How to Add any Search Engine to the Firefox Search Bar

How to Add any Search Engine to the Firefox Search Bar

With the fantastic Firefox plugin Add to Search Bar you can easily add any search engine or field to your Firefox Search Bar. This brief tutorial will show you how to use it to make your searching life that much easier.

1. Start by installing the Add to Search Bar Firefox plugin. Like most FF plugins, you’ll need to restart Firefox in order to start using it.
2. Once Firefox has restarted, go to a web page that you frequently visit (like say.. I don’t know.. Simplehelp.net). Right-click (ctrl-click for single-button Mac folks) in the search field and choose Add to Search Bar…

• A small pop-up will appear asking you what you’d like to call this search entry. Give it a name, and if you’re not happy with the default icon, you can choose one from your hard drive (png, gif and jpg all seem to work). Click OK.

• And that search engine will now be available for you to use directly from the Firefox Search Bar.

• If at any point in time you want to remove some of your custom search entries (or any of the defaults), select the Search Bar drop-down and choose Manage Search Engines…

• Highlight the one(s) you want to delete, and click the Remove button. You can also re-order the search engines from here. Whichever entry you put at the top, will be your Firefox default.

• Some search engines that I’ve found very helpful to add are Google Calendar (Gmail doesn’t seem to work for me), Wikipedia and Facebook. But of course, the sky is the limit.

source : SimpleHelp.Net

How To Disable Firefox Restore Session Dialog Box

How To Disable Firefox Restore Session Dialog Box

When you surf a lot, you tend to open multiple web pages on your Firefox(a lot of tabs). When you want to close the Firefox browser when there are a lot of tabs still open, you'll get the Dialog Box, saying whether you want to Save the Session or Not.

This function is quite useful to some people. But not all people like this function. Since of you save the last session, the next person that will be using your computer will know what you're doing before this, which sites you open etc.

So how to disable this Firefox Restore Session Dialog Box function?

You just have to change the value of the browser.sessionstore.enabled flag. It’s easy.

• Type about:config in your Firefox Address bar.
• Select browser.sessionstore.enable
• Double click to change the setting to false

Simple. Now you will no longer get the Firefox Restore Session Dialog Box.

Give it a try !!!

Most Wanted Firefox Wallpaper

Most Wanted Firefox Wallpaper

I can see right now alot of users has switched their browser from Internet Explorer to Firefox because Firefox is definitely better than IE in terms of speed, function and user interface. Right now, Mozilla has launched Firefox 3 Beta version 3. So if any of you want to try this beta, visit Firefox 3 Beta 3.


I got a collection of great Firefox wallpapers. This most wanted Firefox wallpapers I've compressed into .rar file, uploaded and would like to share with all of you..

Here's a few wallpapers that include in this package :-

:: Download MOST Wanted Wallpapers Here ::

Firefox : A Few Tricks To Open Site In New Tab

Firefox : A Few Tricks To Open Site In New Tab

Opening a new tab is easy; it can be done in many ways. The simplest way to open a new tab is the middle-click. Middle-clicking (or scroll wheel-clicking) on a link creates a new tab and loads the linked page into it. Thisis also the most efficient way to open links, so it’s worthwhile to learn to middle-click if you aren’t used to doing so. Most people aren’t even aware that scroll wheels are clickable, but you can simply click the wheel as if it were a button, as the wheel has both button and scrolling functions.

Here are a few other ways to open tabs other than middle-clicking:

• Ctrl-T opens a new, empty tab.

• Right-click (or context click on the Mac) a link, and select Open Link in a New Tab from the resulting context menu.
  

• Hold Ctrl down while clicking a link.

• Type a URL into the location bar, then hit Alt-Enter. This loads the URL in a new foreground tab.
  

• Press Ctrl-Enter when a link is selected (for example, after you’ve run a page search for it and the link is highlighted).
  

• Drag a URL (from a Web page or an external application) and drop it onto the tab bar.

Hope this little trick will make your life easier, and more fun....

How To Make Firefox Open Multiple Sites Everytime Its Started ?

How To Make Firefox Open Multiple Sites Everytime Its Started ?


Tabs function in the browsers is really useful since it can be used to open multiple sites within a single browser window. Before this, the method that I ONLY know to open multiple sites everytime it started is by simply open up a few sites in tabs then press CTRL + ALT + DEL and kill Firefox in the process list..So, everytime I start a Firefox, a popup appear asking me whether to start from Previous Session or New Session...



NOW, I know the right method on How To Make Firefox Open Multiple Sites Everytime Its Started..

Here's how you can customize Firefox to automatically open multiple tabs with your favorite websites on start up or when you click 'Home'.

• Select 'Tools' > 'Options' and select 'Main' tab..
• Then select 'Show my home page' from the 'When Firefox Starts' drop-down list
• In the 'Home Page' section, type in the name of the sites you wish to open by separating each one with a ' |' (vertical line or Pipe)
• # Click 'OK'

Here's an example on how to type multiple sites:-


Hope this guide is useful for everyone !!

How To Reduce Memory Usage in Firefox {Best Method}

How To Reduce Memory Usage in Firefox {Best Method}

I'm sure most of you already noticed that when we're browsing the Net using Firefox browser, you'll see that Firefox consume a lot of memory . Some of called it "Firefox Memory Leak". This situation happen to me too when I'm using Firefox for browsing. I really love Firefox since it can bring me a better and faster browsing experienced. So, how do I fix this memory leak or how do I reduce Firefox memory usage ?

Well, If you surf a lot, I'm sure you will find a few solutions that I think worth to try it out. While surfing, I found a few articles/tips that is quite useful to read regarding how to fix Firefox Memory Leak . Here's the articles :-

Zolved.Com - How To Reduce The Memory Usage in Firefox
InternetDuctTape.Com - How to Fix Memory Leak(Firefox Hack)
Kb.MozillaZine.Org - Reducing Memory Usage

All I know, the articles above will show you on how to hack the Firefox settings by changing the values inside "about:config". Does hacking the Firefox settings will help you fix the memory leak ? For me, it works but not that much that I want.

What Is The Best Method To Reduce Memory Usage in Firefox ?

If you ask me, I would say the best method so far is by using Firefox Ultimate Optimizer. Firefox Ultimate Optimizer is a simple program that improves the experience in sailing under Firefox making this release unused memory and in turn go a little faster because they are not consuming as much memory.

How to use? In short, you just have to run the program and this will make all while still running in the background on the taskbar next to the clock.Firefox Ultimate Optimizer is a tool, which runs in the background and is minimized to the system tray, that reduces CPU and Memory usage of Firefox by 33-50%

This is the memory usage before using Firefox Ultimate Optimizer :


This is after using Firefox Ultimate Optimizer :



Can you see the different in my memory usage ? You should try this program...

:: Download Firefox Ultimate Optimizer Here ::