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Firefox 3 comes with several preferences baked into its options dialogs, but there are still a few you can only access by rolling up your sleeves and digging into its configuration manually. Power users have been diving under Firefox’s hood to get their browser to behave just how they like since version 0.9, but Firefox […]

Firefox only: Love the bookmarks toolbar but only want it there when you need it? Reader Andy writes in with a tweak that makes the toolbar hide automatically, unless you mouse over it (like auto-hiding your Windows taskbar or Mac Dock.) To turn on auto-hiding you have to edit your Firefox profile’s copy of userChrome.css […]

Problem: You cannot imagine life without Firefox but over time, your favorite browser keeps getting slower and slower. Not only is it slow, Firefox sometimes hangs for no reason, consumes a large amount of memory and CPU usage can climb to 90% or more when you have multiple tabs open simultaneously. You have uninstalled most […]

Nobody likes having someone always looking over their shoulder, but you may get that feeling after you’ve browsed a while and then take a peek inside your Cookies folder. Most of the Web-tracking cookies that violate your privacy are owned not by the sites you visit but by companies that advertise on them.

My good friend Daniel asked me yesterday how to change Firefox so that Shift+Enter auto-completes *.org instead of *.net. After about a 2 minute google session, I had the answer to share with everybody. If you are unfamiliar with how this works, you can enter in howtogeek into the address bar, and use Ctrl+Enter instead […]

You already know you can customize Firefox to the hilt, and the browser saves all the settings, bookmarks and extensions you’ve worked so hard to perfect. But your spouse’s bookmarks, passwords and preferences differ from yours, and you both use the family computer logged in as the same user. If you share a computer with […]

Like a lot of people, when Microsoft’s latest browser was released, I installed it right away. In fact, I installed it on about half a dozen machines. As the days have turned into weeks (soon to be months) since Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7, what has become clear to me and many others is that […]

Many of you have asked how to run IE6 and IE7 in a side by side environment. As Chris Wilson blogged about early this year, it’s unfortunately not so easy to do. There are workarounds, but they are unsupported and don’t necessarily work the same way as IE6 or IE7 would work when installed properly. […]

For quite some time, developers have been asking us how to run Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 side by side, and sadly, it’s not possible to it accurately. There is a work around that a few people have found, but it doesn’t give you a true IE6 vs IE7 comparison. It’s not […]

Quite a few people know about the about:config page of Firefox, but there are more options than that under the hood of everyone’s favourite browser.
To peruse the contents of the cache, you can enter about:cache into the address bar, hit and look through. This has the advantages of being able to look at content stored […]