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Foxfire…I mean Firefox, is loved by million.

I am one among them, and consider my moral duty to add my two cents to the cause of spreading firefox, the king of open source browsers.

If you are new to Firefox, which is also sometimes called foxfire , let me tell you that one of the reason of the rapid increase in the popularity graphs of Firefox is the integration of the firefox addons, which are also sometimes known as firefox extensions or firefox plugins. There are thousands of firefox addons available, and the count is increasing with each passing day, to make your web browsing more useful, more productive and more pleasurable.

Introducing FlashBlock, the firefox addon

So here is yet another reason, why I love Firefox.

Like most of the bloggers, I am habitual of opening many simultaneous tabs in my firefox browser window. Sometimes the number of open tabs in my firefox reaches upto 10 or 12, and in such case, it is a huge load on my bandwidth. It takes huge time, sometimes running into tens of seconds to load a page, although I am on a cable modem connection. This is the precise reason, I am always on the look out for new ways to increase my internet speed.

FlashBlock, the foxfire addon in question, just blocks the flash ads and banners and YouTube videos, and many other flash snippents on your current webpage, and thus saves you huge amount of bandwidth. In place of the flash ad, it just displays a flash handle, as shown in the figure below. If you clik on this handle, you can play that flash animation at that place.

It is so easy and so useful, I can’t imaging browsing without FlashBlock.

P.S.: paranoidferret.com has reported an issue of FlashBlock interfering with the Silverlight applications, whcih you may like to check out, before installing FlashBlock.

Foxfire…I mean Firefox, the preferred browser for millions of informed netizens, is popular for its Foxfire addons. In this post, we are presenting yet another foxfire addon, which will make your web surfing more productive and pleasurable.

Read it Later

No, we don’t mean what is written above. It is jut the name of the foxfire addon, which helps you to bookmark a web page, within the browser itself and you don’t require to open your preferred social bookmarking website. It is an ideal tool for creating a bookmark list within the browser itself.

This useful firefox extension creates two buttons just adjacent to your Browser search box. The first button named as “Read Later” book,arks the current page in the list and the other button, named as “Reading List” manages the web pages, which you have marked earlier to be read later.

But, How Read it Later is different

Off course, you can use various social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us or digg, just for the same purpose, but I liked the neat and clean interface and a single click approach, without leaving your current webpage. it is definitely much faster way of bookmarking a web page.

The only drawback, which I see with Read IT Later is that, it clutters the already cluttered space on my browser window, with more and more firefox plugins now competing with each other to fit in within the limited space.

Scribefire is a nice Firefox addon, which acts as a free blog writer tool. You can add multiple blogs to Surefire and choose the one which you want to post. The best part of Surefire is that since it is a Firefox browser plugin, it gives you the opportunity to surf the net while posting.

There are few quick points, which I observed while using Surefire for a few minutes.

• It does not allow the option for the links to open in a new window. You have to manually add target=“_blank”.
• There seems to be no option to wrap the text around the inserted images.
• Nice features of changing the size and colors of the text.
• ScribeFire gives you the option of inserting Technorati tags and using the same tags for del.icio.us as well as inserting trackback URLs.

Overall a nice web tool for those who want to post quickly and cannot afford to open a separate application away from their browser window.

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.

There are many webmasters, who disable the right click options on their pages. The purpose of this is to restrict the visitors to copy the material, and do not allow them to use it elsewhere. Nice thinking.

But there are methods to out smart this technique.

Although I don’t encourage copying and pasting on the Internet, but sometimes it is genuinely necessary to copy text or images from a webpage to use it elsewhere. Firefox, ….oh I love firefox, gives you this ability.

• Go to Tools > Options.
• Click on the Content tab.
• Click the Advanced button against the Enable JavaScript Check Box.

• Find the Disable or replace context menus check box in the next window Uncheck this box.

Now try the right click again.

VOILA…you have done it.

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.

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.