Recover hidden or missing addons in Firefox 7

Firefox version 7 release brought lot of new features like speed improvements, neater address bar by hiding http part of website URL and much more. However, it has also cause one serious issue of some or all of existing addons going missing as they are hidden now. While Mozilla promises to

Disable backspace key to return to previous webpage

Are you annoyed with opening of previous webpage(s) on pressing backspace key on the keyboard? While filling a web form, we hit backspace to change cursor location but this sometimes opens the previously browsed webpage and you have to start all over again. You can easily avoid this by

Disable Facebook like button & widget boxes

Facebook provide lot of stuff for third party websites and blogs for seamless integration with Facebook platform and its users. While blogs and websites have been using Facebook like button extensively on each articles page, it has new companion in the form of Facebook Send button. There

See all ‘Facebook Like’ weblinks on one page

Like concept on Facebook is becoming very popular among Facebook users. You can 'like' specific webpage or website by clicking Facebook like button and show your appreciation. Also, your 'Like' for that specific weblink will be posted on your Facebook wall and hence shared among your

View ‘text only’ version of webpages

Almost every webpage on the internet has some kind of fancy formatting and scripts required to show advertisements. Is actual textual content getting lost in clutter of webpage formatting and advertisements? You can convert webpage content to 'text only' mode for easy reading of only text

Disable new photo viewer on Facebook

Facebook now display photos in a black border pop-up photo viewer lightbox. Do you want to turn off this photo viewer on Facebook website? By default there is no option to switch back from new photo viewer to default photo browsing on Facebook. However, there are few workarounds and

Disable flash, silverlight & javascript in Firefox

Adobe Flash, Javascript, Microsoft Silverlight, Java are few technology platforms that provide support for dynamic content on the internet. Sometimes, these can cause issue and user may want to disable it temporarily. If you use Firefox as default browser, then you can easily disable or

Automatic http to https redirection in Firefox & Chrome

Be default, http version of websites are loaded in a web browser. You can make web browsing more secure by using https ecrypted version of websites. Only selective websites offer ecrypted https version for accessing their content. If you are Firefox users, then you can automate redirection

How to duplicate tabs in IE, Chrome & Firefox

Do you want to quickly open currently opened website in a new tab? You can easily perform such tab duplication in your favorite web browser. In few simple clicks you can open new (duplicate) instance of any currently opened tab. Following is quick and easy procedure to duplicate tab in

Remove Feedback button from Firefox 4

Firefox 4 beta version introduced lot of new visual and functional features to the browser. Besides tabs on top above the address bar and neater one access Firefox button, it also has Feedback button at top right. This button allow Firefox users to send feedback regarding their experience

Directly view full size photos on Google Image Search

Google Image Search (images.google.com) is an easy way to find photos on any topic or keyword. However, this image search service has one annoyance of having to click twice to able to view full sized photo displayed in search results. You can cut down on the clicking and webpage hopping by

Disable Google Analytics script & prevent data tracking

Google Analytics (google.com/analytics) is a popular service from Google to tracking visitor activity on a website. Number of blogs and websites use Google Analytics code to capture and record details of users visiting websites. Till now, end user surfing websites that contain Google