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Slow Down Mouse Scrolling Speed in Firefox

Slow Down Mouse Scrolling Speed in Firefox

Firefox usually flies down a long web page when you scroll it down. If you wish to scroll down slowly, then hold down Alt key while scrolling, Firefox will scroll web page at a much slower and smoother pace. Slowly scrolling a web page can let you easily go through long content pages and you [...]

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5+ Tools That Automatically Reload Web Pages To Check Updates

5+ Tools That Automatically Reload Web Pages To Check Updates

If you would like to closely monitor latest score on a sports website or latest updates on a certain topic on twitter, then you might feel a bit annoyed to click on refresh button on your browser toolbar every now and then. Here are 6 Tools that reload web pages automatically for you so that [...]

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Firefox Add-ons for finding Similar Content on the Web

Firefox Add-ons for finding Similar Content on the Web

While browsing through your favorite websites, you might want to know about other websites that provide similar content as the site you are visiting. Here are three Firefox Add-ons that let you do the same. 1.Alexa Related Links The Alexa Traffic Rank toolbar is quite popular although it does not always provide you with the [...]

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Use External Media Player to Play Embedded Videos in Websites

Use External Media Player to Play Embedded Videos in Websites

  Sometimes you come across sites that have external media links such as MP3, Quicktime or Realmedia. Traditionally Firefox offers you to download the the file, open it in external player or opens a new tab and starts playing if you have installed the required plugins. But if you want to open the file in [...]

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Open Multiple Links on a Web Page with Single Click in Firefox

Open Multiple Links on a Web Page with Single Click in Firefox

At some point while surfing the Internet, you might wish to open multiple links on a web-page each in its own separate tab, this happens when you just found a new online resource e.g. a blog, and want to open all its popular or recent articles. Clicking on each one of the links with scroll [...]

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Get Google Chrome like Personalized Tab Page in Firefox

Get Google Chrome like Personalized Tab Page in Firefox

  Now you can get a personalized page showing thumbnails of your most visited websites in Firefox just like Google Chrome. Google Toolbar 5 Beta 2 includes this feature, so that you can access your most visited websites quickly without having to type a word.

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Spice Up Firefox Address Bar with UrlBarExt

Spice Up Firefox Address Bar with UrlBarExt

Though address aka awesome bar of Firefox 3+ is already very handy and useful but there is always space for improvement. Here’s a little add-on for Firefox that adds a bunch of new buttons to Firefox Address bar which will save you time doing pretty useful tasks easily.

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Copy Paste Text Across Multiple Computers

Copy Paste Text Across Multiple Computers

You might sometime encounter a situation when you need to access clipboard of other computer on your network to copy paste text. Here’s a nifty Firefox add-on that lets you share clipboard across computers, i.e. you can copy paste text from other computer’s clipboard.

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Quickly Find Greasemonkey Scripts Available for your Favorite Website

Quickly Find Greasemonkey Scripts Available for your Favorite Website

If you are a Greasemonkey fan, then you’ll love this Firefox Add-on. Greasefire will find out available Greasemonkey scripts for a website quickly so that you can tweak your favorite site easily. To use it, you need to have greasemonkey installed on your Firefox. After installing Greasefire, go visit your favorite website and if there [...]

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How To Restore Windows Firefox Profiles in Ubuntu?

How To Restore Windows Firefox Profiles in Ubuntu?

Recently i installed Ubuntu within my Windows installation to set up a dual boot system.I had three profiles for Firefox in windows for various functions each having different add-ons and settings. I wanted to restore those profile as it is in Firefox on Ubuntu. Here’s what i did to achieve this: 1. Fire up Terminal [...]

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