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Firefox has a full screen mode and most, if not all media players you find online have one too. It may seem like a harmless feature and it is for the most part but there are still exceptions. This is why when you enter full screen mode, you get a …

Firefox add-ons can, and often, add an icon to the toolbar. In most cases, when an add-on adds an icon to the toolbar, it does it so when it has menu items that a user will need to access in order to use it. Add-ons that don’t need additional user-interaction …

Add-ons for Firefox are generally available in the Firefox Marketplace along with themes. These add-ons are safe and you can install them with a few clicks. It’s about as easy as it gets. Add-on developers generally do not have to face any problems when they submit an add-on so distribution …

Firefox has a picture-in-picture mode, much like Chrome and Safari do. This feature was added in Firefox 67 (current stable version is 68) and works on websites that use an HTML5 media player. One popular website is of course YouTube. For some reason, the feature isn’t enabled for everyone by …

Firefox is a modern web browser with an extensive list of features and quite a few customization options. End users can customize how the browser works via its Options window however, Firefox has other settings that users can change from its about:config page. This page lists settings that are otherwise …

Websites change all the time as new technology allows them to do more and more. Early websites were basic compared to the ones we have now. Unfortunately, not all changes have been for the better. Videos are now common on a lot of websites and many of them autoplay with …

Auto-playing videos have become a thing. Websites like Facebook and YouTube will automatically play the next, suggested video for you in a bid to keep you engaged (and unproductive). With YouTube, you can turn off auto-play for the next video but there’s no way to disable the up next video …

All browsers have a private browsing mode. You can find it on both desktop and mobile browsers. The private mode doesn’t mask your browsing activity from your ISP but it does ensure that, as far as your device is concerned, there’s no trace of it left there. For browsers that …

Microsoft Edge has a neat feature called ‘set aside tabs’. It lets you close a group of tabs that you have open and recall them whenever you need to. The feature is unlike anything other modern browsers have to offer. At the most, you can open recently closed tabs, or …