The use of tabs has made browsing so much more efficient. A power user knows that browser tab management is a productivity boost. Firefox came late on the tabbed browsing scene, but it was a fast learner. The Tab Groups feature is a default way to manage your Firefox tabs if you have quite a [...]
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One of the best things about Firefox is that it lets you create multiple user profiles on it. This feature might come in handy when you have siblings around working on the same computer. Firefox comes with an excellent profile manager of its own where you can create and manage profiles. The sad part is [...]
Sometimes little things make a big difference. Let’s take the example of the warning dialog which pops up in Firefox when we try to close multiple tabs. The warning tab is actually a safeguard against losing work when you accidently close the browser. I have often made the mistake when I absentmindedly closed a tab [...]
A browser remembers every move you make on the web. The idea is benign – to improve your browsing by way of faster loading times or easily retrievable URLs. But the footprints left behind also open up a gaping hole in our privacy. On one front, someone else using the same computer can easily track [...]
We use our browsers across many devices these days…from a desktop computer to a PDA. Carrying our bookmarks and other browser data across all these devices saves us from duplicating our data and effort. That’s why if you are a Firefox fan, you will appreciate the default Firefox Sync tool that helps you backup and [...]
Few weeks ago, we discussed how we can create a new user profile in Firefox using the inbuilt profile manager. Profile manager really makes it easy to create separate profiles but it doesn’t make managing or switching between them convenient. You need to close Firefox, go back to the profile manager, select the other profile [...]
If you tend to lose control over your browser tabs while having a wild session of browsing, you need a course in tab management. With TooManyTabs, the course is a short and efficient one. TooManyTabs is a Chrome extension that helps you manage your workflow when you have too many tabs open (the Firefox extension [...]
Having your data on the Internet compromised isn’t unusual, and thus we use passwords to encrypt and safeguard our data from exploiters. Almost all of us use a password to ensure safety of our mails, documents, photographs and even applications but have you ever thought what about encrypting your bookmarks? While encrypting bookmarks might not [...]
Bookmarking all the open tabs in your browser can come in handy at times. Like, if you are researching on a topic, and have got a number of related tabs open. The next thing you want to do is collate the URLs at one place. Bookmarking them individually would be a pain. We have in [...]
With the changing times we sometimes fail to notice small changes around us. If you remember the good old versions of our favorite browsers, be it Chrome, Firefox or IE, opening a new tab in them either opened a blank page or a specific website automatically. Today these browsers have emerged with a full-fledged new [...]
When I work on my browser I usually get stuck with an overwhelmed tab strip that has a huge number of tabs open concurrently. With so many tabs open at the same time it doesn’t take much time for my laptop to become sluggish, and thus out of frustration I sometimes close all my tabs [...]
I bet everyone of us has clicked on a hyperlink while browsing the web. If you think these hyperlinks are only meant to redirect you to another web page you are absolutely wrong. Let’s take an example for easy understanding. Click here! What did you just notice? Your default mail client just popped up and [...]
A few days ago, I came across the chat acronym – P911. That’s one for dealing with parents who suddenly come into your room while you are doing ‘something’ on your computer. The definition says – My parents are in the room. P=Parents, and 911=emergency, in other words either drop the subject, or watch the [...]
When you are working on Firefox, it saves all your private data like bookmarks, history, cookies, plugins and even the customized user interface settings under an umbrella file called profile. If you are using Firefox on a shared computer with multiple users working on it, creating multiple profile for every individual is a healthy habit. [...]
Do you use Firefox? Are you a tab maniac? Opening too many tabs at the same time makes it difficult for you to spot a specific tab? Does the lack of space on the tab strip killing you? If your answer to all these questions is yes then today is your lucky day . With [...]
When we surf the web, our browsers store copies of recently visited webpages locally; commonly graphic files and HTML pages. The purpose is to speed up a site’s page loading the next time you visit the same page. Just like any other browser, Firefox also stores it all in the internet cache. Page loading speeds [...]
