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Disable Or Enable Automatic Updates in Firefox

If you are using Firefox as your browser you know automatic updates are turned on by default and sometimes when a new version comes out it breaks some of your extensions, so I normally wait to install an update until my extensions will all work with the latest version. Unless a major security issue [...]

Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

Ok, here’s a list of keyboard shortcuts for you Firefox users. If I missed any please leave a comment.
/ Quick find text as you typeAlt Enter Save link target asAlt F4 Close windowAlt Home key Goto browsers home pageAlt Left arrow Go backAlt Right arrow Go forwardCtrl - Decrease screen font sizeCtrl 0 Restore [...]

Supercharge your FireFox Tabs with Tab Mix Plus

As I was searching for new extensions I found this gem, it’s called Tab Mix Plus and immediately installed it. Some of its highlights are the ability to add a second and third row of tabs instead of having to scroll left or right, and the expanded right click options to undo a deleted tab [...]

A Few FireFox Keyboard Shortcuts

Here are a few shortcuts I’ve been using with Firefox. Feel free to add your own.
ALT-D
To jump to the address bar.
CTRL-T
To launch a new tab
CTRL-Shift-T
Open a recently closed tab
CTRL-Enter
To type “www…com” quickly.
CTRL-Mouse wheel spin
To enlarge or shrink page font size
SHIFT-Click
A link to launch a new window with the link.
Center scroll mouse click
A link to launch [...]

Firefox Keyboard Shortcut To Restore Closed Tabs

If you ever closed a tab in Firefox only to find you made a mistake and wished you could get it back, just use this keyboard shortcut to get it back.
CTRL-Shift-T and Bam its back.

Increase The Font Size In Web Pages

You can easily change the font size in web pages by just perssing the CTRL key and using the scroll wheel on your mouse. Works in both IE7 and Firefox.

Quickly Back up Your Firefox Settings and More

FEBE (pronounced [fee-bee]) Firefox Extension Backup Extension allows you to backup and restore all of your installed Firefox extensions and themes.
It actually creates individual installable .xpi (or .jar for themes) files that you can put on CD, Flash Drive or floppy (do they still make those?) and install on another computer. You could also [...]

Firefox browser Reviewed In The Program Crate

Firefox 2 and Firefox Extensions. Firefox 2 FireFox is a web browser created by Mozilla, the original creators of the Netscape series of browsers. Version one was released in November 2004 and quickly gained new fans because of its open [...]

Cool Firefox Extension

Check out this cool extension for Firefox.
It’s called Tab effects.
It gives a kinda 3d effect to the tabs. When you switch tabs with this [...]