17 Cool firefox tweaks.

2010-06-16 1 min read Fedora Firefox Linux

A very nice article on firefox can be found here. Though written for Ubuntu should be applicable to all distro’s.

<a href="http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/07/17-cool-firefox-aboutconfig-tricks.html">http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/07/17-cool-firefox-aboutconfig-tricks.html

Most of it was done in my machine even before I read the article but good to see all of them together 🙂

FastestfoxLite - Disable prefetching and make firefox really fast.

2010-06-14 1 min read Firefox

If you are stuck with firefox performance, then you should try this addon:

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They own your CPU (and so so in Windows and Mac, too)

2010-05-16 1 min read Firefox Linux

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Firefox 4.0 mockups for LInux/Windows and Mac

2010-05-11 1 min read Firefox
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/3.7_and_4.0_Theme_and_UI_Revamp
The link above will take you to the Mozilla wiki for the UI and theme mockups for the Firefox 4.0 release. Quite interesting but what I did not like is that the Linux mockup looks more like chrome. Not sure why mozilla would want to do that 🙂
  • Tabs-on-top: Defaut tabs to top of UI.
  • Hiding the Menu Bar: Hide the menu bar and add Page and Tools buttons.

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change the window in split screen.

2010-04-11 1 min read Firefox Linux Vim Tips

I use the split screen in vim very in-frequently, so I did not really know how to move from one screen to the other. There is also very little or no documentation that I found on this on the first page of google, so here it is :
press &#8221;ctrl+w and ctrl + w&#8221; to change to other window.

If you are not sure how to get the split screen, then you can type help split in vim to get the help on split screen.

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Linux Links — collection of universe.. all links on everything about linux

2010-04-11 1 min read Fedora Firefox Linux

<a href="http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links/">LoLL is a sourceforge project which maintains a well commented and categorized list of links on linux. This is a very nice list and has very nice links. Probably there is nothing that you will not find here which do not interest you. Definately worth a look.

x-marks saving lives.

2010-02-04 1 min read Firefox

Couple of days back my TeraByte HDD crashed and I lost almost everything, including my homedir. I will tell you my experiences and how my measures helped me lose not much data. So I will begin with one of the most important aspects. My BROWSER.

I have all my passwords stored in the browser and I rely on them so it is not stored anywhere else. Also, I have lot of bookmarks which help me do lot of stuff. Meaning, all these are very important for me. So, I had a backup plan for my passwords and bookmarks.

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