I’m getting some very good tips from readers of my blog lately, it’s really appreciated. This time it was Dark Kosmos who tipped me of on a new Firefox 3 extension called Awesome Search which adds search to the Awesome Bar in Firefox 3. In case you did not know the Location Bar of Firefox [...]

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Firekeeper is an intrusion detection and prevention add-on for Firefox that is adding another layer of security. The basic purpose of the Firefox add-on is to identify browser vulnerabilities and exploits that have not yet been patched in Firefox by scanning the data that is transferred between the client computer and the website. Both http [...]

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Bookmark Permissions is a security add-on for the Firefox browser that is compatible with Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 beta. The idea is to set specific permissions for individual bookmarks that override global permissions but only in the direction to reduce the permissions. If Javascript is enabled globally it can be disabled for specific bookmarks [...]

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The information on a website that is temporarily or permanently unaccessible is not necessarily lost. Internet caches crawl the web and store the information. The most popular cache is probably Google Cache which automatically caches pages when Google Bot pays a visit. Technical difficulties are the main reason why a website is temporarily unaccessible. This [...]

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I was always annoyed by the fact that I had to click the links on search result pages instead of having another way to open them by using the keyboard. I’m a keyboard fanatic and try to work as much with it as possible. Entering the search term and pressing enter feels much faster than [...]

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