When searching for the same word or phrase on multiple webpages, it becomes annoying that Firefox doesn’t remember the word or phrase and you have to re-enter it every time. FindList solves this problem by saving your last 50 webpage searches into a drop-down list. It eliminates the re-typing or copy-pasting of keywords when doing [...]
If you use Firefox as your main browser and also have eyesight problems that require you to see bigger fonts wherever possible on the computer, then you’d like this add-on. The name pretty much says it all. It helps you make the fonts in the browser address bar bigger in size. It makes it easy [...]
I’m sure you have come across websites on the Internet that start playing those video ads without your permission, or may be a video sharing site that starts playing videos even before you hit the play button. This can be annoying and FlashControl is a Chrome extension that helps you prevent this from happening on [...]
If you are a new age Internet user then it is likely that you’ve got contacts spread across various services like different email accounts, social networks, etc. Monkey Contact is a web service that wants to make it easier for you to find them when required. You can find people by name, location, company, job [...]
If you are looking for a good translation tool for Firefox then you might want to give this add-on called Translate This! a try. It’s a simple tool that gets the job done effectively and also offers some extras. It uses Google Translate and you can translate specific text on the page or the entire [...]
Clea.nr is a site that provides browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Safari that help you browse two very popular sites – YouTube and Amazon – in a clean, clutter-free interface. It eliminates everything that it considers unnecessary and helps you focus on the main item on the page. It doesn’t work like those readability [...]
If you use Google Reader on a frequent basis, and want some more features like the ability to change the theme or direct sharing to sites like Facebook then you might want to try out this Chrome extension called Reader Plus. It adds a lot of features to Google Reader, some of which are a [...]
Add-ons or extensions are a great way to enhance your browser’s functionality, but this increased functionality comes at a cost of decreased performance. For most browsers, the impact on its load time is negligible, but some can affect it as much as 75%. Mozilla recently analyzed the top 100 add-ons that slow Firefox down and [...]
Glass is a browser add-on that makes real-time sharing of information – and thoughts on a particular webpage you are browsing – simple and easy. The extension is available for Firefox and Chrome, and you need to sign up to get started. Friends can be invited and added. It uses a pop-up window (called a [...]
Tracking browser cookies to serve adverts that are tailored to the user’s likes and dislikes is a practice that has been going on for years. But these methods prompt privacy concerns time and again. Google has now come up with a Chrome extension called Keep My Opt-Outs that lets users permanently opt out of personalized [...]