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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 1st, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Open Random Website In Firefox

Are you feeling bored right now? Don’t know what to do? If you want to spend time on the Internet but don’t know where you might let fate decide instead. Random Site is a Firefox add-on that opens a random page in the currently active tab in Firefox.
It takes those pages from Google Search History. [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 30th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Fasterfox Lite

Fasterfox is a controversial Firefox add-on mainly because of its prefetching setting that caused unnecessary load on web servers. By default Fasterfox was only using this techniques on webpages where the website developer explicitly enabled prefetching. Users could however change this to prefetch all static links. All ten static links of a website would be [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 28th, 2008
  • Comments: 13

Access Google Calendar Without Leaving The Page

GCal Popup is an experimental Firefox extension that is compatible with Firefox 1.5 to 3.x. It integrates Google Calendar nicely into Firefox by providing a button in the Firefox status bar which, when clicked, will open Google Calendar as an overlay of the current website. The benefit of using Gcal Popup is that it is [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 27th, 2008
  • Comments: 27

Firefox is already running, but is not responding

The message “Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.” popped up quite frequently on a test system running the latest official version of Firefox 3 lately. The problem usually appeared after closing Firefox and trying to open [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 27th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Automatic CC Emails In Thunderbird

The email client Thunderbird does not provide an option to automatically send specific emails to a CC or BCC email address. While home users normally do not need that feature it might be required to send all email correspondence to a supervisor or different department in the company that you are working for. It can [...]

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Categories: Email

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 24th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Add Noise To Firefox

There is no obvious option in Firefox to add sound to the web browser. Sound is probably something that most users would not want to let near their web browser because they feel it is distracting them from other tasks. Still: There are users who prefer a beep whenever they are clicking or when a [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 23rd, 2008
  • Comments: None

Firefox Drag And Drop Search

Firefox offers many ways to perform searches. It displays a search bar on the top right by default, provides access to keywords that can be used to search and has lots of third party add-ons that add search to the right-click context menu.
The Drag & DropZones extension for Firefox is different and at the [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

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