Zooming in Firefox

June 24, 2008 0 comments

In Firefox, zooming in and zooming out is very easy. Hold down the Ctrl key and scroll the mouse wheel away from you to Zoom in and towards you to Zoom out.

Simple Firefox trick to autocomplete web addresses

May 25, 2008 0 comments

Here is a simple trick which can save you quite a few keystrokes each time you enter web site addresses in Firefox. Suppose you want to visit Digital Quest, instead of entering the full address like www.dq.winsila.com, you could just enter dq.winsila and press Ctrl+Enter. The www and .com are automatically added and Firefox starts [...]

How to get rid of the Imageshack frog in Firefox and Opera

May 15, 2008 1 comment

Ever tried to view an image posted in a forum, only to be presented with the image of a frog instead of the original image? That is because, the image has been hosted with Imageshack, an image hosting service. Imageshack dislikes direct linking to the images, as it eats up their server’s bandwidth. That’s why [...]

IE Tab – Switch to Internet Explorer without leaving Firefox

March 15, 2008 2 comments

Even if you use Firefox as your primary browser, there might be occasions when you are forced to use Internet Explorer. Like for instance, downloading updates from Microsoft website or running an online virus scan which requires an ActiveX to be installed. There could also be the rare case of a page that does not [...]

17 Firefox tips to enhance your browsing experience

February 21, 2008 1 comment

I have been using Firefox for quite sometime now and still there are features that I haven’t uncovered yet. Quite often I come across a useful feature that I was not aware of. I would like to share those tips as and when I learn about them. Here are a few Firefox tips which can [...]

Firefox: Protect saved passwords with a Master Password

January 14, 2008 1 comment

If you are not using a dedicated password manager like Roboform or the like to take care of your passwords, then you would either have to remember the passwords to all the sites you log into, or let your browser save your passwords. Of course, you wouldn’t want the browser to save your passwords in [...]

Backing up Firefox’s ‘about:config’ settings

January 5, 2008 6 comments

If you have ever used the ‘about:config‘ screen in Firefox, then you would know that it is quite similar to the Windows’ Registry, for, it contains important information and settings. Fiddling with about:config, without knowing what you are doing could adversely affect Firefox. Of course, it may not be as catastrophic as when you mess [...]

Add any Search Engine to the Firefox search bar with ease

June 9, 2007 2 comments

The search bar in the Firefox browser is pretty useful when it comes to searching the web without having to first go to the search engine page. The default search engine in Firefox is Google but you can change it to an engine of your preference by using the ‘Manage Search Engines’. If it is [...]

Make your browsing more secure with McAfee SiteAdvisor

February 22, 2007 0 comments

If you are a Firefox user, you might already know that Firefox has good security features in itself. But when you are on the Wild Wild Web,you can never be too careful. Any extra bit of security is most welcome, especially when it comes Free. McAfee SiteAdvisor is a plugin for Firefox which will help [...]

Firefox Smart Keywords – Search a web site the easy way

February 21, 2007 0 comments

Smart Keywords are an easy way to search Web sites right from the location bar (aka Address bar). Suppose you visit wikipedia.com often to look up things. You go to wikipedia.com and click in the search box and enter whatever you are searching for and click ‘Search’. Nothing wrong with this. But there is a [...]

How to view cached files in Firefox.

January 30, 2007 0 comments

Firefox does not have a menu command for viewing the cached files though you can clear the cache through the menu. But what if you wanted to view the cached files? For instance, you may want to locate a flash file which you saw on a recently browsed webpage. The .swf would be cached, but [...]

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