Posts Tagged ‘mozilla’

Firefox: Smart keywords

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I just came across a very good feature of Firefox. Searching gets way too easier with FF. Suppose you visit IMDB.com alot and you have to search for movies. Right click on the Search box and select “Add a Keyword for this Search…” (sample keyword: ‘imdb’). Now next time you want to search something on [...]

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Cut down Firefox memory

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Firefox does not release memory upon minimize and that does make the browser a little heavy when the user restores it after sometime. You can tweak this part as well
Open up the configuration file by typing “about:config” in the address bar. Locate “config.trim_on_minimize” and set its value to “true”. If you don’t find [...]

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Boost Firefox Startup

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It’s a fact that Firefox usually starts slower that Internet Explorer and that’s what Firefox fans usually complain about. Well, you can tweak that by installing a small third-party application.
Grab ‘Firefox Preloader’, install it and you’ll see a small Firefox icon in your system tray. Yup, you’ve done you’re part. Run Firefox and you’ll be [...]

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Add Fire to Firefox

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Within 2 minutes, you can ‘tweak’ your Firefox browser to boost up its speed by almost 40%.
1. Open the Firefox “config” page by typing “about:config” in the address bar. The CONFIG file will appear in the browser window.
2. Locate the “network.http.pipelining” and double click on it. This will increase the “pipeline” RAM ability for Firefox [...]

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.Net & .Org Shortcuts

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Just like hitting CTRL+ENTER in the browser shoots ‘www.___.com’, similarly, SHIFT+ENTER leads to “.net” and CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER brings up “.org”! (works with Firefox only)

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