firefox
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Ok, maybe I don’t know what you did last summer, or even this summer. Now that we’re closing in on back-to-school and Fall, it’s time to start thinking of warmer clothes and holidays already. Yes – some people are already doing their holiday shopping. Stores are putting out winter coats. Before you know it, there [...]
Could all of Life’s Conveniences be Killing Us?
Reading this blog post on Geeks earlier stopped me dead in my tracks. I saw myself in what the author wrote, as I’m sure many of you will. He talks of how we have so many gadgets and gizmos to make our lives easier… and then wonders if it’s in fact making things more difficult: [...]
How Do You Enlarge Web Site Fonts for Printing?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Yes, I’m addicted to fonts. I’ve admitted it for years. I like looking at cool fonts, and enjoy finding new ones. Someone from the PCPitStop community recently asked how he can enlarge fonts on a web page, to make it easier [...]
What are Five Firefox Add-ons that Can Spice up Your Browser?
This is Curtis McGregor’s submission for the HP Magic Giveaway. Feel free to leave comments for this article as you see fit – your feedback is certainly welcomed! If you’d like to submit your own how-to, what-is, or top-five list, you can send it to me. Views and opinions of this writer are not necessarily [...]
How Does Your Web Browser Handle JavaScript?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Google Chrome has been officially in beta for about a month now. Many of you are using it for your default browser already at this point. I wrote about Google Chrome this month for my CPU Magazine article. I want to [...]
What’s Your Favorite Firefox Plugin?
With so many people using Firefox these days, it’s no wonder there are what seems to be a kajillion addons and plugins available for it. What do you use, and why? I asked several people what they like most, and if you read carefully… you’ll see that one really stands out as a favorite. RSS [...]
The Community Speaks out About Google Chrome
I recently recorded a video talking about Google’s new Web Browser, Google Chrome. I was excited about it then, and I still am. Google Chrome has set the bar higher for all other browsers, and we won’t allow others to lower it. I’ve received a lot of feedback about Chrome since my video aired. I [...]
Do you Need to Tweak Firefox for Speed?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Firefox 3 download day has come and gone. It broke records… and servers. It took a little getting used to when I downloaded it. There were things I loved, and things I hated about it. I didn’t really like the Awesome [...]
Do you Want to Create PDFs from Firefox for Free?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Just today, the PDF became an official ISO standard. You’ll see PDFs show up in a lot more places. It will be the document format to beat, basically. I happen to have stumbled across an invitation-only Beta earlier for a new [...]
An Essential Firefox Add-on
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed What page do you use in your default Web browser as your “start” page? Have you bothered to change it from the browser’s start page? As you know, Firefox 3 was officially released on the day this video is being posted. [...]
Are you Participating in FireFox Download Day 2008?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Join FireFox in their mission to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours! World Download Day is fast approaching. Will you pledge to help Mozilla reach its goal? Sounds like a good deal, right? All [...]
How to Sync Bookmarks Across Multiple Browsers
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Over the years, you may collect a ton of bookmarks within your browser. Let’s say you change browsers, or even Operating Systems. How can you sync all of your links between the browsers, and how can you make sure that the [...]
Favorite Firefox Extensions
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Here are some of the most popular extensions for Firefox, sent in by various community members. Be sure to keep sending in those top five lists! IE tab: This allows you to quickly change your current Firefox window to render the [...]
What’s new in Firefox 3?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Beta 1 of Firefox 3 was released today. I found a few bugs, but overall it’s looking like there are some excellent new features and improvements. When it goes final, I may switch from Maxthon 1.0 to Firefox for my Windows [...]
Speed up Firefox
Mitch Bartlett from our chat room gave me a few “about:config” tweaks to help speed up Firefox, but I’d be interested in learning what y’all have experienced with these settings… content.interrupt.parsing – true content.max.tokenizing.time – 2250000 content.notify.interval – 750000 content.notify.ontimer – true content.switch.threshold – 750000 nglayout.initialpaint.delay – 0 network.http.max-connections – 48 network.http.max-connections-per-server – 16 network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy [...]
