Clear Recently Closed Tabs - Firefox tip

What most people are not aware of is that even if one tell Firefox not to save browsing history, it is still possible to access the last 10 closed tabs (History->Recently Closed Tabs).

So to clear the "Recently Closed Tabs list", in Firefox address bar type about:config, and set the key browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo to 0.

** about:config is the page where user preferences can be viewed and modified in firefox.

Keyboard shortcut for switching between tabs in Firefox

It may sound simple, but for the newbies I believe it would be helpful.

Keyboard shortcut for switching between tabs in Firefox

Way 1:
Ctrl + Tab

Way 2:
Ctrl + PgUp (to move to Previous tab)
Ctrl + PgDn (to move to Next tab)

Way 3:
Ctrl + 2 (will switch to tab#2, similarly 1,3,... etc)

Undo Firefox closed tabs keyboard shortcut tip

Today I learnt a keyboard shortcut for undoing closed tabs in Mozilla Firefox.

The keyboard shortcut is Ctrl-Shift-t

Keep pressing the same to undo your last closed tabs.

Certificate for Guinness World Record download of firefox

So all good work done by Mozilla for firefox3 is rewarded.

"We set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. With your help we reached 8,002,530 downloads.

You are now part of a World Record and the proud owner of the best version of Firefox yet!"

And here is my certificate ->

Download youtube flv using Download Helper Firefox extension

DownloadHelper is a Firefox extension for downloading files embedded in Web pages.By default, you should normally see the icon at the right of the address bar

Steps:

1) Open Firefox

2) From there install the DownloadHelper Firefox extension just by putting the following url in the address bar http://www.downloadhelper.net/install.php

3) After installation of the extension, restart the Firefox window(s). Now you can see the DownloadHelper icon right of your address bar (like in the picture). So from now, whenever you watch video(s) on sites like youtube.com, metacafe.com etc , you can download them at that point by clicking on the DownloadHelper icon (as shown in the picture).

Judges for Mozilla's Guinness World Record attempt

Few lines from Mozilla official blog post

"We’re getting close to handing over our download logs to our judges for our Guinness World Record attempt. We’re very lucky and honored to have Paul Vixie of the Internet Systems Consortium and Corey Shields of Indiana University."

Paul Vixie has been contributing to Internet protocols and UNIX systems as a protocol designer and software architect since 1980, and was a cofounder of ISC in 1994.

Corey Shields is the Lead Systems Analyst for the High Performance Systems group in University Information Technology Services at Indiana University

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