If you have this problem you know how frustrating it can be. Every time you fire up Firefox it wants to start in offline mode. To get around this you have to go to the File menu and uncheck the Work Offline box. When I first encountered this I immediately opened up about:config and searched [...]

Categories: Advice, Firefox, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

Identify is a Firefox extension that can be used to retrieve information about individuals on social networking sites. It works by visiting a profile page on a site and pressing the [alt i] keyboard shortcut to open the Identify overlay. Mac users press [ctrl i] for the same effect. The Firefox add-on will then display [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Ever came across a situation where you had to check multiple check boxes on a website? Webmasters encounter these type of check boxes fairly regular when editing comments on their websites or moderating forum posts. Some websites and scripts provide a check all button that can be pressed but what if there is none available? [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

We would like to show how to disable the auto focus on text fields of selected websites to complete the series of posts that deal with auto focusing on text fields once the website opens in the web browser. If you open the Google Search homepage by default you notice that the cursor will automatically [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

We mentioned a setting for the Firefox web browser earlier today that allowed the usage of the tab key to jump to the first text field on a website.This is handy on websites with no auto focus on the first text field. There was no apparent way, either by installing a Firefox add-on or userscript, [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

While some websites like Google Search set the focus on their text fields automatically it is avoided on other websites either because the webmaster does not know that such a feature exists or because of reasons kept secret. Search engines should auto-focus on the main text field, period. While not all users tend to agree [...]

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Comments can be very useful wherever they are allowed. To many comments on the other hand make it complicated to get a good overview of the opinions in the comments especially if comments are listed on multiple pages. Comments at the popular video portal Youtube can get out of hand in both ways. It is [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

It’s 2009 and I would have thought the world wide web would be browser agnostic by now. Unfortunately there are some developers that simply can not design or code for a cross platform/browser world. Because of that developers have had to create browser add on’s to help get around the issues. Many of you have [...]

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