Web browsers usually offer several ways on how to access websites quickly. Users can type in the url, assign keywords to urls or use their bookmarks to do that. Something that has not been on the radar yet is the ability to use hotkeys to launch websites. It is actually a very good question why [...]

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Bookmarks are references to websites that are stored on a computer system. They are usually stored in a web browser to make it easier to open a website at a later time again. They also aid the user by storing the relevant information like the url so that those do not have to be remembered [...]

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If you grow up with the 24-hour system you will have troubles with the 12-hour am/pm system. Add to that the various timezones and you are up for lots of confusion. If you regularly correspond with people from all over the world you should better know their timezone and how it differs from yours. This [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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