Firefox Tab Candy for Google Chrome

TabSense is a Firefox Tab Candy inspired extension that allows you to group your tabs into separate categories.

Install, click on the icon or simply press Shift+Ctrl+S and you are ready to go.

Future versions are also set to include tab movement, search and other features.

Thanks to Nox for the news tip.

Safari Patches Address Book Bug, Activates Extensions

Today, Apple has released two web browser updates: Safari 5.0.1 and 4.1.1 that fix AutoFill security vulnerability reported back in June.

In addition to stability improvements and other bug fixes, version numbered 5.0.1 activates extensions that were reveled within the first Safari 5 release.

Changelog
Extensions Gallery
Download

Adblock Plus to Support Firefox Sync

According to the authors of popular Adblock Plus add-on, upcoming extension version that is 1.3 will support Firefox Sync.

Furthermore, Firefox 4 version will no longer require browser restart after installation is finished.

There are also more changes planned for 1.3 release, see roadmap for more details.

Thanks to Nox for the news tip.

Google Chrome to Android Extension

Here is a nifty extension for Android 2.2 and Google Chrome users.

You can now send links from your web browser directly to your Android device using Cloud to Device Messaging service.

As for other platform users, there is always a mail.

Download.

Opera Mods and Additions

Here’s something useful. Extend Opera is a site, where you can download and share various modifications and additions for Opera web browser.

Tweaks are divided into the following categories:
Buttons, Bookmarklets & Macros
User CSS
Keyboard setup
Menu setup
Mouse setup
Other
User Javascript
Toolbar setup

As of today, it has about 100 contributions and list appears to be growing.

Thanks to Daniel Hendrycks for this.

Google Chrome Extensions Goes Live

With the release of Chrome for Mac, Google has also announced the launch of Chrome extensions (available for Windows and Linux, Mac – coming soon).

One great thing about Chrome extensions is: no annoying restarts after installation. On the downside, as of today, there are only about 300 add-ons available.

Browse extensions.

Firefox Add-on Compatibility Reporter

Yesterday Mozilla has released a new extension called “Add-On Compatibility Reporter”. As you might guess, it does report whether installed add-ons work or have some issues with alpha and beta releases.

Here’s what they say about it:
“After installing the Add-on Compatibility Reporter, your incompatible extensions will become enabled for you to test whether they still work with the version of Firefox or Thunderbird that you’re using.”

Recommended for alpha and beta users only.

Download Add-on Compatibility Reporter.

Google Chrome Extensions (Add-Ons) Are Here

Understanding the importance of extensions/add-ons, Google Chrome team did their job and finally released first developer builds, which adds an early alpha feature to support them. Geek Technica reports 4 Chrome extensions:

1. Cleeki: IE8 Accelerators for Google Chrome. “Cleeki can capture keyword(s) anywhere on a screen with as simple as one click, search it on the Internet, and preview the results immediately.”

2. Adsweep: The very first Google Chrome ad blocker. Read more

Convert YouTube Videos to MP3

In case you want to convert YouTube videos to MP3, here is a simple Firefox add-on to do that.

Basically, it adds a “Convert & Download as MP3″ link in video page. Just click on it and download starts.

Vist YouTube 2 MP3 page (addons.mozilla.org).

Video: How to Disable Firefox 3 Extensions Compatibility Check

If you’re like me, you probably lost a few extensions during the upgrade to Firefox 3 because the original author simply disappeared and never updated his extensions, or perhaps you came up against a problem and all the solutions seem to point towards an extension incompatible with Firefox 3.

In either case, it’s very annoying not to be able to install or use the extensions that you want/need. This is when disabling the add-on compatibility check comes in handy. All it takes is adding one entry into your about:config, which I’ll show you in the video/steps below. Read more

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