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Firefox slow? Limit history size for speed improvement
My beloved Firefox seems to have gotten kind of bloated and slow lately, particularly when starting it up. If you've experienced a similar decrease in Firefox's startup performance, check out this quick tip from Mac Tricks and Tips. One of ...
6 handy Firefox 2 tweaks
Step 1: Download Firefox 2. Step 2: Bend it to your will. Lifehacker has printed a nice set of tweaks for Firefox 2 to make your browsing experience happer. There's six tweaks, including changing the tab scrolling behavior, modifying prefetching ...
Browser tip of the day: Faster Firefox Builds
Today we've got the best kind of tip for you - how to make your Firefox browser faster. Now, this one's not for the faint of heart, but it is completely doable, and I've personally been using it for months with no problems. What am I talking about? ...
Browser tip of the day: Block Flash Popups in Firefox
This is a really simple tip, but also very helpful. If you don't like unwanted popups (and if they're "unwanted," I'm betting you don't), check out this very simple tip to stop them. Basically, Firefox has pretty good built-in popup ...
Opera equivalents to Firefox extensions - Today's Browser Tip
Get Opera for Free Day isn't over yet, and since the Browser Tips have been more than a little Firefox-focused of late, here's one for the Opera folks: Back in January Roger Johansson wrote a post with his eight favorite Firefox extensions, and Arve ...
Firefox Tip - Rearrange tabs by dragging and dropping
Have you ever had 15 tabs open and wished you had opened them in a different order? People that visit certain sites with regularity and despise it when the tabs aren't in their usual order, will enjoy the sheer simplicity of this Firefox tip. ...
Firefox 3 vulnerability, 8 million people affected!
If you were one of those 8 million people that downloaded Firefox 3 the other day be aware that Tipping Point DVLabs has announced a vulnerability in Mozilla's latest browser. Details are unknown but in order for this exploit to work, you'll have to ...
Make Firefox look like Internet Explorer
Are you unsuccessfully trying to switch someone in your life from Internet Explorer to Firefox? Some IE users say they are reluctant to make the switch from IE to Firefox because IE is the only web browser they have ever used. Now you can make the ...
One big reason people didn't upgrade from Firefox 2 to 3? Hiding porn bookmarks.
Generally, improvements in software are a good thing. Improving something means making it better, right? In the case of Firefox 3's enhanced Awesome Bar, maybe not so much. The Firefox security team has been analyzing data collected from users who ...
List of 50 best Firefox extensions
As I've been warming up more and more to Firefox,
it's hard for me to resist giant lists of summarized Firefox extensions, and this one looks pretty
comprehensive. I've never seen this "Quick Online Tips" blog before, but I found their list ...
Browser Tip of the Day: Make Firefox's RSS icon work with other newsreaders
Firefox has a feature called Live Bookmarks, whereby a colorful little icon pops up in the status bar whenever Firefox detects an RSS feed, and you can use it to cause the feed's latest headlines to appear in a special folder in your bookmarks. It's ...
Fight Firefox resizing with four simple steps
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/mods/Fight_Firefox_resizing_with_four_simple_steps'; Hate it when websites take it on themselves to resize your browser window? We do. Here are four simple steps to make sure that these Webdev control freaks never resize ...
Speed up Firefox by cleaning out your SQLite databases
A while back, Jason mentioned giving your Firefox performance a boost by limiting the length of time items are saved in history.
At Mozilla Links, they've shared another handy tip from Mozilla developer Jeremy Orem.
His advice: take a vacuum to ...
Browser Tip of the Day: View Cookies extension for Firefox
Every browser I've ever used has gotten cookie management wrong. The default way to view, manage, or delete your cookies is invariably to look at them all in one long list, but almost every occasion I've had to manage my cookies was when I ...
Run multiple Firefox versions or profiles at once
Out of the box, there's no
way to make two different version of Firefox, or two copies running different user profiles, run at the same time. This
can be a big pain when doing stuff like developing extensions or testing alpha builds, or maybe you ...
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
