Firefox Boss Key

You are reading this Post from your work place….And suddenly your boss appears from no where…

Well Dont Panic….First this is only a scenario…its not real [i hope]… And Second…You do have an option to escape such cases…

First You need to use firefox 🙂 [I guess you can live with this constraint anyway Firefox is far better than IE]..Then install BossKey addon to Firefox.

Boss Key for FireFox

Once its installed, you can set any hotkeys…So next time…you read some thing in your firefox and when your boss comes to your place…All you need to do is press the hotkeys…and Firefox will hide itself in the system tray…:)

Is’nt it very useful. 😀

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Tips : Browse in Firefox without Mouse

Using Tabs

• Open a New Tab : Ctrl+T
• Go to the Next Tab : Ctrl+TAB
• Go to the Previous Tab: Ctrl+Shift+TAB
• Close the current Tab: Ctrl+W

Quick Search / Links within Page

• To Search in Page : Ctrl + F Or /, Start typing in search box it will automatically go to the first occurance of the word, to goto the next occurance press Ctrl+ G
• To Search Links in Page: Press ‘ [Single Quote]. This will spawn the Quick Find area at the bottom and start typing. It will show you the first match as you’re typing! To move to the next match, hit Ctrl+G
  • Hit Enter to open the Hyperlink in the current tab
  • Hit Ctrl+Enter to open the Hyperlink in a new tab

Page Navigation

• Scroll Down one Page: Either hit Page Down or the Spacebar
• Scroll Up one Page: Either hit Page Up or Shift+Spacebar

Browsing

• Previous Page: Alt + Left Arrow or Backspace
• Next Page: Alt + Right Arrow
• Refresh the Current Page: Ctrl+R
• Refresh the Current Page (and bypass local cache): Ctrl+Shift+R – this one is good if you want to get the latest and greatest from the server, like for eBay auctions or something.
• Go to your Home Page: Alt+Home

Others

• Put the Cursor in the Address Bar: Ctrl+L
• Put the Cursor in the Search Box: Ctrl+K
• Increase the Size of the Text on the Page: Ctrl++ (hold Ctrl and hit +)
• Decarese the Size of the Text on the Page: Ctrl+- (same, just hit -)

Source: Firefox Support Page

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Thunderbird 2 Beta 2 Released

It is a developer preview release of our next generation Thunderbird email client and is being made available for testing purposes only.

Thunderbird 2 Beta 2 is intended for testing community.

What’s New

• Message Tags: Create your own tags for organizing email. Messages can be assigned any number of tags. Tags can be combined with saved searches and mail views to make it easier to organize email.
• Visual Theme:Thunderbird 2’s theme and user interface have been updated to improve usability.
• Session History Navigation: Back and Forward buttons allow navigation through message history.
• Folder Views: Customize the folder pane to show favorite, unread or recent folders.
• Improved Support For Extensions: Extensions can now add custom columns to the message list pane in addition to storing custom message data in the mail database.
• Improved Offline Management: Thunderbird (Linux and Windows) automatically adjusts the offline state based on current network connectivity.
• Improved New Mail Notification Alerts:New mail alerts include information such as the subject, sender and message text.
• Folder Summary Popups: Mouse over a folder with new messages to see a summary of the new messages in that folder.
• Saved Search Folder Performance: Search results for saved search folders are now cached, improving folder loading performance.
• Find As You Type
• Improved Filing Tools: Recent folder menu items for moving and copying messages to recently used folders. Move / Copy again functionality.
• Updates to the extension system: The extension system has been updated to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions.
• New Windows installer: Based on Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, the new Windows installer resolves many long-standing issues.
• MacOS X Universal Binaries

Download ThunderBird Here…

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How to Speed up Firefox

Pipelining is a HTTP/1.1 feature that speeds up transfers by requesting several objects at once without waiting for a response first.
Read More On Firefox Pipelining FAQs.

STEPS:

1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and click go.
2. Scroll down to find the entries: network.http.pipelining, network.http.proxy.pipelining, network.http.pipelining.maxrequests.(Normally the browser will make one request to a webpage at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.)
3. Alter the entries as follows: Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”. Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”. Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to 8. This means it will make 8 requests at once.
4. Right-click anywhere on the screen and select New-> Integer.
5. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay”(without quotes) and set its value to “0”. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
6. Shut down your browser and reopen it. You shouldn’t notice much of a difference right away. But get browsing some of your usual sites and you should notice a much faster connection to the site!

WARNINGS !!

• This may not work on connections that are over 1mb.
• Do not edit anything if you don’t know what it does!
• Keep in mind that with using these pipelining tweaks, while it may seem faster at first things may slow down or have problems like images loading wrong. If that happens undo the tweaks.
• This preference only has an effect if you are not using a proxy. If you are using a proxy, see network.http.proxy.pipelining.
• network.http.keep-alive must be set to true for pipelining to work.
• network.http.version must be set to 1.1 for pipelining to work.
• While this preference will improve performance, it may cause problems loading pages from some servers.

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Firefox code being checked for bugs by software

From the security blog over at cnet “Mozilla is now using technology that automates the bug-checking process for Firefox, its popular open-source Web browser.” Sounds like it could be a good or bad thing….

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