Add Bing search engine on Firefox Search Suggestion Box

Surely if Bing wanted to expand their search share they must crawl aggressively like Google. However I had already discuss the power of Image search and Video search of Bing which is lot better than Google. Also their search result presentation is better than Google. So you have enough reason to add it on your Firefox search suggestion box located on top right corner and the end portion of Navigation Toolbar.

All you need to install this tiny addon utility on your Firefox browser. Now use it and utilize its power on your search term.

10+ Best Firefox Addons for Security and Privacy

Security and privacy are some of the major concerns these days while choosing a web browser to use. So much so that all the major players in the “browser wars” are providing or developing a private browsing mode.

Firefox with the myraid of add-ons that it has to offer is never far from action. Here are some of the top Firefox addons that you should install for better privacy and security

Stealther

Stealther - Stealther provides you with what can be called a private browsing mode. It allows you to browse the web without leaving any trace. The addon disables browsing history, cookies, cache, recent tabs and sending of referrer header for as long as you want. It’s lot like the incognito mode in Google chrome. Distrust is another similar addon that allows you to acheive the similar results.

Close ‘n’ Forget

Close ‘n’ Forget - While Stealther and Distrust require you to turn on private browsing explicitly, what if you happen to stumble upon a site that you wished you would have known to turn on the private browsing mode for? Close ‘n’ Forget comes to your rescue. Just hit the special close button once you are finished and that site will be deleted from history and cookies cleared as if you had never visited the site.

WOT

WOT - We all know about the threats which surfers suffer like viruses, spywares, adware, malicious spam, phishing etc., but here Web of Trust comes to rescue. WOT warns you about risky websites that try to scam surfers before they enter in them using a safety rating of 21 million websites, WOT combines evidence collected from multiple sources. Not only does it help surfers but also sets a protection level for children by blocking inappropriate content.

NoScript

NoScript - An absolute must have security addon for your browser. NoScript gives you the power to specify the sites you trust and only those sites will be allowed to run active content like Javascript, Java code and other executable code. The addon thus protects you from cross-site scripting attacks and clickjacking attacks.

Panic

Panic - Panic allows you to instantly close all the open tabs and replace it with another tab of your choice. So next time while you are on facebook and your boss drops to check in just hit Alt + ` and you would be taken to predefined page in no time.

hideBad

hideBad - Hides bad things! Saves all the tabs, closes them and opens your home page. Allows you to clear history, cookies, cache and passwords at your will and then restore them later.

TabRenamizer / Page Title Eraser

TabRenamizer and Page Title Eraser - Do your tabs give you away? Why not change their names with TabRenamizer or remove the names all together with Page Title Eraser? Both these addons let you play with the tab titles so that you can change them according to your will.

 

Gish It / tEMPORARYiNBOX / spamavert

 

Gish It!, TemporaryInbox, spamavert - These addons allow you to protect your inboxes from Spam by getting throwaway email addresses to be used with web forms while registering for sites you are not sure about.

BetterPrivacy

BetterPrivacy - Now you don’t need to worry from anything like ‘you are being tracked..!!’ BetterPrivacy is a Super-Cookie Safeguard which protects from usually undeletable Flash-Cookies. It blocks long term tracking on Google, YouTube, Ebay to name a few.

Ghostery

Ghostery - It keeps an eye on the websites that are keeping an eye on you i.e. it finds out that which web sites which are tracking you and would alert you about the same.

Torbutton

Torbutton - It provides a button to securely and easily enable or disable the browser’s use of Tor. Tor can be used for anonymous browsing and has been covered on makeuseof in detail.

FoxyProx

FoxyProxy - FoxyProxy automatically switches an internet connection across one or more proxy servers based on URL patterns and switching rules defined by you.

JSview

JSview - Allows you to view the source code of external files like javascript and CSS files. Although it would require a bit of knowledge and looking through the code to determine if it really is harmful, it can be quite useful to see if there is some malicious code sending off your passwords to somewhere else.

If privacy and security are on top of your list check out how to remain safe on public computersand how to set up firefox to automatically clear sensitive data.

Did I miss any addon that you use for similar purposes? (I am sure I have, there are just so many or them!) Fire up a comment and share your Firefox knowledge with us!

Search as you type with Keyboardr

Every now and again I use StumbleUpon to see what kind of unique sites I can find, and last week I found a rather nifty one called Keyboardr. It’s a search engine that distinguishes itself by not actually having (or needing) a search button. Results are show to you in real-time as you type.

Off to the side of the page you’ll also see the top result from Wikipedia, some videos from Youtube, Google Image results, and even Google Blog results. The whole interface is designed to to be navigated using only the keyboard, so you shouldn’t even have to put your hand on the mouse.

The downside? Only eight search results from Google are displayed. You can always click the “All Results” link to be taken directly to Google to view more matches, but since this is using the same API as our CyberSearch extension I know it’s possible for the developer to program this to retrieve multiple pages of results. In fact they should just make it so that as you scroll down the page it keeps fetching more results. That would make it perfect, and especially handy as a homepage that the browser displays each time you create a new tab.

Tip: Pressing the ESC key will clear out the results shown on the page, and it will focus/clear the search box.

Keyboardr Homepage

Virus Effect Remover lets You Re-Enable Windows Task Manager, Folder Option, MsConfig, Registry Editor and More

Anti-virus software only scans and cleans up your computer for viruses, worms and Trojans. Even after the malicious codes have been removed from your Windows, but the damages that have been caused by the infection are difficult to be reverted to the previous state. Some even have to re-install their Windows operating system while some use disk imaging software like Acronis True Image to restore their Windows.

Virus Effect Remover is a handy Windows software application that can helps you to remove the effects or recover from the damages caused by the infection of viruses, worms and trojans from your windows registry and file system. This open source application helps you to detect the registry error caused by virus and re-enables the blocked content like the Windows task manager, registry editor, msconfig, folder option and more.

Besides that, you can use the Process Detail tab to see exactly the processes taking place in your computer. From there, you can use it to kill any running process especially the virus process and the process can also be removed permanently. Other additional options are creating registry backup, check system files, block autorun for USB devices and more.

Virus Effect Remover is compatible with Windows XP and Vista.

Download Virus Effect Remover