RED HERRING AWARDS IYOGI FOR THE 2008 RED HERRING ASIA AMERICA 100

Award Recognizes the 100 “Most Promising” Asian Companies Driving the Future of Technology

Silicon Valley, CA, Dec 9th, 2008— Red Herring today announced that iYogi is a winner of the Red Herring 100 Award, a selection of the 100 most innovative private technology companies based in Asia.

iYogi delivers technical support services directly to consumers and small businesses and is the first, global, technical support brand based out of India with more than 50,000 customers. The company offers consumers an unlimited, annual subscription service for $119.99 per desktop that includes support for a wide range of technologies, including PC hardware, Microsoft Products Support, Windows Operating systems,Computer Support ,Software applications, MP3 players, Networking devices, Digital camera, Printers and scanners etc.

The Red Herring editorial board diligently surveyed the entrepreneurial scene throughout Asia and identified the top 100 out of more than 1,000 closely evaluated companies that are leading the next wave of innovation.

“Our winners and Finalists demonstrate that Asia is increasingly becoming a leader in innovation, contrary to common stereotypes", said Joel Dreyfuss, editor-in-chief of Red Herring. " It was tough to choose just the top 100 finalists from such a large list of excellent contenders, and we are very happy with the quality of the companies we selected as finalists."

“We believe consumers and small business owners should have low-cost access to the highest quality support available on the planet", said Uday Challu, CEO of iYogi. “We are thrilled that our innovative approach to solving everyday technology problems for consumers and our managed services for small businesses has been recognized by Red Herring’s keen-eyed leadership. We are continuously innovating in adding new services that includes PC recovery, anti-virus, anti-spyware, data back-up and PC optimization in providing the best tech support experience for our customers”, adds Uday.

The 100 winning companies have been announced at the Red Herring Asia event in Hong Kong. The CEOs of the winning start ups presented their innovative ideas and technologies to an audience of leading entrepreneurs, financiers, and corporate strategists at the event at the Hong Kong, JW Marriott Hotel earlier this week.

About iYogi

iYogi is the first direct-to-consumer and small business technical support service from India. Providing an annual unlimited subscription to technical support, iYogi now boasts of more than 50,000 customers. The company employs 600 professionals servicing customers in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and fast expanding to 12 new geographies across the globe. iYogi’s resolution rate of 87 percent and customer satisfaction rate of 93 percent are amongst the highest published benchmarks in the industry. For further information, please visit www.iyogi.net.

iYogi Contact

Vishal Dhar
President Marketing, iYogi Inc.
Phone: 212 229 0901
Email: vishal@iyogi.net

Foxmarks, the #1 Add-on for Bookmarks, Featured in Mozilla's Fashion Your Firefox Launch

Foxmarks, Inc., one of the most popular browser add-ons in the world with more than nine million downloads, announced that it is a featured add-on in Mozilla's Fashion Your Firefox launch. In addition, the company formally announced that James Joaquin has joined the executive team as CEO. Founded by Mitch Kapor of Lotus Development Corporation and Mozilla Foundation fame, Foxmarks is a browser add-on that instantly syncs browser data across computers, keeps it safe with automated backups, and makes it available online via any browser or mobile phone.

Fashion Your Firefox is a new Web application that enables Firefox users to customize their browser based on their interests and online activities. With Fashion Your Firefox, add-ons that fit people's online lifestyles are organized in easy-to-discover ways and are available for installation in just a few clicks.

Firefox add-ons are a next-generation platform for Web Applications. Strong consumer desire to personalize the Web experience has created a huge demand for add-ons like Foxmarks, which has been downloaded more than nine million times.

"With Foxmarks we've created the best of both worlds: seamless integration with the web browser combined with a cloud service that is accessible anytime, anywhere," said Joaquin. "We're thrilled to be part of 'Fashion for Firefox' and help consumers improve their online experience with our service."

Joaquin brings extensive Internet and executive management experience to Foxmarks, having served as CEO at Ofoto.com, where he led the company from pre-venture funding through an acquisition by Kodak, Inc. During his tenure as CEO, Ofoto became the world's most popular photo sharing and printing service, and scaled to in excess of 20 million members and more than 1 billion images stored. He also served as CEO of Xoom Corporation, the online international money transfer service. Most recently, Joaquin was Venture Partner at Bridgescale, a venture capital firm focused on growth equity investments in technology companies.

"James is just as passionate about the consumer web experience as I am -- he's a perfect match for the Foxmarks team," said Mitch Kapor, founder of Foxmarks. "Foxmarks is enjoying immense popularity and growth. I'm excited to remain on as Chairman and continue to counsel Foxmarks as it grows."

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Firefox 3.1 beta 2 delayed, beta 3 now scheduled

The Mozilla team had decided to delay beta 2 and release a beta 3 in order to resolve bugs and garner more feedback before the early 2009 ship.

An “uncooperative tree” and 15 remaining bugs has delayed the release of beta 2, though developers are confident that number will be pared down to zero by the end of the day. Mozilla expected the code would freeze on November 4 and release shortly thereafter.

After beta 2 is released later this month, the team will focus on getting another beta out by the end of the December rather than issue a release candidate.

What’s slowing down the process is the addition of several new features to Beta 2 such as private browsing as ell as several new features introduced over the weekend, namely new Clear Recent History function, which allows a more fine grained history removal, a new “Forget About this Site” function, which removes records of a site, and a separate UI for clearing private data.

On the team’s weekly call today, lead developer Mike Beltzner noted that the number of bugs is increasing rather than decreasing as beta 2 development continues and suggested the code requires another beta cycle to ensure it is rock solid before a release candidate is issued. He said there were 78 blockers five weeks ago and now the number of blockers is up to 103.

The release of another beta also gives extensions developers more time to enable compatibility with the forthcoming browser update; to date, only about 25 percent of extensions have been determined to be compatible with FF 3.1.

About 150,000 people are testing beta 1 and that number is expected to double ith the release of Beta 2 this month.

He said a third beta cycle will impact the release timeframe but not by much because of the holiday break late next month.
“The impact on [the] shipping schedule won’t be as huge as some might think because we’re looking at dead time between December and January and so that time can be used to collect data before the milestone, RC1 or beta 3,” Beltzner said, before the team decided to go for a beta 3.

Firefox is an open source browser and the No 2 browser behind Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Firefox controls roughly 20 percent of market share, researchers indicated earlier this month.

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The engineers at Mozilla have added a new feature to popular open-sourceWeb browser Firefox that many users felt was missing. Following in the steps of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome browsers, Firefox now has an enhanced privacy browsing mode affectionately known as "porn mode."

Released Monday night in the latest build of Minefield, adding porn mode to Firefox has long been in the queue for Firefox, even though the feature was not included in Firefox 3's initial release in June.

Porn mode, simply put, allows users to turn on the privacy feature in Firefox and not have the browser capture the latest URLs or cookies that you've visited on the Web. This means that some users can surf the Web for questionable content and not worry about anyone else sitting down at the machine and sussing out what you've been looking at.

This isn't the first time that Firefox users have been able to surf the Web without leaving cookies or a history in the browser. In fact, Stealthier has long been available as a plug-in for Firefox. The difference, however, is that porn mode is now natively built into the browser, which means a plug-in is no longer required.

It's likely that a privacy browsing mode will be built into Firefox 3.1, along with enhanced privacy features and performance features.

Mozilla has been having a good week all around. Earlier in the week the makers of Firefox announced that they had crossed 20 percent of Web browser market share for the first time, according to NetApplications. The uptick in Firefox's popularity comes at the expense of Microsoft's Web browsing share, which has declined.

The Firefox crew is rightly excited about crossing the 20 percent threshold because it shows that a small, open-source company can play on the same field as the big corporations. And right now, Mozilla is taking it to Microsoft on its own turf—and though they've added a new layer of privacy, Firefox is doing it right out in the open.

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Firefox has been playing with the 20% market share mark for some time now. Back in July, the browser has begun jumping over 20% on several days and this trend has solidified since then. In October, Firefox’ average market share according to Net Applications was 19.97%, up 0.51 points from 19.46% in September.


Internet Explorer (IE) dropped from 71.52% to 71.27%, according to Net Applications, and remains the software with the fastest declining market share among a group of the six most used browsers. Since the beginning of this year, IE lost 4.2 points, while Firefox gained 2.99 points, Apple Safari 0.75 points, Opera 0.13 points and Google’s Chrome 0.74 points.

The only other browsers that gained market share between September and October was Opera, which jumped from 0.69% to 0.75%. Apple’s Safari dropped slightly from 6.65 to 6.57%, Chrome from 0.78% to 0.74% and Netscape from 0.63% to 0.45%, according to Net Applications.

In terms of operating systems, Net Applications found that Windows usage increased from 90.29% to 90.46% in October, while the presence of Macs declined from8.23% to 8.21%, Linux dropped from 0.91% to 0.71% and Apple’s iPhone showed an increase from 0.32% to 0.33%.

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Review: Firefox 3.0 has Lots to Like -- and It's Free

The real vision behind Firefox is in the very essence behind the open-source movement. Mozilla is not-for-profit and is completely open with their source code. This means that anyone in the world can check it out, offer improvements or create their own new super-cool software to interact with it. Why do it any other way?

This is a relief, since Firefox 2.0 was more than a little disappointing. It got to the point where Arlene (my trusty assistant) and I couldn't recommend 2.0. This left us in a bit of a quandary. Internet Explorer is a kluge.

Although I consider IE version 7 far superior to version 6, it falls short of the speedy, secure, lightweight Web browser that Firefox promised with its initial offerings.

When Firefox 2.0 was released, there was excitement in the air; however, it proved to be unstable, which has been attributed to memory leaks. Firefox, I am willing to forgive and forget, especially because you did right with version 3.0. I am happy to talk about it and recommend it.

First, this has been the fastest install I've ever known. In a world where software installation means downloading the software, connecting to the Internet, checking the authenticity and only then starting the install, the quick install is appreciated.

Second, you'll notice the slickly designed user interface. Hands down, aside from not crashing, this is my favorite thing. There are things that make sense, like the back button doesn't light up unless you have a Web page to go back to. These are small but intuitive improvements that make me happy.

Maybe I lied. My favorite aspect is the speed of Firefox 3.0. Things are loading much faster. Firefox attributes that to its new Gecko 1.9 platform and a handy memory application that monitors and cleans up unused memory.

You don't care? Me neither. It's fast, and that's all I need to know.

Support for online applications is another great improvement. It's now possible to choose a Web-based e-mail site (i.e.: hotmail, gmail, yahoo) to open when you double click on a Web site.

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The real vision behind Firefox is in the very essence behind the open-source movement. Mozilla is not-for-profit and is completely open with their source code.This means that anyone in the world can check it out, offer improvements or create their own new super-cool software to interact with it.

Why? Well, Mozilla states it best: Being open means the next big idea can come from anyone across the world, rather than just relying on a few dozen employees at company offices. Why do it any other way?

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The Tab Mix Plus extension has a gem of a feature buried deep within the settings: The ability to turn the Ctrl+Tab key from a direct tab switch into a popup menu that works similarly to the Windows Alt+Tab feature. It'll pop up a tiny dialog window that gives you a list of your tabs, and then on release of the keys will switch to that tab.

I've been using this for a while, but I only realized it's one of those things I can't live without when I actually had to go without it for a few minutes earlier…

To turn on this setting, open up Tab Mix Plus Options, click on Events and then the Tab Features tab. You'll see a checkbox titled "Ctrl-Tab displays a tab list popup menu" which you'll want to select.

Just try it for a while… if you use as many tabs as I do, you'll want to always keep this setting on.

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Installing Windows Media Player Plugin for Firefox

So you just bought a training video and popped it into your computer. You click on the menu in the autoplay dialog and it opens up Firefox, your default browser. Now you are staring at a blank screen. What now?
The problem is most likely because you don't have the Windows Media Player plugin installed for Firefox, so all we need to do is install it.
Note that you'll usually have the same problem anytime you try and view video files in Firefox using Windows Media format, such as .wmv files.
Installation
Just download and run the plugin installer linked below. You'll probably want to close Firefox during the installation.
Verifying Plugin Installation
After running through the very quick installation wizard, you might be curious if the installation actually worked. While the easiest method is to just open a Windows Media video, you can also type the following into the address bar to see the list of loaded plugins:
about:plugins
And you should see the Windows Media Player plugin in the list. You can also see which file types Firefox will use the plugin on.
And now I can view this Windows Media format video file in Firefox…
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Have you ever noticed that sometimes Firefox isn't very responsive while loading a page? As a frequent StumbleUpon user, this behavior grates on my nerves so I went looking for a solution.

When Firefox is loading a page it uses one of two modes: There's a high priority mode that doesn't pay as much attention to your mouse and keyboard, but loads the page faster. There's also a lower priority mode that interrupts the parser more often to respond to input events. It's even documented at Mozillazine.

What we can do is tweak the amount of time before Firefox switches from lower priority mode back into high priority mode.

Type about:config into the Firefox address bar, and then filter by the following:

content.switch.threshold

Most likely the key doesn't exist yet, so you'll have to set it by right-clicking in the empty area and selecting New \ Integer. Use these values when prompted:

  • Key Name: content.switch.threshold
  • Key Value: 1000000

The default value is 750000, or 3/4 of a second. The more time that you tell Firefox to wait before resuming high priority mode, the more responsive the application will feel… but it will obviously take a little longer to load the pages. You could reverse this if you were more worried about speeding up page load time.

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Sometimes when we make changes in our preferences or configurationin Firefox, are not saved or remembered by the Browser. Following are the Conditions in which the Browser may not remember tha changes made by you:

  • Changes that you made to your toolbars do not appear when you restart Firefox.
  • Changes made to the browser window's size and position are not remembered when you restart Firefox.

Your personal bookmarks appear in the Bookmarks Manager, but they do not appear in the Bookmark menu and cannot be edited.

  • You cannot save bookmarks.

Cause

These symptoms or errors are caused by a corrupted file, in your Firefox user data, called localstore.rdf. This file is maintained by Firefox to manage some of your local configuration information.

Fixing the problem

To repair this issue, the localstore.rdf file must be deleted. When Firefox is restarted, the file is automatically recreated. This issue can be fixed by using either of the following methods.

  • No bookmarks are deleted or changed by these methods.

Note: If you have customized your toolbars, any unsaved changes are lost when you complete this fix and restart Firefox. Before you delete the localstore.rdf file, you may find it useful to take note of what you have on your toolbar.

Method 1: Using Safe Mode

  1. Close down Firefox completely: At the top of the Firefox window, click the File menu, and select the Exit menu item.Close down Firefox completely: On the menu bar, click the Firefox menu, and select the Quit Firefox menu item.Close down Firefox completely: At the top of the Firefox window, click the File menu, and select the Quit menu item.
  2. In Windows, click Start, open the All Programs list, and navigate to the Mozilla Firefox folder. In the Mozilla Firefox folder, select Mozilla Firefox (Safe Mode).Firefox 3, Mac OS:

Hold down the Option key, as you start Firefox.

Firefox 2, Mac OS:

Go to the Utilities directory (in the Applications folder) and open Terminal, then run:

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -safe-mode

Go to your Terminal and run:/path/to/firefox/firefox -safe-mode

  1. Firefox should start up with a Firefox Safe Mode dialog.

Note: You can also start Firefox in Safe Mode by clicking Start, selecting Run (or use the Start Search box in Windows Vista) and then entering the following in the text field:
firefox -safe-mode

  1. In the Firefox Safe Mode window, select Reset toolbars and controls.


  2. Click Make Changes and Restart.


Method 2: Delete localstore.rdf manually

Caution: This method removes the copy of localstore.rdf in the profile folder. Do not delete the localstore.rdf copy in the Firefox program installation folder by mistake!

  1. From the menu at the top of the Firefox windowbar, select FileFirefox and then select the ExitQuit FirefoxQuit menu item.
  2. Go to your profile folder.
  3. In the folder, delete the file localstore.rdf.

Use Multiple Firefox Profiles at the Same Time

Did you know that you can run more than one Firefox profile at once? This can be extremely useful if you want to test out extensions more easily, create a web development profile, run a slimmed down profile just for Gmail, or if you just want to have a clean profile.
The first thing you'll need to do is create a new profile. You'll need to run the following from a run dialog or command prompt, adjusting the path if necessary.
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe -profilemanager
Create an extra profile by using the Create Profile wizard, and make sure that each profile has a distinct name. You'll also want to leave the "Don't ask at startup" box checked.
The next thing you'll want to do is make another shortcut to Firefox. You can just copy/paste the current shortcut if you feel like it, then open up the properties page and go to the Shortcut tab.
Add the following to the end of the Target box. As you can see, my profile was named Geek, so that's what I used.
-P PROFILENAME -no-remote
Now on the second shortcut, which I suggest you give a relevant name to, go into the same place except use the profile name for the secondary profile. Make sure you use the -no-remote option!
Now you should be able to use either shortcut to open a new Firefox window specific to that profile. Extensions, bookmarks, themes, will all be specific to the profile, and a new profile will start off at default.
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Show PageRank in Firefox while Google Toolbar is Hidden

I prefer the built-in search box to the full Google Toolbar, but I miss having the PageRank easily visible when I'm browsing around without the Google Toolbar enabled. Sure, you can have it installed and hidden, but then you have to reload the page for the pagerank to show up after you unhide the toolbar.
I'm going to assume if you've read this far that you also have the Google Toolbar for Firefox installed.
To use this extremely quick tip, just right-click anywhere on the toolbars, choose Customize, and then drag the PageRank button somewhere else:
I moved mine beside the address bar, but still easily visible.
Only three clicks required for this and you cant find there many other options which are useful…Like you can change the position of other options in the bar and can add some more features on your toolbar like ….google calender , google maps and many other such options.
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If you've started using the beta of Firefox 3, you've probably already seen the new Smart Bookmarks folder that is created by default. This folder can be useful for looking up sites you just visited or bookmarked… but how do you get it back if you accidentally deleted it?
Luckily there's a simple about:config tweak that will restore it, requiring almost no work at all.
In case you aren't sure what we're talking about, here's the default Smart Bookmarks folder, which dynamically shows you the "Most Visited", "Recently Bookmarked" and "Recent Tags" bookmarks:

Type about:config into the address bar, accept the warning message, and then filter by the following:
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You should see a single entry in the list with a default value of true. Double-click on it to set the value to false, restart Firefox, and your Smart Bookmarks folder is now back:

Nice and simple, just the way it should be.
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To turn off this behavior, type about:config into the address bar, and then type the following into the Filter bar:
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Then click and drag the "Bookmarks Toolbar Items" to another toolbar… I chose to move them to the Navigation toolbar.
Now you'll be able to hide the Bookmarks Toolbar.
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Let's check it out… I decided to scan the Dr.Web Firefox plugin with Dr.Web, just to see what it would display.
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If you've spent any time tweaking Firefox 3, you've probably seen the warning message telling you that you probably shouldn't be changing any settings. Thankfully you can remove the checkbox and make the message go away… but what if you wanted it back?

I know what you are thinking… why would you possibly want it back?

If you are customizing Firefox for somebody else and you turned the warning off… you might want to re-enable it after you are done to help prevent them from making changes.

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Type in about:config into the address bar, and then filter by the following:

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The first time you click the button you'll be prompted to login to del.icio.us.

It takes a few minutes sometimes for the tooltip on the Readeroo button to appear, but normally it will tell you how many items are left to be read.

Click on the button and you'll get the next item in the queue… it's just as simple as that.

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Change Ctrl+Enter Behavior in Firefox

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Change Ctrl+Enter Behavior in Firefox

Yesterday I was wondering how to change Firefox so that Shift+Enter auto-completes *.org instead of *.net. After about a 2 minute google session, I had to find the answer to share with everybody.

About:Config Tweak

To adjust the built-in Ctrl+Enter setting, you can just set some values in the Firefox configuration to change the default from .com to whatever else you want. If you want to change Shift+Ctrl+Enter then you'll have to skip down to the next section.

Navigate to about:config in your address bar, and then filter by browser.fixup as shown here:

There are a couple of values that you can set related to this setting:

  • browser.fixup.alternate.enabled - You can use this to turn the Ctrl+Enter behavior off entirely.
  • browser.fixup.alternate.prefix - This value sets the prefix assigned before the keyword you type.
  • browser.fixup.alternate.suffix - This value sets what is assigned after the keyword. For instance, you could use this to change the default suffix to your country code, like .co.uk

Use the URL Suffix Extension

If you want to configure all of the settings, including the Shift+Enter for .net and the Ctrl+Shift+Enter for .org, you can use the URL Suffix extension to configure all of them, or even set a custom value for when you hit Enter in the address bar.

Install the extension, and then open up the options through the add-ons screen. You'll see this easy to use dialog:

If you make any changes, you can view them immediately.

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Manually Remove Skype Extension from Firefox

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Manually Remove Skype Extension from Firefox

If you accidentally checked the wrong box while installing Skype, you now are the proud recipient of an extension in Firefox that you can't uninstall. Sure, you can disable it… but what about uninstalling it?

You could completely uninstall Skype, and then reinstall it without checking the button, but there's a simpler (and more geeky) method.

Removing Skype Extension Manually

The first thing you want to do is go into Tools \ Add-ons and disable the extension if you haven't already. You'll notice that there's no uninstall option, which is rather irritating… Skype is very useful, but it shouldn't pollute my Firefox.

Now close Firefox and open up a Windows Explorer window and browse down to the following location, adjusting if you installed Firefox somewhere else:

C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\extensions

In that folder you'll find another folder with the following name:

{B13721C7-F507-4982-B2E5-502A71474FED}

Just delete that folder (or move it somewhere else if you want to be safe), and then open Firefox again. You'll notice that the Skype extension is no more.


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How to See Where a TinyUrl Is Really Linking To
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How to See Where a TinyUrl Is Really Linking To

You've already seen them… links to tinyurl.com left in comments, on blog posts and especially on Twitter. But doesn't it make you slightly uneasy to click on a link without knowing where it's going to take you?

There's a feature on the TinyURL.com site that will show you a preview of the final destination URL, and there's not even a login required… it just sets a cookie on your browser.

Once on the site, just click the link for "Click here to enable previews"

And now when you click on a TinyUrl link like this one…

http://tinyurl.com/2tqueo

You'll be taken to a page on tinyurl.com that will show you the final destination link.

If you'd like to ensure that the person you are sending links to will see the preview screen even if they haven't enabled this setting, you can add preview. before the domain name. This also works if you want to go to a TinyUrl link on a machine that doesn't already have the cookies enabled.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/2tqueo

I found this very useful, so hopefully it'll also help somebody else.

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Why Doesn't AutoComplete Always Work in Firefox?

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Why Doesn't AutoComplete Always Work in Firefox?

If you're the type of person that always allows Firefox to save your login credentials for the sites you visit, you might be very frustrated when you come across a site that doesn't even prompt you to save the credentials. We've got the lowdown on what's going on here.

Here's that awful form I have to type into almost every day… I'm really getting tired of it.

So I take a look into the source for the page, and here's the culprit: the AUTOCOMPLETE="off" on the form will tell Firefox to disable auto completing for that form. The form elements themselves also have the same tag on them.

You'll find this happens quite often on corporate vpns, banks, and other sites where they are worried about security and don't want you to save your passwords, so they use this tag in their pages to prevent your browser from saving the credentials.

Your Best Option: Greasemonkey it!

You can use a greasemonkey script to re-enable the autocomplete on the form elements. You can find a number of them at userscripts.org:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/search?q=autocomplete

Or you can write your own if you feel like it… for some reason the other scripts did not work on my screwy corporate vpn at work, so I created a new script that manually set the attributes of each.

var frm = document.forms[0];
frm.setAttribute('autocomplete', 'on');
frm.elements[0].setAttribute('autocomplete', 'on');
frm.elements[1].setAttribute('autocomplete', 'on');

Hint: the Firebug extension is a great way to figure out what the elements are if you are writing a script.

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Automate Filling in Wordpress Comment Fields

One of the more annoying things about visiting blogs is having to fill out all the comment fields. They are the same on every blog (including this one). Sure, you can hit the down arrow key and Firefox might remember what you typed last, but it's still a pain, especially as a blogger when you want to leave a lot of comments.

A much simpler way is to use an application to fill out the fields for you. I've chosen the Texter application, just because it's the latest software that I've been playing with.

Download and install the software, and go through the tutorial on the download page. Once you've got it installed, hit Ctrl+Shift+H to bring up the Add new hotstring dialog, and enter the following, making sure to set the dropdown to "Script", or else it won't replace the {Tab} with an actual tab key.

My Name{Tab}my@email.com{Tab}http://www.mysite.com{Tab}My Message Here

You'll want to give it a unique hotstring, something that you wouldn't need to use in other applications. I chose wp1.

So now just type in wp1 into the name field in any comments box:

Hit the tab key, and you should see it auto-fill in the fields, and position the cursor in the comment box so you can write a personalized comment.

This tool is unbelievably useful.

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Change Update Interval of Live Bookmarks in Firefox

If you are a fan of the Live Bookmarks feature, you might wonder how to make them update quicker since the default update time is once per hour, and there isn't a place in the interface to configure this.

You can always manually right-click on the bookmark and choose Reload Live Bookmark, but that's hardly efficient if you have dozens of feeds bookmarked.

You can change the default interval for all live bookmarks with a config setting. Just type about:config into the address bar, and then filter by the following key:

browser.bookmarks.livemark_refresh_seconds

If it doesn't exist, which is most likely the case, then right-click in the blank area and choose New \ Integer.

Copy in the key from above as the name, and then set the default value to 1800, which is 30 minutes in seconds.

The default value used internally is 3600 if the setting does not exist. You should be careful about not setting this value too low, as you might get banned by the server you are trying to connect to if you have the browser updating too often. The minimum value accepted is 60 seconds, but you should never set it that low.

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Conserve Space in Firefox by Combining Toolbars

I'm not a fan of wasted space in user interfaces, so any time I can consolidate down to only useful functionality I'm happy about it. The subject today is how to consolidate the Firefox toolbars down to just the items we actually use, to save space for the 45 tabs I like to have open.

Hide the Menu Toolbar with Personal Menu Extension

There are a number of ways to hide the Menu toolbar, but I prefer using the Personal Menu extension. Once you've installed the extension, you'll be able to hide the menus toolbar:

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To show the menu toolbar again you can use the Alt key. You'll also notice that some new items will be added to your menu, which can be customized or just removed.

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Make Trillian on Vista Open Links in Firefox

When I switched to Vista, one of the biggest annoyances was that Trillian started opening links in Internet Explorer instead of Firefox, even though Firefox is set as my default browser and works everywhere else.

Turns out it's an extremely simple setting. Just open Trillian Preferences and click on Text Conversations.

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In this dialog, uncheck the option for "Open links in a new browser window"

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I have to assume that Trillian uses some sort of built-in "new browser" mechanism that isn't compatible with Vista.

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Add Sticky Notes to Any Page with Internote for Firefox


How many times have you wanted to put a sticky note on a page to remind you of something? For instance, you could put a sticky note on digg.com so the next time you visit it tells you that you should really be doing something more productive. =)

The Internote extension for Firefox lets you put sticky notes on any page you visit, and they will be there when you return to the page. Since it's an extension, it won't work across computers, but it's still quite useful.

Once you install the extension, you'll notice the little yellow icon in the status bar. You can also add a bigger icon to the toolbar if you want. Clicking once will give you a new sticky note, and right-clicking will give you the menu where you can get to the manager.

In the Internote manager, you can see the list of all the sticky notes that you've left, and change/export them.

Really a quite useful extension, and it even has a little eye candy.

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Scan Files for Viruses Before You Download With Dr.Web


If you frequently download files from suspicious sites, it's probably worth it to check for viruses Before you download, instead of waiting to see if your regular anti-virus software will catch it after you download.

The solution? You can use the Dr.Web plugin, which will add an item to the right-click menu to allow you to scan any web page or download link using their online virus checker.

Let's take it for a test drive… I decided to scan the Dr.Web Firefox plugin with Dr.Web, just to see what it would say.

Looks like it's clean! (shocker)

Keep in mind that no anti-virus software is absolutely perfect or will catch every virus, so this isn't a substitute for using a proper anti-virus software. You should also still be careful where you download files from.

This plugin will also not work for webmail attachments. I tested this on Gmail and it didn't work, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, because it means your attachments are private.

Add Simple POP3 Mail Client and Notifier to Firefox


If you like to have your entire computing experience within your Firefox window, you might be interested in accessing your POP email accounts directly in Firefox. The Simple Mail extension gives you this functionality, and true to the name it's very simple.

After installation, you should notice the little mail icon in the status bar, which will highlight and display an unread count if there are new messages, but first you'll want to right-click it and open the preferences to add your new account.

Here you can add a new account or import from Thunderbird (a feature I did not test)

Left-clicking on the mail icon will open the mail client interface, nothing more than a two-paned display of the messages sitting on your server. You can choose to delete the individual message through the right-click menu.

The new or reply up options bring the new email dialog, which is also really simple.

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Add Simple POP3 Mail Client and Notifier to Firefox


If you like to have your entire computing experience within your Firefox window, you might be interested in accessing your POP email accounts directly in Firefox. The Simple Mail extension gives you this functionality, and true to the name it's very simple.

After installation, you should notice the little mail icon in the status bar, which will highlight and display an unread count if there are new messages, but first you'll want to right-click it and open the preferences to add your new account.

Here you can add a new account or import from Thunderbird (a feature I did not test)

Left-clicking on the mail icon will open the mail client interface, nothing more than a two-paned display of the messages sitting on your server. You can choose to delete the individual message through the right-click menu.

The new or reply up options bring the new email dialog, which is also really simple.

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