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Posts Tagged ‘firefox’
How to Browse Privately in Firefox
Want to make sure you’re not leaving any trace of your browsing while in Firefox? If so, you should make sure you are using Private Browsing. It’s like IE’s InPrivate and Chrome’s Incognito. Learn more.
Convert Web Pages into a Printer Friendly Format using Clippable
If you still like to read content on paper and you tend to print out web pages for future reading, then you will love Clippable. It’s a free Firefox and IE add-on that cleans up a webpage so that when you print it, you only get the content and not the other junk.
Sort Firefox Bookmarks by Name or Folder
Have a crapload of bookmarks in Firefox? By default, there are not many options for sorting bookmarks in Firefox. Luckily, there are tons of add-ons. SortPlaces is an awesome one that lets you sort by different criteria automatically.
Firefox Versus IE: The Icon
We love this icon and use it to replace the default one on our quick launch. Bravo to Daemon of DeviantArt. We did have to convert from .png, see Imagicon
Take Control Of Your Firefox Menu Options
When you right click in Firefox, do you have two dozen context menu options? Three dozen? The Menu Editor extension allows easy adjustment and deletion of unwanted menu items.
Backup Your Entire Firefox Profile in One Minute
MozBackup can backup and restore your Firefox bookmarks, passwords, stylish.rdf settings, extensions, themes and much more. Never worry about corrupt profiles again ! Works with Thunderbird and Flock too. Our all-time favorite Firefox backup tool.
Make the Firefox Find Box Remember Your Ctrl+F Searches
Do you use the Ctrl+F shortcut key combination to find things in a page often? Now you can make Firefox save them.
Power Up Your Firefox Tabs the Lightweight Way
Tabberwocky is everything you might want in a Tab Manager for Firefox. From locking tabs to allowing multiple rows of tabs, this thing does it all. And at 25K, it’s considerably smaller than Tab Mix Plus (~400K). For you keyboard commando’s, there are shortcuts for nearly everything.
Prevent Pages from Automatically Refreshing
Hate those pages that automatically refresh every couple of minutes? We do too. If you are using IE, just head to Tools –> Options, go to the Security tab, click Custom Level, then find Allow META REFRESH and disable it.
Want the same thing in Firefox? Lifehacker has the answer: head into about:config and change accessibility.blockautorefresh to true.