If you are a regular internet user chances are that you might have been prompted to fill up web forms, passwords fetch or internet email’s, forums, shopping sites and so on. When you type in for the first time,  IE displays the user a message box prompting you whether to save the password so that it can auto fill the next time you visit the site.

Well, this is good in one way, when you are browsing the web a lot and you are not sharing your PC with anyone else. If you are, then your passwords are at serious risk of being stolen by hackers.

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Have you observed that when you try opening up any .pdf files in your browser it freezes everything up in the browser as it has to load the file within the web browser. This sometimes results in the browser getting hung.

Luckily FireFox has a solution to this and it comes in the form of an Add-on called PDF Download. Once this add-on is installed it will allow you to choose if you want to view a PDF file inside the web browser (as PDF or HTML), if you want to vieew it outside Firefox with your default or custom PDF reader, or if you want to download it !

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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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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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Give your web pages extra style using fancy Gecko CSS extensions.

The Gecko display engine inside Firefox can do marvelous things to your web page with its standard, forward-looking, and custom CSS style properties. This hack looks at a few of its custom features.

Firefox and Mozilla identify most of their CSS enhancement keywords with the prefix -moz. These keywords may appear as style properties, property values, or pseudoselectors. Examples include:

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By default, Firefox includes a copy of the XUL.mfl (Windows), XUL.mfasl (Unix), or XUL FastLoad File (Macintosh) file. This is the Mozilla FastLoad cache that resides in the profile area. You can set the following preference to prevent it from being used:-

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To turn off the memory and disk browser caches completely, set these preferences:

browser.cache.memory.enable    /* set to false, default = true */
browser.cache.disk.enable       /* set to false, default = true */

Turning these preferences off guarantees that Firefox will make an HTTP request for every URL it is asked to display.

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