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Domain lookup made easy by Firefox Domain Lookup Addon

An idea is something that can come anytime and if you just had a spark regarding a domain name while reading a webpage, you'll want to lookup for its availability. We had earlier written about how to "Easily Search Available Domain Names with Bustaname" - which is a very nice service for searching domain name availability. But even for such services you have to visit their websites and type in the name you want to search. How about something which could search domain names on-the-fly, as while...

Play Flash Games In Full Screen With Flash Game Maximizer

Flash Game Maximizer is a new Firefox addon which is a must-have for any online Flash game lover. The Flash Game Maximizer Firefox plugin is very effective at what it does - it lets you toggle between standard and full screen modes on any game whether or not it has been coded with such an option. I play a lot of flash games online and the Flash Game Maximizer Firefox addon is a boon for online flash gamers like me who prefer the flash games being displayed as a full screen on your...

Backup passwords file of Firefox to a Firefox installation in another OS

In case you format your computer's hard disk  or shift to another OS, you run the risk of losing your Firefox saved passwords. To avoid this you can easily take a backup of the Firefox passwords. How to backup Firefox passwords: Backing up Firefox passwords is very easy. Follow these three simple steps. All firefox passwords are stored in three files: signons.txt signons2.txt key3.db These files are stored in your Firefox profile folder.In Windows XP firefox profile is at:...

Browse Faster in Firefox 3: Enable Trace Monkey

Firefox 3.1 uses a new JavaScript engine called TraceMonkey to increase browsing speed. However this is not enabled by default and thus most users are not able to utilize the benefits this script. How to enable TraceMonkey?: Type about:config in the Firefox address bar and click 'I'll be careful, I promise' to the following warning: In the filter field type: javascript.options.jit.content Double click on it to change the boolean value from false to true Restart Firefox to...

How To Disable Virus Scanning In Firefox 3

Firefox 3 cares a lot about your system's security, so much so that it uses the installed antivirus software to scan the fully downloaded files. Now while this is very thoughtful of them, this can be a source of much trouble. Additional scanning can be very resource consuming and result in delayed processing, freezes and other issues. However every decent Antivirus software usually offers a real time protection for all downloads and thus this 'repeat' scanning is not of much use, rather it is...

Remove Text Formatting from Web pages using Copy Plain Text Firefox Addon

Several times during surfing the internet, we need to copy text for using it with email clients or word processors. The glitch here is that the text from the internet often includes hyperlinks and other formatting which need to be manually(and rather painfully) removed from the text. One way to remove the formatting is to copy the text to notepad and then copy it to the email client or the word processor. But this method is rather clumsy needing you to shuffle through a number of windows. So...