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FlreFox #Prlvacy #Securlty #lnfosec. The Best of 3 Billion Add-on Downloads. Not too long ago, someone downloaded the 3 billionth Add-on for Firefox. 3,000,000,000!

The Best of 3 Billion Add-on Downloads

That’s a lot of add-ons (and a lot of zeros to type!) These eight add-ons are the best of the best. They’re the most used, and with good reason. Let’s count down to number 1. #8 – With over 1.9 million daily active users, DownThemAll kicks off our best-of-the-best list. . #7 – Earning just over 2 million daily active users, Personas Plus is next on our countdown. . #6 – Just over 2.1 million users per day puts NoScript at number six on the list.

. #5 – Next up, with over 2.2 million users per day, is Download Statusbar. The #2 spot, the best of 3 billion add-ons runner up, is Video DownloadHelper DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. We’d like to offer up a special congratulations to the #1 most-used Add-on, with over 13.5 million daily users (and more than 166 million total downloads), and that award goes to Adblock Plus. And there you have it – the most-popular Firefox Add-ons. New Features In Firefox 6 and 7. Licenses & Attribution in Firefox: OpenAttribute – yergler.net. Seven years ago I started working on MozCC, an add-on for Firefox that exposed Creative Commons license information embedded in web pages. Little did I know that add-on would be the start of a career with CC, eventually leading me to San Francisco, and subsequently around the globe to talk about CC’s technology.

MozCC was dropped from active maintenance somewhere around Firefox 3, but of the tools I built during my first couple years at CC, it’s the one I still get the most questions about. This summer, Igor Lukanin worked on a Google Summer of Code project for CC to develop a replacement for MozCC, an add-on for Firefox that would expose license and attribution information. While the project wasn’t totally successful, it did produce an add-on that detected CC licenses in pages, and exposed details about them. Last month I had the opportunity to attend Learning, Freedom, and the Web, the first Mozilla Drumbeat Festival, in Barcelona, Spain. |image0| |image1| Speed Up Firefox web browser. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed and if you have questions related to your ubuntu system post question to our forums.

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Thanks for visiting! Sponsored Link Mozilla Firefox is a graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation. Started as a fork of the browser component (Navigator) of the Mozilla Application Suite, Firefox has replaced the Mozilla Suite as the flagship product of the Mozilla project, stewarded by the Mozilla Foundation and a large community of external contributors. Mozilla Firefox is a cross-platform browser, providing support for various versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

I am providing some Very Useful Tips to speedup your Firefox. In your location bar, type about:config Once it Opens You should see similar to the following screen Tip1 In the filter bar type network.http.pipelining You should see the following screen Normally it says " false " under value field , Double click it so it becomes " true ". Tip2 Tip3 Tip4 Tip5 Tip6.