Recently, I’ve done a couple of posts on the growing market share of and impressive performance in speed tests of Google’s open source Chrome browser. Even though Chrome is a very fast browser, though, and even though its ability to load pages and applications in distinct tabs without crashing the whole browser is attractive, it still doesn’t have the extremely useful universe of extensions that Firefox has. In answer to many questions on the topic, Google programmer Aaron Boodman has put up a post confirming work on extensions for Chrome. Boodman’s post includes a link to a design document intended...
Google has published its plan to build into Chrome what is arguably its most requested feature: the ability to accept extensions that can customize how the open-source Web browser operates. And guess what? Google's dependence on advertising notwithstanding, one of the extension examples the company points to is the ability to block advertisements. The Chrome extensions document, spotlighted Saturday by Google programmer Aaron Boodman, doesn't include a timeline, but it does shed light on why the project is a priority for Chromium, the open-source project behind Chrome. "Chromium can't be everything to all people," according to the document. "User-created...
Mozilla today announced that it has served its 1 billionth addon download since they started keeping track of these downloads in 2005. Currently, Mozilla's users are downloading close to 1.5 million addons every day. Mozilla has cultivated one of the most active and interesting developer communities around its products and seeing numbers like these will surely give a lot of other developers an incentive to try their hands at developing new plugins for Firefox as well. Sponsor Mozila also just released a new interface to showcase some of the top Firefox addons, which will surely bring a lot of new...
Advertisements have become an inevitable part of our life, invading almost every realm. Sometimes they are harmless and easily ignored, but they can appear outright annoying and then again some ads may be too tempting to pass on. But honestly, how often did you find random ads useful? On the internet it’s not always possible to avoid banners, ads or pop-ups. Firefox offers several different ways to control what is shown to you and what will remain hidden, blocked or covered. 1. Built-in Options Per default, Firefox can block pop-ups, not load images, and not run Java or JavaScript. Conveniently,...
It's always a kick in the nuts waiting for a page to load in mobile Safari when you know like half of it is for an ad. Luckily, there's a way to block most of them using this method from James Is Bored. It requires a jailbroken iPhone and bit of voodoo, but it's not overly complicated. Once you've got a jailbroken iPhone, you need to install OpenSSH from Cydia. And that's where the work starts. After your phone restarts, head to Settings>Wi-Fi and hit the arrow next to your home Wi-Fi server. Write down the IP address you see....
If you've turned your $60 router into a user-friendly super-router with open-source firmware Tomato, you already know that Tomato can boost your Wi-Fi signal, track bandwidth usage, and set Quality of Service rules with ease. But if you're a big fan of Adblock Plus—the most popular Firefox extension among Lifehacker readers—you can save yourself an extension installation and universally block ads across your entire home network by adding a custom script to your Tomato firmware. Here's how it works: There are several ad-blocking scripts available that could work, but the one I'm using comes from this forum post. Thanks Tad!...
I really have no interest in U.S. elections but every time I go to Twitter it insists on showing me a toolbar offering me latest updates on Election2008. I’ve tried clicking the “Close” button but the next time I visit the website it comes back again. How can I remove this permanently>? You’re right, clicking on the Close button only removed the bar for that current session. There is a way you can hide the tab, but you can only do this if you’re using Firefox and the AdBlock Plus plugin. AdBlock Plus is one of my favourite Firefox plugins....
The one thing Google Chrome was missing that kept a lot of the Firefox faithful from making the switch was the browser's lack of add-on support. Well, that's set to change, according to Google engineer Ojan Vafai. Both add-ons and user scripts (a la Greasemonkey) will be supported in the near future. Currently, they're working on ensuring that plugins and add-ons keep the browser as stable as it is without them, but as soon as they get that worked out, look for them to come to Chrome, probably by the time it's out of beta. What do you think, will...
The one thing Google Chrome was missing that kept a lot of the Firefox faithful from making the switch was the browser's lack of add-on support. Well, that's set to change, according to Google engineer Ojan Vafai. Both add-ons and user scripts (á la Greasemonkey) will be supported in the near future. Currently, they're working on ensuring that plug-ins and add-ons keep the browser as stable as it is without them, but as soon as they get that worked out, look for them to come to Chrome, probably by the time it's out of beta. What do you think, will...
This browser is fast. But no Adblock. Ack! The Ads! Welcome back, Firefox....
Note from possible248 (main author of CodingExperiments): freezewarp is a new author here. You won’t find much info on him by Googling his nick because he recently abandoned his old one. If you want to guest post on this website too, send me an email at possible248@gmail.com. Intro One advantage Firefox has in the web browser world is the large community of developers all contributing to Firefox by building extensions for it. Most of these developers post their extensions on Firefox’s official extension homepage. Here you will nearly 5,300 extensions, referred to as addons, though this is an unfair count....
A company is offering to make Windows Mobile users' handsets more powerful and organized with a piece of software announced Monday. Mobile software developer Kinoma promises its software Kinoma Play will make the Windows Mobile operating system less intimidating by giving users streamlined access to their media. Referred to by its creators as "the world's first media browser," Kinoma Play organizes a user's audio, video and photos in an easily navigable menu. Kinoma Play also enhances Windows Mobile by adding new features, such as a podcast streamer and an application allowing you to remotely access and playback media from...
