Firefox browser is in the 3.X versions with new fixes and updates being quite regular now. Now with the latest version (3.5.1) vulnerabilities were fixed here is one working addon which allows you to change Firefox 3 interface into the older version of firefox.

Wine Stripe Realfox is the firefox skin addon that transform the look and feel of firefox browser. By installing this addon, your firefox will resemble the older Firefox 1.5 version skin. It removes all the unnecessary cluttering buttons, extra icons from the address bar.

• Download WineStripe Realfox

Before installing Wine Stripe addon on Firefox

After installing Wine Stripe addon on Firefox

Here is an firefox addon that will help you to convert your Firefox home page into Google chrome without using the workaround method which I posted few months ago. As you know, Google Chrome has been appreciated for faster browsing but due to the lack of Chrome plugins (which are still under development), firefox is still a preferred browser for me.

Jump Start is the addon allowing you to set speed dial along with recent bookmarks on the homepage area. You can customize the thumbnails preview of the website and see the most popular website you’ve visited right on your firefox homepage. Though some of you might not see the real advantage of this but it will be rather easy to visit recent pages and bookmarks quickly than typing then into the address bar.

You can also check out other ways to transform Firefox into Chrome!

Opening website url links together in all new tabs in any browser can be assisted with the help of tools and addons. Different browser work on different engine algorithm but rendering the same result i.e, they are used to browse the web effectively. And here are some simple ways to open multiple urls of any website instantly without manual work on your browser.

Open Multiple Url Online

Online sites such as Url opener allows you to input any number of website links and open them in your browser tabs. Compile the list and input them in the box, so no matter if you are using Chrome, Firefox or Opera – You can still open them from any of the browser decisively.

Save Urls as Bookmark

One of the many standard method I’ve been using for a while. Manually create a new folder, open each of the website and bookmark them one by one in the newly created folder location. Now head over to the bookmark, folder and you will find the option to open all websites in the tabs. You can also re-order the website and add few more quickly.

Open Multiple Url using addon

Txtlink is an firefox addon that let’s you highlight any part of the text and open in new tab. You can use this for opening large number of webpages. If you have a list of websites to be opened then head over textsnip, paste the links and use the addon to open all of them at a go. This is an useful addon as it allows you to copy, open url in tabs right from the context menu.

Memory Leak occurs in a computer system when a computer program that occupies the memory fails to release it when it is not needed. This is actually a flaw in the computer software or the computer program where the software fails to free up the memory not in use. This might sound confusing as memory is not physically lost from the computer system, it only means that certain memory space that is allotted to a program is lost due to some flaw in the software itself. Generally a memory leak can be found out only by a Programmer by going through the source code.

A memory leak is found to be serious and it may not be easily detectable. With the arrival of all the latest operating systems the memory used by a particular software is automatically released when the application is closed. This would indicate the memory leak occurs only for a short period and thus is not that much harmful to the system.

The performance of the computer system goes down drastically due to such memory leaks as it reduces the amount of memory available for the functioning of the programs. This will eventually slow down the system and in the worse case lead to a password leaking i.e, your password will be displayed publicly due to memory leakage in Internet browsers.

Memory leaks become more serious only in cases such as : when the program is left to run indefinitely and which would consume more and more memory and thus cause greater memory leakage. It may occur when frequently new memory is allocated to programs leak computer games and animated videos for the sake of rendering the frames. It occurs when a program requests for memory and if it is not released even though the program gets terminated. It occurs when there is a leak within the browser such as Firefox. It occurs when there is a leak within a system critical driver and when you run some specific operating systems like the Amiga OS where the memory used by the OS is not automatically released even after the program terminated and requires a reboot to get back the lost memory.

Fix Memory Leak in Firefox browser

Certain users find that Firefox consume a huge amount of memory and thus find it a great problem while others do not. There are no. of ways available to reduce the memory consumption of Firefox browser and to secure memory leakage. Plugins usually cause Firefox to use more memory and it may not release the memory until Firefox is closed. It is advisable that you make use of the latest version of the Firefox every time and update it frequently. To save more memory you should make sure to uninstall all unnecessary addons and extension, do check out how I fixed firefox crashes by removing buggy addons and themes. In case you find that the memory usage begins to grow making use of Firefox it is advisable to restart your Firefox.

Memory leaks may cause Firefox not to release memory which is no longer in use. This usually occurs with the older version of Firefox. A lot of effort has been put in to reduce the memory leaks with Firefox with the latest versions.So make sure you have to upto date version installed on your system.

Facebook as you know is one of the fastest growing social networking website along with Myspace and Orkut.If you are a Facebook fan and want to save photos from your friend’s album or your own album images then try out Facepad addon built exactly to serve photo downloads from Facebook profile.Though you can save photos manually using “Save image as” from the browser but for albums with lots of images and photos stored this will be one of the recommended solutions.

The previous version of Facebook Album downloader doesn’t support the latest Firefox browser and therefore FacePad was developed which renders all the facebook photos from profile and groups the album photos together so that you can download the entire album easily.

To use this addon you have to make use of the Firefox browser and download FacePad from here.Restart firefox, visit any of the facebook album page, select the album to download and the download process will begin immediately which will save all the photos onto your hard disk.A simple and useful addon to save your own personal and precious photos from facebook!

A lot of times Virus including Spywares are migrated onto your computer from the Internet via website scripts or corrupted files containing trojan.The problem is you will never come to know which website injected spyware in your system everytime but thanks to Mozilla firefox addon called Ghostery it is now easy to find out the objects behind a particular Internet webpage of a website.

Download Ghostery addon

As you can notice from the above picture you will get a list of scripts installed in the particular webpages, suppose you have installed Ghostery addon and revisit this page then you will come to know we have some analytics scripts installed.Some of the suspicious looking scripts, internet spywares, popups will be displayed making it easier to analyze the webpage! Moreover if the website is harmful then Firefox will block the website depending on the configured security settings! 

For most of you checking email frequently when you are browsing the Internet is an additive habit, so to save your time notifiers are used.Here are some useful Google Gmail notifier which will notify you whenever you receive a new message into your inbox.

Gmail Notifier Addon for Mozilla Firefox

People using Mozilla firefox can download Gmail manager addon from here that will install a basic Gmail icon with latest unread email counts in the bottom of your status bar of Firefox window.Along with this you can switch in between multiple gmail accounts and customize the preference! A nifty addon for managing your Gmail account.

Related : Opera Gmail Notifier

Gmail Notifier on Windows Taskbar

Here is a Gmail taskbar notifier, a work around if you are using browser like Safari, Google chrome and still want to get notified about Gmail emails – This utility called Gdow is a basic configurable taskbar notifier that will check for new emails frequently.Your new messages will appear in the form of small snippet whose background color, text can be customized according to your needs! Download G dow from here (English version).

So if you are using browsers like Google chrome then this app will benefit as it resides in your taskbar and notifies about the latest Gmail emails!

Gmail manager is a small Firefox addon which lets you manage your Google mail account and login to multiple gmail address to check mails quite effectively.

Related : Multi Gmail Widget for Opera users

As Gmail manager allows multiple email check option,you can also view mail snippets which flashes as a small window showing 30+ odd unread messages without the need of opening Gmail website.You can also switch between your different Gmail accounts with a single click.

The installation of the addon is pretty simple,download Gmail manager and restart the firefox browser.The addon will pop up a window where you can add your Gmail username and passords,alternately you can import/export Gmail login details.A small icon appears in the status bar reflecting number of spam mails and unread messages in your inbox!

Download Gmail Manager addon

After installation of Firefox theme addon which resembles Mac OS skin the Mozilla browser crashed whenever I restarted it.Firefox used to crash due to that incompatible addon,so I made a fresh installation of firefox 3.0.3 as I was pondering over the compatibility issue of the theme addon with Firefox.But it didn’t work for me and as usual firefox was crashed whenever I tried to reopen it.

However I found a simple solution to uninstall those buggy addons and themes by opening your firefox in safe mode and uninstalling the buggy addons-extension.To open your firefox browser in safe mode,just go to run from windows start menu and input this firefox -safe-mode to get the firefox safe mode running.

You will get a small window box asking about disabling addons and other features in the safe mode.Continue with the existing options.After Firefox is running,you will not be able to use installed addons in the safe mode.But as we are using the safe mode to uninstall those addons/extensions,head over to tools –> Add-ons and then find out the buggy extension or themes.Click on that theme/addon and uninstall it!

Now you have uninstalled the addon which was causing firefox crashes! Open Firefox in normal mode and it should work fine

I have been using Orkut toolbar for a while and thought to let you know about the useful feature to all the orkut users.Orkut toolbar is a free firefox addon which allows you to scrap stylish colorful font text.Apart from scraping different font stlyes,orkut toolbar lets you scrap smilies and acts as a simple scrap editor.To install orkut toolbar addon (download),you must use mozilla firefox browser.After installing the addon,restart firefox to find the toolbar residing in the top menu.

Use and Send Orkut Smilies

By default Orkut has some of the smilies uploaded on there server but if you want to use smilies conveniently without the use of orkut smiley codes or html knowledge then orkut toolbar will be a good choice as it allows you to send and update the scraps with new smiley much more efficiently.You can also make use of Powerscrap for powerful orkut scraping!

Stylish font style text

Click on Font color button while you are scraping the text message to change the color of the font quite easily.You can also bold,italicize or underline the scraps.Alternately you can use online blog editor for styling out the font face and size and then placing the html code on scrap box.

Send Hyperlinks and Images/Flash movies

Many people find it hard to embed any image or movie along with hyperlinks content from the scrapbook.Specify the image or flash video movie url and orkut toolbar does the rest!

Insert signature along with Scraps

If there are custom email signatures for Gmail then Orkut toolbar also has there custom scrap signature feature which lets you scrap messages along with your custom signature so that your friends can find out a special message at the bottom of the scrap.

Apart from all this useful feature the toolbar does a community,user and orkut search for any information from the tool bar which resides on the top of your Firefox browser.If you are a orkutting a lot and haven’t downloaded this free orkut toolbar then what are you waiting for

Download Orkut toolbar (works with Firefox 2 & 3)