Speedup Firefox Load Time with Preloader

Firefox no doubt is the most widely used browser but it has a small drawback, it takes a lot of time to load. Even if you have a Core2Duo and 2GB RAM it will take a little bit of time to load. Well, the fact is that even Opera and IE loads faster than Firefox. Luckily, we have a great Windows app- Firefox Preloader which loads some parts of Firefox into memory before it is used to improve startup speed. You can also manage different Firefox versions with this app.

How to Open a Website without Using a Browser

Here’s a small trick which helps you to open a website without using a browser. Now you might be wondering if this is really possible. Well it is. You can do so by going to the help section in notepad, calculator or any other similar application. Here’s how you do it:

1. Open notepad.

2. Go to the Help section and Click Help Topics.

How to Use Firefox as a Windows Explorer

Firefox is one of the most widely used internet browsers in the world. Firefox’s tab feature makes it easy to have access to many sites in different tabs rather than opening them in different windows.

We can make use of this tabs feature to use it as a file manager/ windows explorer. This will help to cut down the clutter by opening windows in different tabs. So, here’s how you do it:

How to Run Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 Simultaneously

Everyone likes to try new versions of softwares. But if the new software is in Beta stage then it’s not advisable to uninstall the older stable version of the software to use the Beta version.

Firefox 3 is currently in Beta stage, if you would like to try it without uninstalling the older version, i.e. Firefox2 then you can do so by following the below steps:

Browse Faster with Google Web Accelerator

Google Web Accelerator is a program for broadband users for making web pages load faster. It can be used with Internet Explorer and Firefox. To use it, all you need to do is just download and install it then it will be automatically integrated in your Internet Explorer and Firefox. Now when you open a site in the browser you’ll notice that they load faster.

So how does Google Web Accelerator actually work?

How To View Super Hidden Files

Hidden files and folder can be made visible by going through the folder options and selecting View hidden folders and files. Now you will be able to see all the hidden files and folders. But do you know that there are super hidden files which aren’t shown when you enable this option? Well, if you didn’t know then here’s how you view them:

Viewing super hidden files/ folders in XP and vista:

Shareaholic: A Social bookmarking Firefox Addon

If you are a Firefox user who likes to submit articles to digg, stumble interesting posts, mixx juicy articles, bookmark pages on del.icio.us, then here’s a cool Firefox addon for you.

Reduce Firefox Memory Usage With Ultimate Optimizer

Firefox Ultimate Optimizer is a small program which helps to reduce memory usage in Firefox. The interesting part as you can see in the pic is that it almost reduces the memory usage to 100-250 kilobytes! Well I’m a bit surprised with that. Normally whenever you start Firefox without opening any tabs the memory usage is around 25-30MB. After I used the Firefox ultimate optimizer the memory usage was down to 216 kilobytes! Cool isn’t it?