You are presented with several choices if you open a new tab in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8. Internet Explorer users have the option to open recently opened websites, start an inPrivate session (that’s the equivalent to Private Browsing in Firefox) or to use an accelerator. The Firefox web browser on the other hand displays a [...]
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 [...]
Optimize SQLite Databases In Firefox
The Mozilla Firefox development team has changed the way the web browser is storing information to SQLite databases in Firefox 3. Cookies, Bookmarks, RSS feeds and many other information are now stored in SQLite databases that are stored in the Firefox profile. A problem that can arise is that the databases can get fragmented over [...]
Add Software Links To Firefox
Many users who work in a web browser need to occasionally open another application on their computer system. Webmasters might need to use a screenshot taking tool or sftp client to manage their websites. Other users might want to launch a music player, news reader or email client. The usual way of accomplishing this is [...]
Force Firefox To Open Links In Same Tab
One of the great annoyances on the Internet are links that are configured to open in new links or tabs. Outbound links, which means links that point to another domain, are usually prime targets for this method of linking but there are also cases that links on the same domain open up in new tabs [...]
Firefox 3.5 Final
The Mozilla Firefox development team has finished the final version of Firefox 3.5. The new version is currently distributed to all official mirror websites with the official announcement expected to hit the web later today. No download portal is currently offering the new version for download which is surely going to change in the next [...]
Firefox 3.5 RC3 Released
The third, and most likely last, release candidate of Firefox 3.5 is currently being uploaded to Mozilla ftp mirror servers throughout the world. the distribution can take between 24-48 hours to complete before users will receive update notifications in the web browser or on the Mozilla Firefox website.
Firefox 3.5 RC3 introduces several non-critical changes to [...]
