Sometimes it’s best that no one finds out which websites you’ve been browsing. That’s because it’s your business. Firefox has the tendencies of storing your recently visited websites in the browser bar drop-down list and in history. Just click the down-arrow in the browser bar and you’ll quickly find the previous websites you have visited.
I am going to show you how to turn that off so no one can view the drop down list to know where you’ve been.
This brief tutorial will show you how to use Firefox Sync to synchronize your passwords, bookmarks and preferences in Firefox on multiple computers. Firefox Sync is an add-on that will let you synchronize your preferences on multiple computers. So it doesn’t matter which computer you at, once you’re connected, all your preferences will follow you wherever you go.
This brief tutorial will show you how to upgrade to the latest Firefox updates in Ubuntu Lucid. By default Firefox comes pre-installed in Ubuntu, but updating your system won’t get you the latest Firefox version, because it gets updated incrementally through Ubuntu update cycles. To get the latest version of Firefox, you must manually download and install the package or add the launchpad PPA to get updated automatically when it becomes available.
In the past, we showed you how to install cool desktop themes in Ubuntu from the Bisigi Project. Since we last wrote about Bisigi Project, more cool themes have been added for free download to customize your Ubuntu desktop.
In tutorial, I’ll revisit Bisigi and show you how to install more new themes to customize your desktop.
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Tags: Browser, Desktop Customization, Firefox, Freeware, Linux, List of GNOME applications, Ubuntu, Windows 
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In the past we showed you how to browse faster in Firefox with CoolPreviews extension for Firefox. We told you that CoolPreview allows you to preview websites online without leaving your current page or tab. Read our previous blog Browse with CoolPreviews.
Posted in How-To Tips, Web Tags: Browsers, Clients, Cooliris, CoolPreviews, Firefox, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Website View Comments
It is probably not efficient to always download PDFs, Word Documents or PowerPoint Presentations onto your computer before you can view or edit them. How about being able to preview or edit documents and view PDFs directly in your web browser? This tutorial will show you how to use Google Docs Viewer in Firefox to preview documents, and pdfs without leaving your browser.
Posted in How-To Tips, Web, Windows Tags: Add-on, Clients, Firefox, Google, Google Docs, Mozilla Firefox, Web browser, Web search engine View Comments
Not very long ago, we showed you how to install and configure DansGuardian Web Content Filtering system in Ubuntu. Today I am going to show you how to do the same in Fedora with ease.
If you don’t know what DansGuardian is, it is a web content filtering system for Linux that allows you to filter websites with inappropriate contents.
Posted in How-To Tips, Linux, Security Tags: dansguardian, Dialog box, Firefox, Linux, Mozilla Firefox, Ubuntu, Web browser, Website View Comments
Sometimes you’d like specific programs to open a certain file automatically and not always the default programs the came with Windows Vista. For instance, clicking a web link by default will open Internet Explorer, or clicking on a text file by default will open Notepad in Windows. You can change that, and that’s what we’re going to show you.
Posted in How-To Tips Tags: Firefox, HTML, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows, Notepad, Text file, Windows, Windows Vista View Comments
How would you like to know what’s behind a web link before clicking it? If we all knew what was on the other side of a link before we click on it, viruses, spyware and other harmful programs might never have had the chance to infect our computers.
Posted in How-To Tips, Internet, Security, Web Tags: Add-on, Browser, Firefox, Google, Mozilla Firefox, Search Engines, Web search engine, Website View Comments
How would you like to include all your favorite Google Services on one menu bar in Firefox? With this cool extension called Google Shortcuts, you can display all your favorite Google Services in one location for quick access.
Posted in How-To Tips, Internet, Web Tags: Add-on, Browsers, Firefox, Google, Menu bar, Mozilla Firefox, Tools, Web search engine View Comments
CoolPreviews is a Firefox extension which lets you browse or preview just about any link without leaving your current page or tab.
While searching, instead of clicking on individual link and going to the site to view its contents, you can stay on your current search page and preview the contents of the sites just by moving you mouse over the link.
Posted in How-To Tips, Internet, Web Tags: Add-on, CoolPreviews, Facebook, Firefox, Google, Mozilla Firefox, Yahoo, YouTube View Comments
Looking for programs to help your download YouTube Videos quickly? Stop looking and check out this Firefox extension called Fast YouTube Downloader. It’s a free extension for Firefox that allows you to download YouTube Videos and save them in FLA, 3GP, MP4 or HD formats.
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