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Recovering Lost In-Browser Writing with the Lazarus Extension
It doesn’t matter how stable your computer is or how stable your web browser is, at some point, your browser will crash. It seems that the chances of your browser crashing are directly proportional to...
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Managing Tabs More Effectively In Firefox 4
A few weeks back, Amy covered the launch of Firefox 4. In her brief review, she mentioned that she had switched from Firefox to Chrome due to the latter’s speed. I know that other ProfHackers have...
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Use Collusion to Learn about Web Privacy
Cookies are small text files that websites store in your browser. Most of this is to facilitate things like shopping carts, or personalized settings for a site–for example, to identify subscribers to a...
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Taking Zotero out of the Browser with the Zotero Standalone Beta
Last week the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media announced the release of a new beta of the standalone version of Zotero, an open source reference manager and ProfHacker favorite. Zotero...
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ZotFile Awesomifies Zotero Attachments
We’ve been on a Zotero streak at ProfHacker lately, writing about the Android apps Zandy and Scanner for Zotero, as well as ideas for taking better notes in Zotero. If you regularly attach PDFs or...
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Handy Browser Extensions
No doubt many of our readers do a significant proportion of their work in a browser window; that’s certainly true of many of the members of the ProfHacker team. Extensions can make our browsers more...
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Firefox Focus Browser Provides Privacy and Content Blocking
For a few months now I’ve been intermittently using Firefox Focus to browse the web on my iPhone. It’s a free web browser for iOS, created by the Mozilla Foundation, the same folks behind the Firefox...
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Firefox Focus Now Available for Android
Back in February I wrote about the iOS browser called Firefox Focus, created by the Mozilla Foundation. If you’re concerned about privacy, this is “a dedicated privacy browser with tracking protection...
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Test Driving the New Firefox Quantum
I’ll be honest: it’s been awhile since I’ve thought about Firefox. I keep it installed on my computer, mostly to test compatibility when I build course or project websites, but it’s been years since I...
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Firefox Add-On Protects Against (Most) Facebook Tracking
In December, frustrated with Chrome’s bloat and Google’s constant hoovering of data, Ryan recommended giving the newest version of Firefox, the so-called Firefox Quantum browser, a try. It uses less...
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