Firefox Woes: Memory Leaking, Hanging, Incorrect Rendering etc.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.
Firefox Tip: How To Change The Default Home Page LocationJuly 14th, 2007 This question was posed by a visitor of this site. Here is how you can change the default home page location in Firefox and everything you can do with it.
How To Stop Firefox From Blocking Sites Suspected of Forgery or AttackMarch 15th, 2009 Firefox 3 onwards has a nice feature which warns you of sites which are suspected of forgery or attacks (through trojans, malware etc.). Unfortunately the feature is too intrusive and warns you repeatedly, nags you to death is a better phrase to describe it, even when you have confirmed that the site is genuine.
How To Change Firefox Location Bar SearchingNovember 18th, 2007 By default in Firefox you can type one or more keywords in the location bar. Firefox recognizes that it is not an URL and uses I'm Lucky search with Google search engine for version < 2; it uses Google search by name for Firefox version 2 and above.
Share Firefox and Be Immortalized in Firefox 2July 17th, 2006 Share Firefox with a friend. If your friend downloads Firefox before September 15, you’ll both be immortalized in Firefox 2.
about:me, Next Gen Firefox Add-on launchedJune 15th, 2009 The next version of Firefox, better named as Firefox 3.6 comes with an interesting and handy feature called about: me. This is a especially designed web page that allows you to view your browsing habits profile highlighting the most visited sites, time of the day and days you navigate most, and how to access the sites.
How to Change Firefox Default Email Client to Gmail, Yahoo AOL or Zoho February 6th, 2009 Like a leopard cannot change its spots, most people do not prefer to change their email client. When you get used to the likes of Gmail or Yahoo, things come naturally.
How To Run Multiple Firefox Instance From Different Accounts in LinuxSeptember 2nd, 2007 In Linux, unlike Windows, multiple users can simultaneously connect to the same machine and get a full GUI using windows managers like VNC. However when one of the account has Firefox opened, others are prevented from bringing up firefox which can be very much irritating.
Download Firefox 3.5 - Faster and safer way to surf the internetJuly 1st, 2009 A new version of the Internet browser Firefox was released Tuesday, offering users more speed and privacy and greater compliance with new Internet video standards. The release of Firefox 3.5 (download)came as the open source browser is proving an increasingly formidable challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8, which once had over 90 percent market share.
5 Must-Have Firefox Add-ons for Web Development & QAJune 24th, 2008 These add-ons are so useful that I cannot work for a single day without them and so I would suspect most web developers and QA Engineers. These plugins / add-ons makes Firefox a formidable web development and testing platform.
How To Update To Firefox 2.0.x in Fedora Core / LinuxMay 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.
How To Easily Switch Proxies in FirefoxJune 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.
Security: How Internet Explorer 6 Fares Against Mozilla Firefox?August 28th, 2006 I think few graphs will clearly illustrate the gulf of difference between these two leading browsers (Internet Explorer 6.x & Firefox 1.x) in terms of security. Let's start with our favorite whipping boy,market leader Internet Explorer 6.x, shall we?
Internet Explorer 6.x Security Advisories
Source: Secunia
Firefox 1.x Security Advisories
Source: Secunia
Now let's look at their criticality.
How to Enable Flash in Firefox 1.5December 10th, 2005 If you use Firefox AdBlock extension and you have upgraded to Firefox 1.5 you may notice that Flash is now disabled on your browser. This micro tutorial will show you how to enable Flash on your Firefox 1.5 browser.
My Favorite Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows QuoteJuly 21st, 2007 My favorite quote and song from Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows. The song has a spoiler.
June 24th, 2008 at 7:54 am
The most interesting feature I found in Firefox 3, is that with Ctrl+, it doesn’t increases the text size, but zooms the total page. This feature they have incorporated from Opera. This relieves Web Designers from the pain to adjust their pages with text zoom.
The new version is much lighter and works well.