Continuing on with their rapid-fire release schedule, version 10 of the Mozilla Firefox browser is now available for download. Although there’s a bunch of stuff that’s cool about Fx 10, there are 3 in particular that I feel stand out above the rest. First is actually the release notes page itself. I’ve been waiting for Mozilla to do this a long...

Warren writes: Just curious to know if anyone has tried waterfox web browser. It’s for 64 bit systems and is from mozilla. Installed it a couple days ago and while I have no tools to benchmark it, seems faster than the others with no compatibility issues with any site. Not easy to find on mozilla’s site but maybe someone could give it a spin and see...

Back in 2007, Mozilla released Weave which was then rebranded as Firefox Sync. In Firefox, this is a cloud service that can store your bookmarks, passwords, browser history and so on (you choose what you want to store out there). Some of you may have tried Firefox Sync and decided to stop using it in favor of something else like LastPass or Xmarks. Or maybe you...

I try.. and I mean really try to like Firefox these days, but wow is it tough to do so. As any long-time Firefox user knows, the browser has been getting progressively (regressively?) slower per each release. Yes, it’s true that with every new release of Fx comes some new whiz-bang feature, but unfortunately the majority of the time it’s something...

Mozilla very recently released (as in official, not beta) version 8 of the popular Firefox browser. On The Mozilla Blog there’s a whole write-up about all the changes and whatnot. Out of the changes listed, this was the only one that really caught my attention: Firefox lets you load tabs on demand, making it much faster to restore windows with many tabs....

In the computing world, an aliased font means "blocky" and/or "non-smoothed"; there are some people to this day who prefer reading web pages with fonts rendered in this fashion. A quick example: Anti-aliased ("smoothed") Aliased ("blocky") Windows and Linux do offer the ability to turn off anti-aliasing for all...

Most people know about CTRL+Plus, CTRL+Minus and CTRL+0 (zero) to increase, decrease and reset font sizes when using a web browser, but with the Firefox extension Stylish, you can not only customize size but also which font to use on a per-website basis. Check out the video below for details on how it’s...

Since the introduction of Firefox 7, I’ve officially switched back to the Fx browser (but not without this add-on installed, which I consider mandatory). No, I’m not telling to you dump IE, Opera or Chrome, but Fx 7 did impress me enough to switch back over to it. A feature of Fx I used a long time ago when it was first introduced was Firefox Sync....

One of the more underrated features of the modern Firefox browser is the use of Tab Groups. This built-in feature (meaning no add-ons/plugins required) makes quick work of a cluttered-up tab bar by organizing a lot of tabs into easy-manage groups that can be ordered however you like. See video below for details on how it...

Hardware accelerated fonts don’t work on all monitors, and may result in them looking blurry – particularly with smaller fonts. This font blur is something that’s very noticeable, but only in specific setups. These setups I’m referring to are Windows Vista and Windows 7 users with ClearType enabled. The standard advice given concerning...

Upon hearing news that Firefox 7 (and had memory management in it that actually worked, I downloaded it and decided to give it a go. There’s not really any screenshots I can show because if you’ve seen Fx 5, you’ve seen 6 and the upcoming 7/8, so there’s nothing new in the how-does-it-look department. The way to make Firefox 6 or below...

I just upgraded to Firefox 6 recently. Why haven’t I written an article about it? There’s not really much more mentioning. Fx looks the same, acts the same and there’s nothing I could really point out that would say, "Hey, look at X feature.. totally new/awesome/blah-blah". The only thing that is making news concerning this browser...

“Bandwidth conservation” is becoming more of a reality for many with more ISPs imposing strict bandwidth caps. It’s easy enough to instruct a browser not to download images or Flash content, however the way in which it’s done is inconvenient at best. The video below shows how to use a combination of two Firefox add-ons, Flashblock and...

In corporate circles there’s been an uproar over Mozilla’s release strategy concerning the Firefox browser, whereas they said in no uncertain terms that enterprise is not their primary focus, as they put it. Strong words. Strong even to royally tick off many in the corporate IT world, and even made Microsoft toot their horns to say that they’ll...

When you run a slow computer and/or a slow Internet connection, browsing the Net can be a bit of a challenge. Fortunately, Firefox offers many tweaks to help you speed things a bit. As I mentioned in a previous post, the about:config command in Firefox opens the door to many useful tweaks. Probably there are hundreds of useful settings among them and it might...

Yesterday Mozilla officially released version 5 of the Firefox browser. The two new things in the browser that are of note are the do-not-track feature and the ability to view multiple tabs as thumbnails in Windows 7, called tab previews. For those interested, the do-not-track feature is simply a checkbox in Options > Privacy:I honestly don’t know if...

Horizontal scrolling is very unpleasant and I really hate when I have to do it. I hate it especially when I have to do it with the tabs in Firefox. Every time I reinstall my PC, one of the first things I rush to do is make Firefox show an unlimited number of tabs. When I browse, I usually open new tabs all the time and soon my Firefox gets cluttered with tabs....

It’s easy enough to punch up the font size in Firefox, but there are times when you want the text to be front-and-center in the easiest-reading font possible. One way to do this is to use the “No Style” option with a minor font setting change. The end result is super-readable text that’s very easy on the eyes. See video below for details...

It is a well known fact that Firefox can consume quite a bit of memory during normal usage. If you are so inclined to see where/how this memory is being used, simply visit the following URL: about:memoryThis works in the newer versions of Firefox and shows, in great detail, the breakdown behind the usage. If you are curious about what a certain column means,...

A feature of Firefox which is somewhat buried but quite useful is View Page Info. Using Fx 4 for Windows this is accessible in one of two ways. Either you right click on anything that isn’t a link or an image, or use the keystroke ALT+T (for Tools menu) and then click Page Info. The former is the easier of the two. Example of right-clicking on anything not...