Comments on: MusicPlayer written in HTML/JavaScript

By: UserJoe9

UserJoe9 — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:54:04 +0000

Password Exporter is a Firefox add-on that allows you to export and import your saved usernames and passwords between Computers or keep as a backup copy. Your passwords will be exported to an XML or CSV file and can be encrypted.

Or, you can do it the manual way:
First, navigate yourself to your profiles folder and then you want to copy three files, they are named:
signons.txt
signons2.txt
key3.db
Copy and past them into the place you want to back them up to, and you are done. You can also move these three files to a new Firefox profile (say on a new computer, for example) if you wanted to have the same password information on your laptop.

By: Aretha

Aretha — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:49:08 +0000

You cannot use Firefox to download from the Microsoft Update site. Turn on Automatic Updates instead – then you get the best of both worlds

wdw

By: mister_logan5

mister_logan5 — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:04:00 +0000

Yeah,, need to use a different rendering engine, check this out, IE tab for FF.. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

By: ver_jen

ver_jen — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:11:08 +0000

Even after setting Firefox to be your default browser, Yahoo! messenger still uses IE (at least this was happening to me when using Vista and a fresh install of Yahoo! Messenger).
I found this website http://www.lifespy.com/2007/windows-tip-how-to-make-yahoo-messenger-use-firefox-as-default-browser-in-vista/
"Click the Start menu
Click Default Programs (It's the same for XP except Default Programs is "Set Program Access and Defaults)
Click “Set program access and computer deaults”
Select Custom then click on the drop arrow
Look for “Choose a default web browser” and select Mozilla Firefox
Click OK"
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By: inram

inram — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:46:29 +0000

Offcourse you can,Go to prefrences and Change POP-up to block state
Watch this one!
with some additional how to change it

i think this is more than enough if you need hand let me know

By: arachgold2007

arachgold2007 — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:26:00 +0000

To setup yahoo email as your default mail using Firefox 3 (Yahoo now recommend you use this browser) and it will work with Vista.
* Download and install firefox 3 http://downloads.yahoo.com/?p=win
* After installation and when you have Firefox 3 up and running, click "tools", then "options".
* In the options window that pops up, click the applications tab.
* Scroll down to “mailto” and change to “use yahoo mail”
* Finally click “OK”.

By: urah03

urah03 — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:39:27 +0000

Check out the FEBE extension which can help you backup/restore not only bookmarks but also extensions, preferences, passwords, cookies or even your entire profile.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2109

By: r_ravoori

r_ravoori — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:50:40 +0000

Was reading through about this. Try the following instructions

Setting default browser manually
In Windows XP, go to "Start -> Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> Set Program Access and Defaults (on the left) -> Custom". After expanding the "Custom" category, you will see Internet Explorer and other installed browsers listed under "Choose a default Web browser". Select Mozilla or Mozilla Firefox.
If that doesn't work,

In Windows Control Panel and if Windows XP is using the Control Panel "Classic View":
Click on "Folder Options -> File Types".
In Windows XP using the Control Panel "Category View":
Click on "Performance and Maintenance". Then, click on "File Types" in the left column under the heading "See Also".
Assign the following filetypes to the browser you wish to set as default:

URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol
URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol with Privacy
URL:File Transfer Protocol
HTML File
HTM File (optional)
Note that you may find the URL file types above under extension "N/A" or "(none)".

Cheers & Bottoms Up

By: John Aldrich

John Aldrich — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:50:15 +0000

Out of my experience: FlashGot, as well as – not surprisingly – all the extensions which, by their nature, require connecting to some server (weather forecasts and the like).

But since there's thousands of add-ons, and thus chances are that I don't use the same ones as you do: the best thing you can do is just to disable them one by one (go to Tools / Add-ons), then measure how long it takes for Firefox to boot up each time. This will allow you to single out the worst "offenders".

Also clear up the cache and browser history, perhaps try decreasing the cache size, use some tool for optimizing Firefox databases (Speedyfox for example), there's many ways to speed Firefox up.

Good news is that the upcoming versions of Firefox are supposed to be improved in the areas of speed and responsiveness (the raising popularity of fast and snappy Google Chrome forced them to focus on it)