Tag Archives: Add-on

Live Writer Plug-in For Firefox

Blog This for Firefox add-on enables users to blog quickly from Firefox. It adds a button on Firefox’s navigation toolbar which starts a new draft in Live Writer with selected text. Continue reading

Chrome Extension Gallery Completes One Year

Chrome Extension Gallery has completed one successful year of hosting browser extensions and themes. The extension gallery now hosts more than 8,500 extensions and 1,500 themes. Continue reading

Desktop Search Extension For Chrome

Chrome Desktop Search is an extension for Google Chrome browser, based on experimental APIs including Omnibox API and Infobars API. It works similar to Google Desktop Search, where users can allow indexing of local files & folders and search them right from the browser (Chrome in this case). Continue reading

Create A Firefox Add-on In 5 Minutes

Here is a useful video demo of Mozilla’s Add-on Builder by developer Myk Melez. The Add-on Builder is a web based tool for developing Firefox extensions quickly and easily. Continue reading

Syntax Highlighter Extension For Chrome

Sight is a new extension for Google Chrome users, specially for the programmers. It brings syntax highlighting capabilities to the Chrome, when the content of a source code file is displayed inline in the browser. Continue reading

Opera To Get Extensions Finally!

Opera has announced to integrate browser extensions in its upcoming major release, Opera 11. Extensions have been an important feature for browsers, and this integration will complete the Opera. Continue reading

Add-on Performance Advisor in Internet Explorer 9

The newer beta of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer provides users detailed information about add-ons affecting their browsing experience. The IE 9 alerts and suggests uses to disable slow add-ons. Continue reading

Google’s Reply : Chrome Extension Developers Signup Fee And Official Extension

Google has recently introduced some important changes in the official chrome extension gallery. I asked few questions regarding these changes to the Chrome Team, and got satisfactory reply from Arne Roomann-Kurrik. Continue reading

Google Chrome Introduces Developer Signup Fee And Domain Verification

It is hard to believe, but Google has introduced a developer signup fee to make the browser much safer (?). From now, if a developer wants to publish his extension, theme or app (Chrome App Store coming soon) in the official extension gallery – he is required to pay developer signup fee Continue reading

Apple Safari 5.0.1 With Extensions

The updated Safari browser, Safari 5.0.1, supports extensions and small widgets that can be added to the browser by the users to customize their web surfing experience. Continue reading