Michael asks…
How can I only allow users of Mozilla Firefox to visit my website?
My website is only compatible with Mozilla Firefox. What code could I use to make it so only users of this browser can access my site?
Michelle answers:
I don’t think that you can do that. I guess the users will just have to find out that they can only access your website through Firefox.
Donna asks…
How do you resolve Firefox 3 memory usage problems?
Every once and a while, Firefox will hog up the memory to over around 300 MB of RAM (looked through it via Task Manager). It easily resolves by just restarting it, but eventually it just climbs back up overtime. Is there a solution to this? I don’t use a lot of tabs; just maybe 5-6.
Michelle answers:
Look carefully at the Firefox Add-Ons you are using. I recently experienced a problem where memory usage suddenly soared to nearly 1G in use within a few minutes of time, for no obvious reason.
I disabled all of the add-ons except Flashblock (I hate useless animation) and it never happened again. I have not yet tried enabling them again, one by one, but try disabling them all and see if it helps you.
Chris asks…
How do I switch to the new Yahoo Mail using the latest version of Mozilla Firefox?
I’ve downloaded the latest version of Mozilla Firefox (3.5.5) but I can’t switch to the new version of Yahoo Mail. Yahoo says the all new mail isn’t supported by my browser and that I need to download Firefox 2 or higher which I have done ( I have version 3.5), but it will only let me use Mail Classic.
Michelle answers:
Download Mozilla Firefox 3.5 – http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/
Then get the AdBlockPlus add on – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
I use both of these and all of my inbox’s (incl. Hotmail and aol) are free of adverts. What AdBlockPlus does is scan the page and block the adverts from loading. So in doing that it also speeds up your browsing as there is not so much crap to load.
Download Google Chrome – http://www.google.com/chrome?hl=en
? Download and install Privoxy.
? Click on the Wrench icon in Chrome in the upper right corner.
? Choose options -> Under The Hood -> Change proxy settings.
? In the Internet Properties dialog’s Connections tab, click on the LAN settings button.
? Check off “Proxy settings” and in the address setting add 127.0.0.1 and in the port 8118.
? If you have the option, you can also check off “Bypass proxy for local settings”.
? Click “OK,” close Chrome and restart it.
Download Internet Explorer – http://www.microsoft.com/windows/Internet-explorer/default.aspx
First, you need to download a list of filters adapted from the adblock plus list for Internet Explorer 8. This can be found here or attached at the end of this article. Download the archive and extract its content.
NOTE: If you want to have the ad blocking filters running each time you use Internet Explorer 8, then follow the instructions on how to keep InPrivate Filtering enabled forever.
? Start Internet Explorer 8, click on Tools and then on Manage Add-ons.
? In the Manage Add-ons window, click on InPrivate Filtering and then on Import.
? Browse to the location where you extracted the rules.xml file, select it and click on Open.
? When the import is done, you will receive a notification such as the one below.
? Now close the Manage Add-ons window and you are done.
? If you know other sources for good filters, don’t hesitate to share them with us by leaving a comment.
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James asks…
How do you move Firefox bookmarks and site passwords from one computer to another?
I am running Firefox on a windows machine, and will be using them on a windows machine also. It would be nice if I could save the passwords and bookmarks to a flash-drive for the transfer.
Michelle answers:
I don’t think you can move stored passwords, as they are stored in the browser security settings and temporary files.
For Firefox Bookmarks it’s very easy. And you can even move them cross platform also (like from Windows to a Mac, or from Windows to Linux or Mac to Linux or the other way around).
Go to Bookmarks -> Show All Bookmarks and click on Import and Backup, select Export Bookmarks to HTML, save the resulting HTML file.
Copy the Bookmarks HTML file to external media (USB or CD/DVD) and copy to the other computer. You can even e-mail the Bookmarks HTML file to yourself and save it in the new computer.
In the other computer, go to Bookmarks -> Show All Bookmarks and click on Import and Backup, select Import Bookmarks to HTML, search for the Bookmarks HTML file copied from the first computer and open it, it will load all your old Bookmarks into the other computer’s Firefox Bookmarks.
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