The most recent Browsers & Browser Companions articles from Computeract!ve

Word Count Plus Firefox addon

Tim Smith — 2008-07-18T16:45:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Friday 18 July 2008 at 16:45:00

Count the words in online text editors

With the rise of online email services from Google and Yahoo, not to mention online office suites, there is an increasing need to be able to count words....

NoScript 1.7.7

Tim Smith — 2008-07-16T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 16 July 2008 at 00:00:00

Prevent websites from running potentially dangerous code

One security risk when browsing the internet is that many websites include scripts, small programs for particular tasks. Scripts can range from the wholly benign, for producing rounded corners on...

Fullerscreen Firefox add-on

Tim Smith — 2008-06-27T17:11:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Friday 27 June 2008 at 17:11:00

Make the most of a smaller screen

There are times when it helps to have a web browser maximised to view as much of a site as possible, especially when using a small notebook such as the...

Opera 9.5 USB Edition

Tim Smith — 2008-06-14T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Saturday 14 June 2008 at 00:00:00

Take this capable browser wherever you go

Ever wanted to take your favourite web browser on the road, so you can access your preferences, bookmarks and your web history? Portable versions of programs such as Opera have...

Keyconfig Firefox add-on

Tim Smith — 2008-06-03T16:53:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Tuesday 3 June 2008 at 16:53:00

Customise keyboard shortcuts for Mozilla Firefox

Keyboard shortcuts are very useful for browsing the internet as quickly as possible but can sometimes lead to problems. For example the back button is quickly becoming a liability with...

Xinha Here! Firefox extension

Tim Smith — 2008-05-09T17:16:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Friday 9 May 2008 at 17:16:00

An HTML editor for website text boxes

Xinha Here! is an addon for Mozilla Firefox that offers a full HTML editor with WYSIYG (what you see is what you get) to any text box in a website....

ODF Reader: Firefox plugin

Tim Smith — 2008-04-16T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 16 April 2008 at 00:00:00

Read Openoffice documents in Firefox

Openoffice might be free but it is a big download, especially if you are only wanting to read the contents of a single file....

Opera 9.27

Tim Smith — 2008-04-04T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Friday 4 April 2008 at 00:00:00

Fast and secure browser that packs in lots of features

Opera is a long-standing browser and one with well-deserved respect. As an internet browser it is very fast to display pages and also very secure, with very few security problems...

Fission 0.9.5

Tim Smith — 2008-03-12T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 12 March 2008 at 00:00:00

Get the Firefox Address Bar the Safari look

If you have downloaded the new Windows edition of Safari, you may have noticed that the address bar shows the progress of the page being loaded....

Copyallurls Firefox add-on

Tim Smith — 2008-02-22T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Friday 22 February 2008 at 00:00:00

Quickly collect the addresses from tabs in Firefox

Tabbed browsing in one of the features that made Firefox as popular as it is today but this can be frustrating if too many tabs are opened at once....

Netlicious Del.icio.us client

Tim Smith — 2008-02-18T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Monday 18 February 2008 at 00:00:00

View and organise online del.icio.us bookmarks

del.icio.us is a very useful online service from Yahoo for storing and sharing bookmarks online. Rather than organise bookmarks in folders, they can be asigned any number of tags to describe...

Piclens Firefox Add-on

Tim Smith — 2008-02-11T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Monday 11 February 2008 at 00:00:00

View pictures as an image wall in Firefox

Piclens is a interesting way of viewing images from websites such as Flickr. The pictures are displayed as a photowall with a smooth 3D effect when scrolling through....

Flock Browser for Linux

Tim Smith — 2008-02-01T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Friday 1 February 2008 at 00:00:00

Community focussed web browser ideal for bloggers

Flock is an internet broswer based on Mozilla Firefox but with lots of addons already installed to make surfing the web a more social affair....

Awasu 2.3.2 Beta

Lee Collins — 2007-12-19T00:00:00.000Z

Lee Collins, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 19 December 2007 at 00:00:00

Read news feeds from websites

RSS is a great way to stay up to date with lots of websites and the Awasu RSS reader ensures that managing different feeds never becomes too demanding....

Mozilla Prism

Tim Smith — 2007-11-22T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Thursday 22 November 2007 at 00:00:00

Launch web applications in their own special window

Mozilla Prism is a very interesting idea and makes many web applications much easier to use. One problems with these interactive websites such as Google Mail or Calendar is that browser...