Firefox 57 looks a treat when you first open it, but it’s also apparent that there is some empty space on both sides of the address bar. Rather than leave it blank with nothing there, it’s probably been done so that you can choose what goes into those areas. The icons you see to the […]
Firefox 57 Tips and Tricks
Enable/Disable Drag Space in Firefox 57
By Mathew
One of the neat tricks Firefox 57 has up its sleeve is offering you the chance to add some drag space. When you have the Firefox 57 window set so that it isn’t displaying on the maximum full-screen size, you can click any of the default blue area at the top of the browser to […]
Remove Address Bar White Space in Firefox 57
By Mathew
The new Firefox 57 web browser has some empty white space on either side of the address bar at the top of the browser window. That space can be used up for other icons, plus a little bit of it needs to remain on the right side for when you download files. If you didn’t […]
Add Downloads Button to Firefox 57 Quantum
By Mathew
Firefox 57 Quantum comes with a new Photon design user interface. Photon adds extra design elements that weren’t previously there in earlier Firefox builds. Now when you do a task like copying a webpage URL from the browser toolbar, you’ll get a new animation that says “Copied” inside a green box that also gives you […]
Disable/Enable Library Highlights in Firefox 57 Quantum
By Mathew
Firefox 57 has a new feature called “Highlights.” You’ll see the highlights when you open a new tab page and from within your library. The highlights are an original idea, unbeknownst to all web browsers to date. It’s similar to the Top sites feature that Mozilla has had in Firefox for a while now, but […]
Open Bookmarks Always in New Tab in Firefox 57
By Mathew
While we still recommend doing most of your reading on paper from books instead of using things like eReaders, there’s no doubt about there being a lot of useful stuff to be found on webpages from many a domain name across the World Wide Web. If you found something that looks interesting but didn’t get […]
Disable UI Animations in Firefox 57 Quantum (Photon Design)
By Mathew
Firefox 57 is the fastest version of Firefox ever and it’s also 30% faster than the current version of Google Chrome, which even though we don’t have the official stats on this, should also make it the fastest browser in the world at the moment—or at least the fastest browser out of all the main […]
Disable ‘Activity Stream’ and Get Classic New Tab Page Back in Firefox 57
By Mathew
The older version of the Firefox web browser before Firefox 57 arrived had just the “Top sites” list available from the new tab page and nothing else. The Firefox 57 new tab page, on the other hand, comes with the Top Sites still, plus a bunch of new features, including the search box for searching […]
Enable/Disable Title Bar in Firefox 57
By Mathew
The Firefox 57 web browser is one of the finest portals to the internet one can use, partly thanks to its groundbreaking features and partly because it borrows all the existing best ideas from other browsers. If you go back a decade or so, the average web browser wasn’t very intelligently put together. The user […]
Turn Off/On Highlights on New Tab Page in Firefox
By Mathew
One of the new features you get with Firefox 57, aka Firefox Quantum, is the “Highlights” that show up on a blank page when you open up a new tab. If you were to open up another tab from Google Chrome, you would see some of the websites that you frequently visit so you can […]
Here’s What’s New in Firefox Quantum, and Why You Ought to Think About Installing It
By Mathew
Web browsers are fun, really fun. They are your portal to the World Wide Web after all, so it’s important you pick a good one. I, like many others over multiple decades ago now, started my journey using Internet Explorer just because it was the default web browser that came with my Windows operating system—all […]