Web Browser Wednesday

Are you one of those people who like to conserve every square inch of screen space when it's possible? If so we have a treat for you today! We're going to demonstrate how you can become the ultimate Firefox minimalist with the help of some extensions and themes. If you implement everything that we have listed below you'll wonder where half of your browser has gone. You

One of the things that Firefox 3 has really been pushing to do is make the browser more usable, and there are some nice things they've added to do just that. I'm not sure how often you deal with iCal calendars in your browser, but I come across them from time to time. Normally it's because of friends or family that want to

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I know that some of you like to live on the dark side, and this Gmail theme will absolutely fill that burning desire. You'll need to be using Firefox and have Stylish installed in order for it to work, and I have to admit that this is one of the most complete Gmail themes that I've ever seen.

As you can see

Web Browser Wednesday

One of the things that I've always enjoyed in Safari 3 is the inline search interface, and just the other day I thought I would peruse around the Internet trying to find a way to do the same thing in Firefox. Why is searching special in Safari? Because it dims the background of the page that you're on, and highlights the matching results as you

One of the things that has always bugged me about Firefox is that when you go to download a file it will only let you save it to your computer. Some other browsers, such as Internet Explorer, also give you an option to "run" the file. The difference is that a file you run is downloaded and stored in a temporary folder that is

Web Browser Wednesday

As you may have noticed by now we've been trying to cover a variety of Greasemonkey scripts on the site with our Best Greasemonkey Scripts series, and today we're going to put it into overdrive. Below we've taken five extremely popular sites that have dozens (or hundreds) of Greasemonkey scripts available, and grabbed only the ones we've found useful.

I've tested all of the scripts below

From our 7,000+ feed subscribers I'm surprised to see that over 600 of those readers are still using the rather simple Firefox Live Bookmarks to keep up on the news. I've always found the Live Bookmarks system to be overly simple since the only part of the feed that is made available is the title of the article. I guess the simplicity is what