There are a number of Firefox extensions that interact with tabbed browsing. These are designed to make it easier to set the preferences exactly how you like, and one adds some useful new features via the creative use of tabs and keystrokes. New extensions are being written all the time, so check the Mozilla Updates web site (http://updates.mozilla.org/) for the latest additions.

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Firefox preferences allow you to control how tabs respond to certain types of events. Some of the preferences are easily set in the Preferences window, while others require you to use the special about:config page in the browser.

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Social Bookmarking system or network has become quite popular in recent years. Social bookmarking has more recently inspired the more successful social news movement which includes sites like del.icio.us, reddit, Digg and the new Netscape portal. As the competition for bookmarking services increases it is good to know the best in the business. Thankfully eBizMBA has produced a list of the Top 20 Social Bookmarking Sites out there on the Internet ranked by a combination of Compete and Quantcast data. Each site is ranked based on the Unique Monthly Visitors (United States).

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Free YouTube to iPod Converter enables you to convert .FLV files to .MP4 files that can be played on your iPod, Sony PSP or mobile phone. The program can extract the video directly from a YouTube URL or load a .flv file from a local folder. You can choose from several video quality presets and you also extract the audio track from the video and save it as MP3 file.

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Yahoo ! has launched the web version of it’s most popular IM for people on the move – Yahoo Web Messenger !   This now totally avoid users from downloading the IM software and installing it before accessing the messenger service.

This service is available from the Yahoo Web Site at http://webmessenger.yahoo.com/ and will be a great boon to people who travel a lot or who live in countries where PC penetration is low, said Yahoo spokeswomen Terrell Karlsten. To run this application on the web you need to have Adobe Flash 9 installed in whichever of the popular browsers you use: Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari.

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If you have multiple tabs open at once, you can bookmark them all in one go. For this Choose Bookmarks Bookmark All Tabs (Ctrl+Shift+D). You will get a dialog box as shown below asking you to name the folder for the bookmarks.

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Have you ever wondered where in the earth you could find those pointless and useless sites on the web, which often are time wasters, don’t too many ads, are not offensive then PointlessSites.com is the place to be.

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Web 2.0 awards for the hottest web sites for the year 2007 was announed recently by SEOmoz.org.

There are around 300 websites listed in all in 38 categories. This is a very useful website to see what is considered hot web2.0 websites for specific areas. I will be using some of the stuff I’ve discover here.