Manually remove all the duplicate bookmarks in Firefox

2011-09-13 1 min read Firefox

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I was trying to install the duplicate Bookmark remover for the Firefox but for some reasons, was not able to install it. That apart, the point is that I was trying to get a program to do this for me rather than a plugin. So, after some search, finally I found here. This is a ruby script. The script requires ruby gems-json for doing this.

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Fast and bleeding edge Firefox.. version 7

2011-06-30 2 min read Firefox

Firefox 7.0 nightly builds have started and it seems to be quite fast. So, if you dont care about some sites not opening or once in a while your browser crashing, been using for 2 days on Windows , has not crashed so far and worked on all sites so far :), then you should install the Nightly build.

Head over to the nightly build site and install the appropriate build for your OS.

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Speed Up Firefox by Moving Your Cache to RAM

2011-01-08 2 min read Firefox
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Speed Up Firefox by Moving Your Cache to RAM, No RAM Disk Required [Firefox Tip] Click here to read Speed Up Firefox by Moving Your Cache to RAM, No RAM Disk Required We’ved talked about moving your cache files to a RAM disk to speed things up, but it turns out Firefox has this feature built in. Here’s how to turn it on. More »

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Change the firefox theme without restarting.

2010-09-27 1 min read Firefox

How often you wished that you could change the theme for firefox without restarting. Well sometime back Mozilla came up with Light weight themes called personna’s but if that is not sufficient for you and you still want to change the theme and do not want to restart then you should install this theme.

Once you install this theme, you will not note any change (Don’t forget to restart after installing the theme.)

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Unixmen - Tips to reduce memory usage on Firefox

2010-07-14 1 min read Firefox Uncategorized

A nice aritcle on reducing the memory usage of firefox on <a class="zem_slink" title="Linux" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux.

There are some things in life everyone is looking for and no one ever finds and there are other things that people keep finding and re-finding and inventing and re-inventing. Reducing memory usage for <a class="zem_slink" title="Firefox" rel="homepage" href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/">Firefox and speeding it up is one such thing. So, here is another story to reduce the memory usage of firefox.

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Customize Your Firefox Browsing Experience On Your Favorite Websites

2010-06-23 5 min read Firefox

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<img SRC="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/screenshot.151.jpe" ALIGN="bottom" ALT="screenshot.15"/>Did you know that you can customize the way you see a website in your browser?  We’ve all heard of the <a HREF="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/greasemonkey-firefox-addon/">Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox, right?  If not, check out the articles <a HREF="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/20-must-see-greasemonkey-addonsno-technical-knowledge-req/">that <a HREF="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-cool-greasemonkey-scripts-to-rock-your-friendfeed/">have <a HREF="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-turn-greasemonkey-scripts-into-firefox-extensions/">been <a HREF="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-ten-flickr-greasemonkey-scripts/">written here on MakeUseOf and you’ll be sure to find out some neat stuff about it.

Basically, Greasemonkey allows users to write and implement scripts that customize the way you interact with websites.

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