Firefox 3.1 to Include Private Browsing Mode Finally

Privacy mode is not a new dish but has become a important part of diet for browsers. It has been existence since a long time in Safari, then finally being adopted by others. Few days ago Microsoft announced InPrivate mode for Internet Explorer 8, then Google Chrome introduced Incognito Mode and finally now its the turn of Mozilla Firefox.
Till now this feature lacked in Firefox but again a plugin named as Close’n Forget came to the rescue. The plugin just does the work what its name claims. You browse your private session without any worries, and just close the browser. No history, bookmarks, cookies or passwords will be saved. But what if it gets inbuilt in the Firefox? It will be available on any computer having Firefox without the need of installing a special plugin for it.

After Firefox, the only one left without the Private Mode is Opera. Opera is surely a nice, simple and fast browser but it needs this feature to compete with others. Private Mode has become a necessity for browsers as other features like Tab Browsing, Popup Blocker, etc.

The uses of this feature are endless, some of them are: If you need to do online shopping, or would like to browse anonymously or most popularly its known as porn mode as its most used for visiting porn sites.

Mozilla got very late in getting this but finally we will not need another browser or plugin for Private Browsing. However it was also expected with Firefox 3.0 but Mozilla didn’t felt the need that time. Finally when Google attacked with Chrome, Firefox is felt the heat of competition and thus now it just does not want to leave any loop whole.

Ctrl-Tab brings Alt-Tab Switching to Firefox

We all are familiar with Alt-Tab and Win-Tab Functionality in Windows and we surely so use it hundreds of times in a day (atleast a geek does). What if we had similar functionality in Firefox. But unluckily this thing didn’t stuck Mozilla guys. But remember the Firefox plugin’s (the soul of Firefox) let a third party developer, Dao Gottwald develop this functionality in Firefox.
As the name says this plugin uses the Ctrl-Key for its operation instead of Alt or Win Key. It has same feeling as of switching in windows but the difference here is it switches Firefox Tabs rather than the windows.

It not only sports Ctrl+Tab functionality but also it has cool Tab Preview function which displays the previews of currently open tabs in a neat searchable way. The best thing about Tab Preview is the search. It consist of a search which is very similar to Firefox search for web pages but what it does is filters the tab previews. It get very handy if you are running a big number of tabs simultaneously.

The extension still needs lot of improvement. After running the Tab Preview function, I saw some blackening spots in browser. Also its shortcut for Tab Preview (Ctrl+Shift+A) collides with All-in-one-sidebar add-on’s window shortcut. You will have to change the shortcut for all-in-one-sidebar add-on’s though a new shortcut for Tab Preview has been introduced in the current release of this plugin. The new shortcut is (Ctrl+Q), sweet and simple.

Download Ctrl-Tab Firefox Plugin.

Auto Shutdown PC after download completes in Firefox!

Auto Shutdown PC after download completes in Firefox!
Firefox has got a good inbuilt download manager but it still lacks many features that are offered by commercial download managers. One of those missing features is “Auto Shutdown after Download Completion”.

Firefox plugin “Auto Shutdown - InBasic” comes in role here. It simply shutdowns your computer when all the downloads running in Firefox are completed. It is a useful plugin and it gets handy when you are in hurry of leaving your system but you are stuck waiting for the download to get over.


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RESOURCES(Mozilla Firefox Extensions)

1)Stop Autoplay addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/1765
2)PANIC:addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/6367
3)TabRenamizer: addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/2987
4)Fast Video Downloder: addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/3590
5)Download Helper: addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/3006
6)File Uploader: www.fileuploader.com
7)File FTP: addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/684
8)ChatZilla: chatzilla.hacksrus.com
9)News Fox: addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/629
10)Free Access Plus: addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/6139