I am very particular about the privacy, especially when you are in at workplace. You are surfing some sites and you don’t want people to know what actually you are browsing? What do you do?

To avoid embarrassing situation, I either use Maxthon Browser to Hide the browser totally or use Rename Firefox Tabs – Firefox Extension. This way i am safe.

Few days back, I got to know about one more Firefox Extension – Hide Tab. As the name suggests, this Firefox Addon will allow you to Hide and Unhide any Firefox Tab of your choice.

Diego A. Ruiz is the developer of Hide Tab Firefox Extension.

Hide Tab Firefox Extension Features

• Different ways to hide/unhide tabs
• Discrete paranoia button to quick hide all tabs in your Firefox web browser
• Firefox 3.5 compatible
• English & Spanish languages
• Option to choose what page opens when paranoia button is clicked
• Keyboard shortcuts

How to Hide Firefox Tabs using Hide Tab Firefox Addon

Once Hide Tab Firefox Extension is installed, restart the browser. Hide Tab Download link is provided below.

You should see a small tab image on the bottom right – Marked in Red circle in the below image.

Image courtesy – HideTab.com

Clicking on that small tab will show you, all the current tabs opened in Firefox browser. In the below screenshot, on clicking on Google will hide the Google Firefox Tab.

Image courtesy – HideTab.com

Once the tab is hidden, the tab image on the bottom right status bar becomes red color. You can click on it again and Unhide the hidden Firefox tab or hide more Tabs.

You can also use CTRL + Q shortcut key combination to Hide Current Firefox Tab. There is also option to Hide/Unhide All Tabs at one go.

Download Hide Tab Firefox Extension

Download Hide Tab Firefox Extension

Do check out Hide Tab Installation Guide and Hide Tab User Manual

Hope you like this Firefox Addon.

We all bloggers know that Comments are the lifeline for the Blog. Comments give readers a way to talk to blog owner and exchange ideas, suggestions or debate about a topic.

Most of the bloggers are active commentators in other blogs for mainly two reasons:

1. To keep updated about the latest happenings in any niche (it can be technology, science, sports, etc.,)
2. Commenting can also serve as a Marketing tool for their own Blog.

As you comment more and more on other blogs, your blog gets noticed by a lots of readers and the blog owners and you end up getting more hits on your blog. Its a win-win position.

Enough of lecture… Now will talk about the about this post.

Most of us are tired of typing in the same comment fields in lots of blogs (Name, Email-id and website address). What if we have something which will detect the blog and auto-fill the comments form? It will save 5-15 seconds of your precious time.

I found out that there is a Firefox Add-on called Easy Comment.

Easy Comment Firefox add-on will help you filling out the comments form by entering name, email and web homepage address. It supports blogging platforms like Wordpress, Movable Type and Dotclear. This plugin is must for all the users who leave lots of comments daily. I am one of them

How to autofill comments form on wordpress or other blogs:

1. Download and install Easy Comment Firefox Add-on
2. Click on the Easy Comment text in the status bar. For the first time, it will ask you to prefill Name, Email and Home webpage address. From next time onwards, just click on Easy Comment found in the Status bar and it will fill the comment form for you!

Easy Comment may not work properly on some blogs where the default parameters in the comments form are changed.

I hope you are impressed with this Firefox Add-on. If you are, then go ahead and install Easy Comment extension for Firefox and start leaving lots of comments on the blogs. Start this in my blog

Download Easy Comment Firefox Add-on or Extension

Download Download Easy Comment Firefox Add-on

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I think more than 50% of the world wide Firefox users might have updated to Firefox 3.5.

Immediately, after upgrading to Firefox 3.5, most of us might have see some of the Addons that we were using might not be compatible with Firefox 3.5.

What if you got accustomed to some addons which you want to use at any cost with Firefox 3.5? This is trick will help you to Make Firefox Addons compatible with Firefox 3.5 or higher. Once you apply this you don’t have to worry much about Mozilla’s updating of Firefox to the latest version fixing all the memory leaks, vulnerabilities and other security loopholes.

How to make Addons compatible to Firefox 3.5 or higher?

The solution is to add some configurations in Firefox settings (which is similar to Windows Registry). All the changes you make from here on are done at your own risk. Do revert the settings if something goes wrong.

1. Type about:config address bar of Firefox browser and hit enter. It will give you a warning. Just click the button “I’ll be careful, I promise!” and proceed…
   
2. It will show a huge list of values. Now, right click any where in the free white-space on the screen and click on New –> Boolean, then name the Boolean as checkCompatibility – make it false in the next step.
3. again right click and click on New -> Boolean and name as checkUpdateSecurity and choose false.
4. After doing this changes to get the changes applied, Restart the Firefox browser. Now install the addon that was not supported or compatible by Firefox 3.5 and install it.
5. Restart the Firefox browser once again. Now, the not compatible addon will work with Firefox 3.4

Hope you liked this trick.

Thanks to Blogote

In this today’s World of Web. There are lots of Social Networking Sites to get in touch with the friends.

What if you find your dear friend on one of the Social Networking sites and if you want to find what other Social networking sites he/she is using?

Identify is a Firefox extension that can quickly analyze a contact’s user name and can find out the on which other social services he/she is using.

Find Friends Online – Identity Firefox Extension

For instance, if I were to use it on XYZ’s Twitter profile it would be able to tell me what other services he’s using, like FriendFeed, Facebook, Last.fm, and more. The same thing would happen if I checked from his profile on one of those other sites, too.

This extension uses two tools to get the job done: Yahoo Query Language and Google’s Social Graph API. Creator Madgex has use the two tools together to quickly figure out where the profiles are and provide links directly to them.

Identity Firefox Extension in author’s words

Identify is a Firefox extension that combines identities across various social network/media sites and provides you with a profile about an individual. Simply navigate to the profile page or a blog of an individual you are interested in and on Windows press Alt i or on the Mac press Ctrl i.

How to use Identity Firefox Extension

After you install the extension, Just use a keyboard shortcut, Alt+i on PCs and Ctrl+i on Macs.

There are other services which do the similar job as well. It takes full user name and try to check on all other Social Networking sites. KnowEm and Namechk are the services which can find the what all social networking sites a username is registered to.

I found lots of friends using this tool. Why don’t you start using it!

Download Identity Firefox Extension

If you know any other tool, Do share it.

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I use search tool very much. It can be any application. I also use search to quickly navigate to a particular place in a website. If a website has lot of text and links and i am sure what i am looking for. I press “CTRL + F”.

I think most of the tech savvy guys use firefox search feature. One thing that i don’t like about it, it can only remember one word or phrase at a time. What if you visit some sites and daily look for some search terms? It is difficult to always type in the words?

Before FindList Firefox Extension

Well, the good news is i have found a Firefox Extension called FindList!

This add-on saves the search history and gives a drop down history list when searching a word or phrase that was already searched.

With it installed you can have up to 15 of your latest searches saved for later use and quick selection. Every time you do an on-page search it simply saves that word or phrase in its history even after you start searching for something else. Neat.

After FindList Firefox Extension

Download FindList Firefox Extension

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Most of us bookmark websites so that we can jump on to the website quickly. But, what if you have organized your bookmarks that have 10-20 categories each having 10-20 websites in it.

The time taken to browse through the bookmarks menu and select a particular website is more than typing the website address.

SiteLauncheris a Firefox add-on which can turn your bookmarks into shortcuts. Site Launcher lets you replace your bookmarks toolbar with a window of links that can be opened using a simple keyboard shortcut. It gives you a super-quick way to open your favorite websites that you use often throughout the day by using only your keyboard. One special hotkey brings up the Launcher (shown below), followed by a unique key to launch a site. You pick which sites you want on the list, and a one-letter keyboard shortcut is given to each.

For example, i have added these sites – Google, Gmail, NiharsWorld, and IBNLive.com to SiteLauncher – what sites to include is entirely up to you. CTRL + SPACE will popup the transparent window with links. Then you just need to type shortcut key to launch the website. Check my list below.

My favorite sites to launch them quickly!

Compared to the alternatives (standard bookmarks, the address bar, etc) the Launcher is the fastest, and most convenient way to navigate to your frequently needed sites (at least, that’s what we think). SiteLauncher also minimizes clutter, because the Launcher only appears when you press the hotkey.

When you install the extension. It comes with a some of popular sites built in. You can delete or add your favorite ones on your own. You also have several color and menu style options including setting the maximum number of columns you want, and how transparent the window is.

Check out a quick demo video of how it works:

Download SiteLauncher (a Firefox Add-on)

Via CNet.com

What do you think about this review? I appreciate your input. Do you know any other extension or tool that can be better than this? Share your thoughts

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In my previous post, i mentioned How to Hide browser at workplace. But there are other ways to also have your privacy while browsing.

How many times it happens this… You are browsing and somebody walks in and is standing right behind you and you don’t wanna show what you are browsing.

Most of us just keep a watch on others moving around us and do surfing.

Well if you are using firefox, then you rename the open tab. For this you need to install RenameTabs Firefox extension

Here is what Valadrem the developer of this Firefox extension has to say.

Have you noticed that everybody looks the titles of your open tabs? It has a name: Paranoia! And a solution too: TabRenamizer!

If you want to Rename Firefox tabs, all you need is to install TabRenamizer
Plugin

If anyone knows any other plugins, leave a comment.

NOTE: As mentioned at the beginning of this post the link to my previous post Hide browser at workplace. But this is using Maxthon browser.
If anybody knows how to hide firefox browser. Leave a comment.