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Mozilla Firefox Quickly Gaining the Browser Market and Doing Well in Recession!

max — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:42:18 +0000

Mozilla, the company behind my favorite web browser Firefox, is quickly gaining in the browser market (especially here in the U.S.) and reportedly, doing very well in recession:

Mozilla has published its audited financial statements from 2008, reporting $78.6 million in revenue for the fiscal year—a five percent increase from 2007. Aside from a weakened investment portfolio, the browser maker has not been hit hard by the economic recession.

I don’t think Mozilla will be impacted much by recession mostly because their business in the internet/search arena, plus they have been gaining more market share of the browser market over the last couple years. (while Microsoft is losing the browser war with its slow Internet Explorer)

I think in the end (or in another 10 years), Google’s Chrome and Mozilla Firefox will still be around (at least in the U.S.) while Microsoft’s Internet Explorer becomes obsolete (I hope so). I truly wish Microsoft only focused on making operating systems and leave the browser market to Google and Mozilla.

I support open source, which both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome are, while MS IE is not. Duh! Perhaps if MS goes open source one day, I might change my mind about using IE again.

Some view the emergence of Google’s Chrome Web browser as a potential risk to Mozilla’s long-term sustainability, because the organization depends heavily on revenue from the search giant to fund its operations. There is no immediate risk, however, as Google recently committed to extending its contract with Mozilla to 2011. Although Google’s browser is gaining traction, the search giant still has plenty of incentive to pay for privileged placement in Firefox, which has considerably higher marketshare. According to Baker, the competition is a win for the open Web.

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Firefox DIY – How to Auto Hide the Status Bar!

max — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:45:37 +0000

Did you know you can download the autoHideStatusbar Firefox experimental extension to auto hide the annoying status bar once its done loading a website?

Well, now you do!

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Firefox DIY – How to Auto Hide the Status Bar!

Firefox Hack – How To Stop Automatic Plugin/Firefox Installations In Firefox!

max — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:34:25 +0000

I have recently noticed that some plugins in my Firefox keeps updating by itself and it’s annoying because I didn’t allow this to happen as a user.

To easily fix these updates from automatically updating you (or bugging you), go to Tools->Options->Update then unclick all the boxes so your Firefox browser never wastes any bandwidth to check for updates.

I think updates are great but I don’t want my Firefox to keep checking for them every time I start my browser, it also takes a lot more time to load your browser when you are checking for updates. And yes, even 1 or 2 extra seconds is annoying as hell for bloggers like me who need that extra 1 or 2 seconds in life.

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Firefox Hack – How To Stop Automatic Plugin/Firefox Installations In Firefox!

Firefox Hack – How to Run Faster Firefox!

max — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:53:50 +0000

Most people who have used Firefox for the last couple years probably know this hack but let me do a step-by-step instructions on this for the simplest and best way to make your Firefox browser run faster.

Faster Firefox!

First, go to your Firefox URL address bar and type, “about:config”.

You will see a warning sign but just click on “I’ll be careful, I promise!”.

Next, enter “network” in the Filter input like this:
(Then you should be able to scroll down to network.http.pipelining.

By default http pipelining is turned off on your Firefox browser. This is basically allowing “parallel” http processes when you load a site. So instead of sending one HTTP request to the web server, by using HTTP Pipelining, your browser will be able to request multiple HTTP requests simultaneously. (If you took a college class in computer architecture like I did 10 years ago, you will get what “pipelining” is.)

By the way, pipelining is a commonly used method in computer processors too. Most likely the Intel or AMD CPU you currently have on your computer or laptop does “pipelining”. Just wanted to explain how this feature actually improves performance.

Also, if you are on a slow connection such as broadband connection, enabling pipelining might not actually speed up your Firefox browser.

This is a good way to improve download speeds so long as you don’t have bottlenecks on your internet connection, DSL and Cable modems will probably work the best. (or anything faster like T1)

To enable HTTP pipelining, simply enable network.http.pipelining to true, set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 30 (or you can play around with this number as the best performance achieved may depend on your computer and internet connection), and also set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true.

Next, we will set a new value on the Firefox browser called “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” to zero so there’s absolutely no delay and Firefox starts loading graphics as it loads the website simultaneously. (instead of default setting where there’s a delay, WHY?)

First, right click on any of the values and you can select New->Integer like this:

Then, set the name to nglayout.initialpaint.delay.

Finally, enter “0” (zero) and press enter.

Try loading some heavy websites like my Zedomax.com, your Firefox should now run a bit faster. YEY!

Of course, there’s other ways to make your Firefox faster such as messing with cache values and whatnot but in my testings, their performance is negligible. If you want to still do that, try this guide over here.

More Tips on making Your Firefox Run Faster!

For one, try using Firefox 3.5 instead of any of the older versions, the latest version runs much faster.

Second, don’t have more than 5 tabs open at any given moment. In my 3-month study, having more than 5 tabs on Firefox, greatly reduced its performance. As soon as you close those extra tabs, my Firefox started running much faster.

Third, if you are running a Windows machine, you can try setting the highest priority to real-time in your Task Manager.

You can also try this tab extension but I don’t use it much as having more extensions in the first place means slower overall Firefox.

P.S. You can also want to try Fasterfox extension which does DNS pre-fetching (like Google Chrome browser).

Also, I’ve noticed that Google Chrome is about 20% faster on average. I use both Firefox and Google Chrome on a regular basis. You should try Google Chrome if you haven’t yet. I also hear that the new Opera browser is pretty fast too as it loads graphics in low-res first.

Of course, just don’t use Internet Explorer, too many security exploits and SLOW!

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Firefox Hack – How to Run Faster Firefox!

Firefox DIY – How to Shutdown Your Computer Automatically After Downloads are Finished!

max — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:56:30 +0000

For those of you looking for a solution to download all your files off the web and shut down your computer automatically when they are finished, you are in luck as there’s Firefox Autoshutdown plug-in that works on all types of computers including Windows, Mac, and linux.
(Of course, linux, you could probably script something instead or just leave it on as linux is a lot more secure than everything else out there.)

For detailed instructions on how to use this plug-in, refer to the MakeUseOf blog post here.

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Firefox Hack – How to Recover Firefox Master Password!

max — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:04:55 +0000

For some reason you lost your master password to Firefox? Do not worry as there’s a new tool called Firemaster that will recover your Firefox master password through brute-force hacks. Really, though, you can also simply erase all your personal preferences by “uninstalling” your Firefox and re-installing it.

Firemaster really is for those who need to hack another’s computer…

Once you have lost master password, there is no way to recover it as it is not stored at all. Whenever user enters the master password, Firefox uses it to decrypt the encrypted data associated with the known string. If the decrypted data matches this known string then the entered password is correct. FireMaster uses the similar technique to check for the master password, but in more optimized way. The entire operation goes like this.

* FireMaster generates passwords on the fly through various methods.
* Then it computes the hash of the password using known algorithm.
* Next this password hash is used to decrypt the encrypted data for known plain text (i.e. “password-check”).
* Now if the decrypted string matches with the known plain text (i.e. “password-check”) then the generated password is the master password.

Firefox stores the details about encrypted string, salt, algorithm and version information in key database file key3.db in the user’s profile directory. You can just copy this key3.db file to different directory and specify the corresponding path to FireMaster. You can also copy this key3.db to any other high end machine for faster recovery operation.

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Firefox Hack – How to Recover Firefox Master Password!

Firefox Hack – How to Save Time with Firefox Shortcuts!

max — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:13:58 +0000

Well, I have been using Firefox for couple years now and even me, I do tend to forget some of the Firefox shortcuts.

By learning the Firefox shortcuts, it can dramatically improve your work/play productivity time so you can do other things like go play golf or ride a motorcycle.

Anyways, here’s a reminder that there are Firefox shortcuts and you should use them:

Command	Shortcut
Navigation
Back	AltOpt+Left Arrow BackspaceAltOpt+Left Arrow CtrlCmd+[CtrlCmd+[ CtrlCmd+Left Arrow Delete
Forward	AltOpt+Right Arrow Shift+BackspaceAltOpt+Right Arrow CtrlCmd+]
Home	AltOpt+Home
Open File	CtrlCmd+O
Reload	F5 Ctrl Cmd+R
Reload (override cache)	CtrlCmd+F5 CtrlCmd+Shift+R
Stop	CtrlCmd+. Esc
Current Page
Go to Bottom of Page	End
Go to Top of Page	Home
Move to Next Frame	F6
Move to Previous Frame	Shift+F6
Page Info	CtrlCmd+I
Page Source	CtrlCmd+U
Print	CtrlCmd+P
Save Page As	CtrlCmd+S
Text Size: Decrease	CtrlCmd+-
Text Size: Increase	CtrlCmd++
Text Size: Restore	CtrlCmd+0
Editing
Copy	CtrlCmd+C
Cut	CtrlCmd+X
Delete	Delete
Paste	CtrlCmd+V
Redo	CtrlCmd+YCtrlCmd+Shift+Z
Select All	CtrlCmd+A
Undo	CtrlCmd+Z
Search
Find	CtrlCmd+F
Find Again	F3 CtrlCmd+G
Find As You Type Link	‘
Find As You Type Text	/
Find Previous	Shift+F3
Web Search	CtrlCmd+K CtrlCmd+E Ctrl Cmd+J
Windows & Tabs
Close Tab	CtrlCmd+W Ctrl+F4
Close Window	CtrlCmd+Shift+W AltOpt+F4
Move Tab Left (when tab is focused)	CtrlCmd+Left Arrow CtrlCmd+Up Arrow
Move Tab Right (when tab is focused)	CtrlCmd+Right Arrow CtrlCmd+Down Arrow
Move Tab to Beginning (when tab is focused)	Ctrl Cmd+Home
Move Tab to End (when tab is focused)	CtrlCmd+End
New Tab	CtrlCmd+T
New Window	CtrlCmd+N
Next Tab	Ctrl+Tab CtrlCmd+AltOpt+Right Arrow Ctrl+Page Down
Open Address in New Tab (from Location Bar or Search Bar)	AltOpt+EnterReturn
Previous Tab	Ctrl+Shift+Tab CtrlCmd+AltOpt+Left Arrow Ctrl+Page Up
Undo Close Tab	CtrlCmd+Shift+T
Select Tab (1 to	CtrlCmdAltOpt+(1 to 8)
Select Last Tab	CtrlCmdAltOpt+9
Tools
Bookmark All Tabs	CtrlCmd+Shift+D
Bookmark This Page	CtrlCmd+D
Bookmarks	CtrlCmd+B CtrlCmd+I
Caret Browsing	F7
Downloads	CtrlCmd+JCtrlCmd+Y
History	CtrlCmd+H CtrlCmd+Shift+H
Clear Private Data	CtrlCmd+Shift+Del
Miscellaneous
Complete .com Address	CtrlCmd+EnterReturn
Complete .net Address	Shift+EnterReturn
Complete .org Address	CtrlCmd+Shift+EnterReturn
Delete Selected Autocomplete Entry	DelShift+Del
Full Screen	F11
Select Location Bar	AltOpt+D F6 CtrlCmd+L
Select or Manage Search Engines (when Search Bar is focused)	AltOpt+Up Arrow AltOpt+Down Arrow F4

Command	Shortcut
Navigation
Back	AltOpt+Left Arrow BackspaceAltOpt+Left Arrow CtrlCmd+[CtrlCmd+[ CtrlCmd+Left Arrow Delete
Forward	AltOpt+Right Arrow Shift+BackspaceAltOpt+Right Arrow CtrlCmd+]
Home	AltOpt+Home
Open File	CtrlCmd+O
Reload	F5 Ctrl Cmd+R
Reload (override cache)	CtrlCmd+F5 CtrlCmd+Shift+R
Stop	CtrlCmd+. Esc
Current Page
Go to Bottom of Page	End
Go to Top of Page	Home
Move to Next Frame	F6
Move to Previous Frame	Shift+F6
Page Info	CtrlCmd+I
Page Source	CtrlCmd+U
Print	CtrlCmd+P
Save Page As	CtrlCmd+S
Zoom In	CtrlCmd++
Zoom Out	CtrlCmd+-
Zoom Reset	CtrlCmd+0
Editing
Copy	CtrlCmd+C
Cut	CtrlCmd+X
Delete	Delete
Paste	CtrlCmd+V
Redo	CtrlCmd+YCtrlCmd+Shift+Z
Select All	CtrlCmd+A
Undo	CtrlCmd+Z
Search
Find	CtrlCmd+F
Find Again	F3 CtrlCmd+G
Find As You Type Link	‘
Find As You Type Text	/
Find Previous	Shift+F3
Web Search	CtrlCmd+K CtrlCmd+E Ctrl Cmd+J
Windows & Tabs
Close Tab	CtrlCmd+W Ctrl+F4
Close Window	CtrlCmd+Shift+W AltOpt+F4
Move Tab Left (when tab is focused)	CtrlCmd+Left Arrow CtrlCmd+Up Arrow
Move Tab Right (when tab is focused)	CtrlCmd+Right Arrow CtrlCmd+Down Arrow
Move Tab to Beginning (when tab is focused)	Ctrl Cmd+Home
Move Tab to End (when tab is focused)	CtrlCmd+End
New Tab	CtrlCmd+T
New Window	CtrlCmd+N
Next Tab	Ctrl+Tab CtrlCmd+AltOpt+Right Arrow Cmd+} Ctrl+Page Down
Open Address in New Tab (from Location Bar or Search Bar)	AltOpt+EnterReturn
Previous Tab	Ctrl+Shift+Tab CtrlCmd+AltOpt+Left Arrow Cmd+{ Ctrl+Page Up
Undo Close Tab	CtrlCmd+Shift+T
Select Tab (1 to	CtrlCmdAltOpt+(1 to 8)
Select Last Tab	CtrlCmdAltOpt+9
Tools
Bookmark All Tabs	CtrlCmd+Shift+D
Bookmark This Page	CtrlCmd+D
Bookmarks	CtrlCmd+B CtrlCmd+I
Caret Browsing	F7
Downloads	CtrlCmd+JCtrlCmd+Y
History	CtrlCmd+H CtrlCmd+Shift+H
Clear Private Data	CtrlCmd+Shift+Del
Error Console	CtrlCmd+Shift+J
Miscellaneous
Complete .com Address	CtrlCmd+EnterReturn
Complete .net Address	Shift+EnterReturn
Complete .org Address	CtrlCmd+Shift+EnterReturn
Delete Selected Autocomplete Entry	DelShift+Del
Full Screen	F11
Help	F1Cmd+?
Select Location Bar	Alt+D F6 CtrlCmd+L
Select or Manage Search Engines (when Search Bar is focused)	AltOpt+Up Arrow AltOpt+Down Arrow F4

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Firefox Hack – How to 3D Tab Manage with Firefox!

max — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:58:10 +0000

Here’s a really cool Firefox plugin that let’s you rotate tabs in 3D fashion. Now you can browse the web like an iPhone/iPod Touch.

FoxTab brings innovative and attractive 3D tab management to Firefox.
With its 5 fascinating eye candy layouts, FoxTab takes the tabbed-browsing experience to a new level.

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Firefox Hack – How to 3D Tab Manage with Firefox!

How To Do Search Engine Hacks And Tricks

max — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:00:08 +0000

Want to access things that can’t normally be accessed by your search engine? Check this video out to learn how.

This video tutorial shows you a variety of tricks and hacks you can use on the web. It covers 4 ways to search for security cameras, find websites you can’t search normally in search engines (whitehouse.gov etc.), hiding google functions and more. Watch this video tutorial and learn how to improve your internet searches.

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How To Gain Access To Blocked Websites

max — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:00:03 +0000

How to access blocked web sites
Uploaded by Jimmy Ruska

It’s human nature to go where you are not supposed to, that includes the Internet. Learn how to access blocked websites, so that you can see those top secret boobies… er… files, yeah, that’s it.

Are you using the Internet at a school, library, or some other place that blocks or restricts web access? Mom and dad still trying to protect you from online predators, even though you’re more than old enough to be one yourself? Learn how to bypass proxy servers that block access to certain websites by watching this how-to video. In this case it’s done to access Myspace but this method can be used with any blocked website. Follow along with this video tutorial and never get hindered by restricted internet searching again.

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How To Gain Access To Blocked Websites

Google Hack – How To Hack The Internet Using Google!

max — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:00:30 +0000

If you want to learn how to hack, but don’t know where to start, these videos are for you. Watch these videos to learn how to hack with Google. Don’t do anything (too) illegal.

Learn how to hack Google with these amazing videos. These videos will teach you how to hack Google by using advanced search operators and esoteric search terms to find “hidden” files and mp3s quickly and easily; you’ll also learn how to use Google to hack unprotected Internet-controlled devices like webcams and security cameras. For more information on Google hacking, and how to get started using these hacks yourself, take a look at these instructional videos!

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Google Hack – How To Hack The Internet Using Google!

Firefox Hack – How to Hack the Firefox Default Theme!

max — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:55:30 +0000

As a developer of a Firefox Toolbar, I know that Firefox can be hacked easily as it uses a lot of JAR files that are actually pretty much ZIP files you can unzip.

Anyways, the guys over at TechRadar go into depth of how to hack the Firefox theme to your liking so check it out:

Themes are supplied as ‘.jar’ files, which are really renamed zip files. You’ll find several directories inside: Browser, Communicator, Global, Help and Mozapps. There may also be a directory called Aero that duplicates some of these; effectively it’s a separate collection of files and directories that’s only used by themes running on Vista. Elsewhere, Browser is the most important directory for customisation because it includes the most obvious graphics and some of the CSS. The Global directory includes CSS files that define the layout of the different browser windows, and Mozapps and Help define the look and feel of the Help dialog and the browser extras, including the Extension Manager and Update Wizard. Customised themes also contain extra files, including ‘preview.png’ – a preview of the skin.

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Firefox Hack – How to Hack the Firefox Default Theme!

Add Zedomax Search Engine to your Firefox Seach Bar!

max — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:52:29 +0000

Well, it’s been a crazy couple days of coding (I am sorry for my regular readers but I have some more awesome posts coming soon).

Anyways, you can now add Zedomax Blog Search Engine to your Firefox, simply by clicking the below button.

Enjoy and we are working on implementing more new Web3.0ish strategies to improve our search results.

Click Here to Install Zedomax Search Engine on your Firefox

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Firefox Hits Record Market Share at 20%!

max — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:06:26 +0000

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Yey, my favorite Firefox browser hits record market share of 20%! Although still far aways from taking over IE, it’s far better than 4-5% couple years ago when Firefox started becoming more and more popular among U.S. users. (Btw, Asian users still rely on IE mostly, due to the fact that most of their online credit card systems work exclusively with IE’s encryption technology. I have been one of those users in South Korea where almost every bank website requires you to use IE.)

Here’s a funny story though. I happened to be helping one of my friends build his business in San Francisco. When I first checked out his computers, I installed Firefox since the IE7 was so damn freakin’ slow. Well, after couple weeks when I checked back with him, he told me his computer got faster after I installed Firefox. Lol…yes Firefox is much faster, especially on the new Vista systems where IE7 will just fall apart after awhile.

On the side note, Chrome is steadily increasing its market share too, a great thing to have more browsers competing for consumers’ throats.

Internet Explorer (IE) dropped from 71.52% to 71.27%, according to Net Applications, and remains the software with the fastest declining market share among a group of the six most used browsers. Since the beginning of this year, IE lost 4.2 points, while Firefox gained 2.99 points, Apple Safari 0.75 points, Opera 0.13 points and Google’s Chrome 0.74 points.

The only other browsers that gained market share between September and October was Opera, which jumped from 0.69% to 0.75%. Apple’s Safari dropped slightly from 6.65 to 6.57%, Chrome from 0.78% to 0.74% and Netscape from 0.63% to 0.45%, according to Net Applications.

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Firefox Hits Record Market Share at 20%!

YouTube Hack – How to Control YouTube Video Speed!

max — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:55:08 +0000

Wow, I have been looking for something like this a long time, a YouTube speed controller that lets you slow down or speed up the YouTube videos.

I find this utility awesome for analyzing golf swings in slow motion or simply skipping to a certain section of the video a lot faster.

It’s a free plugin that will work on most browsers including IE, Firefox, and Google Chrome.

You can download it HERE and try it yourself.

With MySpeed you can:

Change the playback speed of YouTube Videos dynamically!
(and any other Flash Video)

Watch more videos in less time with speed-up

Understand and Transcribe complex material with slow-down.

Increase learning with lower frustration

It’s Free!! (for a limited time)

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YouTube Hack – How to Control YouTube Video Speed!

Google Chrome Tips and Hacks Re-cap #3!

max — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:27:50 +0000

If you haven’t been following our latest Google Chrome Tips and Hacks, you will need to check out the following two posts:

Recap of Google Chrome Tips and Hacks #1

Recap of Google Chrome Tips and Hacks #2

Here’s the re-cap of Google Chrome Tips and Hacks #3:

Chrome Tips – How to install Greasemonkey scripts in Google Chrome – This is a simple howto for enabling your Greasemonkey scripts from Firefox.

Firefox Hack – Chromi Fox Theme for Firefox – You can install the Chromi theme for Firefox to make your Firefox look like Google Chrome browser.

Google Chrome Wordpress Blog Theme – Someone has created a Google Chrome theme for your Wordpress blog. Go knock yourself out.

Google Chrome still leads by over 50% on Google Chrome Hacks Tips blog

Google Chrome Comic sold for $372! – Can you believe it? Someone bought the Chrome Comic book for $372!

Firefox and IE copies Chrome’s “Incognito” mode – Wow, this was a simple but surprising feature recognized by all major browser makers.

Chrome Hack – How to update your Google Chrome browser to the latest version! - Yes, this one is actually a hidden feature on the Google Chrome’s about page.

Chrome Tips – Learn how to add GMail Bookmark to your Chrome! – Yes, this bookmark allows you to jump straight to “Compose Mail” section of GMail on Chrome.

Did you know Google Chrome’s Address Bar is also a Google Search Bar? - Yes, Google did monopolize the search section and I am glad since I don’t use Wikipedia, Amazon, and the other stuff that much on Firefox.

Chrome Hacks – How to run Java and Java applets on your Google Chrome browser – You need to download a beta-version of the JRE (Java Runtime Environment) in order to run Java on Chrome.

Microsoft Office Live doesn’t support Chrome browser at all, go figure.

Check out more from the Google Chrome Tips and Hacks Blog:

Subscribe to this blog or the Chrome Hacks Blog to stay updated on the latest Google Chrome Tips and Hacks news!

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Google Chrome Tips and Hacks Re-cap #3!

Firefox Hack – RAMBack helps free Firefox Cache/Memory!

max — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:30:31 +0000

Here’s RAMBack, a Firefox add-on that lets you free Firefox cache/memory. This might help you if you run Firefox under really crappy hardware or a netbook.

RAMBack will cause Firefox to issue an internal notification to free up memory that is otherwise held for performance purposes. Additional items will be hooked into this notification in the future.

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Firefox Hack – RAMBack helps free Firefox Cache/Memory!

Firefox 3 Hack – How to Consolidate your Menu Buttons!

max — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:30:53 +0000

Here’s a cool hack on how to consolidate your menu buttons in Firefox 3. It’s pretty easy to do but in case you don’t know how…

Just by moving a few small things around you can have all Firefox’s menu and location bar features, but without them taking up all the real estate.

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Firefox 3 Hack – How to Consolidate your Menu Buttons!

Firefox 3 Hack – How to Disable Blinking Text in Firefox!

max — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:56:34 +0000

Here’s a cool hack for disabling the blink settings on your Firefox 3.

o extension or user script required: just type about:config in Firefox’s address bar, press the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button, and then in the Filter field, enter browser.blink_allowed. Change the value for that key from true to false, and you’re good to go, no more blinking, ever again.

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Firefox 3 Hack – How to Disable Blinking Text in Firefox!

Firefox 3 Hack – How to Put a Back/Forward Button!

max — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:09:46 +0000

Well, it looks like the guys over at Firefox forgot to add the back and forward button. (I’ve noticed on the Firefox 3 Beta version and the official version now…)

It’s really annoying for people like me who like the back/forward button, here’s how to put that button back where it belongs:

First, goto View->Toolbars->Customize

Then simply draw the back/forward button on to any place you want to put it and press “Done”.

It’s pretty simple but a lot of people don’t know how to do it so this should help you get those buttons back.

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Firefox 3 Hack – How to Put a Back/Forward Button!

Firefox 7488642 Downloads!

max — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:59:15 +0000

Firefox now at almost 8 million downloads!

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Firefox 7488642 Downloads!

18.41% of World Internet Users use Firefox!

max — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:45:21 +0000

Wow, Firefox has been steadily growing real fast… I remember about 2-3 years ago when Firefox use was at only about 5%.

Go Firefox! Kill IE for good.

The only thing with Internet Explorer is that a lot of foreign countries such as Korea, have adopted to use IE exclusively for internet banking, which you can not use Firefox for.

Still, more than 90% of population in Korea and other parts of the world use IE. Darn…

Net Applications, purveyors of web metrics data, published some interesting asides about Mozilla’s Firefox in this month’s newsletter. Specifically, they’re projecting that users of the world’s favorite alternative browser will account for 20% of all web traffic sometime in July.

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18.41% of World Internet Users use Firefox!

Firefox Hack – SiteHoppin Toolbar saves you 5 minutes of your Daily Web browsing time!

max — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:30:57 +0000

Download latest version of Flash to view video!.

Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode

Here’s a video demo of the new feature just added to the SiteHoppin Toolbar for Firefox that can save you 5 minutes or more of your daily web browsing time. Great for bloggers…

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Firefox Hack – SiteHoppin Toolbar saves you 5 minutes of your Daily Web browsing time!

Firefox HACK – How to increase Firefox Cache!

max — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:28:01 +0000

My friend Deimos over at AhKong.Net posted an interesting post today about how to utilize the file cache of Firefox. By use of more cache, you will be able to browse the web faster, especially if you check out many of the same sites daily.

You can read about his full DIY on Firefox Cache HOWTO here.

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Firefox HACK – How to increase Firefox Cache!

DIY Hack – How to make your plugins work in Firefox 3 Beta!

max — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:26:13 +0000

Well, if you are like me, an early adaptor, you probably are already using Firefox 3 Beta. As many of you know, a lot of your Firefox plugins do not work or is not compatible with the new FF3.

Here’s a simple way to make it work: (Thanks to Lifehacker)

1. Type About:config in your FF3 Browser address bar.
2. Right click->New->Boolean then, type in extensions.checkCompatibility, select false.
3. Right click->New->Boolean then, type in extensions.checkUpdateSecurity, select false.

This pretty much disables your compatibility and update security check for all the plugins. Now, some of your plugins may not work and you might not be able to re-start your browser.

Well, if this happens, it’s pretty easy to fix. (for PCs)

Go to G:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\bwso99u0.default\extensions where Administrator is your Windows username and bwso99u0.default can be different. (It will be something along the lines of xxxxxxx.default)

Note: Make sure to set your File browser to view “hidden files and folders” as the Application Data folder is actually hidden as default. Make sure that the folder you are in matches above, otherwise you are probably in the wrong folder

Once you are in your extensions directory, you can move any of the folders to a temporary folder until your Firefox 3 works. Or simply move all of them to a temporary folder then move them back to the extensions directory one by one until you get a handful of plugins that work.

I’ve also found out that Google Toolbar doesn’t work with Firefox 3 so, above steps will most likely be necessary in your hacking without completely disabling your precious foxy animal.

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DIY Hack – How to make your plugins work in Firefox 3 Beta!

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