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April 29, 2009

How Can I Diagnose and Fix Weird Browser Problems?

Filed under: Internet — Tags: , , — admin @ 2:00 pm

by Gabe Goldberg

All too often, just when you think your computer, your ISP, and your favorite Web sites are all behaving themselves — Zap! — you’re plagued by strange and alarming messages which don’t offer clues about what’s wrong, let alone tell what you might do to fix the problem.
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January 29, 2009

How to Speed Up Firefox

Filed under: Internet — Tags: , , — admin @ 1:59 am

by David Hakala

Speed up your Web surfing with these tricks that work with Mozilla Firefox! It’s actually easier to tweak Firefox than it is to soup up Internet Explorer. That’s because Firefox is a standalone program, not intimately dependent upon settings in other areas of Windows as Internet Explorer is. All the tools you need are right under Firefox’s hood.

Most of these tools are accessed through the “about:config” URL, which doesn’t look like a standard URL because it doesn’t begin with “http://”. But it is indeed a Universal Resource Locator that locates and displays a resource called “config” within the Firefox browser.
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