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Speed up Firefox in One Click !

zamaan — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:18:44 +0000

“Vacuum Places Improved” is a very simple firefox addon that can significantly reduce the loading time of the browser and speed it up by 200% in just one click. What “Vacuum Places Improved” does is, It simply Defragments your Firefox “Places” database which stores the history/ bookmarks data. This process should not even take 10 seconds.

After the installation and restart of the browser, you will see the “Vacuum Places Improved” icon on the status bar of the browser. Whenever you feel your browser is slow, simply click on the icon. It will do the task in just few seconds and notify you in a popup message telling “Vacuum Places Improved“. Immediately after that you should see the impact!

Additionally, You can also automate the vacuuming process with a simple option.
Just right click on the “Vacuum Places Improved” icon and select “Preferences”. For the “Automatically clean places” option (see picture below), Give it an interval value (should perform an auto cleanup after X number of firefox startups since the last cleaning).

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Force Firefox to open New Tabs next to Current Tab

zamaan — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:36:39 +0000

when you open a new tab in Firefox, Firefox will place that tab at the end of the tab bar. This mean after the last tab in the current tab collection. Problem comes when you have too many tabs opened. Because you have to scroll to the other end of the tab bar to see the newly opened tabs. This is an annoying task.

So how do you tell Firefox to open new tabs right next to the current tab?

There are few addons that tailor-made for this purpose. Next Tab, Tab open Relative are few of those. But, Tab mix plus beats them all by providing a whole lot of tab management features including the so important ‘Open new tabs next to current tab‘.

Here are some of the key features of Tab Mix Plus addon :

Open new tabs next to current one – The feature we are talking about.
Lock Tab – Prevent a tab from navigating to another page from the current page it shows.
Protect Tab – Prevent any accidental close of a tab.
Duplicate Tab – Open a copy of the selected tab.
Reload all the tabs - Reload all the tabs currently opened. This feature is useful when you open firefox that in a process of restoring the previous session tabs, but the internet connection is not active. So you will see page cannot display for all the tabs. with this feature, you simply right click one tab and select “Reload all the tabs”.
Close similar tabs – Close all the tabs belongs to a single website / domain name.
Set Focus to new tab – Auto set focus to newly opened tab (Probably not an option i use)
Warn when closing multiple tabs
Undo closed tabs – Just right click on any tab and select ‘Undo close Tab’. By default you can reopen last 10 tabs you closed.
Recently closed tab list – List all the tabs that you closed recently in the right click menu of tab mix plus itself.
Enhanced Session Manager - Save any session for feature use and Restore any previously saved sessions.
Crash Recovery – Restore crashed sessions on reopen forefox.

There are many more features it has, but little less important that this whole list.

Most of this features can be simply accessed by right click on any tab. For options like the one related to the topic, you need to go to the Tab mix plus options window and should enable the feature.

This is how you enable the ‘Open new Tabs next to current Tab’ feature in Tab Mix Plus :

Install Tab Mix Plus ! (You need to restart Firefox after the installation)

Goto Tools -> Select “Tab Mix Plus Ooptions’ -> Enable “Open new tabs next to current tab” and click ok. That’s it ! from now on you will see the new tabs opening next to the current tab.

Mozilla announces Extend Firefox 3.5 Winners !

zamaan — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:23:06 +0000

in October 2009 mozilla announced the Extend Firefox competition for the firefox extension developers through mozilla labs.

Extend Firefox 3.5 is a developer contest to encourage development and innovation in Web experience through add-ons to Firefox 3.5.

Prizes

Development gear, including a brand new 15″ MacBook Pro
A license for the TextMate IDE by MacroMates
A license for the Versions SVN client by Sofa
A license for ExpanDrive by ExpanDrive
Firefox Ogio Metro Backpack stuffed with t-shirts, stickers, and more
5 ebooks of your choice from Manning Publications (limit of $150 total)
3 books from InformIT
2 InformIT video training titles

Runners up prizes

A license for the TextMate IDE by MacroMates
A license for the Versions SVN client by Sofa
A license for ExpanDrive by ExpanDrive
Firefox Ogio Metro Backpack stuffed with t-shirts, stickers, and more
2 books from InformIT
1 ebook of your choice from Manning Publications (limit of $30 total)

Contest Homepage

Today Mozilla announced the winners of the above Extend Firefox competition.

Here is the list of winners.

Best New Add-on

Grand Prize Winners (3)

FireFound by Chris Finke

Find lost or stolen laptops and phones with a simple and secure Firefox extension

FireFound is an extension for Firefox and Firefox for Mobile that uses the Geolocation API to send your machine’s location to a secure server. If your laptop or phone is lost or stolen, you can simply log into a server and see where it was last powered on. All data is encrypted, so only you can see this information.

Multifox by Jeferson Hultmann

Easy identity management

Ever had to deal with logging in and out of websites to use multiple user id’s? Multifox provides a streamlined interface for managing your logins within a single Firefox session.

Voyage by Hsiao-Ting Yu

Visually explore your browsing history

The aptly named Voyage lets you travel through your browsing history in an innovative and fun way. You can integrate Voyage with your Twitter login to see how your browsing history relates to your tweets.

Runners up (6)

Boomtango by Will Wagner and Alan Lee – View your history in a whole new way
Tab Flick by Taiga Gomibuchi – Flick your tabs to the windows of your choice
History Tree by Norman Solomon – Traverse a tree of your web history
WikiSubs by Felipe Sanches – Collaborative subtitling of open video
Customize Your Web by Rudolf Noe – Use a WYSIWYG editor to customize web pages
QuickFox Notes by Amin E – Take notes with Firefox, store them as bookmarks

Best Updated Add-on

Grand Prize Winners (3)

Smart Find by Antonio Gomes

Find words in a page, even if you don’t know the spelling

Smart Find enhances the default “Find” feature of Firefox by matching words phonetically. So if you don’t know how to spell “Schwarzenegger”, you won’t have to.

Book Burro by Jesse Andrews

Find great deals on books

If you shop online for books, Book Burro helps you find the best deals. It even searches libraries so you might not even have to buy!

Speed Dial by Josep Del Rio

Quickly dial up your favorite websites

Create presets for your favorite webpages and keep them at your fingertips with Speed Dial.

Best Game & Entertainment Add-on

Grand Prize Winner (1)

Destroy the Web by Jose Enrique Bolaños

Turn any webpage into an arcade game

With Destroy the Web, an innocent looking toolbar button turns any webpage into a shoot-em-up video game. With a pulse pounding soundtrack and high scores for every web page, Destroy the Web is a fun way to take a little break during the day.

Best Shopping Add-on

Grand Prize Winner (1)

Grocery List Generator by Captain Caveman

Keep track of which items you need from the grocery

Ever had to substitute coriander for parsley in a recipe? With Grocery List Generator, you’ll never forget an essential again. With an online database of recipes and an easy to use interface, you’ll have a plan next time you go shopping for food.

via blog.mozilla.com

Firefox does not remember Usernames and Passwords

zamaan — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:39:11 +0000

I was having a serious problem with Mozilla Firefox (3.5) which does not remember user names or passwords that i enter in to websites even when i checked “Stay signed in” or “Keep me signed in” check box. So i have to enter the login data again and again on every visit to those websites if my browser restarted. Really annoying.

Today i found the fix for this problem. Now every thing works fine. The problem was really caused by the file that stores cookies in your Firefox profile folder has been corrupted. You need to fix this file as shown below.

1. Open your Firefox profile folder.

The best way to open the profile folder is by using an addon call MR Tech Toolkit

Simply install MR Tech Toolkit and restart your Firefox.

Goto Tool -> Edit my config -> Click Open Profile folder

Firefox Profile Folder

2. Rename cookies.sqlite to cookies.tmp

Inside profile folder, rename the file cookies.sqlite to cookies.tmp

Restart Firefox

That’s it! From now firefox should remember user names and passwords and keep you logged in to your favorite websites all the time.

Show or Hide Firefox Tabs

zamaan — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:13:32 +0000

Show or Hide any firefox tab is very easy with this small firefox addon called HideTab.

Publisher Description

HideTab is a simple Firefox extension to hide/unhide individual tabs.

Install HideTab from here

To hide a Tab you have two methods.

1. Right click the tab you want to hide and click “Hide Tab”.

Click the HideTab icon from the Firefox status bar.
You can see all of your tab titles has been listed in the popup menu.
Simply select the tab you want to hide. That’s it!

To restore a hidden tab, again click on HideTab status bar icon

In the popup menu, You can see the hidden tabs marked with a red icon which is having an exclamation mark. Just click on them will bring back your hidden tabs.

Turn Firefox Address Bar in to Safari style

zamaan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:29:39 +0000

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Fission Firefox Addon will allow you to combine the firefox progress bar with the firefox address bar and give firefox a safari style address bar.

Publisher Description :

Fission combines address bar and progress bar (Safari style). This makes the progress bar more visible and allows for a nice visual effect.

Safari style address bar for firefox

You can change the color of the progress bar by accessing the Fission option from Tools -> add-ons

Install Fission from here

Two Firefox addons that can save you a great amount of time

zamaan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:13:21 +0000

Tired of clicking those next page & previous page links on web pages?

Save a great amount of time by simply installing one of this add-ons and it will auto load you the next page just under the current page your viewing. This works on almost all of the popular websites like google, yahoo, facebook, digg, blogger, wordpress etc.

There are two popular addons that allow this feature in firefox.

1. AutoPager 2. FastestFox

I personally recommend you to start with the FastestFox addon which i found bit faster and smoother than the Autopager. Further i noticed, FastestFox supports great number of sites than AutoPager does. For example, I did not see autopager works with flickr or wordpress. But fastestfox does it in smart fashion.

* Do not use both addons at once. It might make conflicts and may cause slow loadings.

Here are the description of each.

1. AutoPager

AutoPager, as the name implies is a dedicated addon to auto load the next page under the current page your viewing in a website. For example, take a look at a google search result, which will contain lots of pages. So you have to keep click on the next previous links or on the numbers to visit other pages. With auto pager this process made really easy.

AutoPager Publisher Description

AutoPager automatically loads next pages when you reach the end of a page. It works on a ton of sites,Google,Yahoo..

Autopager in action

As i stated above, basically this addon works with many populer websites by default. But if a site does not supported by this addon that you often visit, then you have the option to ad that site through the AutoPager configuration sidebar. Go to Tools > AutoPager> Site Wizard. Unfortunately the configuration method is not that user friendly (if i am correct), you have to learn a new language called xPath (XML Path Language) to ad new websites that you want the Auto Load support.

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2. FastestFox

FastestFox is a powerful addon that implements the auto next page loading feature as part of the program only unlike the AutoPager which is a dedicated addon for this purpose.

Publisher Description

Save time by speeding up repetitive tasks. Get faster, parallelized downloads, auto-loading of next page, improved searching, and more. FastestFox will dramatically enhance your productivity!

To install FasterFox visit here

: Fastest Fox settings

By default the “Endless Pages” is enabled after the installation. So soon after the installation you can enjoy the feature.

If you want to configure other FastestFox options, simply goto Tools > FasterFox.

FastestFox in action

Save Session & Exit Add-on for Firefox

zamaan — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:22:45 +0000

I found “Save Session & Exit” Firefox add-on was very useful some time. As the title says, it will allow you to save your current Firefox session (All opened tabs) and close the firefox. When you start the firefox again, the add-on will load your previously saved session.

How to use Save Session & Exit Firefox Addon

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Nice Translator add-on for Firefox that works!

zamaan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:55:24 +0000

I found this handy Google powered translator add-on for firefox that nicely translates the selected text with a right click.

How it works?

Step 1.

Select the text you want to translate from a web page. Right click and choose ‘Nicely Translate’ .

Step 2.

Select the desired language you want to translate the selected text in to. You can select multiple languages from the list.

Step 3.

Click ‘Done’ . That’s all. you will see the translated text as shown below.

Publisher description :

The Nice Translator Firefox Extension is an adaptation of the original Nice Translator website. It allows a user to translate into multiple languages at a time, as they type from right within a website. Select text and immediately have it translated with just a few clicks.

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Really cool Sticky Note add-on for Firefox

zamaan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:25:43 +0000

‘Really Simple Sticky’, I found this sticky note addon for firefox looks cool. You just click the ‘Really Simple Sticky’ icon in the firefox status bar to launch it’s text pad. It just saves the notes in the local computer and remain even after you restart your computer.

Publisher Description

Really simple sticky is a small extension where you can add notes, reminders directly in your browser. The note is stored localy in your browser.

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