Category: Firefox

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How to open websites in Google Chrome from Firefox

Google Chrome is really the buzz of this week with many bloggers were so excited to talk about the release of Google’s first ever web browser. While many people anticipate more plugins in the near future like they experience with …

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How to Disable Automatic Virus Scanning in Firefox 3

I came across several posts since last week on how to turn off virus scanning in Firefox 3. It makes me wonder why I don’t see such a feature after completing a download. The virus scanning however appeared for the …

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SearchStatus: Firefox Extension to Examine Sites Performance

I’m always curious about performance of websites I visit and that explains why I installed Alexa plugin and Google pagerank bar. They are, however, only related to alexa ranking and Pagerank. On top of that, with more Firefox extensions need …

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Firefox plugin: View PDF files as HTML

As many documents are documented in PDF format nowadays, I always look for lighter PDF reader such as Foxit Reader to open PDF documents. While everything seems to be on the right place there’s only one feature I would like …

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Free up memory usage in Firefox with RAMBack

Firefox 3.0 was very much awaited with the anticipation that the memory consumption problem in the previous version was improved. It seems the same problem still plagues this latest version of Firefox. I know there are few tips out there …

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Firefox 3.0 sets a Guinness World Record

Today, the highly anticipated new version of the internet browser Firefox has finally released. Firefox 3 is expected to set a Guinness World record for most downloaded software in 24 hours with over 3 million downloads. The following is the …

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List of Social Bookmarking Plugins in Firefox

Social bookmarking is becoming more popular and it can be seen from the emergence of hundreds of new social bookmarking sites all over the net. With hundreds of them, efficient submission becomes demanding and this explains why there are several …

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HappyChecker: How to detect Rapidshare Happy Hour on Firefox

If you follow my blog, I’m sure you still remember about Rapidshare Happy Hour checker. Even though it’s small in size, it requires you to install Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. It’s not really a problem but it takes extra steps …