ScribeFire is a Firefox Addon that let’s you blog right from the Firefox Browser.

Once installed, a little piece of paper with a pencil icon appears in the Firefox status bar. Double-clicking that icon gets ScribeFire started.

If it is the very first time you are using ScribeFire, it will startup in the [...]

Firefox has the ability to be extended to perform numerous kinds of functions. These functions range from enhancements to the actual browsing experience to additional tools you can use to perform tasks. Some of these tools include code debugging tools for web developers to SEO tools for internet marketers.

In this post, I will [...]

Firefox has been my favorite browser for quite some time now. While I do use a few other browsers for specific purposes, Firefox remains my mainstay. The reason is fairly simple: Firefox is not just a browser, it is a tool. With the wide array of add-ons available, Firefox has become indispensable. The add-ons add [...]

How long does it take your web page to load?

LORI (Life of Request Info) can help you understand how long it takes your pages to load within a Firefox browser.

I do have to qualify the above sentence with “within a Firefox browser”, since each browser renders and handles the code differently. [...]

I am always trying to find the font, size and line spacing that makes for the most readable website text. I will come across websites who have a very readable text and will mess around trying to decipher their CSS code. Often it is just a waste of my time.

This problem is solved with [...]

One of the most irritating tasks is opening two separate browser windows to compare two web pages.

One either has to flip back and forth between windows which is inefficient at best. Or one can resize both windows so they are side by side on your desktop. This latter method becomes cumbersome if you have [...]

I’ve been recently frustrated by the lack of a good download manager for Firefox.  The download manager within Firefox is fine for single file downloads, though it has no resume or pause capability nor ability to capture multiple downloads at once. The download manager I currently use works only with IE and not Firefox (which [...]

One of the first tasks for search engine optimization is understanding the nature of the competition. The SEO for Firefox extension offered by SEObook offers an easy way to analyze competing websites. It is, in several ways, a more user friendly version of Golexa.

The cool thing about this extension is the way [...]

At first I was underwhelmed. What is all the buzz about the Web Developer Firefox Extension? I installed it, looked at it with a look of sheer “So What?” and did something else.

I returned to it several days later. I opened my site in the browser and clicked the “display div order” function. [...]

Pressing the PrtScn button on a keyboard captures the whole screen via Windows. It is easy and convienent. But capturing the whole screen is less than ideal especially in terms of clarity and resolutin. A lot of times it is handy to capture only a portion of the screen. There are several tools which do [...]

Ever try to figure out what size image will fit inside an empty box?

Or wonder how large photographs/clipart/icons were on stock image sites?

The MeasureIt Firefox extension will help with those tasks and any other task where it is required to measure the length and height of a page object.

Directions for [...]

Maintaining web standards can become a chore. However, a couple of Firefox extensions make life a little easier when trying to validate the HTML of a website.

First is HTML Validator. This extension is based on HTML Tidy. I have read some articles that suggest HTML Tidy does not always interpret the rules of [...]

Colorful tabs adds a little color to Firefox tabs. Once installed, and Firefox is restarted, each tab will have its own color. This helps in easy identification of each tab. It simply just helps the eye differentiate each tab. For some having the extra visual clue helps! The favicon (if a site has one) [...]

When adding extensions to Firefox, simply add one at a time, browse a while, test the extension, make sure it works before adding more extensions. I added a WHOLE bunch at once. Firefox then kept crashing after a minute of use. I had no idea what extension was causing the problem. By following the above [...]