Category: Tips

Firefox 3 – 8 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do

By | October 7, 2008 | 2 Comments

Firefox 3 - 8 Things You Didn't Know You Could DoThis one sounds good. Logan Kugler posted about 8 things which you probably didn’t knew about Firefox 3, such as:

Duplicate tabs with drag-and-drop.
Minimize the toolbar.
Use smart bookmarks.
Send e-mail via Yahoo! Mail or Gmail by default.
Change the behavior of the Awesome Bar.

And bit more…

How to Speed Up Firefox?

By | August 11, 2008 | 14 Comments

How to Speed Up Firefox?Here is a great tip from shashank on how to make Firefox 10 times faster.

1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit enter. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true” Continue Reading

Firefox, Safari, Opera Doesn’t Load CSS Stylesheets?

By | July 30, 2008 | 15 Comments

Firefox, Safari, Opera doesn’t Load CSS Stylesheets?Are you having issues viewing various web pages from time to time where css style sheets don’t load?

Solution might be simpler than you thought. One of the reasons why it can happen is due to AdBlock. In case you are blocking ads on the web page, unblock them all and try now.

It worked for me.

Firefox 3 Download Problems?

By | July 23, 2008 | 7 Comments

Firefox 3 Download ProblemsAre you receiving an annoying “This download has been blocked by your Security Zone Policy” error? According to a quote from FirefoxFacts:

Starting in Firefox 3, downloads of executable files (e.g., .exe or .msi) may fail and the Firefox Downloads window will contain this message, under the filename: This download has been blocked by your Security Zone Policy. Continue Reading

Change Opera Theme Color Scheme

By | July 21, 2008 | 0 Comments

Change Opera Theme Color SchemeSince there was a tip on changing Firefox 3 color scheme, this one is for Opera users.
If you are using Opera 9.5 and don’t know this trick yet, you can easily change skin color scheme by following those steps:

Tools > Appearance
Find “Color Scheme” setting in the bottom and play with it.

Change Firefox Theme Color Scheme

By | July 21, 2008 | 1 Comment

Change Firefox Theme Color SchemeAre you tired of your current Firefox skin? It’s so well made that you just don’t want to change it with any other one? How about a small modification?

With Firefox add-on AnyColor 0.2.0 you can change Firefox 3 theme color scheme.

As it says:
A dynamic theme that lets you customize its appearance on the fly.

Visit AnyColor 0.2.0 Add-on Page

Via FirefoxFacts

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How to Increase the Maximum Number of Tabs on Opera Mobile 9.5

By | July 21, 2008 | 0 Comments

How to Increase the Maximum Number of Tabs on Opera Mobile 9.5Haavard yet again posted a great tip. This one tells you how you can change the maximum opened tabs limit in Opera Mobile 9.5. As he writes:

To increase the number of allowed tabs, go to opera:config, and set “Maximum Allowed Tabs” to the number of your choice (you may have to restart Opera).

That’s it.

9 Firefox 3 Location Bar Tweaks

By | June 21, 2008 | 4 Comments

Time for some tips and tricks. Percy Cabello wrote a great article on how you can tweak your location bar. For example: make autocomplete menu show only typed addresses and not visited or bookmarked, how to change the number of suggestions displayed in the autocomplete menu and more.

If you want to play with Firefox 3 location bar a bit, this can help you a lot.

Opera – How to Add More Speed Dials?

By | June 16, 2008 | 2 Comments

Add More Speed Dials OperaHere’s a great tip from Tamil. If you want to increase speed dials number and add more of them, follow those steps:

1. Locate Speed Dial file by typing: opera:config#Speed Dial File
2. Close Opera
3. Open speeddial.ini which is in Opera directory.
4. Play with rows and columns settings; add as many as you like. Continue Reading

How to Turn Off Opera Dragonfly?

By | June 9, 2008 | 9 Comments

How to Turn Off Opera Dragonfly?I would like to give a small tip to Opera team. Please, add a feature to turn off developer tools by using “X” button in the right corner. I actually haven’t figured out yet how turn it off. Though remember that somehow I managed to do that in old builds.

Screenshot below: Continue Reading