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How to get rid off Firefox Restore Session Dialog Box

Silki — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:42:50 +0000

This blog has earlier carried a post on how to Restore last session in Firefox. Firefox restores session automatically, which you had opened last time, in case of system crash or some unexpected errors. But this tip explained how you can do that every time you open firefox.

But after that post, I had received mixed reactions.

A few of my readers have appreciated that cool tip and found that very useful. But yesterday, I was contacted by a reader, who found this feature bothering him too much. He even wanted to get rid off the built-in feature of Firefox, where it prompts you to restore firefox session after it had closed due to some unexpected error or a system crash. So, how to do that.

How to get rid off Firefox Restore Session Dialog Box

This is even easier. You just have to change the value of the browser.sessionstore.enabled flag. It’s easy.

Type about:config in your Firefox Address bar.
Select browser.sessionstore.enable
Double click to change the setting to false

Simple. Now you will no longer get the Firefox Restore Session Dialog Box.

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Restore last session in Firefox with this cool tip

Silki — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:19:41 +0000

I love firefox. So much that I am working on a dedicated blog on it.

Firefox is today the preferred browser for millions and millions of the web surfers. The best part of this fast and secure browser is its open source nature, which allows thousands of developers to create firefox extensions, firefox addon, firefox skins, firefox dictionaries and much more, which seamlessly integrate with your browser to give it a personalized touch.

And, it is fully supported by Google, the undisputed DON of Internet.

If you haven’t yet started using Firefox, then you can . And if you have been using Firefox, then there is a great set of free web tools from Google just for you. You can

Coming back, the present post is about the tip on…

Restoring last session in firefox

Firefox users know that one of most useful features of Firefox is its ability to restore the last session, by opening all the tabs, which were open when your system crashed and you lost the track. But this happens only if your system halted on its own. If you yourself exit Firefox, then the firefox will start from its home page.

But you can change this setting easily so that even if you exit firefox manually, it will open all the tabs next time, which were open when your pressed the Close button.

Click on Tools menu > options.
Click on the Main tab.
Change the setting in “When Firefox Starts” field to “Show my windows and tabs from last time”.
Save your settings.

This feature of firefox is really useful. You know small things do wonders to add your browsing experience.

How to remove firefox restore session feature (Edit)

Even if you do not implement the above given trick, Firefox restores the last session in case it closes due to some error or system crash. There are certain times, when you want to disable that feature. Check our post on How to get rid off Firefox Restore Session Dialog Box.

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How to Open Multiple Home Pages in Firefox

Silki — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:52:28 +0000

I love Firefox, the browser.

I love Firefox due to its speed, its usability, its versatility, its addons and its user friendly approach.

Here is another reason for you to start using firefox browser. It gives you the ability to make more than one webpage as your homepage. For instance, if you want that whenever you start your browsing session, the first pages you see are your emails, your blog comment page, your adsense page and your analytics page, then you can setup your firefox browser to open all of them in different tabs automatically when you first open the firefox.

Go to Tools > Options.

In the Main Tab, you will see the field Homepage. Here you can enter as many webpage addresses as you want. These webpages must be separated by a pipeline “|” character. and save your settings.

If you don’t want to write each and every address manually, then use the “Use current pages” button. It will all the currently open pages in your firefox browser to the homepage field for you.

A simple, but really useful tip, which saves me 2-3 crucial minutes, and lots of hassles.

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Run firefox faster with these keyboard shortcuts… Part-II

Silki — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:05:45 +0000

Firefox is my preferred browser due to it being an open source browser with ever increasing base of firefox addons.

A few days back we had presented five useful keyboard shortcuts for running your firefox shortcuts. Here we present yet another set of five useful shortcut keys for firefox, which will make you less dependent on your mouse and more on your keyboard, making you work faster.

5. Backspace: Go Back one page in your browser history.

It replaces your browser’s “back button”. Excellent useful shortcut.

4. F11: Expand to Full Screen view, toggle action.

It hides your title bar, menu bar, address bar, and status bar and thus

3. CTRL-K: Move cursor to Google bar to searchMOdern browsers know the use of Search fanctions and thus all of them incorporate Search engines within the browsers window itself. With this keyboard shortcut, you don’t require mouse click to move to the search form.

2. F5: Refresh the current web page

If your page fails to fully load, or you need to update the weather report or sports score on your page, simply use this classic f5 keyboard tool

1. CTRL-D: Bookmark the current page

Simple but effective.

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Protecting your firefox passwords

Silki — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:52:55 +0000

Today’s browsers are highly professional; fast, more secured and flexible.

I have been using all the four important browesers viz. Firefox, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer, and I recommend Firefox, even after the launch of Internet Explorer 7.

Many of the features like tabbed browsing, live bookmarks, Google Toolbar etc., are now found in both Internet Explorer 7 and in Firefox, but the open source nature of Firefox and the ever increasing list of addon’s tilt the balance in favor of Firefox.

If you haven’t yet got switched to Firefox, do it now. You will love its speed if not anything else.

That said… let us not forget that this post is about how to secure your passwords with firefox.

Today, many websites or services available on internet, ask you to register with them and with the registration, you are given a unique username and password. An average user, is oer burdened with tens and hundreds of passwords and it becomes very difficult to remember each of them. Generally users make three four passwords and use them on all sites. Firefox makes your life convenient by offering to remember your passwords and usernames and whenever you visit the website, these are automatically inserted.

This is a very useful service but very risky, if your computer is used by others. These passwords can easily be seen by any other person using this computer.

But Firefox allows you to keep them secured with a master password. Whenever anybody tries to see your stored password, Firefox asks him to enter the master password and thus keeps you safe.

How to protect passwords with Firefox

Click “Tools > Options” menu.
Go to the “Security” tab > click on “Show Passwords” button in Passwords block.
A window will open with all the website names and user names you have stored for each of them. At the bottom, there will be a button “Show Password”. Click it.
It will seek your confirmation, and after you confirm, lo…..all your stored passwords are here. Now you must be feeling the urgency to protect your passwords.

To protect your passwords…

Go back to step1.
Click on the”Use Master Password” check box.
Enter the master password in the next window.

But caution: You must do remember this master password, because there is no method to retrieve this master password, at least I do not know.

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Firefox browser keyboard shortcut tips….Part I

Silki — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:21:22 +0000

Firefox, the browser.

I am one of the millions of die-hard fans of Firefox across the globe. Even after the launch of Internet Explorer 7, I like it for its speed, its security features, its live bookmarks and most importantly itsopen source nature, which allows thousands of independent developers to develop firefox addons and firefox extensions to give it more versatility.

Firefox addons are best part of Firefox, with more than about 200 addons available for you to download and have fun. Firefox addons like FoxyTunes (MP3 player), AdBlock Plus (block ads), StumbleUpon (website discovery), DownThemAll! (download functions) and Web Developer (web tools) are probably the most useful and popular of them all.

If you still don’t use Firefox,

Here we present you five small keyboard tips and tricks, which will make your firefox more faster and pleasurable.

5. ALT-D : Quickly move to Firefox Address Bar

Before typing a new URL in the address bar, press Alt-D. The cursor will move to the address bar and the existing URL will be highlighted. Type the address of your new page.

4. CTRL-Enter: Type “www…com” quickly

Instead of typing full http://www.webtoolsandtips.com completely, just type webtoolsand tips in the address bar and press Ctrl-Enter. See the magic, “http://www.” will be prefixed and “.com” will be suffixed automatically.

3. CTRL-Mouse wheel spin: To enlarge or shrink page font size

If you found a webpage, where the font size of the text is either too large or oo small, no problem. Hold down the Ctrl key and rotate mouse wheel. Font size changes incrementally. Great useful tip.

2. CTRL-T: Launch a new tab

My favorite.

1. SHIFT-Click a link: To open the link in a new window

Simple, no need to explain further.

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