If your a Firefox user and you like to have many tabs open at once you might have noticed how Firefox 2 likes to shrink them. And if you have enough tabs that have been shrunk, Firefox will start scrolling them off the screen. Some of you may actually like this feature or not care, but if you want to change how Firefox handles your tabs read on for the hack.
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If you hate having multiple windows of Windows Explorer cluttering up your taskbar and enjoy using tabs then this hack may interest you.
You will need the latest version of Firefox and IE Tab for this hack.
Once you’ve got both installed and ready to go, open up Firefox. Go to the IE Tab Options and under the Sites Filter tab there should be a bar at the bottom labeled URL. Type file:/// and click add. Click apply then OK and your done!
Now open up a new tab in Firefox and type any directory on your computer in the address bar such as: C:Documents and Settings and it should show up in the Firefox tab.
**Hint**
You can bookmark and search local directory URLs just like you would with a website. =]
By default, Firefox is optimized for dial-up connections. Here are a few tips to optimize it for broadband connections.
- Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit enter.
- Type “network.http” in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click/hit enter on them to change them):
- Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
- Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
- Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
- Also, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
Have you ever come across a website/webpage with a media file that you absolutely had to have
but couldn’t save/download? Especially those embedded pictures and videos?? Those of you out
there who are l33t have probably figured a way around this dilema by using the “view page source”
in Firefox. But it’s not always convenient to go through a page full of code. So we’ve come up
with a better way.
- Open up Firefox and head over to the website/webpage with the embedded file you want to download.
- Right click anywhere on the page inside of firefox.
- Left click “view page info”
- Click the tab that says “media”
- Scroll through until you find the file you are looking for.
- Then click on the “save as” button and save it to your computer
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Modern Day Pirates | Est. 2005
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