As we know,in Windows system left-click in firefox address bar will select the url by highlight all characters in the urlbar.So we can quickly copy and paste this url or type in another website address without manually delete the current one.In Ubuntu,this functionality for firefox is not enabled by default.Following is how to enable this! […]

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By default Firefox puts its cache in your home partition.You can speed up Firefox and reduce disk writes by moving this cache into RAM if you have 1GB RAM or more. 1.Edit /etc/fstab,open terminal from Applications->Accessories menu and type: sudo gedit /etc/fstab Add following into this file and close it. tmpfs /tmp tmpfs noexec,defaults,noatime 0 […]

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If you installed dual boot systems in your machine,you may want to share firefox web browser bookarks,histories,tabs and other configuration files between the OSs in your machine. Note:Firefox add-ons maybe incompatible in different system. First of all,you need to know where is the firefox configuration file in ubuntu,Vista,XP and Windows 7: Windows Vista:Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox Windows XP/2000/2003:Documents […]

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For visiting some special web sites or setting local DNS,you may need to use a proxy server in your web browser.This tutorial shows how to add proxy settings  for Opera and Firefox. 1.In firefox window,go to Edit->Preferences(or Tools->Options).Select Advanced->Network tab,click on Settings then,configure proxy settings in this window: 2.For opera,go to Tools->Preferences.Advanced->Network tab,click on Proxy […]

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PDF Download is an add-on for Firefox that you can view PDFs directly in Firefox as HTML, and use the all-new Web-to-PDF toolbar to save and share Web pages as high-quality PDF files. Install this add-on from this page Restart Firefox,and at top-right window you will get a PDF button that you can save/view/share web […]

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This tutorial shows how to install and configure local DNS in Ubuntu,and make your Firefox/Opera web browser runs faster. Install dnsmasq Open  a terminal window(Applications/Accessories/Terminal) and type this to install dnsmasq: sudo apt-get install dnsmasq Configure dnsmasq 1. Edit /etc/dnsmasq.conf: sudo gedit /etc/dnsmasq.conf Find the line “#listen-address=” (without quotes),delete the “#” and change it to: […]

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ChatZilla is a clean, easy to use and highly extensible Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client, built on the Mozilla platform, which provides all the usual features: multiple servers, a built-in list of standard networks, easy searching and sorting of available channels, logging, and DCC chat and file transfers, plus easy customization with JavaScript plug-ins and […]

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Go to System->Preferences->Preferred Applications. Select Custom in scroll-down menu,and type following in command area: opera -newpage “%s” opera -newmail “%s”

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keyconfig allows you to change keyboard shortcuts in Firefox.keyconfig adds the ability to create new or modify existing shortcuts defined by a element, but only changing those which itself call a function has an effect. For firefox 3.5,download the latest version from: http://mozilla.dorando.at/keyconfig.xpi Edit “install.rdf” file in XPI and make a change like this: change: […]

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Firefox is always the faster browser than IE.Since Google Chrome released,Mozilla Firefox became the tortoise in The Hare and The Tortoise rather than “fire fox”.This tutorial shows to how to optimize Firefox and make this faster than Google Chrome. 1.Install BleachBit which is an open-source program can be used to free disk space.You can install […]

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