Brown Thoughts

I’ve always liked using Mozilla Thunderbird so I could have my email separate from my browsing. Being the spoiled (read lazy) Mozilla user that I am, I’ve always wished that I didn’t have to open links contained in emails in my browser and just open them in Thunderbird instead.
If you’ve been wishing for the same […]

For anyone who regularly spends time on the web, bookmarking your favorite sites is part of your surfing routine. The problem starts when your collection of bookmarked sites becomes too big which makes looking for a specific site a bit tedious.
Having your saved sites in specific categories help but wouldn’t it be better if you […]

If you’ve got sites that you visit regularly on different days, you’re going to love this extension. Morning Coffee is a Firefox extension that organizes your favorite sites by day (Monday, Tuesday, etc.) and lets you load the sites you’ve saved to different days.

If some of your favorite sites update on M/W/F, you can save […]

Here’s another interesting Firefox extension that enhances your tabs. Tab Kit lets you choose whether you want your tabs displayed in multiple rows, or have it shown as a vertical tab tree on the left or right side of your browser. Though it’s still in the Mozilla Addons Sandbox, you can still download it.
Tabs can […]

Sporting a new welcome page for testers, Firefox 3 Beta 4 is now available for download. The 4th beta boasts better integration with Vista, OS X, and Linux. Improvements to the Javascript engine and memory usage are also being mentioned on the announcement page.
Firefox developer, Mike Beltzner, had this to say in the developer site:
This […]

Translating text on a page you’re viewing is simple nowadays. You just use any of the various online services for translation. What if I told you there was an even easier way of going about it?
gTranslate is an extension for Firefox that lets you translate any text found on a page by selecting the text […]

If you’re a Firefox user, you probably love installing and testing the numerous add-ons available. One downside to having a lot of extensions is that your status bar tends to get really crowded.
Just to make things clear, your status bar is that bar at the bottom of your browser. Take my status bar for instance. […]

Sporting a new start page with a retro robot, Firefox 3 Beta 2 has been released. The first thing I noticed after installing was that only 3 of my extensions worked (StumbleUpon Toolbar, Fission, ReminderFox). It seems I’m destined to wait for the final version.
The next thing anyone will notice is that when you start […]