Topic: Firefox

News articles, tutorials, add-ons and other miscellaneous tips for the Mozilla Firefox Web Browser.

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Deskcut – Easily Create URL Shortcuts In Ubuntu

Ever tried creating a URL shortcut with Firefox in Ubuntu only to find yourself frustrated? Yes that does sound the opening line to an insurance advert, but it’s not! Easily creating desktop shortcuts to webpages […]

15 January 2010
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One Add-on Lets Firefox Use Ubuntu Notification System

Firefox uses its own notification system for alerting users to various events. These can easily be missed on an Ubuntu system as users are used to seeing notifications appear in the top right-hand corner. Thankfully […]

4 January 2010
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Dust Persona For Firefox

I feel like I’ve written far to many eye-candy related posts today, so i’ll finish on a good one. This a dust persona for Firefox that matches up with the Dust GTK theme. No extra […]

9 November 2009
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NewWave Firefox Themes

I’ve blogged previously about the Dust Firefox theme that seamlessly marries Firefox with the Dust GTK theme. Now it’s the turn of NewWave! Version One – NewWave Firefox Theme There is an official NewWave Firefox […]

6 November 2009
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Firefox 4.0 Interface For Linux Mocked-up (& Peek at Firefox 3.7, too!)

Firefox 4.0 is not due to be released for well over another yeah but mock-ups of the premier open-source browser’s proposed visual refresh as it will look on Linux have been mocked-up and shown off […]

29 October 2009
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How to Run Web Apps on Ubuntu Using Mozilla Prism

Want to run a web app, like Google Tasks, on your Ubuntu desktop, complete with all the features the online version has? Well, you can — using Mozilla Prism. Mozilla Prism allows websites to be […]

30 September 2009
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O/T – Make Firefox Netbook Friendly

Below is a short tutorial on how to make Firefox space friendly. I have a netbook which my sister borrows from time to time and although my main browser is Opera 10 on it, my […]

18 September 2009
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Firefox 3.5 Released Today

Just to add to the rest of the endless blog posts hitting the web about Firefox’s latest (and greatest) release, I too want to inform you that Firefox 3.5 was released today. What’s new? Check […]

30 June 2009
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This Add-On Makes Firefox Use Ubuntu’s New Notifications

A new Firefox add-on makes the browser display notifications using the new notification system introduced in Ubuntu 9.04 ‘Jaunty Jackalope’.Currently Firefox uses it’s own notification pop ups to tell you that something has finished downloading […]

21 May 2009
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Silverlight For Linux

To view Silverlight embedded content on the web in Linux, simply install the ‘moonlight’ add-on for Firefox developed by Novell. (Them what make OpenSUSE!). The add-on is being developed with assistance from the hallowed redmond […]

3 December 2008