CheckPlaces v2.1 adds Database Vacuuming [Firefox]

By Martin Kaba • Mar 18th, 2010 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

CheckPlaces Firefox extension was originally built to clean-up your Firefox bookmarks by detecting and deleting duplicate bookmarks, empty folders and dead or failed (invalid) web pages. CheckPlaces version 2.1 now has the option to compact and optimize your Firefox databases, vacuuming is now part and parcel of this must-have Firefox extension.

Firefox 3.5.3 security updates now available for download

By Martin Kaba • Sep 10th, 2009 • Filed under: Firefox, Security, Ubuntu, Windows

The imminent update to Firefox 3.5.3 announced yesterday on this blog is now available for download. Firefox 3.5.3 is just part of Mozilla’s ongoing stability and security update process. Also available for download is Firefox 3.0.14. Both have download packets for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Automatically Optimize Firefox Databases with Improved Vacuum Places add-on

By Martin Kaba • Aug 29th, 2009 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source

Linux/Mac/windows: In Optimize Firefox Databases With a Single Line of Code you were asked to copy and paste a line of code in the Error Console command to vacuum your fragmented SQLite databases.
Now you can get this done automatically with the Improved Vacuum Places add-on. This experimental add-on for Firefox 3.5 and higher […]

Download Phoenity Aura Firefox Theme and its Glassy Icons

By Martin Kaba • Aug 26th, 2009 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

Phoenity Aura is a newly released Firefox Theme -- now at version 0.4 for Firefox 3.5 that dresses your Firefox browser in a simple and glassy way.

The author of this Firefox extension also provides for download at his website the icons used to build this theme. The icons are in PNG-32 format in 24×24 […]

Optimize Firefox Databases With a Single Line of Code and Vacuum Places Add-on

By Martin Kaba • Aug 22nd, 2009 • Filed under: Browsers, Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

In Firefox 3 Bookmarks and browsing History are stored in SQLite databases. Like any other database, the SQLite databases get fragmented with time, added to that, your default history time span in Firefox 3.5 was increased from 9 to 90 days. These increase the possibility of having a bloated and cumbersome database which subsequently […]

Chromifox Extreme 3 Makes Firefox Look Like Google Chrome

By Martin Kaba • Jul 27th, 2009 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

If you love the Google Chrome skin but don’t want to give up Firefox, or can’t give-up Firefox, as in the case of Linux users, then Chromifox Extreme 3 for Mozilla Firefox 3 can give your Firefox 3 the Chrome looks.
Chromifox Extreme 3 is a continuation of the Chromifox 2 plugin that will be […]

FirefoxNotify Add-On Brings Pop-Up Download Notification in Ubuntu 9.04

By Martin Kaba • Jul 21st, 2009 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu

Ubuntu 9.04 notification alerts still has to be exploited by many applications like Firefox. Mumbles, for example tries to bring Mac growl-like pop-up notifications to several Ubuntu apps like Pidgin, Thunderbird, Amarok and Firefox, whilst FirefoxNotify does so only for Firefox, just like Skype-Notify Script ; a Skype for Linux only pop-up notifier.
Single […]

Firefox 3.5.1 Security Update

By Martin Kaba • Jul 17th, 2009 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu

Mozilla strongly recommends all Firefox 3.5 users to upgrade Firefox 3.5.1 to fix the critical JavaScript vulnerability that was nagging Firefox 3.5.
Other security fixes include;
-> Vulnerability can be used to gather sensitive data from sites in other windows or inject data or code into those sites, requiring no more than normal browsing actions.
-> Vulnerabilities […]

Mozilla Announces a More Human Ubiquity 0.5

By Martin Kaba • Jul 9th, 2009 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

Ubiquity Firefox extension version 0.5 is a major upgrade of the Mozilla Lab’s experimental add-on that requires the recently released Firefox 3.5. Ubiquity 0.5 comes with many more languages and tries to make Ubiquity instructions more natural and human.
New features in Ubiquity 0.5
* The first internationalized Ubiquity, where even […]