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Its definitely hard to remember the usernames and passwords for all the websites that we visit daily. The benefit of using a smart browser like Firefox is that it saves the login credentials within the Firefox password manager and retrieves them automatically when you visit a particular website thus allowing you to access it.

But what if you want to print out that login credentials list for future reference or want to save it as a document list somewhere within your operating system. Password Export, a Firefox addon, is there to help you in this regard.

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Always wanted a utility that can open virtually any file format including PDFs, Fonts, Flash Video, SWF animations, Microsoft Office formats, Images, Music and Video Files?

Presenting a simple software called Universal Viewer (ATViewer) which supports the following view modes and corresponding file formats.

Generally, Universal Viewer is an application similar to Total Commander Lister but Universal Viewer has more features and is more powerful in terms of usage and speed.

• Text/Binary/Hex/Unicode: all files (unlimited size)
• RTF: RTF/ UTF-8 encoded files
• Images: BMP/ JPG/ ICO/ GIF/ PNG/ WMF/ TGA/ TIFF/ PCX/ PSD/ etc
• Multimedia: all file types supported by MS Windows Media Player (AVI/ MPG/ WMV/ MP3/ etc)
• Internet/Office: all file types supported by MS Internet Explorer (HTML/ XML/ DOC/ XLS/ etc)
• Plugins: all formats supported by Total Commander Lister plugins.

Universal Viewer is a Unicode-compatible and can be integrated into Windows Explorer’s context menu, so there is no problem to call it from anywhere in Explorer: right-click on a file and select “Universal Viewer” item. It can also be integrated into other popular file managers.

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Wanna have better experience surfing on the net? FasterFox is one of Firefox extension offers few features that can speed up your surfing on the net.

You can go for “Turbo Charged” preset for maximum performance and if you would like to have better control over this extension you might want to custom the settings. Under custom setting you will see few other option tabs that are:

1. Cache – giving room to set the memory capacity and cut the unnecessary re-downloading of information.
2. Connection – Increase the number of connections to server for more simultaneous downloading items.
3. Pipelining – multiple requests to the server without waiting for the previous requests.
4. Rendering – faster loading upon clicking the forward and backward button.
5. Popups – give better protection from the clever web developer’s popups.

I’ve installed it in my Firefox browser and I can feel the difference as compared to Avant browser. You can easily get it installed in your firefox by going to tools > add-ons in your firefox browser or if you want to get more information about FasterFox, head to this link. Maximise your surfing experience to the fullest with FasterFox.

Adsense Notifier enables you to look at you adsense account stats automatically. For those who keep looking at their adsense accounts every minute to see if they got clicks, this plugin will surely give you great relief. This plugin is now made available for the new Firefox 2.0.

Alternatively you can also try Google AdSense Widget and Adsense Status. Basically, The Google Adsense Widget is purposely designed for the Yahoo Widgets engine whlist the Adsense Status(it’s been on the net for quite some time) is a plug-in for the Google Desktop sidebar.

Have you ever found interesting videos in youtube or metacafe and some time later they have been removed for unknown reasons. Yeah it’s frustrating. How can we get them? There are few methods on how to retrieve the video but I will show you the easiest way to do that; Fast Video Download.

This is another useful Firefox extension to those who are making collection of the videos out of youtube or any other video sharing sites. Basically you need to install this plugin into the Firefox browser and after restarting Firefox, the plugin will be at the bottom left corner. Simply click at the Fast Video Download icon and a small window will popup asking you where to save the video file to.

You need to download and install FLV Player in order to play the video file (i.e. youtube_video.flv). Now you are ready to play the you favourite videos directly from you computer!

Notes: Fast Video Download can save embedded video files from following video-hosting servers:

Angry Alien, Anime Episodes, Anime Forever, Bad Jojo, Blip.TV, Bo-Funk, Bolt, Break.com, Current.TV, Daily Motion, eVideo Share, Google Video, Grinvi, iFilm, Libero.IT Video, My Space, Put File, Streetfire, Totally Crap, You Tube, V-Social and Vidiac.

Sometimes it might produce “no data” error, just put another try (click again the icon) and it should be working.

I just installed IE tab and I found it comes handy to me especially when I do some tinkerings on my blog and I want to see how my blog changes to the modifications. The Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox will sometimes display different things for the same, say HTML code.

Running 2 browsers simultaneously might be a good idea, but this practice consumes more memory and since I always run few more programs like Adobe Photoshop and MATLAB, it usually took my computer to its knees. For web developers this firefox extension will be helpful as you can see how your webpage displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.

Me: I hope they will develop plugin that will integrate Opera and other major browsers under one roof; Firefox!

Sometimes it’s annoying to find that a link we are opening are PDF files and they freeze our browsers as they try to open the adobe acrobat reader. Surely this is not the case for computer equipped with latest processor, massive RAM etc but as far as my computer is concerned, it’s really a big deal. You might want to consider the following tips if this is a case too for you. I will go with Firefox first as this is my primary browser.

1. Firefox

There are two ways of dealing with PDF files in Firefox.

a) Link Alert – Once this plugin is installed to Firefox, the cursor will change its icon to the files associated with the links you are hovering on. There is further details about this plugin at my previous post (Firefox plugin: link alert).

b) PDF download – This plugin gives you the option on whether to open the PDF files on your browser or to save directly into your hard disk.

2. Internet Explorer

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If you were a person who lets Firefox saves your passwords, you might want to consider the downside of doing this routine. New exploit known as Reverse Cross-Site Request (RCSR), can expose passwords saved at a website (weblog or forum) that allows user-contributed-HTML codes to be added.

This security hole exposes Firefox users to greater vulnerability as compared to Internet Explorer 7, eventhough RCSR attacks are highly targeting the Internet Explorer 7.

A recent large-scale attack using RCSR targeted MySpace.com users and was first reported by Netcraft 10/27/2006. That incident involved fake login forms on the MySpace website inviting users to type in their username and password.Chapin says worsening the problem is the fact forms can be completely hidden from view. After saving a website password in Firefox, it’s possible for that password to be transmitted to another website by unwittingly clicking on an invisible image link

You can see yourself how this exploit works by visiting this link. Enter any username or password (random alphabets and numbers will do) and you will be brought to a new site with youtube video embedded in that new page. Take a closer look and you will notice that if you click on the video you will be brought to, fortunately, google search page (phisher can redirect your password to their website).

Yeah, it’s scary indeed. Even you are well aware of this issue, the chance is still there for you to fall into this trap, as these login forms are having professional look and appear to be “official” and “original”.

Source: P2pNet

Say when you are browsing through internet pages and all of sudden you come to a page that does not respond due to some reasons (e.g. many people swarming the same page at the same time). Since you really need to get into the page, you keep refreshing the page consistently and only time will tell when the page will be back up again. I’m pretty sure you will eventually get frustrated, when fraction of browsing time is spent to keep an eye on that page.

Mr. Uptime is another useful Firefox plugin that exists to assist you with the problem and improves your browsing experience. When you stumble upon a broken page that’s not reachable momentarily, Mr Uptime will present itself right below the top bar (see picture) and offers you with some options to take. You can let Mr Uptime to monitor the page and alert you when it is back up again or you can choose to simply ignore changes that take place in that page. Wait no more, get this plugin onboard. You can get detail explanations about this plugin by visiting its official page.

It’s really time consuming if you are browsing through a website and really keen to learn about its pagerank, alexa ranking, number of backlinks it has and all SEO data associated to it especially when it involves many sites. SEO Quake simplify your chores by automatically displaying all SEO data at the top of websites you drop by and is currently available to the Internet Explorer and Firefox users. Basically, this plugin consists of two functional parts that are Seo Bar and Inclusion of Parameters in Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs)

SeoBar
SeoBar can be described as an additional toolbar, which shows the values of selected parameters for the page currently opened in the browser window. Set of parameters shown by SeoBar is fully customizable by user.

Inclusion of parameters in SERPs
After submission of the query into the search engine user is presented with SERP with search results. SeoQuake shows values of the parameters for search results under each search result shown on SERP. Set of parameters shown is fully customizable by user. Loading of parameters can be handled in two different ways – simultaneously with the loading of the SERP or after SERP loading, by user demand.

Parameters
While having a wide range of default parameters, SeoQuake also gives users the opportunity to create their own parameters and also group them into presets and switch between these presets on the fly, during the work. SeoQuake also gives users the opportunity to create their own parameters and also group them into presets and switch between these presets on the fly, during the work.

Ok, now it’s time to take a peek at SEO Quake for more details.