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How to Shutdown Computer automatically Using Firefox Auto Shutdown Add-on

admin — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:18:15 +0000

Firefox is the top most world widely used web browser. Because it is handy and have lots of features though its add-on and extension. Sometimes we download files using Firefox and on the same time we need to go for some work. So until we come back the computer waste the energy. In this situation we can use Firefox Auto shutdown the computer when downloads are completed and helps us to save electric power.

Auto Shutdown is a cool Firefox add-on which controls your active download and shut down the computer when downloads are completed through is auto executing user script. Not only this but if Firefox is running idle it also shut downs the pc automatically with pre defined shut down time.

If you are using Downthemall Firefox extension for downloading movies, video, music and images from web then you can easily integrate Auto shutdown Firefox extension with downthemall add-on.

Download Auto shutdown Firefox Add-on

Top 10 Mozilla Firefox Add-ons, Dec 2009

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:47:00 +0000

Firefox is a fastest growing popular web browser.One of the great perks of Firefox is that there are tons of extensions that enhance the functionality of the browser.There are lots of free download able extensions, add-ons, themes available on the internet for firefox.I am listing top 10 firefox Add-ons of Dec 2009 depends on there popularity of weekly downloads.So use this add-ons and try with your browser to make your web experience more better.

Have a look ;

1. Adblock Plus

Have you ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.Right-click on a banner and choose “Adblock” from the context menu — the banner won’t be downloaded again. Maybe even replace parts of the banner address with star symbols to block similar banners as well.

2.Video DownloadHelper

The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites. This works also for audio and picture galleries.DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video and image files from many sites.

3.43things.com search (NEW ADDITION)

Search goals on 43things.com. Discover what’s important, make it happen, share your progress. Find your 43 things.

4.NoScript

The best security you can get in a web browser! Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Clickjacking attacks.this tool provides extra protection to your Firefox. It allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from trusted domains of your choice.

5.FlashGot

Download all the links, movies and audio clips of a page at the maximum speed with a single click, using the most popular, lightweight and reliable external download managers.

6.Greasemonkey

Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of popular sites, are already available at http://userscripts.org. You can write your own scripts, too. Check out http://wiki.greasespot.net/ to get started.

7.Firebug 1.4.3

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

8.DownThemAll!

DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400% and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time.

9.Download Statusbar

Now View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar – without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.Despite its compact size, Download Statusbar packs in more useful features than the standard download window. The fully customizable interface auto-hides when not in use, allowing full control without interruption.

10.Illimitux 3.4 (NEW ADDITION)

Illimitux extension is a FireFox tool that removes limitations imposed by streaming plateforms as MegaVideo , Veoh, Megauplaod or Rapidshare. Its purpose is watching without restriction vides from those platforms. When your are in one of these websites. Illimitux identifie the video and prompts a little box in the corner of the browser telling you to remove the limitation. Once you click on it, you’ll be redirected to our website to view the Full video.

Some More Recommended Add-ons by HackingAday :

CoolPreviews

CoolPreviews is all about browsing faster. The customizable preview window lets you preview or browse just about any link without ever leaving your current page or tab. No more need to click in and out of tabs.

Google Shortcuts :

Display all of your Google Services as buttons just next to your address bar or anywhere you like it.You can go to settings to change which services should be available for you as buttons.Left click on a button opens the service in the current tab, MIDDLE CLICK opens a new tab.

Don’t forget to share your favt firefox add-ons with us. Thanks

Increase Firefox Downloading Speed Using FireDownload

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:06:00 +0000

There’s not doubt about the Fact that Firefox is the leader in internet Browsers industry. But in case of downloading via browser, a user get much lower download speed as compared to any Download Manager even in Firefox. and lesser download speed means more time. To get almost same transfer rate that of a download manager, while downloading through Firefox, a Add-on for Firefox named ‘FireDownload’. is there for you.

“FireDownload Supercharge your web downloads! By using state of the art acceleration technology, this extension will speed up your downloads up to 10 times.”

As per my experience, FireDownload surely increase the downloading speed in Firefox. So, why not give it a try!

Download FireDownload, a Firefox Addon. Mozilla Firefox 3 or above is required.

Note: There are reports on blocking download from some of the sites, so you may need to disable it in order to download fromt those sites.

Tell me about your experience after downloading it

The Top 10 Mozilla Firefox Add-ons, Dec2009.

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:14:00 +0000

As we all know Firefox is a fastest growing popular web browser.There are lots of free download able extensions, add-ons, themes available on the internet for firefox.I am listing top 10 firefox Add-ons here depends on there popularity of weekly downloads.So use this add-ons and try with your browser to make your web experience more better.

1. Adblock Plus

2.Video DownloadHelper

3.Personas

Personas are free, easy-to-install “skins” for Firefox. Choose from over 30,000 cool designs, including art from Harry Potter, Bob Marley and Lady Gaga to individualize your browser. Join over 8 million people from around the world who are asking themselves: “What Will My Browser Wear Today?”

4.NoScript

5.Greasemonkey

6.FlashGot

Download all the links, movies and audio clips of a page at the maximum speed with a single click, using the most popular, lightweight and reliable external download managers.

7.Download Statusbar

8.Firebug 1.4.3

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page…

9.DownThemAll!

DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400% and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time.

10.IE Tab

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This is a great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your web page displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.

Some More Recommended Add-ons by Tricks Machine :

PDF Download

Use PDF Download to do whatever you like with PDF files on the Web. Regain control and eliminate browser problems, view PDFs directly in Firefox as HTML, and use the all-new Web-to-PDF toolbar to save and share Web pages as high-quality PDF files.

Cooliris

The Cooliris 3D Wall — Simply the fastest and most stunning way to browse photos and videos from the Web or your desktop. Effortlessly scroll an infinite “3D Wall” of your content from Facebook, Google Images, YouTube, Flickr, and hundreds more.

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Get an Opera-Style Panels Sidebar in Firefox

admin — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:01:00 +0000

Do you like the Panels Sidebar in Opera and want the same functionality in Firefox too? Now you can with the All-in-One Sidebar extension.

What the Sidebar Looks Like

As soon as you have installed the extension and restarted Firefox you will be presented with the fresh install webpage. The “Extensions Sidebar” will also be visible to allow immediate access to All-in-One Sidebar’s options if you are ready to start customizing at that moment.

This is how the sidebar looks in minimized mode…not taking up much room at all.

You can collapse the sidebar even further into a slim mode to help conserve screen real-estate whenever needed.

A Closer Look at the Panels

All-in-One-Sidebar has six panels that you can quickly access and switch between using the toolbar buttons. Here you can see the “Bookmarks & History Panels”…

Followed by the “Downloads & Extensions Panels”. At the moment the add-ons are displaying in slim list mode…

Display a webpage, view the source code, access about:config settings, or view information about a webpage in the “Multi-Panel & Page Info Panels”.

Options

The extension comes with a nice assortment of options to help you customize All-in-One Sidebar to best suit your personal needs. The first two options areas come with multiple sub-tabs…

Decide which side of the browser that you want your sidebar to be active on and the exact width sizes in pixels in the “Appearance Tab”.

Note: The default setup is shown here. To access “Advanced Mode” use the “Settings Menu” in the lower left corner.

Determine sidebar/toolbar behavior at startup and in full screen mode in the “Behavior Tab”.

Enhance switch behavior and appearance in the “Sidebar Switch Tab”.

You can choose to deactivate the bookmarks and/or history functions in the “Bookmarks/History Tab”.

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Decide if and how your downloads will appear in the sidebar in the “Downloads Tab”.

You can disable add-ons appearing in the sidebar if you prefer using the regular window or enable the regular style appearance in place of the slim list style.

Select the functions that you would like to appear in the “Multi-Panel” in the “Other I Tab”.

Decide if you would also like the “Error Console” to open in the sidebar and which visual style that you prefer in the “Other II Tab”.

Choose the additional commands available in the “Sidebar Sub-menu” in the “Menu Area”.

Make any desired changes to All-in-One Sidebar’s keyboard shortcuts in the “Shortcuts Area”.

In the lower left corner of All-in-One-Sidebar’s options you can restore the default settings, access the advanced options (these add some extra tweaks to the various options shown above), export or import settings, and copy All-in-One-Sidebar’s settings to the clipboard.

Conclusion

If you are wanting to add some nice customizable (and multi-functional) sidebar goodness to your Firefox Browser, then All-in-One Sidebar is an extension well worth looking at.

Links

Download the All-in-One Sidebar extension (Mozilla Add-ons)

Download the All-in-One-Sidebar extension (Extension Homepage)

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Best Tips to Make Firefox 3+ Faster ?

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:52:00 +0000

The release of Firefox 3 in its final version – as well as a record entered in the register of straight Guinness Book of Records – has brought with it a great deal of improvement on overall performance.But I had noticed that although the browsing speed was improved but the browser itself is slow especially on low memory pc’s.

Making Firefox 3 Faster – Config Settings

Before making any change you can manually backup your firefox data incase if the settings go wrong.

Step 1 : Type about: config in the address bar of Firefox and press the Enter key to access the control panel of your browser.

Step 2 : Click the button just below the warning about the risk in changing the browser settings.

Step 3 : Modify (by double clicking on each one of them) or Create (by right click> New> Boolean for entries that provide as true and false, or by right click> New> Integer for items that provide numerical values) for the following items:

* Network.dns.disableIPv6: true
* Network.http.max-connections: 48
* Network.http.max-connections-per-server: 24
* Network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy: 12
* Network.http.pipelining.firstrequest: true
* Network.http.pipelining: true
* Network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 32
* Network.http.proxy.pipelining: true
* Nglayout.initialpaint.delay: 0
* Network.http.request.max-start-delay: 5
* Extensions.checkCompatibility: false

Now these should make firefox 3 faster in web browsing through the above settings that increased numbers of simultaneous connections, the activation of pipeling independent confirmation of its support from the server, disabling IPv6, the reduction in the time data to begin the rendering of pages, and more.

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How To Backup Your Firefox Extensions, Bookmarks and Cookie?

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:48:00 +0000

I was searching for this tips and i have found some nice infos and i like to share it with you ..

I like working with Firefox, but I need my add-ons/extensions installed inside it: that can improve and make your browsing experience way better, and not having my add-ons installed makes me feel naked, or more like I miss a part of my self.

Thankfully, there is an extension called FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) that can help you to backup your extensions easily.

Febe lets you to backup Mozilla Firefox extensions and settings so you can restore it anytime and anywhere you want to…

It does not only backup extensions: in fact, it can make backups of themes, bookmarks, profiles, cookies, passwords and just about anything inside Firefox.

Backups can be performed manually or automatically using a pre-determined schedule, choosing between two types of backups:

A full profile backup will backup everything inside Firefox in a single .xpi file and you can use it as a single extension, to restore full custom settings wherever you want.
A selective backup allows you to select what you want to backup, and it will store the backups in their own .xpi file.

In this way, a user can select extensions to restore add-ons one by one, making a selection of the most useful ones.

To get started, open up your Firefox and Install FEBE, then restart Firefox to activate this extension.

First of all I will explain how to backup all of your Firefox settings using the Full Backup:

1. On the menu bar, click Tools -> FEBE -> FEBE Options.
2. For backup type, select “Full profile” on the “Options” tab.
3. On the “Directory” tab, select where you want to save your backup.
4. Select “Use timestamped directories” to differentiate backups based on date of creation.
5. Click OK to finalize what you have set above .
6. Again click Tools -> FEBE -> Perform Backup.
7. Wait for the backup end.

Now let’s see how to selectively backup Firefox settings using the Selective Backup:

1. On the menu bar, click Tools -> FEBE -> FEBE Options.
2. Under backup type, select “Selective” on the “Options” tab.
3. Select what you want to backup in the “Backup items” section. For this how-to, I will only backup my Firefox extensions and themes.
4. On the “Directory” tab, select where you want to save your backup.
5. Select also “Use timestamped directories” to differentiate backups in different sub-folders, based on date it was created.
6. Click OK to finalize the settings above.
7. On the menu bar click Tools -> FEBE -> Perform Backup.
8. Wait for the backup end.

Now you need to learn how to restore your backups which is really easy and intuitive.

On the menu bar, click Tools -> FEBE -> Restore and then select what you want to restore. FEBE will prompt you to select your backup files inside one of your backup folders.

The extension is obviously free to download and install.

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How to Download Facebook Photo Albums??

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:08:00 +0000

TIPS # 2

FacePAD: Facebook Photo Album Downloader allows you to download your friends’ facebook albums, Events albums, and Group Albums, en masse, with the click of a button.

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Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Screenshots released (amazing pictures !)

admin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:31:00 +0000

HEy guys have a look at these pics of Firefox 4.0.I am so eager that i’m checking Firefox’s official website almost everyalterbate day.I got this article through www.mashable.com ! Hope you like this one.Because i loved it !

The Firefox Screenshots: Tabs on Top or Bottom?

These images, all of Firefox in the Windows OS, reveal that the company is struggling to choose between two primary designs: tabs-on-bottom and tabs-on-top. Tabs on bottom is the current norm in Firefox, while the tabs-on-top looks almost exactly like the Google chrome. Here is the tabs-on-bottom version (click for full-sized versions):

And here’s the tabs-on-top design:

In addition, Mozilla summarizes the pros and cons of the two designs very succinctly:

Positives:
- Save Vertical Space
- Efficiency/Remove Visual Complexity – Right now the tabs have to be connected to something. So we are adding an extra visual element for them to connect to.
- Shorter Mouse Distance to Page Controls

Negatives:
- Breaks Consistency/Familiarity – Moving things confuses existing users.
- Title is MIA – With the space removed from the titlebar you only get the truncated version in the tab.
- Longer Mouse Distance to Tabs – Takes longer to mouse to a tab.
- Lost Space – Sandwiched in between the application icon and the window widgets you lose some space.

While we won’t go into detail on the debate, we will say this: if Mozilla can offer the ability to choose between the two designs, it should. Some users need to get to the menu items faster, while others prefer having the tabs in closer proximity.

New Firefox 4.0 Feature: Combo Stop/Refresh/Go Button

Firefox 4.0 incorporates all of the design changes featured in Firefox 3.7 and includes a few new features. The big one is a Combo Stop/Refresh/Go Button.

Instead of separate buttons for each of these functions, they’re all integrated into one button on the right hand side of the address bar. It also changes colors based on your actions. So if you’re typing, it will be a green “Go” button, but if the page is currently loading, a red “Stop” button will take its place. Not a bad way to save space, if we do say so ourselves. Here’s a screenshot of the new feature in action:

Remember, this is all proposed, and feedback from the Firefox community shapes the browser into its final form. And you bet it’s going to get more great features, as it’s going to be some time until we can browse the web with this thing. But be sure to check out our sneak peek of firefox 2010 if you want to learn more.

via:mashable.com

Make(Hack)Old Firefox Addons work on Firefox 3.5 and other latest version

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:35:00 +0000

Firefox is the most highly used and preferred non Microsoft web browser which has occupied most of the browser industry. The popularity of this fantastic browser lies in the number of addons it has which adds numerous functionalities and makes your online life much comfortable.

The problems start appear when Mozilla release updates and other developers don’t. And you are very much dependent on few of the addons and if such addons don’t get updated, you will feel it tough if you are dependent on them. Firefox has already released the 3.5.1 version and still there are few addons which do not have compatibility with FF 3.5. If you are using any such addons, here is the hack for your firefox / addon to make the old addons work on any new version of FF.

FYI, Firefox Addon Compatibility Report

Disable Addon Compatibility Check in Firefox : Firefox Hack

Though this is not recommended by Firefox as it may cause problems sometimes, it works for sure. Anyway, try it at your risk. These are the easy steps:

1. Key in about:config in addressbar, hit enter, press “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button.

2. Right click anywhere within the next appearing window, and add new Boolean, name it checkCompatibility and term it FALSE.

3. In the same way, create another Boolean value with name checkUpdateSecurity and that too should be FALSE.

4. Restart Firefox.

Firefox Addon Hack: Modify individual addon compatibility version

To perform this, you need to keep your windows folder settings to show file extensions. This can be configured in Folder Options > View > Uncheck – “Hide extensions of known filetypes”. If you don’t know accessing folder options, follow this method in “any opened folder”: Windowx XP: In the menu bar View > Folder Options > View. Windows Vista: In menu bar, Organize > Folder and Search Options > View, change the setting in the list you get here.

1. Download the addon (its better you use other browser and download the addon. If you are using FF, right click on install button on addon page and click “Save Link As”)

2. Rename the file extension to .zip and open and extract it with zip applications like winzip, winrar, 7zip etc.

3. Open the install.rtf file (found among the ones you extracted) in any text editor.

4. Find the tag and you will find a string like the one below:

a.b.c

The a.b.c represents the current maximum compatibility version of firefox. Change it to the value you require Ex. 3.*.* for current and upcoming versions of FF.

5. Now, save the file, re zip all the files and rename the .zip extension to .xpi. Here take care that you zip the files the same way as you got them when extracted. Don’t zip the folder where the files are found, zip it the same way you got when downloaded. You may refer to the older renamed addon zip file.

6. Open Firefox, drag and drop this new xpi file.

7. Restart firefox.

The second method is somewhat preferable as if it affects something, its just one addon instead of browser and this will be overridden when you update the addon. This is quite difficult with few addons where confusion occurs with many number of em:maxVersion statements.

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