Mozilla Firefox

Download Torrents with Google Chrome and Firefox with Surf

Downloading Torrents with clients is not new as everyone might have used torrents at one time or the other. Some users use uTorrent,the light weight bittorrent client while others use some heavy clients as well like Vuze (formerly Azureus) or official Bittorrent client as well. There was need for a program to let users download [...]

Firefox 5 Tips : Enable Status Bar in Firefox 5

Firefox 4 was launched with loads of new features, most of which have been carried over in the latest releases as well. Although most of the updates  are pretty useful, some of the users who have upgraded to Firefox 4 and later versions have been complaining about missing the status bar or extension bar in [...]

Firefox 5 Tips: How to Change Default Search Engine

In an earlier article on Firefox 4 we discussed how to add the search functionality to Firefox 4 address bar. Now that Firefox comes with address bar search as a default option, we have created a new guide on How to change and manage default search engines in Firefox 5 and above. Here is the [...]

Disable “Search the Web” Feature in Firefox 6

If you have recently updated to Firefox 6, you would have noticed “Search the Web” feature in the right click menu on selecting text in a web page. Similar to Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 9, this feature can be used to search for the keywords in the selected text. However the annoying part about [...]

Change Firefox 4 Tabs Positions to Top or Bottom of Address Bar

Mozilla has just  launched Firefox 4 beta for public download. The new version comes with multiple code and design changes. On the design side, the change most visible is the location of the browser tabs which have been moved to the top of Firefox window and above the address bar somewhat similar to Google Chrome.  [...]

Downgrade Firefox 3.6 to 3.5 or earlier versions

Justin asks: My Firefox 3.6 keeps on crashing every time I try to open multiple tabs. There was no such problem in Firefox 3.5. How can I downgrade from Firefox 3.6 to 3.5 ? These days the speed of development of Web Browsers is such that we hear about new releases every other weekend. Most [...]

Backup Firefox Bookmarks as HTML file

Ryan asks: I want to reformat my computer. But I am avoiding it because I am afraid I will lose all my Firefox bookmarks. Is there a way by which I can backup my Firefox bookmarks and restore them later too? Ryan, backing up Firefox bookmarks is a very easy. There are basically three ways [...]

Backup Firefox Bookmarks with Xmarks

Bookmarks are an effective way of remembering websites , especially those with difficult names . While all browsers today offer Bookmarking facitlity , Firefox still comes on top when it comes to ease of accessing and backing-up these bookmarks. In our last article we learnt how to backup Firefox bookmarks without  using any addon. Today [...]

 

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