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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 23rd, 2009
  • Comments: 6

Firefox Bookmarks Archiver

Most Firefox users make use of the bookmarking feature of the web browser to store interesting or important websites so that they can be visited at a later time again. Many of them do add bookmarks regularly while only a few delete unneeded bookmarks regularly which has the effect that the bookmarks folder grow with [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 21st, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Automatically Download Youtube Videos (And More)

With the popularity of video portals like Youtube came the desire to download the videos to the local computer system to be able to watch them (again) offline or to convert them to burn them to DVD and watch them on TV. Hundreds of applications and software programs have been designed to fill that gap [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 20th, 2009
  • Comments: None

Add Google Service Shortcuts To Firefox

Google fanatics who regularly work with multiple Google services such as Google Mail Gmail , Google Reader, Google Docs, Blogger, Orkut and a few dozens more might find the Gbutts add-on for the Firefox web browser helpful. That is, if they have not created keyboard shortcuts for the Google services that they use or installed [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 20th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Google Unified Search

You need to search on multiple search engines if you truly want to research a search term, as opposed to simply finding a solution to it. Some users might think that searching in Google is enough to find all the relevant information about a search term and while that may be true more often than [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 18th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Make Tabs Permanent In Firefox

Firefox by default handles all tabs the same way. A tab gets closed if a user presses the close button, no matter if that action was intended or not. It is also true that new websites get loaded in the active tab under certain circumstances which is another thing that some users might want to [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 18th, 2009
  • Comments: None

Create Website Desktop Shortcuts In Firefox

It was a tad easier to create website desktop shortcuts in the Firefox web browser before the Mozilla team decided to change the default behavior when dragging and dropping tabs from Firefox to an empty space of the computer desktop. This would have created a website desktop shortcut in previous versions but will spawn a [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 16th, 2009
  • Comments: 8

Block NoScript From Opening Homepage After Update

The NoScript add-on for the Firefox web browser is without doubt one of the best ways to increase the web browser’s security as it disables JavaScript elements on all websites that are visited by the user initially. It is of course possible to enable these JavaScript elements if the website is considered safe but the [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

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