Minimize Memory Usage On Mozilla Firefox

How to minimize memory usage on Mozilla Firefox?

1. Type about:memory in the address bar and press Enter.
2. Scroll down to Other Measurements and see the current explicit memory size.
3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Minimize memory usage button and the explicit memory size will be decreased.

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How to open new tabs in far right (Firefox 3.6)

In Firefox 3.6, when you want to open a link in a new tab, it will now open the link next to the tab you are currently in. This feature was not available in previous Firefox version and can be disable by following these simple steps:

1. In the address bar, type about:config and click I'll be careful, I promise!.

2. In the Filter box type browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent

3. Double click on the browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent filter result to change its Value to false. And you're done!

As always, please click on the image to enlarge!

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How to hide your surf activity

Hide your surf activity with this cool add on by changing the name on the tab and changing the icon simultaneously. This add on works for Firefox 3.5 - 3.6.*

Other features include :

• random rename of tabs with simple click.
• automatically rename tabs for a certain URL or domain with the title you want

Download TabRenamizer now.

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Keyboard shorcuts for quick browsing

Here is a list of the most common keyboard shortcut for any web browser :

Ctrl + T	Open a new tab
Ctrl + W	Close the current tab
Ctrl + N	Open a new window
Ctrl + D	Bookmark current website
F5	Refresh the current webpage.
Ctrl + F5	Clear the cache of the current webpage and stores a fresh new copy
Ctrl + H	Show history
Ctrl + E	Highlight search bar
Ctrl + (+/-)	Zoom in or Zoom out the current webpage
Ctrl + F	Find text on current webpage
Ctrl + C	Copy
Ctrl + V	Paste
Spacebar	Page down
Shift + Spacebar	Page up
Alt + D	Go to address bar
Home	Go to top of webpage
End	Go to bottom of webpage
CTRL + U	View page source
CTRL + ENTER (on address bar)	Complete http://www. And the .com parts automatically
SHIFT+ENTER (on address bar)	Complete http://www. And the .net parts automatically
CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER (on address bar)	Complete http://www. And the .org parts automatically

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Copy paste text and hyperlink at the same time

Actually there's more to it. CoLT is a multi function copy paste add on for Firefox that will do :

1. Copy text of the hyperlink.
2. Copy text and hyperlink at the same time.
3. Copy page title and its url at the same time.
4. Customize your own copy paste options.

No need to highlight the hyperlink's text and copy. Just right click on the hyperlink and choose any of the copy format. To copy the page title, just right click on the page and choose "Copy Page Title and Location As". You can also customize your copy format at the add on options. A Very useful must have tool for blogs! Here's the link.

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Auto refresh web page for Firefox

ReloadEvery - This Firefox add-on will help you refresh web pages on a schedule. From every 5 seconds and can go on up to every 15 minutes or you can customize your own time. You can also enable it to every tab or single tab.
 

This is very useful for sites like twitter, news sites and other pages which display frequently changing information. Works with Firefox 1.5 - 3.6.* and check it out here.

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Open link in Internet Explorer from Firefox

Open in IE - This is a little add-ons that enables you to open a link in a new Internet Explorer Window. Even though Firefox is by far the best browser I have used, but not all sites can function well in Firefox.

So instead of copying the link and paste it in Internet Explorer, all you have to do is right-click on a link, and choose "Open Link in IE". This add-ons works well for Firefox 1.5 - 3.6.*. Here is the link.

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Minimize your browser instantly

Boss Key and Buttons - This add-on is for Firefox 3.0 - 3.6* . Very simple and easy to use. By pressing two mouse buttons together you can minimize your current Firefox and not only that, you can set it to open a new tab and load URL of the current browser so that the title bar will not be displaying inaproriate title at the taskbar during minimize.

This features also can be done by keyboard via the 'boss key'. Other optional features include hide the tab bar and minimize all the browser windows during minimize.

Here is the link and screenshot.

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Try Again

Does this always happen to you?

You typed the address correctly but your connection suddenly dropped or the server hosting the website is temporarily down.

If you're a Mozilla Firefox user, TryAgain add-ons is gonna keep trying to load a webpage when the server is not found. Currently, TryAgain works with Firefox version 3.0 - 3.5.*

This is very convenient so that you don't have to manually click refresh or click the try again button. You can set the amount of timeout and maximum tries. I personally like this setting :

Click here to get TryAgain for Firefox.

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