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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 19th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Firefox Cache Viewer Gui Frontend

There are two ways to access the Firefox web browser cache. The cache can either be accessed from within the web browser by entering about:cache into the Firefox address bar or by opening the cache directory located in the Firefox user profile on the hard drive. The in-browser solution displays a bare-bone file browser with [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 19th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Mozilla Flash Upgrade Statistics

The Mozilla development team announced earlier that month that they would check the Flash version of Firefox users after each upgrade to inform users about security issues if they were not running the latest version of Adobe Flash. They estimated that more than 80% of all Firefox users would run an outdated – and thus [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 16th, 2009
  • Comments: None

Textarea++ Gives Firefox Users Control Over Textareas On Websites

Do you know a website that you like to participate in, e.g. a forum or a blog, only to be turned down by an abysmal small comment form textarea? Maybe one that is good for a small sentence which essentially means that it will only show a few lines of the text that has been [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 15th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

PBTweet Enhances Twitter Experience

PBTweet is a bookmarklet and userscript that enhances several aspects of Twitter by changing or adding new functions to the popular social network. Before we start looking at the features a word about compatibility. The bookmarklet works with most Webkit based web browsers including Safari and Google Chrome. The userscripts are compatible with Greasemonkey [...]

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Categories: Online Services, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 15th, 2009
  • Comments: 1

Web Browser Have Impact On Battery Life

A recent Anandtech study suggests that the web browser has an impact on a mobile PCs battery usage. The test, which analyzed battery performance under various popular web browsers and three websites, can probably not be seen as representative but it could indicate which web browser uses less battery power to operate. A test with [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, firefox, opera

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 14th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Firefox 3 History Recovery

Are you a Firefox user who regularly cleans the Firefox history and other traces like downloads from the web browser’s memory? Do you think that these information are really gone and cannot be recovered because you have deleted them? You might want to think again as it is usually possible to recover data on computer [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Open Source, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 13th, 2009
  • Comments: 11

Firefox 4 Mockup Theme For Firefox 3

The designers and developers of the Firefox web browser have shown several design mockups of future Firefox versions in July. These mockups have since then been the source of inspiration for Firefox theme developers who tried to create a theme that would look like one of the possible future designs of the web browser.
The Strata [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

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