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Firefox Adds New ‘Do Not Track’ Options

Windows/Mac/Linux: The latest version of Firefox, Firefox 21, is officially due tomorrow, but you can download it now from Mozilla’s FTP servers. What will you find in this new release? A few major new features, including three “Do Not Track” options, a tune-up tool called Firefox Health Report, and performance-boosting startup suggestions.


Cleanr Strips YouTube Down To The Bare Essentials

Chrome/Firefox/Safari: Whatever YouTube’s virtues, it’s easy to watch one video via a link and then spend the next hour watching related videos and generally wasting time. Cleanr is a browser extension that focuses on the video, and strips out the ads, sidebars, comments, buttons and other distractions.


Dragdis Saves And Organises Web Content

Chrome/Firefox/Safari: There’s no shortage of ways to save content from the web to review later, but few services handle videos, photos, and text as seamlessly and quickly as Dragdis.


NBar Automatically Fixes Mistyped URLs In The Address Bar

Firefox: If you’ve been known to fat-finger URLs and wind up going to “lifehaker” instead of “lifehacker”, NBar is a Firefox extension that uses string matching and logic to figure out where you meant to go, correct the URL and send you on your way. It automatically corrects not just common URL errors but some more complicated ones as well.


SlickWrite Proofreads Your Writing And Provides Statistical Feedback

Spellcheck can only go so far to ensure you’re writing something worth reading. SlickWrite analyses your writing for grammar, common mistakes, and even provides statistical analysis of your text.


The Best Browser Extensions That Protect Your Privacy

There are lots of browser extensions that promise to protect your privacy, which leads to some natural questions: Which is the best? Do they all do the same thing? What should I really download? In this guide, we’re going to look at the most popular browser extensions that promise to protect your privacy online, and give you our recommendations.


Brow Adds Browser Bookmarks To Spotlight Search

Mac: By default, Macs show Safari bookmarks in Spotlight with full previews and search, but that search functionality doesn’t extend to Chrome or Firefox. Brow is an app that adds all your bookmarks to Spotlight.


Disconnect 2 Speeds Up The Web While Blocking Third-Party Tracking

Firefox/Chrome: Disconnect has always been one of our favourite privacy protecting browser extensions. Now Disconnect is even faster, and speeds up the web by shutting down ad-trackers, social widgets and other snooping elements before they load, resulting in faster load times and less bandwidth consumed.


Enhanced Steam: A Better Way To Browse Steam’s Games Catalogue

Steam, Valve’s online gaming store, provides a fair chunk of information when you view an item in its catalogue. But it could be working just a little harder. Enhanced Steam, an add-on for Chrome and Firefox, tweaks the layout of Steam’s product pages to display additional info including Metacritic user scores, included DRM and more.


PageZipper Turns Paginated Articles Into An Endless Scroll

Chrome/Firefox: Paginated posts are never fun to navigate through, because they require an excessive amount of clicking. PageZipper is a Chrome and Firefox extension that turns multi-page posts into one simple, endless scroll, complete with keyboard navigation.


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