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IE View – Open Link Target In Internet Explorer | Open Current Page In Internet Explorer

IE View is one of the cool free firefox addon which allows you to open any web page you visited with firefox to be opened in internet explorer. You can open any page in internet explorer from firefox just by right clicking the page and select View This Page In IE

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IE View adds the menu items to the context menu and the link to the context menu. Right clicking a link now includes "Open link target in IE" menu item and Right-clicking elsewhere in the main body of the page (not within an image, text box, etc.) gives "View this page in IE."

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Ie8fox 1.5 – Download Internet Explorer 8 Theme For FireFox

FireFox is one of the browser which offers the maximum level of optimizations as compared to the other to make user feel like old. All these high level customizations are allowed as per the user requirement by some amazing add ons library.

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One such add on is Ie8fox 1.5 which is a firefox theme which lets you transform the look and feel of your FireFox browser to make it look like the new Internet Explorer 8 ( as shown in the image below)

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3+ Ways To Prevent Stop FireFox To Display Suggestions, Bookmarks, Favorites In Recently Typed URLs In Address Bar FireFox

In FireFox 3 one of the new feature introduced is the new location bar or revamped address bar which will display the suggestions of sites when you type any website URL which was previously accessed with in firefox.

But some people don’t want firefox to behave like this for some reason, if you are one of them then we have 3+ ways to prevent the firefox from displaying the sites suggestions from your bookmarks and recently typed URLs history.

See Also: ALL Ways To Remove / Delete A Specific Typed URL In History Of Address Bar Typed URLs In Internet Explorer

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Tip: Remove / Delete / Clear A Specific Site URL From FireFox Address Bar Typed URLs History

It could be a case that you don’t want some sites which you browse from your office or home computer to show up in recently types URLs history in FireFox address bar.

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All those firefox history cleaners does not allow you to do delete a specific URLs from the address bar history in firefox, so if you want to clean a particular URLs typed before in the recently typed URLs list of firefox address bar you would need to delete it manually.

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Fission – Get Progress Bar In FireFox Address Bar Combined Together

Recently I found this cool firefox addon called Fission which lets you mix address bar and progress bar together, that means you can see the progress bar progressing in the address bar itself when you open any link in firefox.

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This small addon makes progress bar more visible by placing the progress bar inside the address bar, which is more visible to see as compared to its default location in the footer status bar

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BlockSite – Block Websites In FireFox

BlockSite is cool firefox addon which lets you block any website of your choice in firefox, and it will also disable and block all the hyperlinks to the websites you blocked.

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This utility however can be used for novice firefox users as the extension itself can be disabled and uninstalled from firefox. You can enable or disable the warning messages displayed whenever a site is blocked to access. This extension basically adds the site blocking functionality that was removed from adblock plus.

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Glasser – Make FireFox Window Transparent

Recently One of the reader asked us whether, how can we make firefox windows transparent just like windows vista. I goggled for the same and found a cool free firefox addon called Glasser which makes firefox windows transparent after installation.

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This extension requires windows vista, windows 7 with aero glass as the active visual style to be activated in order to function correctly. Make sure to deactivate window blinds if you have it installed on your computer.

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PageZipper – Loads Next Page When You Reach Bottom Of Current Page Automatically

PageZipper is a one of the cool firefox addon which really makes it very simple to go to the next page, it scans the entire page for the text Next and automatically loads the next page when you scroll down at the current page.

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After Installing PageZipper you will need to manually activate PageZipper, In order to activate it go to File Menu >> View >> Toolbars >> Customize menu and drag the PageZipper icon on the FireFox toolbar to place it on the toolbar to make is more accessible.

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