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A Small Tip To Make Opera Fast

November 25th, 2007

1. First go to Tools> Preferences> Advanced> Network,
2. Select Server name completion.
3. Now you have two options within it;
Try name completion
Look For local network machine

A Small Tip To Make Opera Fast

How to configure multiple home pages in Firefox?

November 2nd, 2007

This trick is a unusual one and I bet many out there don’t know this. Firefox actually features the possibility to set multiple home pages. I’m a big fan of many websites so I atleast need to check 3 most favorite each time I’m online. But be aware that this new feature introduces a performance degradation in Firefox startup as multiple pages are open.

Here is how to configure multiple home pages in Firefox?

  • Open Firefox
  • Click Tools || Options
  • In the Home Page section, located at the top of the Main tab specify your home pages URLs separated with a “|”

How to delete an individual site from the address bar’s list of previously viewed sites in Firefox?

October 13th, 2007

I didn’t found out anything cool today, so just a small and easy tip for Firefox users. This small tutorial will show you how to delete individual sites from your address bar (firefox). Normally when we want to clean urls from the web browser we end up cleaning all the address history. Mostly happens when we want to clean the history from preying eyes of our parents (don’t want to get caught checking pron sites). Many would probably know this, but most of the non geeky friends don’t even know it could be done. Here’s how it goes:

Increase the number of simultaneous downloads in Internet Explorer 7

October 8th, 2007

The crappiest browser Internet Explorer 7 only lets you download two files simultaneously. Another annoying limitation for anyone who downloads quite a lot. But a simple registry tweak will let you get over this limitation. Be sure to backup your registry as registry editing can do whole lot bad for your PC rather then good.

1) Click on the Start Orb and type regedit in the Search Bar.

2) Once you are in the registry editor, navigate to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings

3) Right click in the empty space, and create a new DWord (32-bit) value by choosing
New > DWord Value . Name it:

Top 10 Must have productivity and blogging Firefox Extensions!

October 8th, 2007

I have been using Firefox for quite sometime. It has its own problems which as a as FF user have learnt how to handle them. But no browser comes close to Firefox in terms of performance and expandability thanks to Mozilla’s large community which constantly adding new cool extensions and plugins.

Top 10 Must have productivity and blogging Firefox Extensions!

Over the past 1 year of blogging, i have played with many extensions, some made my blogging hell of a lot easier but few were nothing less then a bad joke. Previously I put up an article on how to improve Firefox performance. Today I wanna list my top 10 favorite extensions that improved my productivity and blogging experience. Here goes the list.

Comprehensive Guide on How to reduce the memory usage in Firefox?

October 7th, 2007

Firefox 2.0 since its release had the niggling memory leak and no matter how many updates have been out to address this issue it still has that retard issue. A standard Firefox install without any extensions consumes around 80MB but soon after you add a few extensions you can see a noticeable drop in the performance. There are many guides out over the internet but i have made my own version that seems to work. It gono be a pretty comprehensive guide so you have a stick a little longer to learn the tricks.


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