from Where You Paused or Left
If you’re looking for Firefox extension that resumes previously seen videos from where you saw last time without playing from the beginning, look no further install Video Resumer without any second thoughts. YouTube hasn’t got... More of this article »
Combine Firefox Home Page and New Tab Page into a Single Page
If you’ve not found both Firefox home page and New Tab Page much of use lately, how about combining them and forming a single page? Homepage New Tab extension merges Firefox homepage and New Tab Page. So after installing the extension... More of this article »
Automatically Clear Firefox History After Specified Number of Days On Startup with History Janitor
Do you want to clear Firefox browsing history after x number of days? There is an extension for that. Firefox by default doesn’t allow to clear browser history after some days, say for example 10 days, it allows to clear recent... More of this article »
Amazon Releases Send to kindle Extension for Firefox
Amazon has released Send to Kindle extension for Firefox which is now available for download on Mozilla add-ons gallery. Send to Kindle already available for Chrome browser and support for Safari is coming soon in near future. If you’ve... More of this article »
Mozilla’s About:trackers Add-on to Automatically Block Tracking Sites in Firefox
Mozilla going aggressively against tracking websites by launching add-on about:trackers which has the built-in the tools to block connections and cookies when a site it tries to access user’s shared data on other websites by using... More of this article »
Get Currently for Chrome Feature in Firefox with Moment
Do you remember Curretnly, an extension that turns Google Chrome’s New tab page into minimalistic one with Date and Time, if you want similar feature in Firefox you can now have it with Moment Extension. Moment replaces Firefox NTP... More of this article »
Firefox 16: Add Send Link back to Context Menu
Mozilla removed Send Link item from Firefox Context Menu, you can see this change in recently released Firefox 16 and if you want that functionality back you can achieve same with Email this add-on for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.... More of this article »
How to Open Firefox Links in Media Players or Other Browsers
If a website that doesn’t support in Firefox what you usually do is copy and paste that link in another browser in your Computer, to view live streaming of a video in media player like VLC you also need to manually copy the... More of this article »![Image for Free Download Manager Plugin Now Available On Mozilla Add-ons Site [Updated]](https://techdows.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Free-Download-Manager-plugin_thumb.png)
Free Download Manager Plugin Now Available On Mozilla Add-ons Site [Updated]
Whenever a new version of Firefox releases, FDM Plugin installed by Free Download Manager will be automatically disabled in the Mozilla browser. The rapid release cycle not helping FDM plugin to compatible with the newly released Firefox... More of this article »
Click to Play Switch, Toggle Firefox’s Click_to_Play Preference On or Off From Navigation Bar
Mozilla added Click to Play plugins feature to Firefox 14 but not enabled by default, we don’t know which Firefox version gets UI for this option in Options but we can enable click to play preference in Firefox right now through... More of this article »