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This is the second part of the two part series on How to delete browser history. In the first part here, we have told, what information is generally saved by the browsers in their history and how to delete browser history in Internet Explorer.

In this post we will tell you a method for deleting firefox and Opera browser history.

Firefox

It provides a one-stop solution for deleting private information.

• Click Tools > Options and select Privacy tab.
• To delete cookies, select Cookies tab > click Clear Cookies Now button.
• Similar “Clear all” buttons can be found under the History, Saved Forms and Cache tabs.

There is also a shortcut for deleting private information.

• Click Tools > Options.
• Click Privacy tab and Click Settings button.
• Under the Private Data, choose, what items of history you want to delete.

Opera

Click Tools > Delete private data.

Click Advanced button and specify the items of history, which you want to delete.

PDF files are notorious for slowing your computer. If you click a link of pdf document on Internet, many times, the browser gets extremely slow, sometimes just hanging. This specially happens with Firefox.

It is specially irritating, when you expect to go to a web page, but instead of that, an external program like Acrobat Reader starts opening to deal with the target pdf file. This is the reason precisely, why good website, tell you beforehand that this is a pdf link. For instance, you will find pdf written in Googel search results against the pdf files results.

So, how to dowload pdf files easily.

With firefox, it is very easy.

Download the “Download pdf” addon for firefox, install it and have peace.

Whenever you click a pdf link, the following options will be given to you, and you can easily choose what you want to do.

Nice tip.

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

1. Click “Tools > Options” menu.
2. Go to the “Security” tab > click on “Show Passwords” button in Passwords block.
3. 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.
4. 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…

1. Go back to step1.
2. Click on the”Use Master Password” check box.
3. 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.

Independent Thoughts:
Usual internet marketing solutions include directions to various tricks and software tools. The use of these tools e.g. internet phone service or other complex softwares, depends upon the service of the web hosting employed. Some offer backup , and some load faster only in presence of wireless internet. The search engine ranking of the sites differ in these cases.

FileZilla is arguably the most popular FTP program in use today. It is safe, versatile and quick with easy user interface.

But you have to download it and run as a separate application. It is sometimes irritating to open another application, while surfing through your browser.

Now, firefox users can FTP files from their browser window itself. You just have to download FireFTP, a firefox addon, and install it. After installation, you can drag teh FireFTP icon to your toolbar. Whenever you need to do FTP, just click this icon, a separate tab will open, where you can transfer your files. You can choose to operate in Binary Mode, ASCII Mode or Automatic Mode.

The interface is very similar to FileZilla with easy drag and drop facility available.

If you are looking for web tools for designing a web page without being an expert, you would most probably be analyzing the formatting, layouts and designs used by different websites. For this purpose firefox built-in feature “View > Page Source” comes very handy. This can also be activated using the the keyboard short-cut Ctrl+U. However this feature gives a complete source code of the page, which sometimes is not required and many not-so-expert web page designers can feel overloaded with the information.

If you are willing to see just the header information, which is highly important from the SEO point of view, then you may use these two great firefox add-ons.

1. X-Ray:

After the installation, it is available through right click or Tools menu. When used on a page, it helps you to see how the page is actually constructed without having switch between the source code and the web page.It nicely tells you, whether the list is made of li, dd or p elements? Is that an h3 tag or the text bold feature has been used. It is a must have for elementary web designers.

2. Professor X:

A similar web tool. It shows you all the files, and information lying between the <head> tags of the page. After downloading an application, it displays the contents of the page’s head element, including Meta, Script and Style content.

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