When you receive a common mail, which has other known/unknown respondents, it becomes difficult to know who is who and does what. Specially, in organisations and institutes this becomes a serious problem, as we may not know everyone. Gmail’s people widget provides quick relief at such point. It tells us about the associated people and [...]
Switching internet connections is always a big pain. Fortunately, we have proxy managers that take care of this complicated job. More thankfully, we have browser proxy add-ons and extensions, which makes this job easier than it sounds. When do you need a proxy manager? If you are the type of user that work on different [...]
Ofter while reading online, we need to find simple meaning of some complex word. For example, while reading about unfamiliar topics or in-depth article from McKinsey Quarterly, we may find some unfamiliar words in course and then we leave/misunderstand them due to lack of time. This is not at all advisable as a little misunderstanding [...]
Often we need particular meaning of some word and we end up searching multiple online dictionaries for the correct usage or definition. Do you know that Google also provides dictionary functionality to its users free of cost and with much more features than others? We will use this Google dictionary to turn our Firefox address [...]
You have to accept that some websites work only with IE (Microsoft’s Internet Explorer). They are designed that way and you can’t do anything for them. Especially intranet websites which were made years before Chrome or Firefox and now have cluttered layout in latest browsers. Another major problem is some links don’t recognize a click [...]
Now since every modern browser is supporting HTML5, YouTube has started to deliver experimental videos with HTML5 player. Speciality of HTML5 player is that you won’t need any adobe flash player plugin to view these videos. Let us look at some of pros and cons of HTML5 Videos: Pros with HTML5 videos: The biggest advantage [...]
Google search suggestions can at times bring you shame by showing embarrassing results. Last time, we have talked about turning off these Google suggestions both permanently and temporarily. However, disabling them from search settings is login based and can be different for different users. When we disable these suggestions, Google saves a cookie on your [...]
If you understand screen real state*, then probably you realize the wastage of space iGoogle homepage does on screen. Inspite of getting variety of information on a single page, iGoogle layout has always annoyed us. The header and sidebar tabs consumes too much space and virtually of no use. Removing them would be such a [...]
One of the most popular reasons for using Firefox is its customization capabilities. Tabs are lovely and if you can control the tabs behaviour, browsing will be more enjoyable. The only problem is high memory/RAM consumption with customized tabs. Tab-Mix-Plus is a popular firefox addon that gives users great capabilities for customizing tabs. However, TMP [...]
The Firefox directory contains unlimited number of addons. From most popular to most useful, these addons simplify our work by customizing firefox as per our needs. Still, you can get your work done quickly by simple tips.
Good things are always popular and popular things can be trusted. GooglePreview is one such Firefox addon, which is immensely popular with 6,50,000+ downloads and rated 5 out of 5 by many users.
One feature what most of the users miss on Google chrome is its RSS support for websites. Firefox and Internet Explorer have built-in autodiscovery of feeds. That means, RSS feeds are automatically detected and can be subscribed at the click of a button.
Sachio Search is the Firefox add-on that lets you search for the selected word from the context menu of Firefox. Handy add-on to save time as you need not to copy text and paste it into Firefox toolbar search engine.
Firefox addon directory contains thousands of addons to customize the way you work. However too many addons make Firefox bulky and the increases memory usage respectively.
By mistake, a web tab may be closed which is hard to find again. It is a common problem which wastes our time for repeating some complex navigation or research. Following tips will help in recovering lost tabs:
If you are using popular, open source email application Thunderbird then importing and exporting your gmail contacts could cause you lot of trouble. Zindus Firefox add-on takes care of all these for you.
Firefox add-ons provide better expandability over any web service. From a number of add-ons present, I have selected best 5 that would improve your experience with Google mail.
How wonderful it would be if you can switch between multiple Google accounts by click of button. Often we have to sign-out one account and then sign-in into another, but now there are plentiful options available to switch automatically.
