Sometimes we accidentally close a tab in Firefox we didn’t mean to close. Instead of looking the website we want in the History, you can do this trick to reopen the last closed tab.

If you accidentally close a tab, you just need to press “Ctrl + Shift + T“. And the last closed tab will be reopened in your Firefox.

Try it. Open a new tab, close the tab and press “Ctrl + Shift + T”. Very helpful huh?

Edit: You also can open last closed tab from History > Recently Closed Tabs. Thanks to Izzat for this tip.

I must wish my congratulations to all Firefox users because you guys are better patchers than other internet browser users.

Based on analysis by Secunia, 5.19 percent of all Firefox 2 users had missed security updates. 5.40 pecent for IE7. 9.61 percent for IE 6 users. And Opera was the most abandoned in security updates which is 11.96.

“People have to choose to use Firefox,” said Mike Cherry, an analyst with the Directions on Microsoft research firm.

Opera was the least to be patched because the updates is not done automatically instead you need to check the update by yourself by clicking on Help and Check for update. But for Firefox users, the updates are delivered via the browser itself. So, Firefox users are more secure and up to date.

More read at Techworld Computer & Internet Security News .

Firefox users are better patchers [via Techworld] [tags]firefox, opera, internet explorer[/tags]

Do you use Snap previews on your website? I hope you remove it because it is irritating me and maybe for some other peoples too. Lol…

But thanks to AdBlock Plus because of it, you no need to remove your Snap from your website just because I ask you to do so (Eh?). This Firefox extension will blocks all Snap previews from being pop up when visitors mouse over on the links.

1. Download AdBlock Plus and install it.
2. Next, restart your Firefox and then click Tools > AdBlock Plus.
3. Add spa.snap.com/* to set new rule in AdBlock Plus.
4. Restart Firefox and no more Snap.com previews when you browsing websites.

Disable Snap.com Previews Permanently [via Of Zen and Computing][tags]snap, tips, tricks, firefox[/tags]

Peoples love free things. You don’t need to pay anything to get or using them because their totally free. Because of that, eConsultant had make a list of freeware utilities that you can use to solve some common problems. The list contains over 450 softwares and divided into multiple categories to make you easier to choose the right software.

You can see the list at here, I want a Freeware Utility to … 450+ common problems solved. And don’t forget to check their list of 200+ firefox extensions that can save your time and effort.

Attention to all Firefox users. There are some Firefox entensions that you should avoid. This is because the extensions will collect data and uniquely identifying users without notifying them. To be safe, you should disable and remove the extensions from your Firefox usage.

List of extensions that you should avoid can be found at Mozillazine Forum. And I suggest you forward this post on your site too.

As we know, Firefox has problem with the memory usage. It makes the Firefox load slow, use too many resources and drag our computer down. Here are 5 tips on how you can use to handle and improve Firefox memory usage.

1. Reduce memory usage when minimize
This tip will reduce the memory usage when each time you minimize your Firefox. Actually what it does is, Firefox will let Windows to claiming back the memory used when it minimize.

1. Start up Firefox
2. Type in about:config in the address bar and hit Enter
3. Right click and choose New > Boolean
4. Type config.trim_on_minimize in the pop-up box and hit Enter
5. Select True and hit Enter.
6. Restart your Firefox

2. Fixed cache capacity
Every time new page is loaded, Firefox will cache the page so it doesn’t need to load again to be redisplayed. By default, this setting was set to -1 which mean, Firefox use the cache memory depends on your RAM size. Here is how to fix the cache capacity use for your Firefox.

1. Start up Firefox
2. Type about:config in the address bar and hit Enter
3. In the filter, enter this string browser.cache.memory.capacity
4. If you set to 0, Firefox will not cache any pages. If you want to customize to other value, read here.

Note: browser.cache.memory.enable must be True if you decide to change the integer.

Read more…

Wonder what your lovely Firefox will looks like if you use so many extensions? See the pic below.

This is sure crazy. What this guy doing with all of those extensions in his Firefox? Beside it will takes so long to open the Firefox, it also will eat the ram (read here: how to reduce firefox memory usage) so much. Unless this guy has 2Gigs of ram in his comp. But…it still eat the ram right?

Digg [via Tech-Buzz][tags]firefox, entensions, plugins[/tags]

Cypher: I only use 13 extensions for my Firefox.

A software security researcher has warned that the password manager features of Mozilla’s open source, Firefox 2.0 and Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT), Internet Explorer (IE) Web browsers could be exploited, placing unsuspecting users at risk.

Users of Firefox or Explorer, both of which may be vulnerable to the attack known as “Reverse Cross Site Request” (RCSR), are not fooled directly by the password theft exploit. Instead, it provides a fake login site that fools a browser’s saved password feature into automatically providing the information, Robert Chapin, president of Chapin Information Services, reported.

Microsoft and Mozilla acknowledge about this probem. While waiting for the next update for this security issue, please disable Passwod Manager in your Firefox.

[via TechNewsWorld][tags]firefox, ie, security, vulnerable[/tags]

Cypher: Btw incase you don’t know yet, you also can discover saved passwords in Firefox. It is really dangerous if your computer use by multiple users.

Check this out, Microsoft Firefox 2007 Professional Edition.

At first when I look at this site, I can see that it is not a website from Microsoft. And why should Microsoft use Google AdSense on their site. Want to generate more incomes? Lol… Btw they offer free @msfirefox.com email account. If you want, you can signup at their site but beware, I’m not sure whether this website belongs to Microsoft or not.

Cypher: I like watching the video. Funny! Lol… I have downloaded the video for my collection. [tags]microsoft, firefox, internet browser[/tags]

[via InfoMalaya]

We knew that Firefox has problem with the memory usage. Sometimes it can reach to hundreds of megabytes. But here is a tricks on how to reduce the memory usage when you minimize your Firefox.

1. Type about:config in Firefox address bar and press Enter.
2. Right click in the page and select New > Boolean.
3. Type config.trim_on_minimize in the box that pops up. Press Enter.
4. Select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.

What it will do is, when each time you minimize your Firefox, the memory usage will dramatically drop down to 10Mb (this is what happen on my PC) but then it will slowly increase up to 50Mb. When you maximize it back, it will stay on 50Mb or maybe 70Mb.

Note: This is only to reduce the Firefox memory usage when you minimize it. Not to fix them.

r9studio.com [via Azmie.net][tags]firefox, tricks, memory, software[/tags]