Posts filed under 'Firefox'
We all love Firefox. It’s highly customizable, tweak-able, stable, and has tons & tons of great add-ons. With Firefox 3.5, performance is faster and more stable than ever.
Check out these neat features that may have not known about:
1. To duplicate tabs press Ctrl (Cmd on Mac) while dragging a tab to create a duplicate of the dragged tab including its history.
2. To move tabs to another window just drag a tab and drop it on another window to move it. If the dragged tab is the last one in its window, it will be closed.
3. To resize the search bar you can drag the handler between them (invisible on Windows and Linux) to resize it.
4. To add keyword search select Manage Search Engines… in the search engines menu to open the Search Engines Manager, select a search engine, press Edit Keyword… and enter a few characters to define one. Now you can enter the keyword followed by your search terms in the location bar to search with that plugin.
5. For discontinuous selections make a selection with the mouse, press Ctrl (Cmd on Mac) and make additional selections to copy or print just what you want.
6. For integrated add-ons there is no need to visit Mozilla Add-ons because Firefox 3 brings it to you directly from the Add-ons Manager new Get Add-ons page: search, find and install with a single click.
8. To check your crashes enter about:crashes in the location bar to get a list of crashes submitted by Breakpad (Mozilla’s crash reporter). Click on a crash report to get details provided by Socorro, Mozilla’s crash reports server.
July 7th, 2009
We all search for information using search engines. A lot of us have come across a forum we need to access for that information, but the forum may require us to register and sign in first. This is annoying- signing up to a forum, just for a 1 time visit. I decided to make this post, which will guide you around doing this mess.
Let me explain the science behind the following technique: most sites and forums will block unregistered users, but they NEVER block Google Bot. We are basically going to switch our User Agent to Google Bot, which will allow us to freely browse almost any site or forum without registering.
First grab the Firefox add-on called “User Agent” here and install. Next, go to Tools > User Agent Switcher > Options and then Options again.
Select User Agent from the left sidebar and click Add. In the description field type:
crawl-66-249-66-1.googlebot.com
and in User Agent field type:
Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)
(screen shot below)
Now we are going to set Google Bot as our User Script by going to Tools > User Agent Switcher.
Enjoy visiting forums w/o registering 
Also try BugMeNot.com- it’s a free online directory where users share login information for different websites.
June 29th, 2009
We’ve all bookmarked an interesting site while surfing around. But, we usually forget to go back to the bookmark, and end up cluttering our Bookmarks with sites we’ve forgotten about. Now there is a nifty little app available by the name of “Read It Later”.
It’s a Firefox add-on that provides users with a solution to the issue of forgotten bookmarking. Once you install it, just right click on a cool website, and select “Read this Page Later”. The page will be saved to the app, which will prepare a queue of sites you can come back to when you have a chance. All you have to do is click on the top-corner of Firefox, where it says “Read it Later”. Once done reading, just check it off!
The current version (0.9945) includes offline reading, synchronization of reading list between multiple computers, and more.
Donwload it here.
June 16th, 2009
We all stumble onto videos that we would like to keep a copy of on our hard drives. But, sites like You Tube give us no such option. That’s where “Video DownloadHelper” comes in. It’s a Firefox extension which allows you to simply download the video you’re watching at the moment, with a click of a button.
Here is how it works:
1. From Firefox, click here to download the add-on.
2. Go to your favorite flash video site, like You Tube, and start the video (this works with many others flash video sites, not just You Tube).
3. Click the Video Downloadhelper icon to the right of the Home button, choose the appropriate flv file, and click “Download”.
4. Save the flash (.flv) file anywhere you’d like.
5. You can view the file using VLC media player. You can also convert them to .Mp4, .Mpg, .Avi and more using MPEG_Streamclip.
June 5th, 2009
If you’re like me, you use more than one computer in your day to day life. I spend half my day on the computer at work, and my home computer from time to time after work. I discover some great sites while I’m at work, which I’d like to continue browsing from home.
Before, I would just email the links to myself, and open it from the inbox at home, until I discovered “XMarks”. Xmarks is a Firefox add on which syncs your bookmarks to multiple computers at once.
This is how it works:
You create an XMarks profile, install the add on, and sync your bookmarks to their server.
Install Xmarks on your secondary computer as well, and sign in to the profile you created earlier. Xmarks will sync the bookmarks from computer 2, and merge them with the computer 1 bookmarks on their server, giving you all of your bookmarks on both computers at completely different locations.
From now on, bookmarks you make on computer 1, will sync to computer 2, and vice-versa. XMarks also has the ability to sync passwords.
I can not imagine going on without this piece of software, it has truly made my life much, much easier!
Check it out HERE
May 27th, 2009
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