What is a Mozilla Firefox Addon or Extension? Mozilla Firefox addons or extensions are programs that can be installed into Firefox in order to change the browser's functionality. This includes adding ...

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Video Control is a Firefox addon that will display advertisements in search result pages and web sites that you visit. When installed, Video Control injects a javascript script into web sites that you ...

An expired certificate on the Mozilla Add-ons infrastructure is disabling Firefox add-ons for millions of users, and is also preventing users from re-activating or (re-)installing extensions. The ...

Firefox 3 was released just this June, and many Firefox fans believe the new version is clearly the best browser you can get. You can make it even better with free ...

Recently we came across some information that Firefox would be getting restart-less add-ons sooner than we expected, and it prompted us to take a look at the future of Firefox add-ons. Even though ...

Last year Mozilla launched MemShrink, an aggressive campaign to trim Firefox’s memory footprint. Since then not only has the browser's overall memory use dropped considerably, but the effort has been ...

Firefox is popular in part because it allows anyone to extend the browser with all sorts of additional functionality through its add-on framework. Add-ons can turn Firefox into a BitTorrent client, an ...

Mozilla yesterday detailed plans to require Firefox add-ons to be digitally signed, a move meant to bear down on rogue and malicious extensions, and one that resembled Google’s decision years ago to ...

Over the past two weeks, Mozilla's add-on review team has banned 197 Firefox add-ons that were caught executing malicious code, stealing user data, or using obfuscation to hide their source code. The ...

Ever since Google Chrome blog announced the launch of Google Chrome Extensions, people have never stopped talking when this move is going to kill FireFox. Well, you might know how much I love FireFox ...

As we reported yesterday, Google had to address an issue with Chrome and tainted browser extensions “Add to Feedly” and “Tweet This Page” that began to spit out unwanted ads, prompting a backlash from ...