As web browsers continue to evolve, a design element that is brought up often is how much space menus take up. The current trend is to focus as much attention as possible of doing what’s called "reducing visual footprint", which in a nutshell means to make menus as small as possible while trying to remain informative and useful. To see where...

I am a diehard Mozilla Thunderbird user. Even though I’ve tried out just about every single email there is (Yahoo! Mail, Gmail and Hotmail included), and just about every single mail client there is, I always go back to Thunderbird. It’s because it does the job that good. But unfortunately I can’t say that anymore. Now I have to say I’m a...

If you currently use Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, LiveJournal, Xanga, WordPress or TypePad as a place where you post blog articles, all of them have the ability to post via a WYSIWYG editor within the service. Some of you may have discovered Windows Live Writer (which works with nearly every blog service that exists) and found it to be a very useful writing...

The web browser is the most used application on your computer, period. Even when you’re not using it, it’s probably minimized to the taskbar/dock/panel. Unfortunately web browsers still to this day have a fair degree of suck factor. Here are 5 reasons why web browsers suck: 1. Plugins are the browser’s own worst enemy I call them plugins. Call...

I don’t think there’s any denying that Firefox 3.5 is late to the party concerning other browsers have had features (like private browsing) FF is only getting now. Regardless, here’s my real-world review on it. Instead of getting into the super-techy details on this I’m going to concentrate on what most would care about. Will 3.5 break...

Firefox, while a great browser, is a bit behind the times at the moment because it’s the only major player that doesn’t have a private-browsing mode. I personally think this is an important feature to have because of the enhanced security. Some jokingly call this feature "porn mode", but where I would use it most is for online banking. So,...

Since I installed Windows 7 I’ve been loading in a bunch of apps. Some run the same as they did in XP with no noticeable improvement in speed or stability, while others appear to run much better. Here’s a few: Mozilla Firefox Since the introduction of version 3, the best way I can describe FF is that it "bottoms out" on XP too often. Even...

Ordinarily I am very, very against "skinning" a web browser because it usually makes it perform like absolute crap. Usually what will happen is that some internal menus won’t work and sometimes it even interrupts web site loading. However, when I saw that Personas was actually developed by Mozilla Labs themselves (i.e. the guys and gals who made...

Of the new stuff with Firefox 3.0.9, I’m happy to see that several really (and I mean really) annoying issues were attended to, such as: Cookie database getting screwed up I have a love/hate relationship with browser cookies. But I do appreciate them for the fact they make my web surfing faster due to the fact they make the browser "remember"...

One would assume that clearing all the favicon.ico files out of Firefox 3 would be a simple task. It isn’t. Clearing your cache doesn’t work because the icons aren’t stored there. Rather it’s in a SQLite database called places.sqlite in your Firefox profile directory. There are three ways to clear all favicons. First method: Create a new...

If you use the Mozilla Firefox web browser you may be prompted to update to version 3.0.6. If you haven’t, click Help then Check for Updates and you can download the latest version now. In the release notes for this version, it’s noted that several security and stability issues were fixed. I have noticed that in 3.0.5 there were a few times the...

If you’re a Mozilla Firefox user you will be getting an update shortly (if you haven’t already) to update your browser to v3.0.5. The release notes for this version state there have been several security and stability issues addressed. So if your Firefox has been a bit on the buggy side and crashes periodically, an update to v3.0.5 should cure that...

This series is dedicated to specific e-mail providers on the internet. In this installment, the service provider concentrated on will be Google’s Gmail. Gmail, launched in March 2004, has grown to be one of the most-used free e-mail services on the internet. While it doesn’t have a large of a userbase as Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail, it’s still a force to be...

The latest trunk build of Mozilla Thunderbird at the time of this writing is version 3.0b1pre, called Shredder (the Mozilla Firefox 3.1b2pre is called "Minefield" just in case you were wondering). I downloaded it and tried it out – more on that later.Thunderbird at this stage of the game is really, really far behind. It has not followed along...

Foxmarks is a freely available add-on for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Normally what you would do to send/retrieve your bookmarks is use the Foxmarks servers to store this information, however if you host your own web site (or just use free FTP space provided by your ISP) you can store your own bookmarks privately via FTP. See video below for...

My primary browser is Mozilla Firefox v3.0.1. The reason I champion that particular browser over others is because it has the most plugins available. If there is anything on the internet that can be done in a browser, chances are it will happen in Firefox first. Plugins, while a blessing, can also be a curse. As cool as it is that you have tons of nifty add-ons...

If you happen to use the Mozilla Firefox web browser, here are a few little hidden things about it you may not have heard about. The Book of Mozilla This has been in every Netscape browser and in every Firefox browser. In the address bar, type about:mozilla and you will read a strange passage from the "book" of Mozilla. No such book exists obviously...

Mozilla has released the first update to the new Firefox 3 browser: 3.01. It promises better security and more stability. Several security issues were found in the original Firefox 3.0. One critical flaw was stated by Mozilla this way: Vulnerability can be used to run attacker code and install software, requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing....

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One of features which makes any email client (either an application installed on your computer or a web product) more complete is a calendar. Email and calendar applications go hand-in-hand as the actions or events in one commonly lead to an action in the other. If Thunderbird is your email client of choice and you want add the calendar functionality, take a...