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/

By Default the latest version of Firefox makes a backup of your bookmarks. The problem is that this backup is in that hard-to-find area on the hard drive under C:\documents and settings\UserName\Application Data\etc. etc. etc.(Technical data here: http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile#locate)