Yesterday I presented a cool extension that allowed you to immediately check your Gmail inbox on your Firefox status bar, but now you might be wondering: “what about Google Reader?”
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Google Reader Notifier is a Firefox extension that easily enables you monitor all your unread feeds directly on your Firefox status bar.
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How many of us daily use Google mail service, Gmail, and wish to add as many options to it as possible? We have seen a great extension already to add an HTML signature to our Gmail messages…But how cool it would be to be able to see if you have new messages, directly into Firefox’s interface?
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Gmail Notifier is a fantastic extension that enables you to see if you have new messages without even opening Gmail, but just by looking at your screen’s right bottom.
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Google’s web browser, one and maybe the only alternative to Firefox, Chrome, has been out for a while now and many have been the reactions to this: people will bet it’ll be the best browser ever developed, others believe it will never overcome Firefox…
Personally I don’t know what will happen as newer versions are released, or how this “battle”, if it how we can define it, will end.
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What I do know, is that Chrome is spreading rapidly and the number people who are falling in love with it is increasing everyday. That’s why I decided to look for a news site that will give you as much information as possible regarding Google’s Firefox counterpart.
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One of the most common queries nowadays is “how to speed up your browser”. In fact, one of the top articles of Universe Firefox is called How To Speed Up Firefox 3, which covers only a few tips I’ve found around the web, and that I will maybe collect in one guide.
But for now let’s go back to present, and let me tell you what I have found today.
Tweak Network is a fabulous Firefox extension that allows you to tweak your network settings with a GUI interface. You can set all the parameters as you wish, with two preset buttons that you can use to switch between Default and Power mode.
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Obsessed with downloads and speed? Are you one of those who downloads a lot and wants to know how the files are coming down, how fast, and how much time is left, at a glance?
Today I want to present you a very simple but very efficient extension, that lets you monitor your download activities on the right bottom of your screen.
Download Status is its name, and it does nothing more than adding a small panel to your browser bar, in which you can see how many Kb/s you are downloading, as well as the number of files, downloaded size and estimated time left.
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Who wouldn’t be happy to be able to boost up download speeds? How many times you really wanted to force that file to go faster and faster, but couldn’t do anything to do it?
We have seen together the best download manager for Firefox, called DownThemAll!, and it really did its job, also allowing you to download all the files present on a page with one click.
Today I want to show you another fantastic extension, still in Alpha phase, which will be a great opponent to DownThemAll!, and maybe even better.
FireDownload is part of an upcoming family of downloading tools for Firefox, which promises to boost up your downloads up to 10x, completely integrating itself into the browser’s interface and menus.
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Ever found yourself looking at a webpage, waiting for something to change? How frustrating is it to frenetically press the reload button over and over until something changes?
Check4Change is a Firefox extension that lets you monitor any text until it updates, periodically, avoiding the need of reloading everytime. It is really simple to use: after you select a text, just right-click it and select the time between each refresh, be it 15 seconds, or one hour.
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Everybody knows what Google is, and I can bet every Firefox’s user has used it once. If you are an obsessive Google‘s user and want to add new features to it, today is your luck day.
GooglePreview is a Firefox extension that inserts preview images into your Google or Yahoo search results, as well as sites’ popularity rank bar.
When you install GooglePreview, a new icon marked with “GP” on the right bottom of your browser will appear, and it’ll let you enable the add-on on the fly with one click.
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