Web Browser Wednesday

Google Maps is hands down my favorite online mapping service because it has a simplistic design, which in the end makes it load extremely fast. Not only that but they offer features not found on other mapping services, including Street View, Wikipedia integration, and even walking directions.

Naturally when there is a great web service people will start making Firefox extensions that take full

Another day, another CyberSearch release. ;) Over the weekend I had some time to work on a new CyberSearch feature that I've periodically received requests for. Like most features I had to think this one through to ensure that it wouldn't interfere with the built-in Firefox keyword system.

So what have I added? In CyberSearch 1.0 you might recall that I added an entry onto the bottom

When you ask Firefox users what their favorite extension is they'll commonly say Adblock Plus. It's currently the second most popular extension on the add-ons site, and receives over 250,000 downloads every week. With numbers like that you'd expect the extension to be installed on nearly every copy of Firefox, but that's not the case.

What I found out when I released CyberSearch was that any developer can choose whether or not they want

Imagine if you will that you've got an idea for a program/website that you're working on, but you're trying to play around with a bunch of different layouts to see which ones would look the best. What tool do you use to create your mockup? Photoshop? Some expensive program that costs hundreds of dollars? How about a free Firefox extension?

That's exactly what the Pencil extension was designed for. It has many of the tools

Okay, so I wasn't thinking that I'd have a new version of CyberSearch so soon, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this will stop the flood of emails requesting that I revive the customizable background color feature. Yesterday we released CyberSearch 1.0, and with it came a bunch of new features. Along with that I also scrapped the option to customize the background color of the

I know that there are a lot of you out there who are using the Gmail Redesigned skin, and you'll be happy to know that version 2 of the theme was recently released for all Firefox users. This new version includes a few dozen bug fixes, but more importantly they focused on increasing the performance. Gmail Redesigned 2.0 is almost half the size of the

Web Browser Wednesday

The new Firefox 3 address bar is one of those things that you either love or hate, and it's quite amazing how much buzz such a simple aspect of the browser can cause. The new address bar is often referred to as the AwesomeBar because of how useful it can be, but more officially it is considered the Smart Location Bar.

Why does the Smart Location Bar