Personas - Customize your Firefox theme (Your Style)

This must be the coolest Firefox addon I ever seen, done as Mozilla Lab project Personas is a Firefox addon that makes your Firefox theme changing a snap.
You can also create your own theme really quickly using personas services.

Firefox personas - Control your theme

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Cool tool for lazy Twitter Users - Firefox TwitterBar

If you are like me who is too lazy to go into twitter and post, TwitterBar is the ideal Firefox addon for you. You can type your message in the Firefox address bar and post to twitter. There is a small counter which shows you the number of characters so you will not exceed 140 characters.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4664

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Mozilla Labs Jetpack - Firefox addons simplified

Mozilla Jetpack is new API that brings add-on development to anyone who have a understanding of JavaScript and html.

Mozilla Labs Jetpack - Intro & Tutorial from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

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Auto Copy to Clipboard - Firefox Addon AutoCopy

Now you can easily copy text from your Firefox browser to the clipboard.
This is a really good add-on that makes your life much easier by copying everything you select in the Firefox. Very helpful for developer who always check for code online or any web researcher who needs to copy and paste lot of text from the net.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/383

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Sri Lanka Browser Statistics - FireFox Gaining Ground

According to StatCounter Global Stats Firefox is gaining ground been the top browser In Sri Lanka. It's matter of time Firefox totally take over from IE.

Source: StatCounter Global Stats - Browser Market Share

In Asia - Not so good for Firefox

Source: StatCounter Global Stats - Browser Market Share

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Firefox has a better built in Spell checker than Google Chrome

My default web browser is Firefox. I also use Google Chrome sometimes, mainly to visit Google sites. By checking out both browsers I found out that Firefox has the best spell checker when compared both.

Lets take a example: expernce (experience)

Firefox


Google Chrome



Lets take another example: javascript (JavaScript)

Firefox


Google Chrome


If you have words that prove Firefox is worse please share it with me.

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How to hide page title in a tab - Page Title Eraser for Firefox

I know you always needed more privacy in your working environment.
You were always afraid some one will peek a look at your monitor.
Even though you were able to hide the page you could not hide the page title, hehe
Worry no more, Page Title Eraser is the solution for you.

Page Title Eraser is a add-on that can be added to Firefox for free.

Page Title Eraser - Add

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Make Firefox Faster

This post will guide you how to make Firefox faster.

First open a new tab in Firefox.
Type about:config in address bar.
Scroll down until you find,

network.http.pipelining - Double Click to set this to True
network.http.proxy.pipelining - Double Click to set this to True
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests - Double Click and change the value for something like 30.

Finally Right click on a white area and select New -> Integer and give the name nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set the value to 0

Now your Firefox will load pages faster.

Happy Hunting!!!

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