With the fantastic Firefox plugin Add to Search Bar you can easily add any search engine or field to your Firefox Search Bar. This brief tutorial will show you how to use it to make your searching life that much easier.
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Firefox
How to delete individual form entries in Firefox and IE
This (very) brief tutorial will show you how to remove single entries from forms (or boxes, whatever you want to call them) from IE and Firefox. You can remove entries from things like the Google search box, email login forms etc, without having to clear all form data. [click to continue...]
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How to delete an individual site from the address bar’s list of previously viewed sites in Firefox
This (very) brief tutorial will show you how to delete sites from your Firefox address bar, without having to clear them all. Though this may be common knowledge to many of you, I did a quick poll of my semi-technical friends and more than half of them didn’t even know you could do it.
Firefox for Linux: use the drop-down button in your address bar, scroll to the site you wish to delete, and hit the Delete key on your keyboard (not the Backspace key).
Firefox for OS X: use the drop-down button in your address bar, scroll to the site you wish to delete, hold down the shift key and hit delete.
Firefox for Windows: use the drop-down button in your address bar, scroll to the site you wish to delete, and hit the Delete key on your keyboard (not the Backspace key).
Note: this will only remove it from the address bar drop-down list - not your browsing history.
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Using the iWebTool Firefox plugin to find out information about a site
The iWebTool plugin for Firefox is really just a quick way to access the tools located at iwebtool.com, but it’s still pretty helpful. [click to continue...]
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How to use Adobe Acrobat-style grab and drag scrolling in Firefox
Grab and Drag enables Adobe Acrobat-style grab and drag scrolling in Firefox, Thunderbird, and Flock. Though it’s not a plugin that anyone with a scroll-wheel mouse would find useful (I don’t think), it is very helpful if you use a one button mouse (iBook/PowerBook/MacBook/MacBook Pro users), a stylus/pen or touchscreen/tablet PC.
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How to use Firefox’s Smart Keywords more effectively
This tutorial will explain what Smart Keywords are, how to use them, and how to create your own. [click to continue...]
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How to sync your bookmarks, history, saved passwords and more - using Google Browser Sync
This tutorial will guide you through installing and setting up Google Browser Sync for Firefox. [click to continue...]
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A simple explanation of RSS
RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication”. It’s a way to easily distribute content (news, stories, podcasts, the tutorial you’re reading right now) to a large number of people. Software programs, called RSS readers, take that content and present it in an easy to view format… [click to continue...]
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How to lower the amount of memory that Firefox uses
If your computer starts to slow down after you’ve been using Firefox for a while, you may be able to regain some of your system resources by limiting the amount of memory that Firefox is “allowed” to use for caching, thus improving your system performance. It should be noted that if you have 1GB or more of RAM, you probably don’t need to follow these steps.. [click to continue...]
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How to clear your browsers history (the list of sites you’ve visited)
To learn how to clear (delete) the history of previously viewed or visited web sites, select your web browser below -
Internet Explorer 6 (Windows)
Internet Explorer 7 (Windows)
Firefox 1.5 and 2.0 (Windows and Mac)
Safari 2.x (Mac)
Camino 1.x (Mac)
Opera 9.x (Windows)
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How to change your browsers start page
Before you laugh your head off at the “simplicity” of this tutorial, please consider this.
For instructions on how to set your browsers start page (the page that opens by default when you launch your web browser) using any one of the following web browsers - Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari or Camino, please continue reading.. [click to continue...]
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