Category: firefox tips & tricks

Some of my friends always wanted to hide title bar text in firefox, they do not want firefox to display the information about the site using the title bar text description of the site

Hide Caption Title Bar is a free firefox addon which detects and automatically restores the minimize, maximize/ restore and close buttons on the nav bar if the menu bar is hidden the extension will display these important buttons irrespective of any theme you have applied on firefox.

Note: This extension is not compatible with tab mix plus but can work with tab mix lite ce

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There is a big difference in between the firefox 3 location bar and firefox 2 location bar both in terms of the looks and functionality provided. Just in case if you don’t like the location bar or address bar of firefox 3 and revert it to as there in firefox 2 here is how you can do it.

There is a cool addon called Old Location Bar which makes firefox 3 location bar look and act like firefox 2 location bar

Some other key features provided by old location bar addon are

HitWicket is another cool firefox addon which lets you monitor the live cricket scores on any cricket match going on. It is based on ScoreWatch Firefox extension and fetches the updates from CMDN.com in the status bar panel.

It will alert you about any fall of wickets even if you are running a screensaver it will pop up in that case, you can anytime configure the refresh interval of the scores

It could happen many times when you try to copy any text selected on a webpage opened in firefox and when you paste the text in word document or any where else formatting remains so you undo the paste and copy the text in notepad and then copy again to the word document. As far as my experience this particular practice is really a pain on your mind and it also takes more time as usual.

Copy Plain Text is a cool firefox addon which comes to rescue in this situation and adds a context menu entry in the right click menu in firefox as Copy as Plain Text

IE View is one of the cool free firefox addon which allows you to open any web page you visited with firefox to be opened in internet explorer. You can open any page in internet explorer from firefox just by right clicking the page and select View This Page In IE

IE View adds the menu items to the context menu and the link to the context menu. Right clicking a link now includes "Open link target in IE" menu item and Right-clicking elsewhere in the main body of the page (not within an image, text box, etc.) gives "View this page in IE."