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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 8th, 2009
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Download Panel Displays In Depth Information About Firefox Downloads

The download manager of the Firefox web browser is not displaying many information by default. Only the name and size of the file, the time and the main domain it was downloaded from are displayed in the Downloads window. A right-click offers the possibility to open the folder the file was downloaded to, to load [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 6th, 2009
  • Comments: None

Price Comparison With Invisible Hand For Firefox

Price comparison is one of the essentials things that Internet users should do before buying a product on the Internet. It does not matter if they do it manually by visiting several Internet shops that carry the product or use one of the price comparison services. Users can save lots of money when comparing prices [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 6th, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Test The Phishing Protection In Firefox

There are basically two options to protect computer systems (and their users) from phishing attacks. The first are protections in programs like email clients or instant messengers that are commonly used to spread phishing links while the second method blocks the web browser from opening those links (when they have already been clicked on). The [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 5th, 2009
  • Comments: 14

Backup Facebook Accounts

Many online services do not offer the means to backup data locally. Users who want to backup data are usually left with a tedious manual process (like downloading pictures or videos one by one). Data that cannot be downloaded right away is even harder to backup, think of contacts or private messages for example.
Archive Facebook [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 3rd, 2009
  • Comments: 10

Mozilla Plugin Check

The Mozilla Firefox development team started to check the Flash plugin version of Firefox web browsers on the What’s New page after Firefox updates recently. This page would inform users if the Flash plugin version of their web browser was not the latest one which usually meant that their web browser was open for attacks [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 2nd, 2009
  • Comments: 7

Firefox Tab Progress Bar

Those users who are paying attention to the development of the Firefox web browser might have already seen the design mockups of future Firefox versions. While these mockups can be subject to change (and most likely will) they do demonstrate how the Firefox development team visualizes future versions of the Firefox browser. One of the [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 1st, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Automatically Clear The Firefox Search Bar

Firefox users have quite a few ways to perform searches without visiting the website of a search engine first. The most common option is the search bar that is displayed by default in one of the Firefox toolbars. Another option is to enter the search term in the Firefox address bar.
The former method is [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

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