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Backup Firefox Profile Data in Windows, Linux and Mac

Mozilla Firefox Browser

Mozilla Firefox Browser

Mozilla Firefox has increasingly become popular and now is the default browser for many of the internet surfers. The browser which was used only by geeks earlier is being used by commoners too these days. With the popularity of the browsers, there have been reports of many problems experienced by the users. One such common problem is crashing of Mozilla Firefox. Whatever the reason for this crashing, the first solution advised to solve this problem is reinstalling the browser.

When you are reinstalling your browser or even when you are changing your computer, you would want to backup your Mozilla Firefox data. Though, there are automated tools to backup Mozilla Firefox profiles, they don't work on crashign browser. So here is the manual method to have a full backup of your Mozilla Firefox settings and personal data. Continue to backup your Firefox Profile Data

Monday, November 16th, 2009 GTD, Tutorials 3 Comments

Speed up your Firefox 3 Browser

Mozilla Firefox 3.0+ can be made more faster by use of some  tips and tricks. This is the one of those tricks

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Mozilla Firefox 3 Speedup guide

# Open the Error Console: Tools menu/Error Console

# In the Code text box paste this (it’s a single line):

Components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection.executeSimpleSQL("VACUUM");

# Press Evaluate. All the UI will freeze for a few seconds while databases are VACUUMed

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Screenshot of Mozilla Firefox Error console to make FF run faster

#From now you can see your dear Firefox 3 running faster making load websites in a jiffy.

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 GTD 16 Comments

How to Change Google Chrome default Cache Location

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Google Chrome Backup Profile Tool

User Bully has posted this question on our Google Chrome Tips and Tricks post

how can i change the cache directory of chrome using registry key or doing program. plz help me!

So we thought we will post here about the easiest way to change your Google Chrome default folder. Actually, this method can be used to backup your Google Chrome data too. Google Chrome Profile Backup

Monday, August 24th, 2009 GTD 8 Comments

Install Flash manually in portable Google Chrome

Flash served with Google Chrome

Flash served with Google Chrome

Many of you might have already known what Google Chrome is. Google Chrome has this problem of installing it without administrator privileges and other stuff like portability and so. Portable Apps is a suite which tries to answer the problem through its suit of applications that could be run from a USB pen drive. One glitch in Portable Apps suite is that it provides support for only GPL licensed software. Though Google Chrome is not GPL licensed, some people have made an unofficial Portable Google Chrome version. But one lacking feature in it is that you don't find Flash plugin in it and you can't install flash directly using the official Flash installer. For installing the flash plugin in Portable Google Chrome, you can follow the below simple step-by-step procedure. Continue here to serve Flash in Chrome

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 GTD 12 Comments

Download Google Chrome Standalone installer

Google Chrome has entered into the browser space with a bang. It used the fame of Google to launch its amazingly fast and simple designed browser into main stream. Initially started as a beta service it soon got that tag removed than most of the other Google products. It has laid foundation from some innovative browsing. People have created lots of hacks and techniques to make your Chrome browser work efficiently and effectively. Download Google Chrome Offline Installer

Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Downloads, GTD 10 Comments