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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 11th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Speed Up Firefox By Limiting The History

The Firefox web browser will save visited websites for a minimum of 90 days and a maximum of 180 days in the Firefox history by default. The hard limit is set to 40000 websites that are stored in the History. When that limit is reached old history entries will be deleted from the database that [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 9th, 2009
  • Comments: 11

Block Websites From Appearing In Firefox History

There are many users who like to use the history of their web browser as it provides them with faster access to websites as well as a way to find websites again that they have opened in the past. There are also users who prefer to block the history completely as they value their privacy [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 28th, 2008
  • Comments: 7

Male or Female? Your Browser’s History Might Tell

A website should not be able to read the the history of websites that a user visited previously. An ingenious CSS hack and some spicy Javascript is however enough to use a trial and error method to find out if a user has been to specific websites.
Some webmasters use this method to display the social [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Entertainment, Security

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 10th, 2008
  • Comments: 7

Watch Documentaries Online

It seems that more and more specialized websites appear that list videos from sites such as Youtube and Google Video. At the beginning websites that would post lists of tv shows and movies were the most common ones and they are still very popular. Other websites emerge now that only list anime, sports or music videos.

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Categories: Entertainment, Music and Video

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