Archive for the 'Firefox' Category



What are Bookmarks & Favorites?

Friday 1 August 2008 @ 9:52 pm

Bookmarks are the term that Mozilla Firefox uses for shortcuts to webpages that you would like to remember.

Whereas, Favorites are the term adopted by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer for the same purpose.

When you are on a website which you think you may want to revisit later on, you simply click on the Bookmarks or Favorites menu (at the top of the window), and click the “Bookmark this page” (for Firefox) or “Add to Favorites…” (for Internet Explorer). Later on, when you want to revisit the same site, just click on the respective menu, and click on the link found there and your web browser will bring you back to that site/page.




How to set your Web Browser’s default Home Page

Monday 21 July 2008 @ 8:56 pm

For INTERNET EXPLORER:

1. Click ‘Tools’

2. Click ‘Internet Options’

3. Under the ‘General’ tab, type in the website address of your choice and then click the ‘Use Current’ button.

4. Click ‘OK’

For FIREFOX:

1. Click ‘Tools’ in the Firefox’s Taskbar (at the top)
2. Click ‘Options’

3. At the ‘Home Page’ window, type in the website address of your choice (You may type more than one address)

4. Click the ‘Use Current Pages’ button

5. Click ‘OK’




Speed up your Firefox - Part 3

Tuesday 8 July 2008 @ 11:27 pm

1. Install Fasterfox in your Firefox

(Note: Fasterfox only works with Firefox version 1.5 - 2.0 as at time of writing)
2. Go to http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/index.html
3. Click Intall Faterfox 2.0.0
4. Click Allow at the top of your web browser
5. Click Install Now




Speed up your Firefox - Part 2

Monday 7 July 2008 @ 11:24 pm

1. Go to Firefox Address bar > type in  about:config
2. At Filter: > Type in  browser.sessionhistory
3. Double-click on browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers
4. Change the value shown to 0




Speed up your Firefox - Part 1

Sunday 6 July 2008 @ 1:50 am

1. Launch Firefox
2. Go to Tools > Add-ons
3. Scroll down the list of add-ons. Select the add-on which you do not want it to run and click the Disable button (or Uninstall button if you want to remove it permanently).