Three Tips A Day

How to Enable or Disable JavaScript in your browser?

JavaScript, once the buzz on the internet, was one of the leading technologies which made the web interactive. JavaScripts let designers add load of functionality and appeal to their websites making it more and more interactive. But often JavaScript is used to do things we hate – like adding annoying pop-ups to a website. So you might want to disable or enable JavaScripts in order to enrich your web experience. Here is the way to enable JavaScript in popular browsers: Simple steps to...

Download Facebook Photo Albums using FacePAD

I share a lot of photos on my Facebook profile so that my friends and family can view and download them. But being a photography freak that I am, often these albums contain a huge number of photos and it becomes pretty irritating for my friends to download them one by one. So we came across a Firefox addon which downloads entire Facebook albums in a jiffy. FacePAD or the Facebook Photo Album Downloader allows users to download your friend's Facebook albums in one click. How to use...

FREE Firefox and Thunderbird Gift Certificates

Everybody loves Firefox and its now time to spread the cheer! This holiday season gift your loved ones the best tool to surf the internet with utmost ease. Its time to give them a gift of Firefox. The Spread Firefox community is giving away Free Firefox and Thunderbird gift certificates. Print them or email them - your friends and family will love them. Even if ALL of them use Firefox, you can still gift them the wonders of Thunderbird. They can carry forward the gift and spread some Firefox...

How to delete auto-complete saved form entries in Firefox

Firefox is nice, so nice that it saves all entries you made to a form field. But it only does this when you check the 'Remember what I enter in forms and search bar' check box in Tools>Options>Privacy tab. Once you check this box, Firefox remembers all entries you made to a form field and the next time you type, it mentions all older entries as recommendation. But this nice gesture becomes very frustrating when Firefox also remembers all the wrong entries you made(due to typos or...

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...

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...

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...