In September 2011, Yahoo! declared that they have no intentions of exiting the search world which is still dominated by Google. As part of that strategy, Yahoo! released their cont Yahoo! Axis is a search browser that provides a completely new way to search and browse the web. Axis integrates searching and browsing into a single, more efficient experience that transforms search into a companion, not a destination. It provides you with instant answers, visual previews of top search results for a more efficient and content-rich way to explore interests online. When activated, Axis also automatically recognizes you as you…

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Consider a situation when you are browsing and suddenly your browsers crashes. You restart the browser and notice that all your bookmarks, history and profile data is lost. To get rid of this problem, we found an excellent utility, MozBackup, which can help you backup your Mozilla Firefox of Thunderbird data in few simple clicks. It allows you to backup and restore bookmarks, mail, contacts, history, extensions, passwords, cache etc. Step 1: Download and extract Mozbackup. The best thing about the application is that you do not have to install any software. It’s a standalone program which will backup your…

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If you’re addicted to Farmville, Roller Coaster Kingdom or Cafe World, then you’ll love this FireFox addon. Flash Game Maximizer will allow you to maximize (almost) any Flash content to the entire browser window as the click of a button. The addon also recognises F12 as the key to maximise the flash content. The Flash content is then reloaded in the full browser window, causing it to resize along with the window (with or without enforced aspect, or scaled to one of the predefined percentages). This allow you to play your favorite Flash games, or view other Flash content, in…

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First, a short disclaimer: This post merely shows you a method. You alone are entirely responsible for what you use it for. There are times when we need to grab media like images, audio and sometimes even embedded video files from various sites. Rather than right-clicking on each element, here’s a quick an easy way to grab all the media you want using Firefox’s native functionality – no additional plugins like DownThemAll needed. We’re gonna use the Page Info feature of Firefox to help us in our efforts. On the page that you wish to grab the images from, click…

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I’m back… again… with the top 7 stories of the day, according to ME! Right! This time I’ve got some serious stuff for you guys to feast on. 1 – ONE! Weaponizing Web 2.0 – The Washington Post – I thought this was quite an interesting article. Imagine your browser turning against you, all your personal information being used by someone else without your knowledge! I’m sure we’ve all had this nightmare before, but if what this article says is true, I think we’d better be really careful. This is a real life version of one of those scary movies…

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This is on of those add-ons whose function can be figured out from the title alone! No Mouse (ver1.0.2), It really can’t get any simpler than that! No Mouse is an add-on for Firefox that’s made for the Keyboard king/queen who rather control all their browsers activity using super fast shortcut keys than reaching out to the mouse and hunting for that click-able area! Links, Hyperlinks, images…heck! Anything on a webpage can be accessed now using the keyboard, it gives a series of shortcuts which can be used with the Number keypad for tasks that you usually need to perform…

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If you’re like me you probably have a huge number of browsers installed on your system. And surprisingly, I use most of them at some point of time or the other. One main reason is for testing whenever I am working on a new theme or site. If you’re using browsers for browsing, you will feel lost when you don’t have all your favorites in place. Transmute is a bookmark converter that enables you to import and export your bookmarks and favorites between Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Apple Safari, Chromium, Flock and Konqueror. You can export bookmarks…

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FoxLingo is considered is your all in one Language tool that offers great features such as Web Page Translation, Translated Search, Auto Translation, Text Translation, Language Resources and Learning Languages. FoxLingo helps you translate webpage in over 1,500 different language pairs and allows you to search foeign pages using terms written in your language. Furthermore it automatically translates websites by recognizing their domain and translates text entered in the search box or any selected webpage for that matter. FoxLingo supports 50 languages including Supports 50 languages and over 1,500 different language pairs: Afrikaans, Arabic, Aranese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese…

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I have tons of Firefox add-ons installed on my browsers. Thanks to Firefox, blogging and social media work + fun has never been this easy. Following are some of my favorite Add-ons and definitely must have for any social media addict out there. Facebook Facebook Toolbar for Firefox is an excellent add-on that allows you to integrate your Facebook life into your browser. The Search Box allows you to easily search Facebook no matter where you are. Select a friend from the dropdown to go directly to their profile, or hit “enter” to see the search results. In addition to…

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With the new update to Facebook, we have users aghast at the change, screaming, yelling, blogging, twittering and voting against it. So, if you’re one of them, or you just hate the millions of application updates on your homepage and prefer just reading comments of your friends, then this one is for you. Gautam Arora has put together a simple Greasemonkey script that will allow you to clean up all these updates from your homepage and all you’ll see is the personal updates that your friends make.