Thursday, October 14th, 2010 I personally find the Firefox keyword shortcut feature that hitting "backspace" takes you to the previous page.At times my mouse pointer gets out of focus (hey! it's the multi-tasking age!) from the text area and when I hit backspace, it tames me away from the page along with everything I wrote.However, you can easily disable the backspace keyboard shortcut on Firefox.To disable the backspace button taking you to browser back or previous page function:1 - In the address bar type: about:config2 - Scroll down to the entry called browser.backspace_action3 - Double-click on this row and it will pop up a ...
(read more) Sunday, October 18th, 2009 Is your firefox not storing cookies for longer than a session? Do you need to login to the sites every time you exit firefox even when you have "remember me" checked for the sites?Most likely its happening as the file that stores cookies got corrupt.To fix it you need to go to your profile folder and rename cookies.sqlite to cookies.tmpFor Windows Vista/XP/2000 your default profile folder is: %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\And for Windows 98/Me the profile folder is: C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\Here xxxxxxxx represents a random string of 8 characters.Here is how you can go to your profile folder:On Windows Vista: 1. Click the Windows Start button, ...
(read more) Thursday, December 11th, 2008 If you have access to SSH on a remote server (dedicated server, vps or shell account), you can browse the internet over the IP address hiding your original IP address.This can be useful for many scenarios like -IP based authentication over dynamic IP: In many cases for security reasons we use restrict access only to some selected IP addresses. For example, admin area of a blog, forum, billing system or help desk can be protected with IP based authentication. But what if you are on dynamic IP? You can allow your users (or yourself) first to ssh to a server ...
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