The add-on is still in beta, you might experience some bugs. Firesay add-on work only in windows. Once Installed, the developers recommend users to train the speech recommendation in windows control panel. After training, you can test voice control in Mozilla Firefox. Firesay can save a lot of time through voice browsing.

Currently, you can:-

• Say your search queries(Eg: Search google ‘Technology’ )
• Say which sites you want to visit.(Eg: Go to Facebook ; only limited sites are supported as of now.)
• Say what TV shows you want to watch on Hulu.(Eg: Watch the ‘Office’, to watch Office Tv show on Hulu.)Close the active tab (Eg: Close tab)
• Open, Launch ( Same as ‘Go to’)

We can enable/disable Firesay with a click. It accepts commands only when the browser window is active. It would be great if the developers add functions like “Scroll Down” “Save Web Page” “Next Tab”and other daily browser tasks we do.

There are many challenges, and more features to be added,  long way to go, but Firesay might soon become a must have add-on for your Firefox.

Firesay can be downloaded from the Mozilla Add-ons Repository.

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Firesay Add-on for voice browsing in Firefox

Soon we are going to have a major update of Mozilla Firefox. Recently Mozilla release beta version two of the popular web browser. The visual experience with Firefox 4 is going to be great with polished look. hidden menu bar and a revamped add-ons section. Most of us face a problem with every major release of Mozilla Firefox. That is compatibility of old add-ons with the newer version of Firefox. So some of our existing add-ons might not work with Firefox version 4 since they are written for previous versions of Firefox browser. The developers of add-ons takes time to update them to the newer version. So, if you don’t want to wait for the updates, Here are some ways to make your old add-ons work with newer version.

1 ) Install Compatibility Reporter add-on developed by Mozilla. It is created to test and report the compatibility of add-ons with the various versions of Mozilla Firefox. This add-on automatically configures your browser to install and use add-ons which are incompatible with your latest version of Firefox

2) Type about:config in your Firefox address bar and agree the warning message. Now, right-click inside the browser and choose New –> Boolean, type the preference name as xtensions.checkCompatibility.4.0b and set it to False. This way by replacing 4.0b by future versions, you can make add-ons compatible in future versions too.(more about it at mozillaZine entry)

3) Edit the Firefox add-on file. Download the add-on file to your computer and unzip/extract it ( double-click the .xpi file and open it with winzip/winrar application to unzip ) and edit the install.rdf file. Change the value of em:maxVersion to 4.0.* , Now compress it folder and change the extension of the compressed file to .xpi, then drag and drop the file in your browser to install the add-on. If you have anything to say please use the comment form.

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First, Install the FacePAD Facebook Photo Album Downloader to download photos from Facebook.

After installation of this Firefox extension, just right ‘ View Album link’ and click option ‘Download Album With FacePAD’. Full album will be downloaded in Firefox downloads folder. If there is more than one page of photos, then you will be get prompt for successive pages with photo download like:

Alert 1: Downloading 20 Photos from page 1
Alert 2: Downloading 20 Photos from page 2
Alert 3: Downloading 15 Photos from page 3

Happy downloading :)

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Download Facebook Photo Albums with FacePAD firefox extension

Foxmarks – Bookmarks synchronizing across multiple computers made easy

What is Foxmarks ?

It is a powerful and popular Firefox extension which allows users to synchronize and back up their bookmarks and passwords across different computers online. Previously, this extension only supports Firefox browser. However, this interesting Firefox extension has extended its synchronization features to Internet Explorer and Safari as well.

How to use Foxmarks ?

For enjoying this service,Users simply need to download the Foxmarks extension for Internet Explorer and Safari here and install it. The installation process is pretty easy and fast. For this users have to create an account with Foxmarks. Once the account is created, users can start uploading their bookmarks or favorites to Foxmarks for synchronization.

How useful is Foxmarks?

As you can see, With Foxmarks, users can substantially to keep their bookmarks up to date. At this point of time, the Internet Explorer and Safari versions of Foxmarks is unable to do passwords synchronization. Foxmarks team says that they will sort it out soon.

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Synchronize Bookmarks From IE Safari and Firefox On Different Computers With Foxmarks

Using Set Program Access and Defaults :-

This is accessible from the right pane of the start menu, Start > Set Program Access and defaults or from control panel, Start> control panel > add or remove programs , and Set Program Access and Defaults.

Access Set Program Access and Defaults via Start menu.

Here you select custom which is the most flexible of all, this allows us to choose the default applications for different works, a mixture of Microsoft and non-Microsoft products.

Choosing the Custom default application option( Here i choose IE )

Then Press Ok, Now your default browser option is saved and the default browser for your system changes

Even though this is illustrated for changing the default browser options , You can extend it to others also, like choosing  your default e-mail program, media player, instant messaging program, and Java virtual machine.

The second method, by “check default browser status” in the respective browsers .

Some might  have previously turned off the default browser prompt, It is necessary to turn it on. You can do it by selecting the following options in internet explorer, Firefox, and Opera respectively

1.Internet Explorer – Click on Tools >> Internet Options >> Programs tab. Select the Tell me if Internet Explorer is not the default browser check box.

2.Firefox – Click on Tools >> Options >>General. Select the Firefox should check to see if it is the default browser when starting check box.

3.Opera – Click on Tools >> Preferences >> Default Application. Select the Check if Opera is default browser on startup check box.

Then restart the browser and select it as the default browser when prompted. To avoid the repeated message prompts from other browsers, uncheck the same option in others.

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How to Change Default Web Browser