Remember your first “homepage”? Maybe it was MySpace, or maybe it was a GeoCities page now combed by Internet archaeologists probing the ancient World Wide Web ruins of the 90’s. But whichever it was, one thing remains certain: we all have our preferred jumping point on the Internet… And when you open your browser, there it is.

So what about when you click to open a “New Tab” and get a blank screen? Chances are you immediately direct it to your homepage. But wouldn’t it be easier if that new tab landed on your homepage automatically? That’s what happens with the My Homepage Add-on.

Once installed, Firefox will open your homepage each time you open a new tab. No more doing it yourself.

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But what about that rare instance you want a blank page? Type CONTROL+ALT+M. That simple.

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Hudson Bell wrote this post while in a cave near the Sangangüey Volcano

Printing straight from the Internet can be tricky business. When you try to print a single item from a page, there are always a myriad of other images, ads and words that come along with it. Since toner doesn’t fall off trees, some sites may offer a “print version” of a page, but generally even those leave something to be desired.

So what if you suddenly had control of the frame layout of a page and could delete anything you didn’t wish to print? Likewise, what if you could select a sole section you wanted to print and everything else would disappear? Both of these options (and more) are available to you with the Print Edit add-on.

Once installed, Print Edit is accessible in the File menu. Select it while on a page you want to print and the screen will refresh to display a number of option buttons at the top of your browser:

You can now click within the page, selecting sections you do or do not wish to print. Once selected, a section gets outlined by a blinking, broken, red line. You can even choose many sections at once. In this example, I have chosen to select sections of an article I would like to print:

Here is what happens once I choose “Delete Except” from the toolbar up top:

Not only am I left with the simple article, but now there are no unnecessary images, background colors, etc. — perfect for printing. With Print Edit you will be free to quickly print off content from the Internet without bleeding your printer dry.

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Hudson Bell wrote this while visiting the Capuchin Crypt

Every month an Add-on is chosen as the ‘Pick of the month’ – the add-on the Rock Your Firefox Editors think users will love most from the selection added to the Featured add-ons list.

This month’s selection is Textarea Cache, which can save you time (and save your sanity) when you’re on the web.

Textarea Cache is a very simple, but powerful tool. Each time you enter text into a text box – like a Facebook status update, a forum comment, or when you’re sending email via a webmail client – Textarea Cache can save a handy backup of the text you entered for future use.

So when you’re sending the same reply for the umpteenth time on a message board, or you need to remember a comment you made online, you can call up the text you typed with a couple of clicks. Simply click the TextArea Cache icon at the bottom of Firefox, and you can dial up every piece of text you’ve entered, sorted by the date, time and website you entered it on.

The Cache Window allows you to scroll through all your saved text entries, and copy text to your clipboard for further use. From here, you can also delete individual entries, or clear your entire cache if required.

Textarea Cache’s settings are very clearly laid out – you can tell Textarea Cache how long to keep the data in the cache, or remove old data within a certain period after you restart Firefox. If you prefer not to save text entries when visiting certain websites, you can define a list of pages for Textarea Cache to ignore, so that there is no risk of a third party having access to your secure or personal information.

Textarea Cache is available for download now. Check out more great add-ons in the Featured Add-on list here.

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If you’re heading abroad for your summer vacation (or winter vacation for those in the southern hemisphere), you may want to check out the new Travel Collection, a set of great Firefox Add-ons that will help you get the most out of your trip.

Whether you’re yet to book, still researching tours and itineraries or wondering what the small print in Spanish says on the confirmation for the villa you’ve booked, we’ve got you covered.

If you’re ready to dive in, you can check out the collection here.

• Flagfox tells you the country location of the website you’re visiting and provides safety checks, translation and URL shortening, among other useful features.
• If you’re yet to travel and are still researching flights, InvisibleHand automatically updates you with the lowest prices via discreet notifications from over 589 airlines.
• If you’re crossing time zones, it’s easy to lose track of what time it is where you are, never mind back home! FoxClocks keeps an eye on the time for you and adds convenient clocks to your toolbar for each location.
• On a website that’s not in your language? No problem! BabelFish Instant Translation can help out by translating individual words or a whole site just by clicking or highlighting the relevant text.
• Need to find the exact location of your hotel, a tourist attraction or beach? Minimap Sidebar lets you search for locations from the page you’re on in a convenient sidebar.
• If you’ve taken holiday snaps on your vacation, Fotofox lets you drop images from across the Web into photo albums. You can then tag, title and export them to a number of online photo services.
• Thinking about keeping a blog of your travels? Scribefire integrates with Firefox so you can blog right from the page you’re browsing.
• Deep Web Search Engine lets you search and compare prices for flights, car rental, cruises, hotels and vacation packages. If you’re technically minded and know JavaScript, you can even add your own search categories and websites for comparison.

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Every so often an add-on comes along that leaves you wondering how you ever got on without it.

If you’re a Twitter user – today certainly marks one of those occasions with the launch of Twitter’s add-on for Firefox: the Twitter Address Bar Search add-on.

Once  you’ve installed the add-on (with no restart required), you’ll  notice a Twitter app tab has been pinned to Firefox for quick access.  Then, click on the Awesome Bar, and the  fun starts.

The Twitter Address Bar Search add-on lets you search Twitter right from your Awesome Bar. To start a search, simply enter a hashtag (like #Firefox), or @mention, and you can instantly call up a page of results of topics or people on Twitter.

You can install the Twitter Address Bar Search add-on right now – for your desktop or Android phone (scan the QR code below to download on your phone).

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Dan Horner - Product Marketing Manager for add-ons @ Mozilla

In these busy days of social networking and online sharing tools, it’s easy to lose track of the rest of the Web — your email in particular. If you’re like me, and have amassed multiple email accounts over the years, remembering to check each one for updates when you’re off wandering around the Web can feel like a bit of a chore.

WebMail Notifier makes it easy and automatic. Once you install the add-on, simply add your email accounts and WebMail Notifier will check your inbox for new arrivals.

The usual suspects are supported (Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo), plus you can add POP3 and IMAP email services. WebMail Notifier’s default check interval is 10 minutes, but you can configure it to check more or less often as your email requirements demand.

When you receive a new email, you get a discreet alert in the bottom right hand corner that you can click to visit your accounts. While you’re browsing, WebMail Notifier keeps track of your unread email at the bottom of your window. A single click on the mail icon opens your inboxes in tabs, while a right click gives you the option of a pop out window or sidebar to get a more detailed overview of your individual accounts and email folders.

Find out more about WebMail Notifier here.

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Developed by Byungwook Kang

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Dan Horner - Product Marketing Manager for add-ons @ Mozilla

Whether it’s adding places to your to-do list or checking in from within your browser, the Foursquare mobile add-on helps you explore the world around you. You can even keep up with friends, get insider tips and unlock discounts and rewards.

Foursquare is a location-based mobile platform that makes cities easier and more interesting to explore. By checking in, users share their location with friends while collecting points and virtual badges. You can also bookmark information about venues that you want to visit and Foursquare will offer you relevant suggestions about other nearby places.

To get Foursquare on Firefox for mobile, open the add-ons manager and select it from the list of recommended add-ons below, alternatively scan the QR code on the right. You won’t even have to restart Firefox to install Foursquare, then you can just swipe left and tap on the Foursquare icon on the right side of your screen above the Browser Tools. (You’ll be asked to authorize your account first, so that you can check in right from your mobile).

To check in to a nearby location, just tap on the Foursquare icon and a list of nearby locations will appear. Tap on the location you’re at and leave a tip for others to read if you’d like. You’ll see a confirmation of your check-in right in your phone’s notifications.

Find out more about Foursquare here. Or check out some of the other mobile add-ons recommended by Mozilla.

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Caitlin Looney - Product Marketing Manager for mobile @ Mozilla

Input a search on a topic on a search engine and you’re likely to pull up an entry from Wikipedia or Youtube in the first few pages of results alongside other listings from across the web. But what if your search results could be a little bit smarter? What if you could personalize your search queries with results from the websites that you spend your time on most, like social networks, news or shopping sites?

Search Tabs has stepped up to the plate to do just that. Enter a search on your search engine of choice — Google, Bing or Yahoo — and Search Tabs will seek out relevant information from a list of sites you visit frequently, be it Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon, eBay or others.

Search Tabs: Results (Click to expand)

You can even customize using your own sources. Got a news site or blog that you follow? Simply add the URL to Search Tabs’ list and your sources will be scanned from then on, too.

Search Tabs is also very respectful of your screen estate: It pops as an unobtrusive tab on the right hand side of your search engine’s results, expands when you click on it and disappears entirely when you browse somewhere else.

Overall, Search Tabs is an incredibly handy tool, one that I believe truly enhances searching the web and finding relevant information. Try it yourself and let me know what you think.

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Developed by WebMynd Team

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Dan Horner - Product Marketing Manager for add-ons @ Mozilla

Browsing with Firefox makes your mobile life a whole lot easier. But once you find what you need, you’ve got places to go and people to meet — you may not want to run multiple apps on your phone all at once.

With Quit Firefox for Mobile, Firefox will quit when you press the “close” button (the little red X) on the last open tab or choose “Quit” from the main menu.

Android OS automatically pauses applications when they are in the background, and closes them when free memory is needed, so most users shouldn’t need to quit applications. But for developers, testers and add-on authors, it’s useful to have a quick way to quit and restart Firefox on their mobile devices.

Developed by Matt Brubeck

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Post from Caitlin Looney - Product Marketing Manager for Mobile @ Mozilla

Browsing unknown websites can often make you feel outside your comfort zone. With the horror stories classically associated with the web — the threat of malware (like viruses and spy-ware), or the risks of letting a minor use the Internet unsupervised — this is not surprising.

Web of Trust uses a simple, three color, traffic light system to let you know if you should exercise caution when you land on a website for the first time.

Using scores generated by Web of Trust’s global community, websites are rated on four criteria: trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy and child safety. The aggregated scores appear next to your Awesome Bar as either a red, amber or green ‘O.’ The symbol also appears next to your search listings to warn you of any dangers before you click.

If a site you end up on is rated red — i.e. dangerous — Web of Trust pops up a handy warning, letting you know that the site has a poor reputation and prompts you to confirm that you are aware of the dangers. You can then choose to find out more about the rating details, rate the site yourself or ignore the warning altogether.

You can download the Web of Trust add-on for Firefox for free. Find out more about Web of Trust and check the reputation of a website on Web of Trust’s homepage.

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Developed by WOT Services

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Dan Horner - Product Marketing Manager for add-ons @ Mozilla