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Keep your Firefox tabs on tap and under control with BarTab
Think back – can you remember what web browsing was like before the advent of tabs? It’s hard to imagine life without the tab-based interface tweak popularized by Firefox many years ago. Tabs weren’t anything new, at least in the user interface of other applications yet when the style made the jump to the browser [...]
Tweaking Firefox’s spell-check notification
Technology has allowed for us all to become quite lazy with our spelling. Spell-check is common place and unfortunately, more and more people are relying on the software to compose properly spelled and grammatically correct sentences. Clearly there is a lot of good and an equal amount of a bad with this trend. Nothing is [...]
Silencing the “Install Missing Plugins” message in Firefox
Another day, another Adobe Flash exploit – except this time there is no fix available yet from Adobe. Comforting isn’t it? I’ve had enough, the reality is I’m giving up on Flash and have removed the install from my system. In the past few months there appears to have been just as many Flash security [...]
Ensuring safety when someone sends you a shortened URL
The shortening of website addresses is quite handy and useful as you share links across all the social media networks. With limits on the length of your posts wasting 50 characters on a web address just isn’t going to fly. The shortened URL service came about as a solution to communicating long addresses to friends; [...]
Disabling Windows 7′s integrated search
Desktop searching has been available in Windows since it’s infancy but it’s functionality and feature set has improved immensely, unsurprisingly. One of the biggest leaps in the Windows search space came with the introduction of Vista – the search process would index specified directory locations in the background which greatly improved the response time when [...]
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