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Vacuum Firefox each time you vacuum your house to maintain performance
Firefox 3.0’s Awesome Bar brought about many exciting and useful features. The address bar on steroids provided an interface to search your bookmarks, browser history, or even the Internet at large. URLs, page titles, bookmark tags; it doesn’t matter as the Awesome Bar is still able to deduce and provide just what you are looking [...]
Keeping a specific tab always open in Firefox
Now that all major browsers support tabbed based browsing, every user has been exposed to the functionality and how it changes the way we go about things. There are very few users who would go back to single window browsing with no protest. The problem with Firefox is in the way it handles tabs – [...]
Changing the Mouse Click Behavior in Firefox’s Address Bar
Everyone is a usability expert it seems. It seems more and more that as software matures, layouts and organization of tools and components are switched around just for the sake of change. Sure the developers state it’s after hours of research and usability testing that leads to the switcher-roo but I’m not sure I buy [...]
Automatically Clear RAM and Disk Cache Usage by Firefox
One of the most anticipated feature of Firefox 3 was the lower memory footprint, especially over longer multi-tabbed browsing sessions. Long time Firefox users have probably experienced or at least read about situations where Firefox would be left running for days on end – a for certain situation in my usage – only to continue [...]
Optimize the Number of Tabs Firefox Can Restore
Furthering my article the other day on optimizing Firefox by reducing the session store frequency, I have another minor tweak today for everyone’s favorite browser. Firefox 3 has a great feature that I’m sure very few actually know about and use regularly – restoration of tabs that were closed, whether on accident or deliberately. It [...]
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