Mozilla has finally released Firefox 3.6, the newest version of its popular browser. I downloaded and tried it. Below are the few improvement on Firefox 3.6

• One-click themes. Using the Personals Gallery, you can assign a new look and theme to Firefox with a click. Below is the screen shoot

• Mozilla has also boosted the browser’s overall performance and reduced its startup time, load times and stability. Besides, Javascript execution is faster and smoother as well. According to Mozilla,  JavaScript in 3.6 executes approximately 12% faster in Firefox 3.6 than in 3.5. while some pages load up to 20% faster which is an increase in speed — 20% faster than Firefox 3.5.
• Out-of-date plugin warnings. This feature lets you know when you’ve got an out-of-date and potentially virus-friendly plugin installed and provides an update link.

Click HERE to download latest version of Firefox.

From the previous post,  I’ve made few changes in Firefox’s about:config.

Unfortunately, i  misspell an entry name and select the wrong type. I tried to rename it and change the type, but i fail to do that. Besides, i tried to remove the entire entry, but it does not allow me to do that. Is there any way to delete an about:config entry in Firefox?

Here i going to show to show your how to delete the entry:-

1. Just go to your Firefox profile folder. The default location of the Firefox profile is %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\.
2. Open the  prefs.js in with text editor or notepad
3. Just remove erroneous key
4. Save the prefs.js and relaunch your Firefox

Hope this post will help u.

Mozilla Firefox is widely being used today. Previously I was using Firefox 2. I am very happy with it’s performance

Once i updated my Firefox to latest version. I feel that my Firefox performace was slow down compare with previous version. So, i start do a lot of reserch on how to speed up the performance of my latest firefox. Below are the few tips that i would like to share with your on how to optimize your Firefox performance.

How to optimize firefox performance:-

Launch your Firefox. On the address bar, you just enter about:config and press Enter

 Make the following modifications to the file by typing in the values on the respective fields to get the desired result (feel free to experiment)

You just simply copy paste the following field into the filter bar to find it

Network.http.pipelining
Network.http.pipeling.maxrequests               
Network.http.proxy.pipelining

After find the field, just double click to change the following value:-
Network.http.pipelining set to true
Network.http.pipeling.maxrequests set to 30
Network.http.proxy.pipelining set to true

 Last, right-Click at the content (anywhere) then click ‘Create New’ and then select ‘Integer‘.

Name it as  ‘nglayout.initialpaint.delay‘ .  Set the value to ‘0‘ (Zero) and press enter

After that, just restart Firefox and experience it what are the difference

I was helped my friend troubleshoot her laptop. Her Accer laptop running on Win Vista. She complain her laptop fail to connect to internet.
I have check throw the connection, broadband connection functioning well. I try to ping www.google.com received replies from them. But both Internet Explorer and Firefox could not be browsed.

How to solve this problem?

Don’t panic. Just check the proxy configuration of both web browsers.

Internet Explorer

• Click on Tools and select Options
• Click on Connections Tab and click on LAN Setting
• Unchecked all the check box (Proxy & Detect Automatic Setting need to unchecked)
• After that, click OK and restart your IE.
• Now your IE will be working fine.

Firefox always release new version. We can easily upgrade it via terminal command.

How to do that? Follow the steps below:

For Ubuntu / Debian Linux

 sudo apt-get update

 sudo apt-get install firefox

For Fedora / Redhat / Centos Linux

 yum update 

 yum install firefox 

Done.

As a administrator, management always request you to set the official web site as a home page for all the web browser.

If you want to prevent your user changing the homepage setting, you need to lock certain setting or option. In Internet Explorer, we can easily restrict the homepage setting from Group Policy. How about Mozilla Firefox? We unable to do it from Group Policy.

Here i going to show your how to lock Mozilla Firefox homepage.

Here are the steps:

1. Launch you notepad or others text editor

2. Enter the following code to the text file

//
lockPref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://www.techkaki.com");

3. Save this text file as Mozilla.txt

4. Download Byte Shifter to encoded Mozilla.txt to Mozilla.cfg

5. After download, launch Byte Shifter program to do the encoding.

Eg:

Input file :  C:\Documents and Settings\Steve Lam\Desktop\mozilla.cfg (Location of you Mozilla.txt)

Output file :  C:\Documents and Settings\Steve Lam\Desktop\mozilla.cfg (Location that decode)

shift by : 13 Bytes

6. Click Go to encode it. The resulting file should be named mozilla.cfg.Save it to the same directory as firefox.exe (C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox)

7. Looking for all.js from C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\greprefs\. Open all.js with text editor and add the following line at the end of the file

pref("general.config.filename", "mozilla.cfg");

8. Save the file and restart your Firefox. Now you will realize that your homepage has been change and you unable to change it from the Firefox option.

Today i just found a plug in for Firefox call Cooliris.

What is Cooliris??

Cooliris is simply the fastest and most stunning way to browse photos and videos from the Web or your desktop. Effortlessly scroll a “3D Wall” of your content from Facebook, Google Images, YouTube, Flickr, and hundreds more.

Click here to install Cooliris 1.10 plugin to your Firefox on you Mac OS X.

After you install the Plugin, you will see the launch Cooliris shortcut on your top right corner on your Firefox.

How to use it? It is very simple by just click the launch Cooliris shortcut. After you click, you will see the screen which as show as below:

You can search any Video from Youtube or photo and view it from the Cooliris. Example that i did is i search Video from Youtube and view it with Cooliris.

In an organization, administrator will configure some customize setting on web browser. They need to restrict user from changing their customized setting.

Here i will teach your how to set restriction in Firefox.

I had found an interesting Firefox add-on called “Public Fox” which allows you to set various restrictions in Mozilla Firefox.

Click the following link to download the add-on :

Download Public Fox Add-on for Mozilla Firefox

This Add-on allow us to restrict the following setting:

• Restrict Downloads in Mozilla Firefox
• Restrict Add-ons in Mozilla Firefox
• Restrict Options in Mozilla Firefox
• Restrict about:config in Mozilla Firefox
• Restrict Addition of Bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox
• Restrict History and Bookmarks Sidebar in Mozilla Firefox
• Restrict “Clear Private Data” window in Mozilla Firefox

Once you install it, you can access it using

“Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions“. Select the add-on (Public Fox)  from the list and Click on ” Option” (Windows)

“Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions“. Select the add-on (Public Fox)  from the list and Click on ” Preferences” (Mac OS X)

After that, you will see the screen shot as show below, you can set various restrictions using a Password. After applying the restriction, whenever you’ll try to access a restricted feature, you’ll be prompted to enter the password.

“Why my firefox cannot online?? I try to use safari, it work fine!! How?”

I think your might facing this problem before. This problem occur because of your Firefox is in Offline Mode. To solve this problem, go to File->untick Work Offline.

.

Now your Firefox should be working fine

If you are Firefox user, you must be experience your Firefox slowing down. Firefox slowing down because of Firefox will record down the date and sited that visited when we use Firefox to browse Internet. Here is a quick tip to speed up your Firefox speed.

Goto
Preferences > Privacy > History and set the time limit to a couple of days.( Recommend set to 5-10days)

After done this setting, clear the history and restart your Firefox. Firefox loading speed will be increase.