How To Run Multiple Firefox Instance From Different Accounts in Linux

August 26th, 2008 Every one in my company knows about pkill, an obscure Linux command because we use Firefox (we are 100% Linux based) as the default browser. What is the relation, you ask? The answer is simple.

December 7th, 2007 Cross-browser and cross-platform testing is a bane as well as a requirement for web applications. Consider Internet Explorer on Windows.

May 14th, 2007 Fedora Core 6 ships with Firefox 1.5.x version. Firefox 2.0.x is currently in development repository of Fedora Core 6.

June 25th, 2006 There are two Firefox extensions depending on your need. If you need to switch between different proxies quickly then you can use the SwitchProxy extension for Firefox.

November 15th, 2004 I have enumerated some benefits and things to watch out for in the latest Firefox release.

October 10th, 2008 Most techies and developer prefer using the terminal on Linux. If you are like me a heavy command line interface (cli) user than you will find these simple tips useful.

September 15th, 2008 Consider this as the missing installation guide for RSSOwl on Linux. After spending hours trying to get it working I finally figured it out.

September 11th, 2007 Most guide to adding multiple IP addresses on Linux starts with the Microsoft-like solution of using ifconfig. While the solution is correct it doesn't survive a reboot or even a network restart.

August 1st, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Internet surfers have downloaded the open source Firefox browser more than one billion times, the software's distributor, the Mozilla Foundation, said Friday. The browser is the strongest current rival to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which once controlled over 90 percent of the browser market but has seen its dominance steadily eroded by Firefox.

May 14th, 2007 SearchStatus extension for Firefox is a cool extension which shows Google as well as Alexa rankings for each page. However it synchronizes between rank updates in each tab and literally hangs your browser for extended periods when you are working with multiple tabs.

July 17th, 2006 Share Firefox with a friend. If your friend downloads Firefox before September 15, you’ll both be immortalized in Firefox 2.

January 15th, 2005 In my microcosm of viewers (of this blog site) Firefox is rapidly gaining in popularity and accounts for ~24% of the market share. Mozilla & Netscape accounts for merely 6%.

July 17th, 2009 Mozillla releases Firefox 3.5.1 update version for Windows, Mac, and Linux on Tuesday. This new version claims a fix for critical security hole and available in more than 70 different languages.

December 16th, 2005 Firefox has its own share of troubles. If I happen to open few sites with Flash advertisements on them and leave it open for some time, Firefox gobbles up most of the memory and becomes dog-slow.

October 13th, 2008 Linux Bandwidth monitoring tools and this (better explanations) - Instead of apt-get use yum install for RedHat based systems like Fedora, CentOS and obviously RedHat. Common Linux commands - The description is terse.