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Firefox Profile Data Storage: How to Hack it

Like all browsers, Firefox stores your browsing history, saved passwords, form data, and preference values. Where exactly does it store it? It certainly isn’t on that ordered list in the Browsing History. All of this information is specifically stored in the SQLite databases in the Firefox profile folder. By using an open-source program called SQLite [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Manage your bibliographic database with Bibus

If you are a student, teacher, writer, or anyone who has a need for a bibligraphy then you need to do yourself a favor and make use of a bibliographic manager. A bibliographic manager will organize, query, share, insert, and import bibliographic databases. One tool for this is Bibus. Bibus is an open source bibliographic database that can [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Software, troubleshooting, Tutorials Basic, Windows

Vacuum Places Improved Firefox Database Optimization

The first Firefox add-on to optimize the SQLite databases that are used to store data like bookmarks or history was a Russian add-on that worked but did not please non-Russian speaking users. Vacuum Places Improved is a relative new add-on that features internationalization and additional options that make it a recommended add-on for users who [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Optimize Firefox Databases With Vacuum Places

The Mozilla Firefox development team switched to SQlite databases for data storage in Firefox 3. One problem that arose because of this switch was an increasing Firefox profile folder size as there was no build in way to optimize the SQlite databases regularly. We reviewed a solution to this problem a while ago (read: optimize [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Portable Web Server

Server2Go is a portable web server that can be run from any storage space in a Windows environment. It can be placed on USB devices, removable devices, CDs, DVDs or the hard drive of the computer. It requires no installation at all and can be run right from the location where it has been placed [...]

Categories: Software, The Web, Windows

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