Archive for the ‘Firefox’ Category

Improve Firefox’s Address Bar with Better History Searching, Custom Search Engines

Saturday, June 18th, 2011

Mozilla’s updated Firefox’s address bar with an add-on that improves history searching, as well as adds a bunch of custom search engines to help you search by subject—like books, maps, movies or music.

Firefox’s AwesomeBar has always gone above and beyond the call of duty, but Awesomebar HD adds a few cool new features for search-hungry Firefox users. The first thing they’ve done is improved history searching: now, Firefox pays attention to how often you visit and re-visit certain pages, so when you type in the name of a previously visited page, it can intelligently order the results in a way that gets you there quickest.

Link: LifeHacker

Evaluate The Speed Of Your Web Pages With Page Speed

Saturday, June 11th, 2011

The Page Speed family consists of several products. Web developers can use the Page Speed browser extension to analyze performance issues while developing web pages. Apache web hosters can use mod_pagespeed, a module for the Apache™ HTTP Server that automatically optimizes web pages and their resources at serving time.

Analyze in the browser

Page Speed OnlineNew! is a web-based tool that allows users to analyze pages at any time, in any browser, without downloading an extension. It also features Page Speed Mobile analysis, which lets developers analyze their site as viewed by a mobile browser, and get suggestions specific to mobile optimization.

The Page Speed browser extensions, available for Chrome and Firefox, are the fastest way to get accurate performance analysis of your web pages. It is also our prefered environment for introducing new performance best practices. With the Page Speed browser extension, you can analyze the performance of your pages and get specific suggestions on how to optimize them.

Link: code.google.com

Firefox Add-On: MeasureIt

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

Draw a ruler across any webpage to check the width, height, or alignment of page elements in pixels.

Link: addons.mozilla.org

History of Web Browsers

Sunday, May 29th, 2011

History of Web Browsers