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If you to want export and save all of your Firefox passwords here is a nice free add-on quite easy to use. Its name is Password Exporter and does exactly what it says. As a matter of fact, it exports (or import) all the passwords available in Firefox. You can export by using either XML or CSV format. In this way, next time your computer crashes, you will have all of your passwords with you! If instead you want to use something more complete meaning that you want to save your entire Firefox profile including passwords, cookies, bookmarks then MozBackup is the right add-on. In fact, it lets you backup or restore your profiles in a couple of steps. Reading from the website: “It allows you to backup and restore bookmarks, mail, contacts, history, extensions, cache etc. It’s an easy way to do Firefox backup, Thunderbird backup …” If you want to download it for free or you want to know more, click here.

Ok, the title here is pretty long and quite self-explanatory, but that’s the deal! In fact every now and then some Firefox add-ons won’t uninstall through the Uninstall button because the aforementioned button is disabled or doesn’t want to work properly. This issue seems to affect add-ons and themes all the same and most of the times the only solution users have to solve it, is to uninstall Firefox and delete all of its keys in the registry. Anyway, there are other simple fixes and tricks which work and save from a lot of stress. Here is the list:

First Method

When everything seems to be lost, try to uninstall an add-on through the uninstall feature available in Windows Vista. Here is how to reach it:

1. Click Start.
2. Click Control Panel.
3. Click Programs and Features.
4. Pick  the add-on you want to uninstall and and double click on it.

Second Method

Try to uninstall a stubborn add-on by putting Firefox in safe mode. To turn Safe mode on follow these steps:

1. Close Firefox.
2. Click Start.
3. Open All Programs.
4. Find Firefox folder and open it.
5. Click Safe Mode.
6. Try to uninstal the add-on.
7. If you want a simpler way to access the Safe Mode click on Start and type in the Search Bar the following command: firefox -safe-mode

Third Method

If the aforementioned methods didn’t work for you, here is another trick which is not very easy to apply but assure you to remove all the unwanted add-ons from your Firefox once for good.

1. Click Start.
2. Click Computer.
3. Click your Local Disk.
4. Click Programs Files.
5. Click Mozilla Firefox folder.
6. Open Extensions folder.
7. To identify which add-on the folder is representing, go to each folder and perform the following steps: 1) Use a text editor (e.g. Notepad) to open the install.rdf file. 2) Now search the following text: em:name 3) Locate the folder with install.rdf file with the name after the “em:name” corresponding to the extension you intend to remove or delete. 4) Delete the folder of the extension.

No, I didn’t get crazy all of a sudden. You read it right! As a matter of fact, thanks to a nice add-on you will be able to play with the most famous Nintendo games on your Firefox browser! To tell you truth you will be able to play with all of them, since we are speaking about more than 2500 games here! All you have to do is to download and install the add-on and…that’s it! No need to download anything (no emulator or roms needed). What you are waiting for? Change your Firefox into a powerful emulator. Download the add-on now!

Google has just released a nice API application that lets you display maps and all the nice functionalities available on Google Heart directly on your preferred browser. Here is a brief excerpt: ” The Google Earth Plug-in and its JavaScript API let you embed Google Earth, a true 3D digital globe, into your web pages. Using the API you can draw markers and lines, drape images over the terrain, add 3D models, or load KML files, allowing you to build sophisticated 3D map applications. If you have an existing Maps API site, you can 3D-enable your page with as little as one line of code.” To download it, visit this page

Web of trust is an interesting add-on for Firefox whose goal is to advice you against those websites which try to cheat and scam you with artful fake pages. It also reports if a website contains spyware, malware, spam and other threats which could be installed on your computer without your permission. But how does it work? The main idea behind Web of Trust is quite simple but very effective. As a matter of fact, its strength is based upon people using it who report if a website is secure or not once they visit it. No third party company to rely on, no expensive software nor update to buy. Everything is done by surfers who, by using this wonderful free application, come together to create the most powerful anti-pestware community ever made! Deborah Salmi working at Web of Trust wrote me this interesting article to let me and all Web Talk’s readers know more about the add-on.

People-driven security, an approach that lets individual Internet users join forces in the battle against online threats, is gaining momentum. Web of Trust, a free browser security tool, combines the collective power of millions of human eyes with data from automated blacklist services to keep your computer safe from spyware, adware, spam, viruses, browser exploits, unreliable online shops, phishing and other Internet scams.
As you search with Google, Yahoo!, Gmail, Wikipedia, Mahalo, Digg, del.icio.us, AOL, MSN and others, you will see a tiny icon beside the link—green for go, yellow for proceed with caution and red for stop. WOT has data for over 18 million websites, and the reputation database is updated every thirty minutes, so information is fresh.
The Website Reputation Scorecard lets you see the reasons for a website’s ratings. It supplies data on popularity, a WHOIS link, detailed rating information with graphics that mirror the add-on’s rating popup, and a section for comments and references.
WOT has an impressive 4.5/5.0 star user rating on CNET and is a recommended add-on for Firefox. It also works on Internet Explorer. Watch the demo, anddownload WOT today.
Thanks to Francesco for supporting Web of Trust.

Deborah Salmi

If you installed Windows Genuine Advantege (WGA) addon in your Firefox browser, at a certain point you could wish to uninstall it from your computer and your life. This software serves only the purpose to bother you, and makes you curse at Microsoft when you try to download something from Microsoft Download Center. As a matter of fact, if you try to download restricted software, your browser will prompt you (thanks to the addon) to download and install WGAPluginInstall.exe which, once installed, will check if your Windows Vista or Xp is valid. WGAPluginInstall.exe installs npLegitCheckPlugin.dll and nsILegitCheckPlugin.xpt into Mozilla Firefox. Microsoft, as usual, has not given any way to uninstall the plugin, but luckily for us there is a little trick to get rid of it. Go to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins folder, and then delete the npLegitCheckPlugin.dll file. Then, go to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\components folder, and delete the nsILegitCheckPlugin.xpt file. At this point, if you want to see if you have really removed the plugin, on your Firefox address bar write: about:plugins. If any info related to the plugin appears you are done!

Some time ago I spoke about the best Firefox add-ons available on the Internet. You can read the article here. There are a lot of add-ons available for this excellent browser and I have spoken about them broadly. To have an idea what I am talking about you can click on this link here to know more. Anyway, since I am always looking for new things to broaden the variety of topics Web Talk covers on a daily basis, today I want to speak of some new add-ons which could be useful if you like playing with images while surfing. Here is a list of the best image add-ons available for Firefox. Continue reading »

If you have a PDF file but you don’t want to use any software to open it, the only solution you have is to convert such a file, thanks to an online application, into a flash webpage readable directly from your preferred browser. Thanks to PdfMeNot reading a PDF file without using Adobe Reader (which, in some cases, slow your computer down) is not impossible anymore. As a matter of fact this nice website lets you converter any PDF documents located on your computer or in any website with a couple of simple steps. But PdfMeNot goes beyond all this. In fact, it lets you download a Firefox extension to have such an important resource always at hand in your browser. Besides, if you are a webmaster PdfMeNot may be very helpful to you. In fact, if you want your visitors to read important PDF documents within your blog’s pages, you can do it by embedding a special code provided by PdfMeNot once a certain document has been converted. Look at the example here. I like this website a lot and I strongly recommend it to bloggers who are always looking for applications to embed documents and pics in their blogs in an easy and painless way.