by Gabe Goldberg
One reason the Firefox Web browser and Thunderbird email software applications are so popular is the facility for users to enhance and tailor their behavior to satisfy individual needs and preferences. But their many hundred add-ons can be a bit intimidating, leaving people wondering what areas to consider tweaking and which add-ons to install.
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Extension: xpi
What is it? Mozilla Installer Package
Where’s it from? Xpi files are what you download to install a Firefox add-on (a. k. a., “extension”). They are compressed archive files designed to work specifically with Firefox on all its operating system platforms. Updates to Firefox are also delivered via xpi files.
How do I use it? You can launch the installation of an xpi file just by dragging and dropping it into a Firefox browser window, or double-clicking on it.
Can I safely delete or move it? Yes
Can it be dangerous? Yes. Use antivirus software
–David Hakala
by Gabe Goldberg
Back in the Internet’s pre-history, AOL was the leading online service, providing connectivity, software applications, content, news, games, and support. But as Internet availability and diverse content grew, the need for an all-inclusive “walled garden” — as AOL was charmingly called — diminished.
Even now, though, AOL provides many people’s entire online experience.
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by Tina Gasperson
There are many reasons you might want to check the browsing history on your computer – perhaps you remember finding the perfect crème brulee recipe last week but you forgot to bookmark it, or maybe you just need to check up on your teenage daughter to make sure she really was researching her latest school project online and not watching reruns of Family Guy the whole time. Whatever the reason, finding out where you were is easy to do if you know where to look.
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by Gabe Goldberg
One of the Internet’s many beauties is the diversity of choices available — for everything. There are multiple search engines, Web browsers, ISPs (Internet service providers), operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac). This means that no two people have precisely the same computing setup or online experience, which leads to hours of fun-filled arguments about whose choices are best.
In fact, competition works to everyone’s advantage: No matter what your choice is for a given function, the vendor or manufacturer knows that you have alternatives and must hustle to keep your loyalty. The “browser wars” — first when Microsoft pushed Internet Explorer (IE) development to catch innovator Netscape and more recently with Mozilla Firefox stealing market share back from IE (and, of course, with contributions from Opera, Google’s Chrome, and other contenders) — have generated beneficial innovation and evolution.
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by David Hakala
Speed up your Web surfing with these tricks that work with Mozilla Firefox! It’s actually easier to tweak Firefox than it is to soup up Internet Explorer. That’s because Firefox is a standalone program, not intimately dependent upon settings in other areas of Windows as Internet Explorer is. All the tools you need are right under Firefox’s hood.
Most of these tools are accessed through the “about:config” URL, which doesn’t look like a standard URL because it doesn’t begin with “http://”. But it is indeed a Universal Resource Locator that locates and displays a resource called “config” within the Firefox browser.
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