Category: Internet

The recent versions of Firefox lack the good old options to disable Javascript and images as they existed in the previous versions of this great web browser. Now if you want to disable Javascript or images on a website, then you have to use one or another extension. The Quick Java extension for Firefox lets you easily enable or disable Java, Javascript, cookies, animations, Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, images, CSS stylesheets and proxy at the click of a button.

Google has started to use the WebP format images on many of its websites like Google Play. This is being done because WebP images are smaller in size and therefore are faster to load, resulting in fast acting websites. But now if you try to save an image on any of these Google sites, it is saved in the WebP format. As a workaround, you can add an option to save all the images in the popular PNG format using the Save Image As PNG extension.

hubiC is a new free online storage service powered by OVH, a France based web hosting company. They offer 25 GB of free online storage to everyone. You can access your account either through a web browser or through a platform specific client. They have clients for all the popular platforms including Windows, Android, iOS (iPhone and iPod), BlackBerry, Mac, Linux and Windows 8.

Firefox is a great web browser, but it eats your memory very fast. Even if I just keep Firefox idle with one or two sites open, its memory usage quadruples in only a few hours. This is why some people use tricks of restarting Firefox every 30 minutes or so, in order to reduce its memory consumption. But restarting Firefox periodically is not very practical. Instead, you can use the Memory Fox extension that strives to reduce the memory utilized by Firefox and Adobe Flash Player plugins.

If you have a webcam and are connected to the Internet, then there are dozens of websites using which you can easily take your own picture through your webcam without needing any special software. Cameroid is such a website that allows you to snap your pictures with webcam along with adding more than fifty effects like filter, scenes, distort and frames.

In a recent update Yahoo! has removed some restrictions on the use of Yahoo! Mail through email clients. So now you can access your Yahoo! Mail inbox through an email client like Outlook or Thunderbird. Mozilla Thunderbird is an open-source email client for Windows and Linux. Thunderbird allows easy configuration with many email services including Yahoo! Mail. This article describes how you can configure your Yahoo! Mail account in Thunderbird.

When you install a new add-on in Firefox, some of them want you to restart Firefox in order to finish the installation. But if you want to restart Firefox manually, then strangely enough, there is no restart option available in Firefox. Now you can add a restart option in Firefox browser using a new add-on called Restart. It adds many options in Firefox user interface which allow you to easily restart the Firefox browser.