Showing posts with label chrome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chrome. Show all posts

Actually, Zotero has full support in Mozilla Firefox. In Chromium browser (and Google Chrome), it has only Zotero Connector. Zotero Connector for Chromium is an extension to work with Zotero Stand Alone (or with the cloud Zotero server). It has no Zotero user interface like the one for Firefox. Here how to install it.

Probably you need to take a web page screenshot. You can do that easily on Chrome (Chromium) and Firefox by an extension named Awesome Screenshot. You can take the whole or part of page. You can annotate it with line or text and color after taking. I will show you how to install and use it.


After trying SSH Tunneling, probably you feel it is painful to change proxy settings manually every time. And maybe you have another proxy so you need a quick proxy changer. There are extensions to help us change the proxy settings by just a click. It is SwitchySharp for Chrome and Proxy Selector on Firefox. Of course, you may create different proxy configurations as many as possible if you have more than one. I will show you how to install and use it.

After a few months of usage, you will find your browser getting slow. It seems heavy to start. It is also heavy to load some Facebook pages and some other pages. It seems that your browser have a problem. The most common problem is your browser is getting fatty. The fat I mean are cache, bookmark, history, and add-on. All of them stored in a browser profile. So, basically, to solve this problem you need to create a new profile. Your browser will be speedy again. This article covers only Chrome and Firefox.

Do you want to save your bookmarks and history like a Gmail account? So in any computer, in Firefox or Google Chrome, you will always have the same? Sync them at anytime you want? You can do it exactly with Xmarks add-on. Xmarks add-on saves all your bookmarks in Xmarks server and you just need to login to have them back in your browser. It is available for Firefox and Chrome. This article will show you how to install and use Xmarks on Firefox and Chrome.

Different Browsers with Same Bookmarks

Now you can read PDF directly inside Google Chrome or Chromium. It is just same with Firefox built-in PDF reader. To get it, you need to install a Chrome extension named PDF Viewer. This extension created by Rob Wu and friends. This extension is available in Chrome Web Store. The development page of PDF Viewer is on Github (if you want to contribute). This extension is compatible both in Chromium or Google Chrome.

View PDF in Chromium Browser

Google actually will track every your click in the search result page. Google redirects all links. So you never get the real URL when doing Copy Link Location. So how to remove that Google behavior in Chrome/Chromium and Firefox? How to protect yourself from this Google indirection? You just need the right add-ons.

Freedom To Copy A Link

We all know that Chrome OS from Google is a Linux based operating system with Google chrome browser as a operating system. But things are now changing and Chrome OS is moving from a browser only operating system to a more traditional operating system with a full fledged Window Manger called Aura, a shell and a File manager.

The browser as operating system is apparently not working out for Google. I mean, have you ever thought of ditching your favorite operating system in favor of a browser only Chrome OS? Or purchasing a Chrome Book for that matter ?

For those who doesn't know what WebGL is:
WebGL (Web-based Graphics Library) is a software library that extends the capability of the JavaScript programming language to allow it to generate interactive 3D graphics within any compatible web browser. WebGL code executes on a computer display card's Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), which must support shader rendering.
WebGL is a context of the canvas HTML element that provides a 3D computer graphics API without the use of plug-ins.[2] The specification was released as version 1.0 on March 3, 2011.[1] WebGL is managed by the non-profit Khronos Group.