Archive: firefox

It used to be Tabberwocky but that’s died with FF4 I now recommend Tab Mix Plus which lets you achieve the holy grail, duplicate tabs! Who would have though it was so hard. Maybe FF5 will get some chrome like tab controls but for now this extension does a fair bit More Reading:Firefox 3 Duplicate [...]

Firefox used to have an addon called duplicate tab. It was great, did exactly what it said on the tin. However it is no longer developed and so we are stuck without any duplicate tab functionality – damn. Until that is I discovered tabberwocky. Not the most descriptive name which is probably why it didn’t [...]

If your firefox address bar is getting a bit slow and laggy as it tries to find suggestions, I found one single about:config tweak totally sorted it out for me. browser.urlbar.search.timeout = 100 change to browser.urlbar.search.timeout = 10 To do this, open a new tab and type about:config Then agree to the thing that says [...]

Just discovered another great Firefox Addon Custom Buttons.. tired or too lazy to use the right click for that frequent action (view source, reload all tabs) this addon is for you https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5066 More Reading:Tip: Javascript late-loading trickAutomatically convert smart quotes in the browserMagento Controller Action Return Json (for AJAX, API etc)PHP Force Download with Custom [...]

If like me you miss the duplicate tab extension from Firefox 2, this little tip might cheer you up: Hold down [ctrl] then drag and drop an open tab onto the green + (or any free tab bar space) and you will clone that tab. Unfortunately this doesn’t clone the history as well, so its [...]

I have been looking for this for ages – A URL pattern matching cache controller to disable caching on local / dev sites whilst maintaining normal caching operations on the rest of the web. The solution is a Firefox addon called Johnny Cache (boom boom)! More Reading:

Firefox is awesome. The thing that really makes it awesome is the fact that it is very easy to customize it to have all the functionality you could dream of. The way that firefox does this is by allowing you to install add-ons. These little additions to the program bring extra functionality to firefox. Here’s [...]

A large part of an effective SEO campaign involves researching the current top ranking sites for your chosen key words or phrases and then trying to figure out what they are doing to get there. This can be a painstaking and laborious task. However there is one great tool which is highly recommended to give [...]

One of the most useful and powerful things you can do with PHP is to create a programme which will simulate a web browser and can grab data, post data to forms and generally interact with other web sites - automatically. For PHP to be able to work like this it must have the CURL [...]