Firefox, IE, Opera tips

How to Increase Speed Dial Slots in Opera

By Joel ⋅ April 24, 2009 ⋅ 5 comments

Are you an Opera fan like me? Then here’s something cool to try out if you like the Speed dial feature in Opera. If you noticed the number of speed dial boxes you’ll find that there are nine of them, i.e, 3 rows and 3 columns. Here’s a small trick if you want to increase the number of boxes.

How to Enable/ Disable Auto Image Resizing in Internet Explorer

By Joel ⋅ March 11, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Sometimes you may come across huge images over the web which certainly do look great but the problem is that they don’t fit your screen, you need to resize the image view size to fit the screen. If you use Internet Explorer then you can enable/ disable auto image resizing easily, here’s how you do it:

Power Up the Firefox Address Bar

By Joel ⋅ January 31, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I would like to share with you an interesting Firefox extension- UrlbarExt that I came across today. UrlbarExt adds a set of icons to the address bar in Firefox. So what can be done with these set of icons? To start with it can shorten URLs using your favorite URL shortening service. This feature is really cool as you don’t need to go to a URL shortening site like TinyURL to shorten the link. It shortens the link with just a click. Another interesting feature is the Google search. If a site doesn’t have a good search engine you can carry out a Google search on the site with a single click.

Backup Internet Explorer Settings

By Joel ⋅ January 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

You might have used your friends pc or the one at the cyber when you were away from your home. You might have surfed internet as well. Now the problem is that if you’re using Internet explorer in some other pc you won’t have the same bookmarks, settings, passwords and other settings that you had in your pc. This can be really annoying and backing up favorites or passwords manually can involve a lot of time and effort. To make things easier there’s an application known as BackRex Internet Explorer Backup.

Get the Chrome look on Firefox

By Joel ⋅ September 18, 2008 ⋅ One comment

I’m pretty sure most of you’ll liked the Google Chrome look, I must say it’s visually appealing! Well, if you’re a Firefox user who likes the Chrome look then here’s something for you, it’s a coat of Chrome for Firefox, a bright and soft blue theme.Â

How to Disable Firefox Addon Install Delay

By Joel ⋅ September 14, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

If you use Firefox you might have noticed the waiting time involved while installing a new firefox addon. Well, it’s just a few seconds so shouldn’t be a problem. But if you don’t lke to wait then here’s a short and easy tip for removing the waiting time:

How to Get Firefox 2 Address Bar in Firefox 3

By Joel ⋅ September 8, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

I somehow don’t like the new address bar used in Firefox 3, I still prefer the old address bar in FF2. The new address bar saves my viewed browsing history without my knowledge! Well, I like the auto complete feature, it’s pretty cool. I tried disabling the “smart” option in the Option menu but there is no direct way to do it. So the indirect way to do is by going to about:config. Here’s how you do it:

Quickly Capture Screenshot of a Webpage without any Addon

By Joel ⋅ September 8, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Bloggers and designers usually take screenshots of web pages; they do it by either using a software or an addon. Well, if you’re using Firefox then you can install the addon- Fireshot to capture screenshots of web pages. But let’s look into some other way which allows you to take screenshots without installing any program or addon.

Search here