While we wait for the option to save a web page as a PDF, due by Firefox 3 final release, there is another option for sharing and archiving web pages. Save As Image, is a simple yet useful Firefox extension developed by Rowan Lewis that adds an option to Save Page as Image to the

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Mozilla’s Doug Turner announced that support for accelerometers has landed to Firefox’s main development repository, the trunk. For those unfamiliar, an acceloremeter is a cool little device that comes in several consumer devices including the MacBook Pro, iPhones, and other cell phones that tell the operating system the current device orientation and movement enabling some

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The door is open again and registration available for Weave, Mozilla Labs’ application for synchronizing Firefox metadata online. To register, visit Weave User Registration site. You only need to provide a valid email address, a password, proof you’re human (thorugh a CAPTCHA test) and click the activation link you will receive by email. On activation

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A common complaint about the current Firefox 4 theme is the wasted space in the title bar, between the Firefox menu and the window control buttons (maximize, minimize, close). Mozilla is planning to fix this in the next betas, and as usual, it is already providing experimental builds that show the tabs at the very

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The initial plan for Firefox 3.6 (code named Namoroka) originally aimed for including pieces of Personas, Ubiquity (a command line in the location bar), Jetpack (light extensions), and Prism (ability to make web applications more desktop friendly), but when a few weeks ago, Firefox development team decided for a quick update (later this year) rather

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Synovel Techologies has released Spicebird 0.4, the first public release of its open source Mozilla-based personal information manager that integrates Thunderbird, Lightning and XMPP to deliver email, calendaring, instant messaging and other communication tools on a single product. As expected from the demo revealed a few weeks ago, it adds a few integration features on

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In Firefox, one thing you can’t customize is the main menu. And you may find it’s a waste of space to have a whole bar for just a couple of frequent tasks like bookmarking, history or tweaking a preference here and there. Personal Menu is a Firefox extension developed by Merci Chao that comes to

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Mozilla is taking no break this year end, and the Firefox team is actively working on the roadmap for 2010. According to recent entries in the Mozilla Wiki, the planned features for next year are: Out of process plugins (OOPP), or the ability to run browser plugins (like Flash, Silverlight, Gears) on their own process

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The latest Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 nightlies now feature a new about:support page that lists important information about your Firefox installation that will help support people help with problems you may have in the future. Implemented as one of the private about: pages. Enter about:support in the location bar, hit Enter, and you will get

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Mozilla’s Stephen Horlander has posted several mockups of an updated Firefox theme on Windows Vista and XP (Strata). Before getting to excited about it, note that these are mere mockups for “brainstoming and exploration only”. Second, the page title suggests it won’t be available until spring next year, the targeted Firefox 3.7 release date. In

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Mozilla CEO, Mitchell Baker has announced the Mozilla Foundation is looking for options on how to give Thunderbird as a project, the autonomy and focus it needs to develop to its full potential. “The Thunderbird effort is dwarfed by the enormous energy and community focused on the web, Firefox and the ecosystem around it. As

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Mozilla Labs has introduced Jetpack, a new Firefox extension that adds a new programming interface (API) developers can use to create innovative and relatively light enhancements (called features). As example, Mozilla Labs presented a feature that can hide ads, based on adblockplus.org’s list of well known ad banners providers, similar to the popular AdBlock Plus.

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The latest Firefox 3.5 nightlies now include Mibbit as a bundled IRC protocol web client so now, when clicking on an irc:// (or its encrypted variation, ircs://) link, it will be redirected to Mibbit so you can connect to the desired server using a web interface. Protocol web handlers support was introduced in Firefox 3

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For those inclined to black or dark desktops, here are six nice Firefox themes you want to give a try. Pictured here on Windows XP with the Royal Noir theme for darker effect. All available from Mozilla Add-ons, but for those marked experimental you will need an account. avant.garde.10011:nerom created by Rob Holian. (experimental) Black

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Firefox 3 introduces full page zoom, that is, instead of just making text bigger or smaller, it resizes the full page including images and layout.1. If you just want to zoom text, in the View menu, select Zoom and mark Zoom Text Only. 2. Firefox 3 remembers what zoom level you used for viewing pages

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Pieces keep fitting in for the Firefox 4 theme refresh. Recent development nightlies now feature the planned stop-reload-go button next to the location bar. When the page is loaded, it becomes a reload button.   A stop button while loading. And , if you edit the web address, you get the go button. While it

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Users of 64-bit operating systems who wanted to run a native 64-bit version of Firefox were restricted to those provided by their Linux distribution, or, the Mozilla x86-64 web site, for Windows. However, it seems Mozilla is getting ready to finally provide 64-bit versions as part of its core set of Firefox releases. Mozilla’s John

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Firefox 3.6.4 has finally arrived, and as expected it brings added stability by making Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins run on their own process, so if something goes wrong with them, your whole session will still survive and you will be given an option to reload the plugin. z While Silverlight, Flash,

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With Windows 7 scheduled for general availability in about a week, Mozilla is getting ready to support some of its best known features as they progressively come to Firefox 3.6 nightly development releases. First, tabs can now be previewed from the task bar directly just hovering over the Firefox icon (Namoroka’s in the screenshot). Previews

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One of the new features introduced by Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 (and still present in Beta 2) is WebSlices, a cool feature that lets you subscribe not to a page but to a summarized version of it including images and styling, provided the web developer has defined a way to access it. Not too

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