Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Remove Google Groups Ads

This Greasemonkey script that I’ve found could be useful for those who use Google Groups a lot, but find all those Google ads on it annoying.

Google Groups Ads Remover is a free Greasemoneky script that takes off ads from the pages Google Groups which some people find annoying while going through the different groups.

How to Remove Google Groups Ads

  • Make sure you have Greasemonkey installed (see below for your browser).
  • Download the Google Groups Ads Remover script and install in Greasemonkey.
  • Refresh your Google Groups page
  • You shouldn’t see the ads anymore now!

Download Firefox 3.6 Beta 4

Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 is now available for download and is probably the last beta before the final version is released.

This fourth beta version has been released for beta testers to test for any bugs or any last minute issues before Mozilla released Firefox 3.6 final version.

Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 contains more than 100 fixes as compared to the previous versions and more than 70% of Firefox addon developers have upgraded their plugins to be fully compatible with the latest version.

Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 Changes

  • Supports for the HTML5 File API.
  • A change to how third-party software integrates with Firefox to increase stability.
  • The ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times.
  • A mechanism to prevent incompatible software from crashing Firefox.
  • Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas.
  • Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.
  • Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames.
  • Supports for the WOFF font format.
  • Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.
  • Supports for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.

Download Firefox 3.6 Beta 4

You can download this for free here: Download Firefox 3.6 Beta 4

Firefox 3.6 Beta 1


Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 is now available for download! This was suppose to be available a couple of days earlier, but due to some issues it wasn’t released. But now Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 is available for download.

This beta version of Firefox 3.6 is built on the Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering engine. It contains many improvements for web developers, add-on developers and for the users.

Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 Features

Some of the new features introduced in Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 are:

  • Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas.
  • Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.
  • Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames.
  • Support for the WOFF font format.
  • Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.
  • Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.

Download Firefox 3.6 Beta 1

You an download this latest Firefox 3.6 beta version from here: Download Firefox 3.6 Beta 1

Firefox 3.5.4 Released

Yesterday, a Firefox update was released and uploaded on the Mozilla FTP and as well on the website.

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.4 is now available for download. Many of you must have aleady got notifications of the update from automatic update.

This latest Firefox release brings in security and stability updates to your browser which makes it important for everyone to update. According to the release notes, the total changes list include 124 items with seven marked as critical and 13 as major.

Download Firefox 3.5.4

You can download the latest Firefox from here: Download Firefox 3.5.4

Add Lyrics Box in YouTube Video Pages

How many of you visit YouTube daily just to download music videos? I’m sure 50% of YouTube visitors visit it just for music videos. No wonder, they have the highest number of views on a video.

On a video page, you can now add a lyrics box below the description box using a Greasemonkey script.

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YouTube Lyrics script adds a lyrics box to the YouTube sidebar under the video informations box. It searches in eleven different lyrics websites and the show all the results in a drop down list.

Download YouTube Lyrics script

You can download this free userscript from here: Download YouTube Lyrics

Visual Cache Viewer for Firefox

Everything you browse and do in Firefox gets stored in the cache. You can browse the cache with two ways. One way is to type about:cache in Firefox and other is to access them manually from your Firefox profile.

Firefox Cache Viewer is a free tool that provides a GUI and detailed information for your Firefox cache.

firefox-cache-viewer

This tool can help you in identifying which images are stored in Firefox’s cache. You can sort by url, size, mime type, cache location or date and can also search for specific items.

Download Visual Firefox Cache Viewer

You can download this Firefox addon from here: Download Cache Viewer

Get Productive in Firefox with SmarterFox

Firefox already comes with some many features to keep your productivity high, but what if you get to make it more productive by adding a little spice to it?

The spice I’m talking about is, SmarterFox, a Firefox addon to speedup tasks in Firefox and let you browse faster.

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SmarterFox is the most popular productivity addon which saves time by speeding up common tasks. This Firefox addon will help you get things done much quicker by getting faster, parallelized downloads, convenient shortcuts and more.

Highlights of the addon:

  • To save Web videos right-click anywhere and then select “download page media”.
  • You can download all images and links of a page in parallel, maximizing the usage of your bandwidth.
  • When you reach the end of the page, SmarterFox will automatically load the next page and append it to the end, saving you time.
  • To open the qLauncher, press Ctrl + Space. You can change this in the options dialog.

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If you don’t want or like any of its features, you can easily disable them from the menu Tools > SmarterFox.

Download SmarterFox

You can download this addon from here: Download SmarterFox