Similar to user's who prefer old Firefox styling there are many who love Google Chrome's minimalistic approach, if you are also looking for the same - FXChrome for "Firefox 4" is the theme you need to get.

Anything which makes searching the web fast and efficient is a must have on my computer, and firefox addon kwiClick just made entry into that list. What kwiClick does is that it saves your time by delivering search results from your favorite services directly to you - without opening new tabs or navigating between pages while searching, thanks to the innovative and sleek in-tab window. The user just need to highlight any text and they can initiate the instant smart search via the intelligent search clover which appears above the selected text, having support for services like Google, Twitter, YouTube, FriendFeed, Google Maps, Flickr, Wikipedia, Amazon, Technorati, Veoh, Howcast, Live Video, Viddler, Yahoo, del.icio.us, and many more this addon packs quite a punch. Images, features and video demonstration with download link after the jump.

While Firefox 4 new minimalistic user-interface is loved by many, there are quite a few who prefer the good old days look. And to make that happen Firefox 4 theme "Realfox" would be your answer, thanks to this theme users can get back the old Firefox 1.5 look and feel complete with the old interface, tab styling, and the download manager. The theme also gets rid of address-bar clutter like the Bookmarks star, the RSS icon and the Go Button to simplify the interface.

One of the major new feature introduced in recently released Firefox 4.0 is the browser's ability to make use of computer's hardware capabilities to offer better text-rendering using hardware graphic acceleration, to make most out of this new feature Firefox addon "Anti-Aliasing Tuner" is here allowing customization of various Direct2D/DirectWrite text rendering parameters for personalized optimal results.

Final build for Mozilla's major update of their web-browser Firefox 4 will officially get revealed on 22 March, but as expected the build had already made it's way to Mozilla's official FTP servers and can be downloaded right now.

For users with the older version of the web-browser, Firefox 4 brings in lots of new features, the most notable being a completely revamped new streamlined user interface, enhanced performance, support for newest open Web technologies, hardware acceleration, jet-powered JaegerMonkey JavaScript engine, built-in Sync, restartless add-ons, and Panorama workspace management.

In my quest to get the fastest possible experience with our beloved Firefox web-browser here we have another trick to get upto 2x faster start-up of Firefox on Windows OS, Firefox addon "Start Faster" does exactly what it's name suggests making use of some clever tinkering with core OS "prefetch" functionality to make the web-browser loading time faster.

Firefox Load Time Before Using "Start Faster"

We want our web-browsers to be as fast as possible, we have shared tips on various optimizations aiming to make Firefox faster like the CPU optimized Pale Moon Project, SpeedyFox, Firefox memory optimizers and BarTab.

Today we have another nifty little tool which optimizes your Firefox install by removing unwanted language files from Extensions making start-up faster.

While Gmail Labs already featured an "unread message count in title-bar" hack, the same was not very useful while using tab-pinning in Firefox or Chrome web-browsers. Thanks to a new Gmail Labs feature we can now have the unread mail count as an favicon clearly visible when using tab-pinning feature in Firefox and Google Chrome.

Firefox 4 Beta 7 is now available for public download - with remarkable performance boosts via "JägerMonkey" JavaScript compiler, added support for hardware-accelerated graphics, hardware acceleration on Windows XP and Mac OS X, and WebGL powered 3D capabilities without the need for additional plug-ins this release features lots of other improvements and bug-fixes.

Firefox has been my web-browser of choice thanks to the stable performance and customization possibilities it offers, in the quest for having a faster web-browsing experience with Firefox I had tried reducing tab-overload, optimize memory usage and even trying an CPU optimized version. SpeedyFox is yet another free utility which promises to make your Firefox start-up upto 3 times faster with faster loading of browsing history and operations with Cookies.

What SpeedyFox does is that it optimizes fragmented SQLITE database files which are used to store your Firefox data resulting in faster overall experience.