Category: Internet

Mozilla Firefox is unarguably the best web browser both in terms of security and customization. But one problem everyone faces with Mozilla Firefox is its high memory usage. The high memory usage is invisible if you have larger amount of RAM, but if you do not have that much RAM then you may experience the sluggishness of the Firefox browser. You can make Firefox use lesser amount of memory by adjusting a few of its settings.

Although you can block a web site using the HOSTS file, but this method is not so quick to use for most of the users and blocks a site system wide. If you want to quickly block a web site in the Firefox browser only, then you can use the BlockSite add-on for Firefox. Using the BlockSite add-on, you can block all the web sites of your choice and disable any hyperlinks leading to them as well.

Google changes its logo with another logo called doodle on some special days or occasions. If you are using the Google web browser, then you can replace the Google logo to any doodle of your like anytime you want. The Favorite Doodle extension for the Google Chrome browser makes this possible. You will still see the new doodles on special occasions.

A URL shortener service is used to create a small URL shortcut for a web page address. These URL shortcuts are pretty useful for sharing links over the social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. You can use Google Shortener add-on in the Mozilla Firefox web browser to shorten any web page address or the links to any web page in the currently open web page.

It becomes very annoying in Facebook when you want to view the photo gallery of a friend. To look at an enlarged picture you have to click on the thumbnail, the picture opens up and then you can close it. But now you can use the Facebook PhotoZoom add-on in the Firefox browser to auto-zoom any thumbnail in Facebook to see the enlarged image by just hovering over that thumbnail.

Many times we become curious as to where a certain IP address is located in the world. The IP Geolocation tool from IPFingerPrints helps you find the approximate geographic location of an IP address along with some other useful information including ISP, TimeZone, Area Code, State etc. This is very useful tool as it can help you find where persons (you are chatting with) is really located if you know their IP address.

Twitter has evolved into a revolutionary and very popular micro-blogging social networking site. but social networking can be very addicting for the young mind. If you find yourself spending many hours everyday tweeting on the twitter site, then its time to deactivate your twitter account. You may also want to deactivate the twitter account for other personal reasons like lack of interest in the tweeting etc.

Everybody gets junk e-mail (also called spam e-mail) in their e-mail accounts and most of us just delete them. One some days we get so many junk messages, that we have to waste a considerable amount of time in just deleting them. If you are using the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client then you can set it to automatically delete the junk e-mail messages as soon as they are marked as junk in your e-mail inbox.

Most often you want to post the shortened URLs of various web pages in various social media sites like twitter, Facebook etc. If you are a Firefox web browser user, then you are in luck because you can create shortened URLs using the TinyURL Generator add-on. This add-on lets you create the shortened URLs of the current web page, or any link on a web page at the click of a button.

Many times when you try to open a web site, the web browser throws up an error and does not load the web page. It may say something like server not found. Before you start thinking that it is a problem on your computer, first thing to check would be if that site is down or not. You can quickly check if that site can be accessed by others using the Uptime Auditor.