Tag Archive | "firefox"

How To Open All Mailto Links With GMail Automatically in Firefox

Monday, March 14, 2011

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The great thing about Firefox is that it has a built-in option to set mailto links to open up in GMail. That means you don’t have to stick with Outlook or Thunderbird or any of the desktop programs. To change your mailto handler in Firefox, just go to Tools > Options > Applications tab, and [...]

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How To Fix The Problem Of Flash Always Crashing in Firefox

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

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I love Firefox, but I hate how it works with Flash. Essentially, it doesn’t work and causes hair-pulling frustration. I tried looking around to see if any other people are facing the same problems, and it’s clear that I’m not alone in this situation. From the various posts online, it’s a problem that has plagued [...]

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How To Fix PDF Files Showing Up As A Blank Page in FireFox

Sunday, September 26, 2010

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Recently, I realized that any PDF files that I was trying to view in my browser suddenly could not display. Whenever I click on a link to view a PDF file, I end up seeing a blank page. I didn’t do anything to Firefox, nor to Adobe Reader, and when I went to Tools > [...]

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How Does FireFox Weave Sync Benefit Me?

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

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Mozilla Labs has been working on Weave, an official bookmark-syncing extension for Firefox. The newest version of Weave is out of beta, and on top of just bookmarks, it also supports syncing your FireFox history, passwords, preferences, location bar, and even your open tabs. It isn’t at a point where I would say that it’s [...]

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How To Select Columns of Text in Your Browser (FireFox)

Sunday, April 11, 2010

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This is a neat trick for copying columns of text from a table into some other application. This is particularly useful when you don’t need the whole table of information, and just want one column or several columns (e.g. just the usernames from a list of members). I haven’t tried it on other browsers, but [...]

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How To Remove Speed Download Plugin From FireFox on the Mac

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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I was using jDownloader for the Mac and while it was great software, it was coded in Java, making it non-native. I don’t mind the interface being different, but the start-up time was incredible slow. So I tried out Speed Download to see if it was good, and I have to say that it was [...]

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Firefox for the Mac (Snow Leopard) is horribly SLOW

Sunday, October 4, 2009

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I’ve been a huge Firefox fan, and used it almost exclusively, but recently, it’s been more of a resource hog than anything. It’s gotten so bad that my entire Mac’s slowed down because of Firefox. Sometimes, CPU usage will shoot up to over 90%, and my whole system slows to a crawl. I’d realise the [...]

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