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Secure Firefox with Firekeeper

Firekeeper is an intrusion detection and prevention add-on for Firefox that is adding another layer of security. The basic purpose of the Firefox add-on is to identify browser vulnerabilities and exploits that have not yet been patched in Firefox by scanning the data that is transferred between the client computer and the website. Both http [...]

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Check Dead Bookmarks in Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer

RSS Feeds are slowly taking the place of the good old bookmarks at least when you take a look at how computer geeks use the Internet. Not everything can be managed with RSS Feeds though and bookmarks are still an important way to keep track of interesting websites. The major problem is that bookmarks do [...]

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Update Firefox’s search bar with new Google favicon

Have you noticed the new Google search favicon? I am not sure if Google intends to keep it forever but I like the refresh. You can update the Firefox’s default Google search plugin to show the new Google search icon: Locate the searchplugins folder in your Firefox install folder. (typically C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\ on Windows). Open the google.xml [...]

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Power-up the Firefox search bar

Peers is a nifty Firefox extension developed by The Peers Bros. that brings some cool new tricks for the search bar to help you get faster to what you’re looking for. Instead of just suggesting terms to autocomplete your keywords, it provides actual search results from Google or Yahoo! search engines for the partially typed words, [...]

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Firefox World Record: Are you in ?

The Mozilla team is going for the world record with the official release of Firefox 3. They want to be the most downloaded software in the first 24 hours after release ever. I’m saying ever because this record attempt is a first, there is no magic number to beat and it will be the first [...]

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