While surfing the main thing is to pay attention to safety. For this reason, today, I submit to you this list of the best add-on to improve your browser’s security.
Here the list:
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There’s no way to reduce to zero your risk of picking up some piece of malware while browsing.
Much emphasis has been placed on the enhanced security features of the latest versions of the popular browsers. Whether one is any safer than another is anybody’s guess, but no browser gives you more ways to thwart a Web-based attack than Firefox via its wealth of security add-ons.
Today I want to present a fantastic add-on that lets you browsing safer, its name is: LinkExtend
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You have to know that “About:config” page lets you change almost every aspect of how Firefox functions. Going through and explaining what every preference does would not only be an impossible task, but also unnecessary since most people are happy with the default settings. There are, however, a few settings that we think are essential to change. Make these tweaks first when you encounter a fresh install of Firefox.
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When Firefox 3 was first released, one of the new features was the option to associate html protocols with web applications, such as launching a webmail service when clicking a “mailto:” link.
Unfortunately, at the time of launch, only Yahoo’s mail client was officially supported, and users had to either use extensions or manipulate some javascript code to enable Gmail as the primary mail handler.
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If you are tired to see how your computer starts to slow down after you’ve been using Firefox for a while, I’m going to teach you how to reduce the amount of memory that Firefox is allowed to use for caching.
You can also set Firefox to ensure that when you minimize it, Firefox will move to your hard drive, and as a result it will take up less than 10MB of memory while minimized.
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I have been asked in comments to other articles, but also in person, whether it is possible to restore Firefox default settings: if you have tweaked your about:config page to speed your browser up, or simply installed an add-on that messed up your configuration, Firefox 3 has a simple method to restore all default settings back without uninstalling the software.
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Many people have updated to Firefox 3 since the Download Day 2008, which went so good actually, placing Firefox into the World Guinness Records.
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You have may noticed many changes from the previous version, specially the address bar, and many people have asked me if the old tricks to speed your browser up are still working.
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Safe mode is a great thing to use when your Windows OS is encountering problems or simply won’t run properly. It is simplified version of your operating system, that disable many function, letting you edit and adjust what is wrong.
But did you know that Firefox has its own safe mode?
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This safe mode can help you verify if an add-on, theme, or toolbar setting is causing problems, by simply disabling them temporarily.
Here’s how to start and use safe mode in Firefox:
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Firefox has a really useful built-in dictionary that underlines a misspelled word, so you can see at a glance whenever you have typed something wrong.
But you might have noticed that when you type a wrong word into the email subject (in Gmail for example) or any single line element, it doesn’t work.
Yes, the default setting corrects and spell checks all multiple lines areas, leaving it to you to find errors in single lines box such as titles, subjects, tags…
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Do you make a lot of researches on the Internet, maybe on websites that are not major search engines like Google or Yahoo, and you want to speed up the search process?
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In Firefox you can type in the address box the name of a search engine followed by the search term (e.g. “Wikipedia Firefox”) so that it will search directly into that website, without the need of going to that page and type in the search box.
But, if you want to do the same thing on other sites, it is not possible if you do not set Firefox to do it properly.
Editors at Hongkiat.com have published a short guide on how to create Smart Keyword Searches in Firefox and Safari, showing how easy it is to search automatically in any website by typing your query in the address bar with Firefox.
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