Tag: Firefox

Disable Notification to install Flash in Firefox

If you have not installed Adobe Flash (perhaps because you do not need it) and you visit a website containing Flash animation or movies, then Firefox notifies you to install Flash. This notification may be useful for those who would want to install Flash, but it is very annoying if you wish to stay away from Flash and just want to use HTML5 media. If you do not like this notification in Firefox, then you can easily disable it.

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Run Two or More Versions of Firefox At the Same Time

The development phase of Firefox involves four stages – nightly, pre-beta (aurora), beta and the final release version. Some people, including me, are always using the nightly version (together with the release version) to check what new features are being added in the upcoming releases. Usually you cannot run more than one version of Firefox at the same time. But there is an easy way through which you can run two or more versions of Firefox simultaneously.

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How to Create Portable Version of Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is released under various channels like the release version which is the final tested version and the nightly builds which are the work-in-progress versions of Firefox. If you want to try out the nightly builds, then the best choice is to use the portable edition of Firefox. This way you do not have to install multiple versions of Firefox in Windows in order to check them out. Here is how you can create a portable edition of Firefox in Windows.

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Online Safety Using Web-of-Trust Browser Add-on

The Web-of-Trust add-on works in partnership with the Panda Security. This add-on is available for all the major web browsers. It adds a button in the toolbar which shows the rating of the currently browsed website. When you search something in a search engine like Google, it also shows you the rating of each of the listed results. If you accidentally open a malicious website with poor ratings, then the Web-of-Trust add-on will block it.

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