Fifa 2010 - Wear your team on Firefox - Firefox Cup

Its Football Fever and team at Firefox has been affected with it too. Firefox has come up with Firefox Cup where you can support your favorite team by wearing the Persona.

The team with the most number of fans (number of people wearing Firefox Persona) wins at the end.

So what are you waiting for. Log on to Firefox Cup and dress your Firefox with your Favorite Teams color.

Fifa 2010 Live Score - Firefox Extension

GoodReflex has come up with a simple Firefox addon which displays live Fifa 2010 matches score right in Firefox. It adds a toolbar between bookmarks and Address bar where the scores are displayed. The extension is not yet reviewed by Mozilla but I haven't had any issue using it.

Its a good to have add-on when you cannot watch the match during office hours.

Click here to download and install the add-on for Firefox

Make Firefox speak for you

Ever thought how great it will be if your browser reads the text on a webpage for you?? We read huge articles on internet. How amazing it will be if instead of reading them we can simply listen to them?? It happens that while reading we come across a word which we find difficult to pronounce. How easy it will be if our browser reads it for us to understand how it needs to be pronounced??

Well, it is now possible in Firefox using Text to Voice add-on which simply reads the selected text for you. It seriously makes your life simple in many ways.

Lets start with Text to Voice

Install Text to Voice add-on for Firefox

Restart Firefox once the installation completes.

Open up any webpage and select the text you want to convert from text to voice and click the button on the bottom right corner.

Clicking on the button opens up another tab which would create an mp3 out of the text selected.

Once the mp3 creation is done it will start playing the mp3 file for you.

You can even save the mp3 file generated on your machine for future references by clicking Download mp3 link and specifying the path where it needs to be saved.

To conclude, this is really a must have add-on for people who read lots of articles over the internet. Very helpful as you can save the mp3 files and listen to them later any time you want to.

Font Size and Font Family on Right Click Context Menu in Firefox

It happens that you love a font used on some website and are curious to get its details. If you use Firefox, Context Font is the add-on which helps you with this. After installing this add-on for Firefox you get the font-family and font size in the right context menu for the selected text.

Steps to use

Install Context Font add-on for Firefox

Once installed Restart Firefox. Select and right click on the text whose font details are needed and it displays them in the right click context menu.

To conclude, it is a great add-on for font lovers, web designers to quickly know about fonts on any website.

Rename your Facebook friends - Firefox add-on

MyFacebook is a Firefox add-on using which you can rename your Facebook friends easily. You can simply right click any of your Facebook friend and rename them with whatever nickname you want. Isn't that fun???

How it works

Install MyFacebook add-on for Firefox

Login to your Facebook account

Right click the friend you want to rename and select Rename

Type the name you like for your friend and click Rename

That's it! Your friend will be renamed in Facebook. You can even Undo Rename once you have renamed any of your friends.

Check the video below to see it working.

Get notified for new Google Reader items

Google Reader is a good RSS companion but lacks notifications. It does not alert the user when a new item arrives like we have Gmail notifier or email notifier with Gtalk.

There are 2 ways to get notified about new items on Google Reader.

Google Reader Notifier

Google Reader Notifier is a tiny Windows application which sits calmly in your system tray and informs you at a set interval incase there are new items in Google Reader.

Google Reader Notifier is customizable as per your needs. Using preferences you can setup the items for which you should be notified, refresh interval and specify your Google Reader account details.

The notifier displays the number of new items in the popup window clicking on which opens up your browser pointing to Google Reader. 

Download Google Reader Notifier for Windows

Google Reader Watcher - Firefox Add-on

This add-on adds the functionality provided by Google Reader Notifier plus some additional features to Firefox. It adds an icon to Firefox Status Bar displaying the count of new Google Reader items. The add-on is customizable as per your needs using its preferences. You can set up the frequency at which it should check for new items, specify the feeds to be filtered using labels etc. under General tab.

Under Account Information tab you need to specify your Google Reader logon credentials.

Under Tooltip settings tab you can customize the way tooltips are displayed. Under Window opening settings you can select the action which would open Google Reader window.

Hovering over the icon in status bar displays you the list of feeds and the count of unread items under each feed.

Google Reader Watcher is a great add-on to have if you are a big user of Google Reader.

Download Google Reader Watcher for Firefox

Run Flash videos on low quality to improve performance

On slower machine flash videos become a bottle neck on performance. It is annoying if there's a site you love to read that just so happens to load 20 flash advertisements next to the article text and your machine gets low on performance.

This happens to be an issue with older computers, cheap netbooks and cellphones using Firefox Mobile.

Low Quality Flash is a Firefox add-on which uses JavaScript to alter OBJECT and EMBED tags on a page setting Adobe Flash objects to "Low Quality." It automatically sets the video quality to low for all the flash videos played on the webpages improving the performance vastly.

Using this add-on for Firefox you can read your favorite article with 20 annoying flash advertisements on old computer or even on Firefox Mobile.

"Save File to" in Right Click Context Menu - Firefox

Whenever we find any File, Webpage, Image or Link of our interest we tend to save it to our machine. The simplest way to save them is right clicking the object and clicking Save Link/Image/Page As and specifying the folder where it needs to be saved.

Save File To extension for Firefox is a cool add-on which adds one more option to Right Click Context Menu which makes it even simpler to save the files to your machine.

Standard Firefox way to save files 

Saving file after installing Save File To extension for Firefox

You get the folder options as soon as you hit Save Link To which saves you time specifying the folder each time you want to save the file.

By default Desktop and My Documents are the 2 folders added in the list. You can configure the add-on to add more folders to it.

The folders can be different for each type of object. For eg. I would like to save Files I download in D:\Downloads folder so I will add it under Page Menu, whereas Images on C:\Images under Images menu.

Download Save File To extension for Firefox

Download online videos from best video sites using Firefox

Earlier I had written about downloading YouTube videos using YouDown. YouDown is a great standalone application allowing you to download videos from YouTube giving you the option to select the quality of video.

At times the video we are looking to download is not uploaded at YouTube and downloading them from any other site becomes a question. Well, if you use Firefox then Keep Tube is the perfect add-on to help you out with this. Keep Tube lets you Download Youtube Videos (HD/HQ MP4, FLV, 3GP) Dailymotion (HQ MP4, FLV), Magavideo (HD/HQ FLV) Google (HQ MP4, FLV), Vimeo (HQ MP4) Break (HQ MP4, FLV), Veoh (HQ MP4, FLV), Metacafe, Spike, Myspace, Facebook, Current, Redtube and more! 

Keep Tube smartly adds a "Download" link below or next to the video on all the supported sites. Just click the Download link and the video gets downloaded for you.

Once you click the download link on the video you want to download it gives you different downloading options which would affect the video quality for download.

Check the list of supported websites for Keep Tube

Download Keep Tube add-on for Firefox

Change Firefox Persona's periodically

As we all know Persona's are free and easy to install Firefox skins. Persona's can be changed easily  to suit your mood unlike previous Firefox skins. Currently there are 30,000+ persona's available for download, so you have got wide variety too. Out of all this 30,000+ persona's you would definitely like a bunch of persona's.

Personas Rotator is a free add on for Firefox which changes the persona's periodically for you. Personas Rotator will automatically rotate the Personas skins you have. If you have an account created on GetPersonas.com and have set some favorites, the add-on will use your GetPersona's favorites to change the persona's for your Firefox. If you do not have an account for GetPersonas.com then it will randomly pick up a persona and set it as your Firefox skin.

You can customize Persona's Rotator to set the location from where the persona's should be rotated. You can set the option as a specific Category, your GetPersonas.com's favorites or All Categories.

This add-on is a companion for Personas. Therefore you need to first install the Personas  add-on and then Personas Rotator add-on.

Download Personas addon

Download Personas Rotator addon

TinEye - Reverse Image Search

There are times when you would want to know where on the internet a specific image is being used and in what manner. Lets say you have your own snap which you want to know which websites have it published and did any website modify it and use it. TinEye does the job for you in this case. TinEye is a first of its kind reverse image search available on internet. It searches the internet for any image using its advanced image recognition and visual search software. Even if the image is modified it finds it and displays it in the results.

You can specify the image to be searched by uploading an image or providing the URL to the image and TinEye would look over the internet and provide you the results.

If you see the search results in the snapshot above you will see that it found 2 results for the image provided. The 2nd result has the image cropped but still TinEye searched it and showed it.

To explain it better, check the results when Monalisa's image is searched using TinEye.

Amazing results, aren't they??

Firefox Extension

TinEye has come up with a Firefox extension to make image search easy. Installing the extension adds "Search Image using TinEye" to the right click context menu whenever an image is clicked.

Click here to download Firefox extension for TinEye

Find sites similar to the one you are viewing

Whenever we are looking for something we need on the internet we tend to Google for the topic we are looking for and Google does it well to provide us a list of sites. We choose one site and start browsing it. Getting a list of sites which provide the similar information or say competitor sites for the current site using search takes a long time.
SimilarSites.com as it says provides alternatives for any sites. Just type in the URL and hit Search and it looks on the web for all Similar Sites and gets you the list.

Similar Sites has come up with an experimental add-on for Firefox which makes searching similar sites simple.

Other than searching similar sites the toolbar has following capabilities:
1. Email Notification for Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail or any other POP3 mail.
2. Weather Forecast
3. Online Radio Player

Not a must have add-on but good to have for Firefox. Click here to Download the add-on for Firefox.

Mark articles to read them later in Firefox using Read It Later

While surfing internet we come over many articles which we find interesting but are not in a situation to read them at that moment. Obviously we cannot remember the URL's of all the articles we come across and hence the only option with us is bookmarking such articles. Read It Later for Firefox helps us with not bookmarking such articles and adding them to Firefox for temporary time till they are read.

Getting started with ReadItLater

Download and Install ReadItLater for Firefox

Read It Later needs you to create an account as you can sync your Read It Later articles between different computers or devices using Firefox and Read It Later. Registration is simple and takes 2 mins. You only need to provide a username and password. No filling up huge forms which are annoying. Use the same login details on each computer or mobile device to keep the articles in sync.




Adding articles to Read It Later
Just click the Read It Later icon in the Address Bar to add the article to your list.

View the articles added to Read It Later List
Click on the icon on the top right side of Firefox to view the list of articles added to Read It Later. You can see the Reading List, Currently Reading items, Reading Archive of all the items read till date using Read It Later and see the Items using their Tags.
Reading list can be sorted using Newest items, Oldest items, Title of the articles and sites to which the items belong.
If you reading list goes long and you are looking for a particular article you remember the title for, then you can easily search for the article using the search box provided.
You can mark the articles as read once you are done reading them to move those articles to read archive.


Google Reader Integration

Read It Later can be integrated with Google Reader making it easy for you to mark the Google Reader feeds to be added to your Read It Later list.

To enable Google Reader Integration go to Read It Later Option, click Applications and select "Show Read It Later button in Google Reader". That's it; you should be good to use Read It Later in Google Reader now.

Offline Reading

If you want to do some reading while away from an internet connection, on the plane or train, Read It Later  downloads your pages before disconnecting. Even when you lose your connection, you'll still be able to access all of your pages. To enable Read It Later to download web pages for Offline Reading go to Read It Later Options, click Offline and select "Automatically make all saved pages available offline".

Stay in Sync
The best part about Read It Later? Your list goes everywhere you do. You can access your list from multiple computers and even non-Firefox browsers. Read It Later even remembers your position in each article, so you can start reading on your computer, get up, grab your phone and pick up exactly where you left off.


Save All Tabs
If you are used to opening many tabs in Firefox right click your tab bar and click "Save All Tabs for Later" to add all the open tabs links to the Read It Later list.

3D effects to Firefox Tabs with FoxTab

FoxTab gives your Firefox Tabs a totally refreshing and 3D look. Remember what Aero's does when you switch between open windows in Windows 7 and Vista. FoxTab gives you Aero style tab management + gives you the ability to change how tabs should be displayed when you switch between them.

Get started with FoxTab
Download and install FoxTab for Firefox

Once you have FoxTab installed click on the FoxTab icon near Address Bar to change the way tabs switch and other options.

From the screen which opens you can change the look of tab switch, see the recently closed tabs and your top sites.

Select the way you want your tabs to be displayed from the bottom right corner. Change the 3D angles of the tabs using "Choose your 3D view". Change the background color by selecting the existing colors or choose a custom color from "Choose Your Theme". Switch between Top Sites, Recently Closed tabs and Opened tabs from Top Left corner.

Add sites to Your Top Sites

Launch your Top Sites window is the list of your preferred sites. You can easily add any site you visit to the list of top sites by right clicking anywhere on the window and selecting "Add to Top Sites". Adding sites to Top Sites gives you the ability to choose from all the added top sites and get into one easily.

FoxTab really changes the way you use Firefox to give it complete 3D look. Now its more fun using Firefox. Thanks to the FoxTab team http://www.foxtab.com/

No more waiting to download files from Rapidshare, MegaUpload, MediaFire

Sites like RapidShare,zShare, etc make you wait for around 60 secs to download a file in case you are not a registered user. It is really annoying to wait for downloading the files. SkipScreen helps you avoid this wait time in case you are using Firefox. SkipScreen is a free Firefox add-on that skips the clicking and waiting on sites like RapidShare, Megaupload, Mediafire, zShare, and more!

Checkout the video to know more



Download SkipScreen for Firefox

Free Coupons for 50000+ Stores - RetailMeNot

The RetailMeNot Community is a place for like-minded bargain hunters to share and discuss the latest and greatest online shopping deals. RetailMeNot is the perfect place to visit before buying anything online. Here you get discount coupons for variety of sites. To search for free coupons just enter the site's URL and click Search. Select the coupon from the list of coupons displayed and try it on the store.

If the coupon works for you do not forget to mark it as Yes because this generally helps all the users of RetailMeNot and even we are one of them.

Firefox Add-on
If you use Firefox then there is a cool add-on for Firefox which notifies you when new coupons are uploaded on RetailMeNot.

Download the Firefox add-on for RetailMeNot

Sync Firefox between computers using Weave

Mozilla launched its official synchronization tool Weave 1.0. Weave is a free browser add-on that can sync bookmarks, saved passwords, browsing history and open browser tabs between different computers that run Firefox. Weave also runs on Mozilla's mobile browser for the Nokia N900.

Obviously Weave is not the only solution for syncing bookmarks as Xmarks is the most popular service for the cause. Xmarks syncs bookmarks between different browsers whereas Weave only syncs Firefox bookmarks. Weave is capable of syncing bookmarks, saved passwords, browsing history as well as opened browser tabs.

That said if opened tabs can be shared imagine you working on a computer with some tabs open and you leave it for some reason and pick up your phone and find the same tabs on your Mobile Firefox. Now that's something amazing.

Syncing add-ons and preferences of your Firefox is one amazing feature too. You set it up on one machine, create another installation on another machine and you regain all your customizations and add-ons. Life made easy!!!

Getting Started

• Make sure you are running Firefox 3.5 and higher.
• Download and install Weave for Firefox.
• Open Weave Preferences from Tools --> Weave --> Preferences

To use Weave, you have to register for an account with Mozilla. The plugin will automatically prompt you to create this account after the installation. Advanced users who are worried about their privacy can also use their own servers as a repository for their data. It's worth noting that all of the data you transfer to Mozilla's servers is encrypted.

Firefox 3.6 Tabs Tips and Tricks

As Firefox 3.6 has been released it has come with some changes and improvements to tabs from its earlier version. Lets see some tips and tricks for Firefox 3.6 Tabs.

Open links in the far right tab
In Firefox 3.6 links opened from a web page open in a tab next to the current page to keep related content closer. Some users might not like this and would want to open new links in the extreme right tab. To achieve this do the following:

• Open a new Firefox tab and type about:config in the Address bar and hit Enter. You might be prompted for a security warning. Click I'll be careful, I Promise! button and proceed ahead.
• In the Filter search for browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent. Double click it and change its value to false.

Enable Tab Previews
If you like to see a thumbnail preview of tabs when you switch tabs using Alt + Tab, set browser.ctrlTab.previews to true using about:config.

Tabs Preview Menu Button

Convert the list all tabs button (far right in the tab bar), set browser.allTabs.previews to true via about:config.

Hide the Menu Bar in Firefox 3.6 Beta 5

Firefox 3.6 Beta 5 has a new feature using which you can hide the Menu Bar. This gives your browser more pixels to display the information on the webpage. You need to right click the navigation or menu bar and uncheck Menu Bar item to hide the Menu Bar in Firefox. You can press Alt key to access the Menu Bar whenever needed.

You can achieve the same in Firefox 3.5 using one of the following extensions:
Personal Menu
Compact Menu 2

Connect website using multiple logins in Firefox

If incase you have multiple logins for a single website and you need to access both within single instance Firefox browser then Multifox is an extension you are looking for. For example if you have 2 Gmail accounts then you need to log off from 1 of the accounts to access the other account within same Firefox instance. Multifox makes it possible to access all your Gmail accounts at once within the same instance without interfering the other account.

Multifox adds commands to Firefox's context menu to start a New Identity Window.

Each Multifox window is flagged with a number indicating the identity profile. Logins made in windows with different numbers are isolated.
If you need to access 5 Gmail accounts you will need 5 windows with different identity profiles.

Multifox also prevents the identity profile of each window when Firefox restores the sessions

Click here to download Multifox for Firefox