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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 9th, 2009
  • Comments: 11

Block Websites From Appearing In Firefox History

There are many users who like to use the history of their web browser as it provides them with faster access to websites as well as a way to find websites again that they have opened in the past. There are also users who prefer to block the history completely as they value their privacy [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 8th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Add Software Links To Firefox

Many users who work in a web browser need to occasionally open another application on their computer system. Webmasters might need to use a screenshot taking tool or sftp client to manage their websites. Other users might want to launch a music player, news reader or email client. The usual way of accomplishing this is [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 30th, 2009
  • Comments: 6

Use Gmail To Host And Share Photos

Google has recently raised the attachment limit of emails that can be send and received via their email service Gmail to 25 Megabytes. The storage that is offered to all Gmail users exceed 7000 Megabytes which makes Gmail an ideal service for a variety of applications.
We have already seen that it is possible to use [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Email, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 10th, 2009
  • Comments: 1

Firefox Showcase Tab Management Extension

There is quite a discussion going on currently about the future of the tab-driven web browser. The Mozilla Firefox team seems to be serious to discover a new way of handling multiple open websites in a web browser without using tabs as the primary means of managing those open pages.
The Firefox extension Showcase changes [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 8th, 2009
  • Comments: 8

Add Google Chrome’s New Tab Feature To Firefox

You do not get a blank page whenever you open a new tab in the Google browser. Google Chrome displays thumbnails of the most visited websites together with a search function and a list of recently closed pages which can be a great time saver if the user intents to open a website that is [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 5th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Website Optimization: Page Speed For Firebug

Page Speed is a new and interesting website optimization add-on for the Firefox Firebug extension. This means that Page Speed requires the Firefox web browser and the Firebug extension for Firefox before it can be installed. Two new tabs will be added to the Firebug menu which can be used to analyze the performance of [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 5th, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Custom Keyboard Layouts In Firefox

The technical world and the advance of the Internet has made it a necessity for many users to speak English. This does leave many users with at least two languages that they read and probably also write in which is usually not a big problem if the languages are closely related, say Dutch and German [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Uncategorized, firefox

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