The Google Chrome browser has better built-in translation options than Firefox. When you visit a site not in English, Google Chrome will offer to translate. Firefox has no such option, but you can quickly translate pages in the br...
Those who use both the Firefox and Chrome browsers should install the Open In Chrome extension. That’s an add-on with which you can migrate open Firefox tabs to Google Chrome. To quote the add-on’s page: “The intended ...
Browsers such as Chrome include a Duplicate option on the tab context menu. When you select that option a duplicate tab opens on the tab bar. However, Firefox does not have a duplicate option on the tab context menu. Nevertheless,...
Larger software packages amounting to more than one GB might take more than an hour to download. Consequently, you can’t always wait around at the desktop for a long download to finish. You can instead schedule your desktop/...
The Windows calculator is usually the best tool for converting units and currencies on website pages. However, there is now a better one for converting units and currencies to alternatives. That is the Converter add-on for Firefox...
Some websites have login text boxes such as user name, email address and password. It would be great if browsers had options with which to paste email addresses, passwords, user names etc into login text boxes. At the moment Firef...
One thing that Firefox doesn’t include is an alarm clock that can provide notifications for you at specific times. However, the Simple Timer extension adds a customizable alarm clock to the Firefox toolbar. Then you can set the cl...
There are various ways to navigate websites without the mouse. Firefox includes default keyboard shortcuts for navigation, and you can also expand the browser’s hotkeys with add-ons such as Reload Plus. Another add-on to not...
Many websites have Next buttons, or page numbers, at the bottom of their pages. They link the first part of a page with another section. The PageZipper add-on for Firefox merges pages together so that you can scroll straight to th...
The Firefox 29 status bar doesn’t exactly show you how much of a website page has loaded. When Firefox loads images and other page content there’s a very brief pop up at the bottom left corner of the window. Most brows...
Sometimes you might have to open a specific file or folder when browsing. As such, it would be handy if you could add file/folder shortcuts to your browser. Well, now you can with the File and Folders Shortcuts add-on for Firefox!...
If you open tons of page tabs in Firefox they can get a little disorganized. So what can we do to organize open page tabs? Well, you can add them to tab groups with the TabGroups Manager Firefox add-on. The TabGroups Manager exten...
The All-in-One Gestures Firefox add-on is one that you can use to execute Firefox options with specific mouse movements. For example, you can open page source code by moving the mouse up, right and down. Consequently, such mouse m...
Do you often use Google services such as the search engine, Gmail and Calendar? If so, then you can add Google shortcuts to the Firefox browser. There are at least a couple of Firefox add-ons that add Google shortcuts to Firefox&#...
In a previous article, I’ve already covered how you can close all the Google Chrome page tabs at once. Firefox also has an add-on with which you can close all its open page tabs with a single click. That Firefox add-on is Cl...
