Quickly Access Desktop Icons and Files from your Web Browser

You may find this simple tip handy if you always have a web browser running on your desktop screen in maximized mode.

There are instances when you need to access program shortcuts and files placed on the desktop.

Now instead of minimizing the browser to access these files, you can simple create a shortcut in the bookmarks toolbar of your browser that points to the desktop folder. Click this bookmark and you’ll be able to browse through desktop content within the browser.

desktop

To create a bookmark pointing the desktop, open this address - file:///c:/Users/ - inside a new tab in Firefox. Click your user name and then drag-n-drop the "desktop" folder to your bookmarks toolbar.

Written by magakos on July 30th, 2008 with no comments.
Read more articles on All and otherSoftware and Firefox.

Mozilla Firefox Tip:Control Windows Swap Out on Minimize

When applications are minimized and not active in Windows, the Operating System will swap out the memory in RAM to the hard disk, restoring it to RAM when the application is restored or becomes active again. By default, Mozilla FireFox blocks Windows from performing this action, retaining the information in RAM memory.
You can configure Mozilla FireFox to allow Windows operating system to swap out this memory when FireFox is not in active use by making the following modification:

At the address bar, type about:config
Right-click within the main body and select New | Boolean
Name the item config.trim_on_minimize
Assign a value of true to allow windows to swap out the memory.
Restart FireFox

To return FireFox to the default state, set this value to false, or delete the entry.

Written by magakos on July 28th, 2008 with no comments.
Read more articles on All and otherSoftware and Firefox.

Mozilla Firefox Tip:Control Memory Usage in Cache

When visiting a web page, Mozilla FireFox caches data for quicker display. You can control how much of the available RAM memory, FireFox uses for this cache.The steps for this tweak is given below:

At the Mozilla firefox address bar, type about:config
In the Filter bar, type browser.cache.memory.enable
Ensure that the value is set to true
Right-click within the main body and select New | Integer
Name the item browser.cache.memory.capacity
The table below shows the defaults for FireFox. You can raise or lower the about of memory used by changing the integer value. The more you specify, the faster load times of previously visited pages, the less, the slower. To calculate how much to use, determine the number of MB you wish to give to FireFox, and times that by 1024. Example: 256 MB = (256 * 1024) or 10240).
Restart FireFox

To return Mozilla FireFox to the default state, set this value to -1, or delete the entry.
Possible Values:
-1 allows FireFox to decide the maximum memory to use.
0 instructs FireFox not to cache data in memory

Your RAM

FireFox Default

(In MB)

...

Click to continue reading "Mozilla Firefox Tip:Control Memory Usage in Cache"

Written by magakos on July 28th, 2008 with no comments.
Read more articles on All and otherSoftware and Firefox.

Create Screen Mockups & Web Page Prototypes in Firefox with Pencil

With Firefox, you can do much more than simply browse web pages. Pencil is a free add-in that lets anyone sketch complex GUI screens or web page prototypes in Firefox without even being a graphic designer.
firefox webpage design

Pencil includes a set of stencils that you can place on the drawing campus. Right click a shape to edit basic properties like color, border, opacity, etc. Alternatively, you may also drag images from the desktop.
Like other illustration software, these shapes can aligned with each other or can be grouped to prevent accidental edits. The drawing can be exported as a PNG image.

Link : The Pencil Project

Written by magakos on July 28th, 2008 with no comments.
Read more articles on All and otherSoftware and Firefox.

Firefox Tip: Save Multiple Web Pages as MHT Files In One Go!

MHT is a very useful file format for saving HTML web pages and all embedded graphics into a single file (also known as web archive).

The format is supported on IE, Opera, Microsoft Word, OneNote, etc. and comes handy if you need to attach an entire web page as an email attachment.

Now your favorite browser Firefox 3 cannot export web pages to MHT format by default but there’s an excellent add-in called UnMHT that makes MHT support in Firefox better an IE and Opera.

With Un-MHT, you can read any MHT files in Firefox just like any other HTML or text page.

Other than viewing MHT files, this add-in adds a "Save all tabs as MHT" feature that lets you save the current window or all open websites as separate MHT files in one go taking the file name from title of the web pages.