Web browsers usually offer several ways to access websites quickly. Users can type in part of the url or website title in the address bar, assign and use keywords, or use their […]
Url shortening services like Tinyurl have seen an influx since the release of web services like Twitter. Twitter is a prime example as the services limits the amount of characters per message […]
Making the computer read out text aloud can be useful in several situations. The most obvious is as an aid for blind or visually impaired people, but it can also be helpful […]
Photobucket is one of the most popular image hosting sites on the Internet. It is currently hosting more than 6.5 billion images on its servers. It is only natural that some users […]
If you like to test and install userscripts on a regular basis you may visit the popular repository UserScripts.org or the recently launched alternative Grease Fork to browse new and updated scripts […]
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 point […]
Something strange happened today. Deleting a Firefox bookmark in the bookmarks toolbar or in the bookmarks folder removed that entry from Firefox. It did however reappear after a restart of the browser […]
Mozilla Firefox offers no way to manipulate cookies directly in the web browser unlike the Opera web browser which comes with those capabilities. (Update: it is possible to edit cookies in recent […]
Firefox is displaying a close button on every open tab by default. The active tab displays that button in red colors while the rest displays a gray button instead to distinguish active […]
The hostname is basically the root url of a website, for Ghacks it would be www.ghacks.net. Adding that information to the titlebar has two apparent benefits. Number one is related to phishing. […]
If you regularly have to work with multiple checkboxes on a page then you might feel a bit frustrated at performing the same operation over and over again. It might be fun […]
Most systems which warn of unsafe websites, like OpenDNS and Google, work in mysterious, non-transparent ways and websites are often deemed as unsafe for reasons other than safety. Web of Trust is […]
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 […]
Sorting downloads can be a very good way to control where files will be stored on a computer system. The default option in Firefox is to save them to the standard download […]
Deleting bookmarks in Firefox will remove them permanently from the web browser. There is no going back which might sometimes end in chaos and desperation. Some users might feel more secure with […]
It is a common practice among security professionals to use a password only once. What I mean by that is to use unique passwords for every single account created. The core reason […]
Many websites require users to signup before their services can be fully used. While that makes often times sense, for instance for user identification, it is sometimes used solely for the purpose […]
Temporary Bookmarks are bookmarks that expire after a certain amount of time automatically. While most users prefer their bookmarks to last indefinitely, some use bookmarks as a temporary means to store web […]
When you quote text published on a website you usually need to copy the text itself that you want to quote and the web address (url) as you need to cite your […]
Don't have the time to read a long article on a web page? Then it might be worth to give the Great Summary service a try. The service extracts the most important […]
The Firefox disk cache is usually located on the same drive that Firefox got installed. In Windows it is located in the Documents and Settings folder if you run an older version […]
Firefox 3 displays five bars at the top of the application window before it displays the contents of the website loaded in the tab. There is the title bar, the menu, the […]
Firefox like many other web browsers supports so called plugins that are loaded in the browser. These plugins add third party functionality to Firefox. A common plugin is Adobe Flash Player, which […]
A rather unknown feature of Firefox is the ability to quickly switch tabs with the shortcuts CTRL 1-9. To switch to the fifth open tab in Firefox, you would for instance use […]
Some webmasters develop a keen sense when it comes to valuable domain names. They may read an article and come up with great domain names or come up with names after they […]
Image browsing is still not a strength of most web browsers. Sure you can click on a picture, look at it and repeat the process to view all the images of a […]
While most users want to make sure that copied text from the web browser they are using does not contain any formatting or code, some users might just need that. Web developers […]
The latest nightly build of Firefox 3.1 included a first version of the long awaited private browsing feature. Private Browsing refers to a special mode in Firefox that users can activate to […]
A few Firefox extensions can remove unneeded menu items from the web browser to provide only access to the functions that are required and used by the user. One basic example would […]
How do you load multiple urls in Firefox? You could use the Snap Links extension if they are properly linked on a website; But what if they are not? Say a friend […]
Fasterfox is a controversial Firefox add-on mainly because of its prefetching setting that causes unnecessary load on web servers and may waste resources on the user side as well. By default, Fasterfox […]
GCal Popup is an experimental Firefox extension that is compatible with Firefox 1.5 to 3.x. It integrates the Google Calendar service nicely into Firefox by providing a button in the Firefox status […]
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 […]
There is no obvious option in Firefox to add sound notifications to the web browser. Sound is probably something that most users would not want to let near their web browser because […]
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 using custom search engines […]
Mozilla released the first public alpha version of the upcoming Firefox Mobile version which is currently only available for OS2008 ("Maemo") software platforms that run on Nokia N810 Internet Tablets and desktop […]
Accessing the Internet on two different computers regularly makes many users crave for data synchronization solutions to access the same set of bookmarks, email accounts or other data on all computers. Several […]
The Ask The Readers article yesterday asked for recommendations for splitting the browser window in Firefox so that two websites could be displayed next to each other. The general consensus was to […]
While checking for new Google Chrome plugins I stumbled upon a plugin called Dual View which makes it possible to display two websites in a split tab. This could actually be very […]
Users can practically set one or multiple websites as their start pages in Firefox (and any other web browser as well). Another option are Speed Dial extensions which copy a feature from […]
