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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 8th, 2009
  • Comments: 1

Prioritize Tabs In Firefox

It is possible to load several websites in different tabs or windows at once in Firefox. This can happen after a session restore for example where all websites that had been open before are loaded again, while opening a bookmark folder with all its bookmarks, using add-ons like Snap Links to open multiple websites at [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 24th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Search Multiple Video Search Engines With Videosurf

Videosurf is a video search website that can search multiple video portals at once. Support video websites are among others Youtube, Hulu, Google Videos, Dailymotion, CNN Video, Reuters and dozens more. Video search results are mixed from all video portals and displayed on the website. One interesting feature of Videosurf are the categories that are [...]

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Categories: Browsing, The Web, firefox

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

Three Local Firefox Search Tips

Firefox users have an almost unmanageable amount of add-ons, bookmarklets, user scripts and other tools for searching the Internet at their disposal. The choice is however severely limited when it comes to local searches. Local meaning searches on websites that are currently displayed in the Firefox web browser.
The shortcut [CTRL F] allows them to search [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 2nd, 2009
  • Comments: 14

Hide The Firefox Tabbar

The Firefox tabbar is always visible in the web browser unless it is permanently deactivated in the View menu. It does not really make sense to deactivate it unless there is never more than one website open on the computer system. What’s missing is an easy way of hiding the Firefox tabbar when it is [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 10th, 2009
  • Comments: 6

Firefox Extensions Website Gets Overhaul. Collections Introduced

The Firefox extensions website at Mozilla.org got a long needed overhaul. The design of the website has been changed drastically making it more welcoming and eye pleasing to visiting users. The various extension categories are listed on the right while the main part of the screen is reserved for extension recommendations sorted by topics like [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 14th, 2009
  • Comments: 15

Skip Megaupload Time Limit

Many file hosts on the Internet add time limits and captchas to their websites. Some say those are only added to annoy the hell out of non premium users so that they buy premium accounts to avoid those hassles. Megaupload makes use of a time limit that is displayed after entering the captcha on the [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

How do you use your Firefox?

Since I always go through a lot of ‘phases’ in the way I use software, I am really interested to know how you guys use your browsers. Basically in the beginning I knew nothing of addons and such, so I just used it as is (this ws when tabbed browsing came in).
Once addons were popular [...]

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Categories: firefox

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