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Firefox tip: how to close the annoying download window automatically

There are so many times when you see the download window and save to disk window in firefox popping up when ever you download a new file through firefox.

You can simply set the preference in firefox to change the behaviour of both the windows. Go to File Menu>>Tools>>Options–General Tab (see the image below)

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How to open multiple home pages at startup in Mozilla firefox

If you are frequent web browser ,a blogger or a freelancer if you are in any web related profession then you must be spending around at least about 1-2 hours on web.

Why open multiple pages at start in mozilla firefox ?

Now every minute of your’s is important so it’s you to decide how you can optimise and speed up your repeated browser activity in order to make the most efficient use of your time .

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Download free greasemonkey scripts and hacks for enhancing the functionality of your browser.

Presenting you the top five greasemonkey scripts which are pretty useful in our day to day netsurfing i hope you may find them intersting…

Requirement:

For using these scripts you need to have firefox installed at your machine and also greasemonkey extension should be installed and if you don’t have firefox or greasemonkey extension pls install them first.

Get Firefox / Get Greasemonkey

Here they are….

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Top 3 ways to restore previously opened tabs in firefox after firefox crash.

There are so many situations when you have to close firefox and you are working on large number of opened tabs in firefox which you may want to bookmark or restore afterwards there are a number of options to solve this:)

  1. Use the Restart Firefox extension.
  2. Set Firefox to save all windows and tabs, every time.
  3. Set Tab Mix Plus to save all windows and tabs (if you are using the Tab Mix Plus sessions instead of the native Firefox one.)
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Auto fill up the comments form section in the wordpress blogs automatically to comment better and faster.

Are you really annoyed filling the same information again and again on various wordpress blogs for commenting on these blogs.

I found two types of solutions for this type problem listed below…

1. Use Sxipper to fill them automatically (A Firefox Extension ) .

2. Use Texter to fill them automatically(An light weight application for windows).

1. Sxipper ?

Sxipper is light weight firefox extension meant to automate the task of filling web forms across the web.It is very simple in terms of usage and you can simply set the preferences accordingly.

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Tweak and Hack Firefox with about:config to make it more faster.

Yes you can speed up your firefox in terms of page load time required for any website to open a specific page.

Here is a step by step procedure on how to do it:

1.Type “about:config” in the address bar without double quotes and hit enter or return.

Search for the following entries:

  • network.http.pipelining
  • network.http.proxy.pipelining
  • network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
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Set Firefox 3.5 To Stop Suggesting History Or Bookmarks Or Both –

Location bar in firefox is greatly enhanced to save you from extra typing and effort by suggesting previous history and bookmarks by default, but it could be case when you may not want firefox to suggest history or existing bookmarks when you type in firefox location bar.

location-bar-suggestions

Here is how you can do it, simply by navigation to firefox configuration options, follow the procedure given below

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HistoryBlock – Set FireFox Not To Remember A Specific Website In Browsing History

I have been searching for a way to figure out how can I block a website to in the browsing history, Finally I found a cool free add on called HistoryBlock which lets you hide some specific website you visit. You can block more than one website with this add on permanently with this small firefox extension

history-block-firefox

Alternately you can hide any page from your history simply by right clicking and select “Block This” from the context menu. You can either add domain, sub domain or the current page to the hiding black list after installing HistoryBlock