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How many times has this occurred? You find a great web site, but it requires an account before you can access the site. So you create the account, password and secret question and let FireFox remember the account information. Time goes by and your at work or on another computer, and decide that you want to visit that great site, but can’t remember the password. Sure you can have the site email your password, but it also wants you to answer the secret question. Now what? Time to dig into FireFox Password Manager…. Just go to Tools, Options and click on the Security Tab then click on Show Passwords (version 2.0 shown below) or View Saved Passwords (version 1.5 not shown) button. You will see two columns, one for the Site and another for your Username. To view your passwords, click on the Show Passwords button and answer Yes to show your passwords. The third column will list all passwords that have been saved…including the web site that you forgot! Password Manager is a handy tool to use,

The thing I like best about Firefox is that just when you think you know everything there is to know about the browser, something new comes along and surprises you. I discovered five new Firefox tips today. Maybe these are old hat and you know them already. Or maybe like me, you had no idea these could be done. 1. Quick search – without going to a search engine first. Are you reading a website and you subsequently discover a word or phrase that you want to put into a search engine? Up until now, I would just open a new tab, type in the URL for Google and manually type the word or phrase in. But it seems there is a faster easier way. Just highlight the word or phrase with your mouse’s left-click button. Then drag the highlighted text into the address bar in the browser. Then press “enter”. Firefox will now perform a “Are you feeling lucky?” Google search for you. 2. Delete visited URL’s When you drop down the box underneath the address bar, you can see your recent browsing history. But

It’s remarkable enough that the Internet has come so far that an ad about a browser isn’t out of the ordinary, but it’s even more remarkable that these ads were made by Firefox fans off their own back, and paid to air by the same. It all started last year when the Mozilla foundation started the Firefox Flicks campaign, in an effort to drive grass-roots support and generate short, fan-made, 30 second clips. Naturally, these could be shared across the Net and drive awareness for the browser. The program was so successful over 200 entries were submitted, and while there are plenty that wouldn’t have a hope of seeing the light of day, some are actually quite well made and genuinely entertaining. The full list of entrants starts here and includes funny and humorous entries including this one that actually cracked me up. You’ll also find the bizarre, ninjas (can’t go wrong there), the clubby, the crazy, the animated, and I swear I know people like this. There’s even an Aussie themed entry. T

Every day I find new Firefox tips and tricks that I didn’t know about and then I find out that other people didn’t know about them either. So here’s what I discovered recently to make you more of a Firefox power-user. Some of them are useful keyboard shortcuts to keep your hand away from that mouse, and others are just regular tips to optimize and improve your use of Firefox. KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS firefoxsearchenginebar.pngCTRL and K – moves your cursor up to the search engine plug-in box. Once you’re there, CTRL and the up / down arrows on your keyboard will jump from search engine to search engine. CTRL + SHIFT + T – re-opens the last closed tab. SPACEBAR : scrolls down the webpage you’re on. SHIFT and the SPACEBAR : scrolls up the webpage you’re on. F11 – removes the browser bars and makes the webpage full screen. Press F11 again to go back to normal. CTRL + T – Opens a new tab window. REGULAR TIPS viewmenufirefox.pngRemove toolbars from the browser without uninstalling them : sometim

Firefox 3.5 was shipped to the general public on June 30th, 2009, and now Mozilla is turning its attention to the next iteration of the open-source browser. Upcoming versions of Firefox will share a feature with rivals Chrome and Internet Explorer 8. Essentially Mozilla is looking to implement an enhancement designed to effectively split the browser into multiple processes. In this regard, the Electrolysis project has already kicked off, as Mozilla’s Benjamin Smedberg revealed in mid-June, 2009. If all goes according to plan, displaying web pages will be a task split between multiple processes, in future versions of Firefox. At the same time it’s not just about the web content; the graphical user interface of the browser and the plugins that expand Firefox will also be getting their own separate processes. “There are several possible benefits of using multiple processes: Increased stability: if a plugin or webpage tries to use all the processor, memory, or even crashes, a process can

Yes, firefox is already pretty damn fast but did you know that you can tweak it and improve the speed even more? That’s the beauty of this program being open source. Here’s what you do: In the URL bar, type “about:config” and press enter. This will bring up the configuration “menu” where you can change the parameters of Firefox. Note that these are what I’ve found to REALLY speed up my Firefox significantly – and these settings seem to be common among everybody else as well. But these settings are optimized for broadband connections – I mean with as much concurrent requests we’re going to open up with pipelining… lol… you’d better have a big connection. Double Click on the following settins and put in the numbers below – for the true / false booleans – they’ll change when you double click. browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs – true network.http.max-connections – 48 network.http.max-connections-per-server – 16 network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy – 8

Mozilla introduced Firefox Snowl in the first half of August 2008, and the open source project evolved into its next stage as of January 12, 2009. Mozilla Labs unveiled Firefox Snowl 0.2, moving onward with the development of the solution, from the initial release, which was, by all means, an extremely primitive prototype. With version 0.2 of its experiment with messaging in the browser, Mozilla Labs has in fact taken the conversing capabilities of the project a step further. “We’re pleased to announce Snowl 0.2. This version of the messaging-in-the-browser experiment builds on the first release with an updated river view, a new stream view for keeping track of messages in a sidebar while you do other things, the ability to send tweets, and support for multiple Twitter accounts,” Mozilla’s Myk Melez revealed. Users should make no mistake about it, as even at version 0.2 Snowl is still in very early development stages, making them more testers than actual users. However, the program do

Last week, security companies around the world spotted a new vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox which could allow the attackers to use a malicious JAR file to harm users’ computers. The security flaw is still there and moreover, it seems it affects most websites on the Internet including the super search giant Google. GnuCitizien wrote that Michal Zalewski from Google (you know, that famous hacker who joined Googleplex) required additional information about a potential exploitation over the company’s technologies. In addition, beford.org discovered a way to steal the Gmail contact list using a malicious JAR file especially created to take advantage of the Firefox vulnerability. I’m not going to offer you more details about it but I’ll give you a tip on how to remain protected against attacks. You can always install the NoScript extension which was already updated to provide protection for this exploit. In case you never tried it, NoScript is an add-on designed to work with Mozilla Firefo

Internet Explorer and Firefox are in a constant race for both the lion’s share of the browser market and for the top dog position when it comes down to which of the two products is more locked down from a security perspective. In terms of audience Internet Explorer has little contest from Firefox, although the open source browser has increased substantially its foothold on the market growing its share to approximately 15% at the end of October 2007, according to data from Net Applications. In contrast, IE accounts for the largest install base with 78%. Security is a different matter altogether and a tad more difficult to measure up. The fact of the matter is that the end goal of delivering top user protection is a combination of code quality and lack of vulnerabilities in the default design, along with an absent threat environment. The smackdown between Firefox and Internet Explorer as far as security goes is a battle that the open source browser has been winning at a slow pace, conver

Mozilla introduced Jetpack, an application programming interface designed to permit developers to apply web development technologies and skills to building Firefox add-ons, in May 2009. Since the initial, 0.1 version release of the API, no less than four updates were introduced, focused mainly on resolving bugs with the initial build, but also on introducing new API features. On June 11, Mozilla labs brought to the table Jetpack 0.2, defined as a major refresh compared to the minor updates delivered since the solution was first launched. The evolution of Jetpack from 0,1 to 0.2 offers developers a new Firefox experimental UI element and fresh APIs. “Besides numerous bug fixes (including a particularly nasty one that would hide prevent extensions from being in the status bar), there are three main additions: slidebars, jetpack.future, and persistent storage,” revealed Aza Raskin, head of user experience for Mozilla Labs. “Slidebars are a reinvention of the old sidebar feature of browser

Mobile phone users that own a Maemo-based handset from Nokia have now yet another reason to rejoice, as the final version of Firefox for their handsets has just emerged on the web. Following a long line of beta and release candidate flavors, now Firefox for Maemo 1.0 is here for them, providing an experience similar in many respects to the one that the desktop iteration of Firefox can deliver. One of the main feature of the web browser is that it comes around with support for add-ons, something that no other solution offers to users. The add-ons enable any Maemo-based device owner to customize the browser via the over 40 add-ons that are already available for download on Mozilla’s website. Among them, we can count popular solutions like AdBlock Plus, URL Fixer, TwitterBar, language translators, or geo guides. The Add-ons Manager allows for an easy installation of such solutions, and Mozilla recommends for the YouTube Enabler add-on be installed. The features that Firefox for mobile com

Today as i was praying to make 100$ until the end of the month as i currently make a lame 60-67$/month something struck me, i work every day searching for new articles, thinking of new How Tos to make and while i do this i use lots of Firefox extensions that make my work last half of its normal time. I cant imagine my internet life without these useful extensions, and all of you probably have a set of addons that you install as soon as you reinstall Microsoft Windows. Here are my personal favorites. 1. Search Status Probably the most popular of all extensions at this time. Once installed a small status bar appears in the lower right corner. As you navigate from page to page the bar will indicate the page’s Google Page Rank and the Alexa Page Rank. If you are interested, Install Search Status. 2. AdSense Notifier Many of you probably use AdSense as the first source of income, as i do to. And many times we change the way we putt AdSense on the page, after that we check the AdSense accoun

The Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU) made available a Firefox extension developed at their School of Computer Science and College of Engineering that improves security in Firefox by protecting against man-in-the-middle attacks. The extension, named Perspectives, is available only for Firefox 3 and works on Windows, Linux (32-bit) and OS X (Intel), with support for Linux (64-bit) and Open Solaris being in the experimental stage of development. A man-in-the-middle attack is performed by intercepting the traffic between a user and a resource that he is trying to access. This can be achieved by exploiting several vulnerabilities, like the latest DNS cache poisoning or GMail accounts hacking incidents show. When accessing a server resource using secure protocols like SSL or SSH, a correct identification of the server is required. This is achieved through digitally signed certificates. Due to the fact that certificates issued by trusted authorities like VeriSign are expensive, it became com

Since Firefox 3.0, bookmarks, history and most storage is kept in SQLite databases. Also, the default history time span was raised from 9 to 90 days as it became more discoverable and useful thanks to the awesome bar, so depending on your browsing habits it could represent some pretty large databases. Aas any other database, SQLite databases become fragmented over time and empty spaces appear all around. But, since there are no managing processes checking and optimizing the database, these factors eventually result in a performance hit. So, a good way to improve startup and some other bookmarks and history related tasks is to defragment and trim unused space from these databases. To do this: Step 1: get sqlite3, a single file command line SQLite database manager, for your platform (available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X). Step 2: Copy the downloaded binary to your profile folder where all your .sqlite files reside. Step 3: Close Firefox. Step 4: From a command line prompt in your p

Now that we all know the hidden pages in Firefox, it’s time to go a bit deeper into tweaking your browser for optimal use. All of the operations will be made in the about:config page, so save your important stuff, open up a new tab, write about:config in the address bar and be prepared. I have gathered four tricks that will improve your Firefox experience, and here they are. 1. Fetch only pages that you click Firefox mostly resembles to Google from this point of view. It has a built-in feature (enabled by default) that will pre-download the pages behind the links it thinks you MIGHT click. Google anticipates you might click the first result from the page, but how in the world can Firefox anticipate the link you’re going to click? Anyway, in my opinion this is just useless bandwidth usage, CPU power and HDD space. You’re practically downloading and storing pages you are not viewing. Here’s how you stop that in three simple steps. In the about:config list, filter up your search after ‘ne

The face-off between the most prominent browsers on the market is not only a question of audience and uptake, but also one of security. As browsers are often a preferred attack vector, developers aim to bulletproof the product as much as possible. As far as the browser market is concerned, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera pretty much dive the users, with IE having the dominant position, as a result of the Windows-near monopoly, but with Mozilla’s open source product coming hard from behind. Safari is Apple’s proprietary browser and a component of the Mac OS X operating system, also made available for the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows XP and Windows Vista platforms in 2006. Out of all, Opera is the undisputed underdog, having the smallest reach. But in terms of the amount of security vulnerabilities, each browser brings to the table, exposing users to inherent risks, Secunia revealed an entirely different top. “Fourteen vulnerabilities were reported in Safari this year; while f

This How To is made for those that refresh pages very often and look for ways to improve their efficiency. It’s a small trick. Ok, there are 3 ways to refresh a page in firefox efficiently: 1. Pressing F5, this is simple and fast way, requires your finger to press a key. 2. The RAW refresh is the second most efficient way, it’s used when you want to refresh a page that loads from the cache some images instead of contacting the server. Therefore even you have a new picture on a page you’ll still see the old picture. To RAW refresh press CTRL+R. 3. The third method is to push the refresh button which is located through the toolbar’s other extensions and buttons. 4. The fourth and in my opinion the fastest way to refresh a page and the most comfortable because you only use the mouse and you move it very little even comparing it with pushing the refresh button is like this: 1. Click on the page tab you want to refresh and drag it anywhere on the page. The page will be refresh as soon as yo

The next version of Mozilla Firefox, codenamed Gran Paradiso, but better known as Firefox 3 is now entering the final phase of testing with the release of the Beta 1 software It’s still a bit early for everyday use but developers and geeks are welcome to give it a test run, and help Mozilla iron out any remaining bugs. It has lots of interesting new features, including Information about the site you are visiting just click on the site’s ‘Favicon’ (the little icon that appears on the address bar, it has beefed up malware protection, better all round security, integration with anti-virus software (it alerts your AV program if it detects anything suspicious in a download), and there’s a ‘resume’ download feature if your connection is interrupted for any reason. Password management has been simplified, the useful Find toolbar now opens automatically and early reports suggest that it is faster and more stable than its predecessors and barring any last minute disasters the finished version

Firefox version 2.0.0.2 was released today, download available here Fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.2 MFSA 2007-07 Embedded nulls in location.hostname confuse same-domain checks MFSA 2007-06 Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) SSLv2 buffer overflow MFSA 2007-05 XSS and local file access by opening blocked popups MFSA 2007-04 Spoofing using custom cursor and CSS3 hotspot MFSA 2007-03 Information disclosure through cache collisions MFSA 2007-02 Improvements to help protect against Cross-Site Scripting attacks MFSA 2007-01 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.10/1.8.1.2) Source: Fixes Windows & Windows Vista Clicking links in some applications (e.g. some instant messaging programs) might not open them in Firefox, even if you have set it as your default browser. To workaround this problem, go to Start -> Default Programs -> Set default programs for this computer, expand custom, select the radio button next to the app you want to set as the system wide default app (e.g.

A lot of faithful Firefox users have been presented with a lot of errors while using Firefox with the new operating system of Windows Vista. These intermittent errors can be very annoying, especially when you are right in the middle of editing a very important document with your favorite Web application, etc. So, today we are going to deal with two of the most frequent Firefox errors in Vista. One goes like this: The program must close to allow a previous installation attempt to continue. Please restart. This error comes up when you start Firefox and no matter how many times you restart it, there is no change. You just keep getting this error and arent able to use the browser. To get rid of this error, close Firefox down completely and open the Windows task manager by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del. Once it opens up, under the Processes tab, look for a process named “xpicleanup.” If you find it in the list, just end it. Next, open this folder: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Fi

That’s the latest update from security researchers who initially laid the blame on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer for the latest zero-day exploit that also can afflict those using the Firefox Web browser. Users could face a “highly critical” risk if they have both IE and Firefox version 2.0, or later, loaded on their computer. The trouble begins when browsing a malicious site while using IE and it registers a “firefoxurl://” URI (uniform resource identifier) handler, which allows the browser to interact with specific resources on the Web. As a result, users may find their systems remotely compromised. Earlier Tuesday, security researcher Thor Larholm, who discovered the IE flaw, and security research giant Symantec put much of the blame on IE, while Secunia’s Thomas Kristensen, chief technology officer, attributed the problem to Firefox versions 2.0 or later. “It’s a little bit of both,” said Oliver Friedrichs, director of Symantec’s Security Response Center. “You have two very complex

Here is an attempt to collect the 50 popular and best firefox extensions which make your browsing, downloading and navigation in Firefox as easy as possible, while harnessing the full power and features of Firefox. These extensions should work on the latest versions of the Firefox. Use the extensions which work best for your needs. The fastest way to install these extensions from developer sites is to drag them to the url bar. When you upgrade to a new Firefox version, some extensions might not work till the AddOn owners upgrade them, use the Nightly testers tools to remove compatibility issues. Control Firefox Tabs * All-in-One Gestures – merges the popular following extensions for management of mouse gestures, scrolling and power navigation. (Mix of Mouse Gestures, Rocker navigation, Tab scroller, History scroller, Link tooltip and Autoscrolling extensions) * Tabbrowser Preferences – a comprehensive UI for changing a number of the hidden tabbed browsing preferences in Firefox

This is a cool google search trick to search and download your favourite mp3 song. Let me show you how to use this trick: intitle:index.of “mp3″ +”song name’ name” -htm -html -php -asp “Last Modified” Enter the name of the mp3 song instead of ’song name’ name’ in the coded text and search for it in google. for example If you wanted to find a song called get right, You can put like this: intitle:index.of “mp3″ +”Get Right” -htm -html -php -asp “Last Modified” NOTE: I recommend to use firefox and this extension. For other trick you can see here .

This is a firefox plugin that I was looking for since long time, you will probably say why we need activeX with Firefox ? But some Intranet application require some functionnalities that are already available as ActiveX. I had a ActiveX twain solution that I wanted to run on firefox, so finally I think this could be done using ff-activex-host. The extension is developed by Leeor Aharon, IT Structures Ltd, makes possible to use ActiveX controls in Firefox and provides full access to the hosted control (events, functions, properties) based on the Gecko NPAPI. Concerning security : The plugin has some security related features to limit the risk it might pose to users by making ActiveX controls available in Firefox. First of all, it is using a special MIME Type so that it won’t get triggered by sites that were not specifically designed for it. Additionally, it supports lists of well known CLSIDs and PROGIDs so that it can be limited to use with specific controls and interfaces. Finally, i

For me firefox is the best web browser. Firefox is faster, more secure, and fully customizable way to surf the web. Here’s some tips how to speed up your firefox 10 times faster. Type about:config into the firefox browser and hit enter. After that, scroll down and found this entries and setup like this: - Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true - Set network.http.pipelining to true - Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to some number like 30. That means firefox will make 30 requests at once - Finally right-click anywhere on page and select New-> Integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0. This value means the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves. Other option you can setup you ADSL: Type: about:config and setup the value like this: - network.http.pipelining.maxrequests : 100 - network.http.max-connections : 64 - network.http.proxy.pipelining : true - network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server : 8 - network

Mozilla Firefox is all set to support the Windows Vista. So lets check out few points regarding the compatibility of Mozilla Firefox and Windows Vista. * If the browser is installed in a non-default location, software updates may fail. You can reinstall the software to the default location, or to a non-default location as long as the install folder is named “Mozilla Firefox”. Alternatively, you can start Firefox by right-clicking on its icon and selecting “Run as administrator” from the menu. * When you launch the browser after it has downloaded a software update, you may get a dialog asking to permit “updater.exe” to run. If you do not allow this operation, the software update will fail. * Firefox can not yet be set as the default browser on Vista * When installing as a restricted-access user on a shared machine into a location that you can write to, there may still be negative side effects (default browser/other keys not being set correctly). When installing as a restricted access us

A second Alpha version of Firefox is planned for availability by the end of this week, the evolution from Firefox 3.7 Alpha 1 which was released almost two weeks ago to developers. Specifically, in the first half of February 2010, Mozilla offered the Developer Preview of Gecko 1.9.3 Alpha 1. In this regard, Firefox 3.7 Alpha 2 is bound to be nothing more than Mozilla Developer Preview of Gecko 1.9.3 Alpha 2. With the Alpha releases, Mozilla is exploring development directions for the next iteration of its open source browser. The Alpha 2 development milestone will bring to the table one of the key features announced for Firefox 4.0, namely Out Of Process Plugins (OOPPs). “We are planning to do another alpha release of 1.9.3 this week with out-of-process plugins on by default. The following bugs should be resolved on February 23rd or 24th: bug 532208 – make browser->plugin streams unidirectional; bug 545734 – hide the iframe used to submit plugin crash reports; bug 547894 – topcrash

The wait is over! Firefox 3.5 has reached the end of its development process. The gold build of the open-source browser from Mozilla, formerly codenamed Shiretoko, was finalized on June 29, 2009, and is now available for download (links are live at the bottom of this article). Mozilla is planning to ship Firefox 3.5 today, June 30, but at the time of this article the availability of Firefox 3.0′s successor hasn’t yet been announced officially. Still, the final development milestone of Firefox 3.5 has already been wrapped up and the bits went live on Mozilla’s FTP servers. It is only a matter of Firefox 3.5 being released to web, but you needn’t wait, just grab Firefox 3.5 from the links below for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. “The team here at Mozilla has been working hard on creating features, enhancing performance and adding other awesomeness to Firefox 3.5, and we’re very excited about sharing it with the world,” revealed Mozilla’s John Slater on June 29. Firefox 3.5 has been launch

Firefox has been outperforming IE in every department for years, and version 3 is speedier than ever. But tweak the right settings and you could make it faster still, more than doubling your speed in some situations, all for about five minutes work and for the cost of precisely nothing at all. Here’s what you need to do. 1. Enable pipelining Browsers are normally very polite, sending a request to a server then waiting for a response before continuing. Pipelining is a more aggressive technique that lets them send multiple requests before any responses are received, often reducing page download times. To enable it, type about:config in the address bar, double-click network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining so their values are set to true, then double-click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set this to 8. Keep in mind that some servers don’t support pipelining, though, and if you regularly visit a lot of these then the tweak can actually reduce performance. Set netwo

Internet Explorer 7 is currently the most used browser worldwide, according to statistics made available by Net Applications. Released over a year ago for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003, the browser has grown as of December 2007 to a market share of 40.61%. With the end of 2007 also comes the dethroning of Internet Explorer 6, from the dominant position on the browser market. IE6 currently accounts for 35.18%, and is the second most used browser in the world, followed by Firefox 2.0 in third place with 15.80%. However, despite the consistent evolution that Microsoft is delivering with Internet Explorer 7, in contrast to IE6, users have failed to take an immediate shine to the latest version of the IE browser. It has taken IE7 over an year to climb to the number one spot on the browser market, and there is still a healthy portion of audience to be dislodged from the inferior IE6. At this point in time, Microsoft has scrapped the Windows Genuine Advantage antipiracy mechanism f

Every links that you have typed in the address bar will be stored in History. And you can clear all those links at once by clearing the History. But how you can delete individual links from the address bar? Mozilla Firefox To delete spesific url from Firefox address bar is really easy. You just need to SHIFT-DELETE the url and it will be gone. Internet Explorer To do this in IE is a little bit complex. Because you will play with the registry. So backup your registry before you proceed. 1. Close your IE. 2. Run regedit.exe from Start > Run. 3. Go to this tree: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs 4. Delete all numbered urls that you don’t wish to visiable in IE address bar. But make sure you renamed the urls in sequential order start from url1, if you delete only certain keys. 5. Close regedit.exe

Here are some miscellaneous tips for debugging HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in Mozilla Firefox. They include references to Firefox extensions (plug-ins) that you will need or want, as well as tips for configuring Firefox, how to actually invoke the debugging procedures, and a few shortcuts to keep in mind. A number of landmines are also pointed out along the way. (Please avoid stepping on those, because it gets messy.) Minimally Required Firefox Extensions: - Does your installation of Firefox have a DOM Inspector option on the Tools menu? If not, reinstall Firefox with the Developer Tools option turned on (Custom | Developer Tools). - Install the Web Developer Extension (http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/), if you have not already done so. - Install the JavaScript Debugger (aka. Venkman, http://www.mozilla.org/projects/venkman/). Optional Firefox Extensions: - Install View Source Chart (http://jennifermadden.com/scripts/ViewRenderedSource.html) - Install the Load Time Analyzer (b

Ever have the need to open more than one program or application at the same time? Say it’s the beginning of the month and time to pay those dreaded bills. You know you need Excel, Windows calculator and Firefox or Internet Explorer open. Instead of opening them up one by one, you can easily create a batch file that will open all three programs at once. And while your at it, why not have Excel open the spreadsheet file you use for tracking your budget and the browser open to your Bank’s home page. Here’s how to do it… First let’s take a look at a batch file I created that will just open Excel, Calculator and Firefox: NOTE: Examples and file paths are from Windows Vista. XP paths will probably be different for some programs as well as for MS Office (Office 2007 is used in the example). start /d C:\Windows\System32\calc.exe start /d “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox” firefox.exe start /d “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12″ EXCEL.EXE Pretty simple. The above command, s

A new, or rather a newly revised threat may be coming to a browser near you. It’s called Clickjacking and it can affect all browsers. It first appeared a few years ago but little was heard of it after the first warnings. It looks like it might be back though the threat level is still quite low at the moment but these things can quickly spiral out of control. Here’s how it works. If a hacker can get access to a website they can fiddle with buttons and graphics so that if you click on what appears to be a legitimate link what actually happens is you are directed to a phoney or fake site where you unwittingly enter personal details, or in a worse case scenario, clicking the link downloads malicious software onto your PC. Of course the same kind of thing can be found on less reputable websites. Microsoft and Mozilla have released fixes in the past but there is a way to stop clickjacking in its tracks, on Firefox at least, and that’s to install an add-on called No-Script. This creates a whi

With Firefox 3.1 evolved into Firefox 3.5 in the move from Beta 3 to Beta 4, Mozilla is also looking ahead beyond Shiretoko, to the next iteration of its open-source browser. Firefox Next will be codenamed Namoroka and the version number for the project will be 3.6, although this will only be valid for the initial stages. Mozilla in fact refers to what will be the successor of Firefox 3.5 as Firefox.next. Namoroka will be based on the Gecko 1.9.2 rendering engine, and is currently planned for availability in the first half of 2010. “In contrast to previous product planning exercises, which were declarative and relatively inflexible, we hope to develop this project in a highly iterative manner by which we initially declare project goals and prioritized areas of interest for investigation, and then spend time determining the exact shape and scope of feature development tasks. The outcome of these investigations will be a set of feature design documents (using a common template) which wi

If you want to remove all user preferences and private data like cookies or web history from Firefox, there’s a very simple way. 1. Go to C:->Documents and Settings->Your User Name->Application Data 2. Delete the Mozilla folder. That will wipe everything, and when you restart Firefox, it’ll create a new Mozilla folder. If you aren’t able to find the Application Data folder, it is probably because it is hidden. To make it visible, open up a folder and go to Tools->Folder Options->View. Click on Show hidden files and folders and click OK. Then go back to step 1 and complete the process. This method is only effective against casual privacy intrusions by nosey friends or parents. The data can still be retrieved through more sophisticated methods. If you only want to delete the cache, cookies, and web history and not your custom browser settings, go to Firefox and go to Tools-> Clear Private Data. You can tweak the settings for this tool by going to Tools-> Options->

If you are one those firefox users who want to clean all the traces of your browsing history, then let me tell you there is very simple way to do it with firefox itself without any extension. here is how you can automate the cleaning of your browsing history and cookies.. 1. Open Firefox 2. go to File Menu >> Tools >> Options , click on privacy tab 3. check the option which says: Always clear my data when I close firefox (as shown in the image below) private data Clean your traces after browsing in firefox automatically 4. now click on settings button in this section Private Data and choose what to clear while closing firefox automatically. (as shown in the image below ) clear private data Clean your traces after browsing in firefox automatically 5. That’s it Done Tip: we suggest not to check the option which says Saved Passwords as this would cause erasing your stored and remembered passwords in firefox.

Mozilla’s Firefox browser is good. With a little minor “tweaking”, however, you can make Firefox perform up to 40% faster for page transfers. With just a few clicks and some typing, you can experience faster browsing and surfing Firefox. Read below for how. Difficulty: Easy Time Required: 3 minutes Here’s How: 1. Open the Firefox “config” page: click into the Firefox address location bar, and type about:config, press Enter. 2. The “Config” file will appear in the Firefox browser as a page with hundreds of lines of code in it. Now, we start by enabling some advanced tabbed options: 3. Locate the line browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs . (tip: press “b” on your keyboard to quick scroll). 4. Double click on browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs . This will set its toggle to “true”. Now your advanced and enhanced tabbing should be set. Note: in Firefox version 1.5, the command line is singlewindow.openintabs. 5. Next: we will increase the “pipeline” RAM ability fo

Internet Explorer 9 is in a different league compared with its rivals when it’s “playing the hardware acceleration.” One of the key aspects of Internet Explorer’s evolution from IE8 is the introduction of hardware accelerated HTML5. The promise from Microsoft is that developers will be able to build entirely new HTML5 experiences that will rival desktop applications. But in order for users to leverage the novel HTML5 apps, they will need to be running a hardware accelerated browser such as IE9, one that takes full advantage of the GPU in addition to the CPU of their systems. Microsoft has offered a comparison between Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 2, an early development milestone of Firefox 4.0 labeled Firefox 3.7 pre-Alpha 5 and Chrome 5 Beta Build 5.0.375.38. As users will be able to see from the graphics included with this article, IE9 Preview 2 has no match in the HTML5 hardware accelerated contest involving the Flickr Explorer sample released by Microsoft on IETestDrive, b

If you like Firefox then you are just going to wet yourself with pleasure with this new Add-On. It is called Tab Effect but that tells you nothing. In fact what it does is animate open tabs, so when you click to change to another tabbed window the display turns into a 3D cube that rotates to show you the selected tab. It is brilliant and a major time-waster, if like me, you end up constantly switching tabs just to watch it doing its stuff. The download is tiny, just 38kb, simply click on the Install Now button and it does the rest, you will have to restart Firefox to get it working. If for any reason you dont like it, or you experience problems simply go to Add-Ons on the Tools menu and click the Uninstall button. Try it now, you will wonder how you ever lived without it!