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[Chrome, Firefox] Block websites and ad networks from tracking you with Disconnect.me
With semi-unique identifiers like IP address, the Internet was never intended to be a private place. However, privacy is a topmost priority for many web-goers. More specifically, many users are concerned about their surfing habits being tracked by websites and/or ad networks. Disconnect.me is looking to assist you in protecting [...]
[Firefox, Chrome] Resume unfinished YouTube videos from where you left off instead of from the beginning with Video Resumer
Have you ever been watching a YouTube video and had to stop in the middle of it? I know I have! Maybe it is because I have a short intention span and things distract me pretty easily. Regardless of the reason, I usually come back to the video later and [...]
[Chrome, Firefox] Privacyfix allows you to control how Google, Facebook, and other websites track you
A decade ago the internet was just a tiny little speck and online privacy was not a huge issue. Your information was only in a few places and back then we were more careful with what we did. Plus the notion of online privacy wasn’t really popular. Now our information [...]
HTTPS Everywhere now supports over 2,000 websites on Firefox and is now available on Chrome, too
Last year dotTech reviewed an add-on called HTTPS Everywhere developed by the folks at Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Tor Project. For those that aren’t familiar with it, HTTPS Everywhere forces the use of HTTPS (instead of HTTP) on websites, when available.
The kicker is HTTPS Everywhere needs to [...]
Read More »[Firefox] Watch YouTube videos without having to go to YouTube.com with YouTube Anywhere Player
Sometimes websites have YouTube videos embedded, allowing you to watch the video(s) without having to go to YouTube’s website. However, what happens when you are simply given a link to a YouTube video, such as in an e-mail or on a website that doesn’t embed? In situations like these, yo [...]
[Chrome, Firefox, Opera] Find out why a website loads slowly with YSlow
In today’s bigger and faster world, we don’t want a website to load slow. YSlow will tell you if a website is slow and why. This addon is mostly directed to webmasters and hosts rather than the average Joe but it may still be fun to use if you are [...]
[Firefox] Easily access and use all your stored passwords with QuickPasswords
If you are a normal internet user, than you have a lot of passwords. QuickPasswords is a password manager that helps you remember and use all your passwords.
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QuickPasswords is an addon that builds upon Firefox’s default password manager by [...]
Read More »[Chrome, Firefox] Declutter webpages with Evernote Clearly
If you look at lots of articles on the web, often you don’t want to see content outside the article like the tabs, other articles, and what not. If you are this type of person, then Evernote Clearly is for you.
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Read More »[Chrome, FireFox] Quickly access Google websites with Google Shortcuts
If you use a lot of Google products then Google Shortcuts is for you. It lets you quickly get to all of your favorite Google sites.
What is it and what does it do
Main Functionality
Google Shortcuts provides a toolbar or drop-down menu (you pick) that lets you quickly [...]
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If you don’t like all of those annoying YouTube annotations that most YouTube producers love to add do their videos, then YouTube Hide Annotations is for you.Run Firefox OS on your computer using r2d2b2g, a convenient Firefox add-on
Firefox OS is Mozilla’s attempt at an HTML5-powered mobile operating system. There are already ways to test Firefox OS on your desktop but all those ways are extremely complicated to setup. So a Mozilla developer put together r2d2b2g, a Firefox add-on that allows users to easily test Firefox OS [...]
Read More »[Firefox, Internet Explorer] Download videos, remove ads, and more with YouTube Enhancer Plus
If you are anything like me, you don’t have a satellite or cable TV service; you most likely get your entertainment from sites like YouTube. If you are in this category, or if you like to watch lots of YouTube videos, then YouTube Enhancer Plus is for you.[...]
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Read More »[Firefox] Organize your bookmarks with Foxtab
So thanks to you lovely people, I have had my eyes opened to the wonderful world of all the bookmark managing systems that Firefox actually has to offer. So today, I bring you Foxtab.
I really, really like Foxtabs’ interface. The settings are easy to understand, and offer you quite [...]
Read More »[Firefox] Quickly find a page you left behind with Tab History Menu
Who hasn’t navigated a few clicks forward in a webpage and then wanted to quickly return to the fourth or fifth page back? Rather than clicking the “Back” button a number of times and hoping you remember how far back the page you wanted was, Firefox has an add-on solution.[...]
[Firefox] Make your browsing more fun with Cheevos for Firefox
I’m a gamer geek but an admittedly latecomer to the game, so to speak. When I first started playing World of Warcraft, I’d never heard of an achievement system. So the first time I got one, it startled me. But after that, I was hooked. I spent hours, even days, [...]
[Firefox] Easily share your favorite sites on Facebook with Facebook Share Button
How many times have you been browsing the internet, found something you wanted to share on Facebook, copied the URL, navigated back to Facebook to post the URL to share on your timeline, but then got distracted by your Facebook feed. And eventually, when you realize you were doing something [...]
[Firefox] Make your bookmarks more visual with Viewmarks
I’m a fan of Opera’s Speed Dial. Until today, I hadn’t found similar functionality for Firefox — then I found Viewmarks.
In simple terms, Viewmarks adds Speed Dial-like functionality to Firefox. Viewmarks puts a little “Open book with bookmark” icon in the upper left of your browser, just past the [...]
Read More »[Firefox] Find out where a website is located with Flagfox
Every website exists on a server, somewhere in the world. I like to know where my websites are located – mostly because that indicates when I can expect responses to my support requests, among other things. Until I found Flagfox for Firefox, finding this information meant doing a lot of [...]
DownThemAll makes batch downloading faster, easier [Firefox]
I do a lot of graphic design on the side. When downloading a massive amount of stock images, it’s usually an annoying one-at-a-time process. Not so since I found DownThemAll.
DownThemAll takes the annoyance of mass-downloading and makes it simpler. With DownThemAll you can download all the files with a [...]
Read More »Have a theater experience on your home computer with Turn Off The Lights [Firefox]
For awhile, I was watching Hulu.com all the time. It was much more convenient than setting aside time to watch TV on the actual television. One of my favorite features of the site was the ability to “turn off lights”, fading the entire browser window around the video into darkness [...]
[Firefox, Chrome, Safari] Capture, annotate, and share your screen with Awesome Screenshot
Wanna capture your browser screen and do cool red rectangles with pointing arrows and text annotations just like Ashraf does? If your answer is yes, then check out Awesome Screenshot.
ABOUT AWESOME SCREENSHOT
By now, you already know that Awesome Screenshot (AS) let’s you take snapshots of your browser [...]
Read More »[Firefox] Add Windows 7-like breadcrumbs to your address bar with Location Bar Enhancer
The average Firefox address bar contains a website URL; how boring. Location Bar Enhancer, an add-on for Firefox, changes all that by turning your address bar into a breadcrumb trail — you know the type of thing you see when browsing folders in Windows Vista or Win7.[...]
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Read More »[Firefox] Open your current page in another browser with “Open With” add-on
Have you ever felt the need to open the web page you’re looking at in other browsers, for whatever imaginable reason, while using Firefox? If you’re nodding your head up and down at the screen, I’ve got good news for you in the shape of a Firefox add-on called Open [...]
Read More »[Firefox] Safe (an add-on) makes it easier to recognize secure (HTTPS) sites
Regardless of what browser you use, you want to know that any site on which you enter personal information is secure. You can spend time looking for the famous lock or to see if it says “https” instead of the usual “http.” Or, instead of spending time [...]