Posts Tagged ‘firefox’

Remote Data in a Firefox Extension or Add-on

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Displaying remote data in your custom Firefox toolbar makes a lot of neat things possible. If your Firefox add-on needs to fetch some data from another URL, it can be done easily with XMLHttpRequest.

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Removing Google Toolbar, Ditching PageRank Tool, and Speeding up Firefox

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Google Toolbar has finally outgrown it’s usefulness. After years of using the Firefox add-on, I permanently removed it from all my computers.  The PageRank display was my only reason for using the toolbar. Now PageRank isn’t very useful, the toolbar slows down browsing, and I even saved a meager 4.7MB of memory.

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