I just came across this very neat little Firefox extension that provides parental controls for the Firefox web browser. It is called Gubble (www.gubble.com). Once it is installed and you restart Firefox it will prompt you to setup a parental account and then child accounts. The extension takes control of the browser and works on a whitelist philosophy. Everything is blocked except what you allow for the child accounts.

I was happy to recieve one of my latest podcasts from japanesepod101.com. It mentioned a firefox extension called "Rikaichan" that would translate the translation of a Japanese word in a webpage and translate it to either English, German, French or Russian. This software is free and licensed under GNU General Public License v2. Homepage: http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/

First to set the Proxy settings we need to edit the file called all.js in the greprefs folder and find the line that starts with proxy.type. Here is how to do this...

This is an example of how to deploy firefox remotely to your windows based domain client machines using psexec with proxy settings. First you need to download the latest 7-zip from here: www.7-zip.org after you have that installed find your firefox installer package. As of this articles writing the name of this file was “Firefox Setup 2.0.0.3.exe”. Right-click on it and choose the following...