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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 18th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Fast Firefox 3 Unsorted Bookmarks Access

Firefox 3 introduced a new feature called unsorted bookmarks. If you look at the Firefox 3 location bar you see a white star in the right end of the bar. Clicking on that star turns the color to yellow and adds the page to the unsorted bookmarks in Firefox.
The problem with this process is that [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 13th, 2008
  • Comments: 29

How to move the bookmarks in Firefox 3

Firefox 3 changed the way bookmarks are stored on the computer. Before they were simply saved in a bookmarks.html file in the user’s profile folder and it was easy to add the browser.bookmarks.file parameter in about:config to change the location manually. The new Firefox introduces a database driven design and bookmarks are now stored in [...]

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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 9th, 2008
  • Comments: 50

Fix Excessive Firefox 3 CPU and Hard Disk Usage

I switched from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3 a few days ago and love the speed of the new version of Firefox. It’s not a speed gain that’s only appearing in benchmarks but one that every user will recognize as well. There was one minor incident though after upgrading to Firefox 3 that turned out [...]

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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 8th, 2008
  • Comments: 1

All you need to know about the Firefox 3 Location Bar

The location bar (or address bar, awesome bar, smart bar) has one main function and that is to provide the user with a sophisticated tool to load a website. In old times the location bar was used to enter local or remote addresses but nothing else which changed slightly in Firefox 2 which included a [...]

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