Most of us tend to heavily rely on the mouse (or the touchpad in laptops) while browsing the web. And, why not, it serves our purpose so well. But knowing the keyboard shortcuts comes in handy when the mouse malfunctions. You can do almost everything the mouse does with a keyboard. All you need to [...]
Firefox
Download Management is one of the more populated sections in the Firefox Add-ons gallery. And why not, as with unlimited bandwidths, we are all download junkies. I used to use a dedicated download manager. I still do, but I also have a partial likeness for download manager extensions made for the Firefox browser. The obvious [...]
Screen capture tools come in many flavors. From desktop tools to web apps, we are spoilt for choice. It is an overcrowded space, but it doesn’t stop us from looking for the next best thing. Browser based screen capture tools have the advantage of rapid accessibility – you can instantly grab an interesting screenshot and [...]
PDF is a dominant and well-used document format, so it’s natural that there are conversion tools for every sort of need you can throw at it. Converting a single webpage to a PDF document is dead easy with a number of online converters and browser extensions. If you regularly put a HTML page through a [...]
You probably know about the famous (or infamous as the case may be) Windows Safe Mode. Whenever the Windows operating system goes haywire and suffers random crashes and BSOD, it’s always advisable to tackle them using the Safe Mode. In this mode, Windows has reduced functionality with bare minimum devices and application software services running [...]
We normally think of reading ebooks on ereaders and tablets these days. Reading on the browser is more or less about PDF files, the always dominant ebook format. But ever since Kindle came out, Amazon has managed to spark an interest in digital books and the EPUB format. Free EPUB readers are easily available for [...]
There are a few reasons apart from the browser engine that made Firefox such a popular browser. We always talk about Firefox add-ons and the ways it extends our browsing. Themes are probably the next best thing. Themes allow you to dress up your browser and personalize its look. Each browser comes with its own [...]
There is so much of information on the internet that converging down to the one that matters can get difficult at times. And for this reason we must be very specific and focused with our search. Choosing the right search engine, typing proper query strings and filtering results are some of the ways to search [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
