What´s an oxymoron again ? Who or what is quixotic ? You might find the Dictionary Tooltip Extension for Firefox useful if you happen to stumble upon words that you have never heard before (or know but have no definition at hand).

This extension lets you mark a work and shows a definition of that word after one of the following three possible actions. 1. You doubleclick the word, 2. You right-click and select view definition and 3. you hit the shortcut CTRL + SHIFT + D. A mighty useful extension not only for natives but also people with English as their second or even third language.

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The Mozilla Firefox Cheat Sheet is a great way to learn more about the firefox browser. New users will find this one page firefox reference useful because it lists all those little tips and workarounds that speed up your firefox workflow.

The Cheat Sheet has three major sections. Section one deals with firefox shortcuts (general, navigation, text, search and mouse shortcuts). Section two lists the important locations like cache and profiles and section three lists some neat tips and tricks like blocking popups and customize toolbars. You might even learn something new if you are working with firefox on a daily basis, try it out.

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Opera 9 has been finally released to the public. The browser is fast, efficient and comes with many new features that are worth a closer look. It supports bittorrent and downloads torrent files automatically (with the option to handle torrent files with an external application). Widgets have been added to Opera as well making it very flexible, we will most likely see lots of community widgets for Opera in the future. (Similar to the extensions of firefox).

We are able to customize Opera for every website, we could allow popups or cookies for instance for one site and disallow them for all other sites. You will be able to block content like images or advertisement on websites, add search engines and preview tabs. It has heaps of new features, you can save the current state of all tabs as a session and continue that session at a later time or undelete closed tabs from the bin.

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Extended Statusbar is another useful firefox extension which adds functionality to firefox. It displays additional information about the website that is currently loaded. Those information include the overall load time of the website, the amount of bytes that have been downloaded, the speed that you downloaded those bytes, the number of loaded images and finally the percentage that the site is loaded.

This is useful information if you want to find out why a website is loading slowly for instance. Webmasters are also able to check on their websites and see how fast it really loads.

source: lifehacker

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Firefox can save your login details to websites, online banking or forums with ease. The next time you enter the same website it will autofill the details and you simply have to confirm the details to sign in. This is convenient of course and great for the lazy ones. The paranoid ones will most likely be unconvinced by this because it´s easy to display the password in plain text.

Go into Tools –> Options, select Privacy and there the Password Tab. Ever wondered what the View Saved Passwords Tab does ? It reveals all your login details in plain text. If you are working alone on this pc fine, but what if your girlfriend ( wife / boss .. ) discovers this little feature and discovers all those secrets that you are trying to hide from her ?

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