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Cocoon - Easy, Free, Secure, and Private Firefox Browsing
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 2:08 PM

Cocoon is a Firefox plugin that uses a SSL-encrypted tunnel and tools already built into Firefox to create a secure and private browsing experience. You know how everyone makes such a big deal about the "S" on the end of HTTPS? That "S" stands for secure which is a in fact a server side SSL encryption, cocoon gives you that same protection... Read More...

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Filed under: Mac, FireFox

Firefox Home Now Available for Free Download in the App Store
Friday, July 16, 2010 4:21 PM

Firefox Home is an iPhone application that gives you access to all your firefox data right on your iphone. I have written about Firefox Home before it had been approved, but now it has been approved and is available in the iTunes store for free. How to Use Firefox Home 1.Download the Firefox Sync plugin here 2.Follow the instruction to create a firefox sync account... Read More...

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Filed under: iPhone, FireFox, sync, home, bookmarks

Firefox Home – Coming to the App Store
Friday, July 02, 2010 10:46 AM

Mozilla has just submitted it's Firefox Home app to the app store. Firefox Home is a free application that allows you to access your browser history, bookmarks, and open tabs from your iPhone. Firefox Home securely syncs to the cloud so everything on your desktop browser is accessible on your iPhone. Firefox Home is not a browser it's simply a way of... Read More...

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Filed under: iPhone, app, FireFox, home, coming, soon

Change Firefox Spellcheck Notation
Tuesday, June 08, 2010 1:55 PM

Firefox has a great spellchecker built in, but it only puts a little squiggly line that notates a misspelled word. If that's what you like you can leave it that way, but if you are like me and want something a little more significant and noticeable than you can change it pretty easily. I got these instructions from Download Squad so thanks to them for posting... Read More...

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Filed under: FireFox, spellcheck

Xmarks - Bookmark Syncing Now for all Popular Browsers
Friday, February 19, 2010 12:35 PM

Bookmarks are a great way to keep track of website you want to visit more often. They are quick and convenient to have. The only problem is if you have more than one computer or more than one browser you like to use your bookmarks don't sync with your other computers or browsers. Enter in Xmarks previously called Foxmarks. Xmarks allows you to sync bookmarks... Read More...

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Filed under: FireFox, sync, chrome, internet explorer, safari, bookmark

BarTap Firefox plugin that controls website tab overload
Thursday, February 11, 2010 6:25 PM

I don't know about you but when Firefox restores a session when I had several tabs open at the same time Firefox takes a long time to get going. Sometimes Firefox will even crash when it's trying to open all these tabs. What BarTap does for you is allow you to stop tabs opened in the background from loading until you access the tab itself. That way you... Read More...

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Filed under: plugin, FireFox, bartap

FireFox 3.6 is out – It's Faster and now has skins you can add to your browser
Friday, January 22, 2010 11:32 AM

Firefox is 3.6 is out and according to Mozilla is 25% faster than the last version. They added a bunch of new and exciting features like that of “personas” which allows you to apply a skin to your browser with a single click. It doesn't change the theme of your browser just the background images under the theme. It seems to me like the persona feature for... Read More...

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Filed under: FireFox, update, download personas, 3.6

Mozilla Firefox 3.5 – Firefox download what are the new features
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 1:09 PM

The new Firefox version came out today with some really cool options and features. The first thing they have improved is the speed. Firefox is not more than twice as fast as Firefox 3.0 and three times as fast as 2.0. I have downloaded the new version and I have to admit it does seem a lot faster. Another feature Mozilla has added is the something they call open... Read More...

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Filed under: FireFox, new features, update, 3.5, mozilla

Netflix Instant Watch Finally on Mac and Firefox
Thursday, December 04, 2008 5:18 PM

Netflix has finally changed the plug-in for their instant watch feature to Microsoft’s SilverLight program which is kind of like flash but is designed to deliver streaming video much better that whatever they were using before. Now that Netflix is using SilverLight you can download the plug-in on your Mac and even play the videos in Firefox. Before this upgrade... Read More...

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Filed under: Mac, new, netflix, instant, watch, FireFox

How to Create Multiple User profiles in FireFox on Mac OSX
Tuesday, December 02, 2008 3:51 PM

I was wondering the other day if it's possible to create multiple users for Firefox within the same user account on a Mac. Of course after a little research I found someone who had a tutorial but I thought instead of just linking to him I would try and show you maybe a little bit better than him. Okay here we go. Step #1 Create New Profile In order to create... Read More...

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Filed under: OSX, Mac, Create, How, to, FireFox, Users, Mutiple