If you regularly have to work with multiple checkboxes on a page then you might feel a bit frustrated at performing the same operation over and over again. It might be fun to check one or two boxes from time to time but what about ten on each page on twenty pages per day? That’s [...]
Web of Trust: collaborative online security
Most systems which warn of unsafe websites, like OpenDNS and Google, work in mysterious, non-transparent ways and websites are often deemed as unsafe for reasons other than safety. Web of Trust is a Firefox extension which rates the safety of websites based on ratings received by other users of the plug-in. Users rate websites on [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Access Rapidshare Even If It Is Banned
If you are in the position to have access to a network that has banned Rapidshare but is otherwise pretty lax when it comes to restrictions you might want to bypass the ban to be able to download from Rapidshare. I would not advise doing that at work or school because it can have serious [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Open Random Website In Firefox
Are you feeling bored right now? Don’t know what to do? If you want to spend time on the Internet but don’t know where you might let fate decide instead. Random Site is a Firefox add-on that opens a random page in the currently active tab in Firefox. It takes those pages from Google Search [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Sort Downloads In Firefox
Sorting downloads can be a very good way to control where files will be stored on a computer system. The default option in Firefox is to save them in the standard folder which will contain all downloads no matter the size or file extension. The Save As right-click option provides an option to save the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox Mass Password Reset
It is a common among security professionals to use a password only once. Many Internet users on the other hand prefer to select the same username and password on all websites that they create accounts for to make it easier to access those websites. Having to remember only one password is easier than having to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Save And Paste Form Data In Firefox
Many websites require a signup before their services can be fully used. While this is usually necessary to offer the user his own profile page with custom settings it is sometimes used to grab user profiles to sell them to the highest bidder. But no matter the reason it is always a nuisance for the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Great Summary Summarizes Web Pages
Don’t have the time to read a long article on a web page? Then it might be worth to give the Great Summary service a try. The service extracts the most important sentences of a web page and provides them as a summary to the user. It is pretty obvious that a computerized summary won’t [...]
