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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 11th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

How To Remove Favicons In Firefox Bookmarks

Favicons are those tiny little icons that are displayed in front of every bookmark and tab in the Mozilla Firefox web browser. They can be used to identify a website next to the website title that is also always shown. There are two main reasons why someone would want to remove favicons in the Firefox [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 19th, 2009
  • Comments: 6

Firefox Auto Bookmark

The usual way of creating bookmarks in Firefox is to either click on the white star in the address bar or pressing [Ctrl D] to open the page bookmarked dialog. Inexperienced users might also use the bookmarks menu in the main toolbar instead to bookmark the current page in Firefox. There are however situations where [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 26th, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Check Firefox Bookmarks

Up until recently there was not a single add-on available for the Mozilla Firefox 3 web browser that would check the bookmarks for invalid or duplicate entries. Several add-ons existed that were able to perform the checks in Firefox 2. The reason for the missing add-ons was a change in the storage location for Firefox [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 15th, 2008
  • Comments: 2

Page Bookmarks

Bookmarks are references to websites that are stored on a computer system. They are usually stored in a web browser to make it easier to open a website at a later time again. They also aid the user by storing the relevant information like the url so that those do not have to be remembered [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 12th, 2008
  • Comments: 6

Fix: Cannot Delete Firefox 3 Bookmarks

Something strange happened today. Deleting a Firefox bookmark in the bookmarks toolbar or in the bookmarks folder removed that entry from Firefox. It did however reappear after a restart of the browser which was puzzling and annoying as it was not possible to remove old bookmarks from the computer system.
The best way to start the [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 28th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Add Trash To Firefox Bookmarks

Deleting bookmarks in Firefox will remove them permanently from the web browser. There is no going back which might sometimes end in chaos and desperation. Some users might feel more secure with some sort of backup to recover accidentally deleted bookmarks.
That’s where Bookmark Trash comes into play. It adds A Bookmark Trash folder to the [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 21st, 2008
  • Comments: 6

Firefox Temporary Bookmarks

Temporary Bookmarks are bookmarks that expire after a certain amount of time automatically. While most users prefer their bookmarks to last indefinitely some might want to be able to add temporary bookmarks to the system without having to worry about manually uninstalling them after a certain period of time.
One prime example would be to bookmark [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

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