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Most modern web browsers provide the ability to save and remember passwords for various web sites. Mozilla Firefox is no exception, it gives you the ability to save and sync your passwords across multiple devices. Firefox Password Manager is a feature in Mozilla Firefox which allows you to store and use usernames and passwords for multiple websites. In order to remember…
There are several inherent font issues that you deal with when designing a website. Many of these issues resulted in very few fonts being available to the designer and effectively used on the web pages. Web designers had to specify multiple fonts some as backup or fallback fonts and to rely on font families. None of these were the ideal…
Images are one of the most resource intensive elements on a webpage. It can negatively affect the rendering of a web page as well as one of the major factors affecting the page load speed on your webpages. There are several steps you can take to improve the performance of the images while rendering. First and foremost, you should optimize…
Bookmarks are getting pretty outdated in modern day browsing as more and more cloud services take over the functionality of keeping track of the pages, page content and the URLs that you want to visit later. The cloud services and sync functionalities in the browser give you several good features such as keeping the bookmarks in sync and the ability…
Cookies or Web Cookies have almost become an integral part of modern day web browsing. Cookies are small (usually and hopefully) pieces of data stored on your machine by websites as and when you visit them. It usually contains the kind of information that a website may find useful as you are browsing or when you return to the same website at a later…
User Agent String is a string value associated with a web browser that specifies its browser type, version, Operating system (OS) version and other relevant information and you can change user agent string as needed on your browser. This information is send to the web server when the web browser makes a request for a page or content. This information…
Installing Mozilla Firefox on your system is the first step towards using it as your everyday browser. Almost all of the major Linux distribution comes installed with a version of Firefox and every Linux distribution has its own different way of installing softwares, which means the method of installing and updating will vary. The package manager associated with your distro will…
Most modern web browsers support custom or user stylesheets which can be used to modify the look and feel of a web page before it is rendered. Usually there are multiple ways to set up a custom stylesheet (or user css file) in web browsers. Some browsers use extensions or addons while other just uses a simple css text file. Sometime you can…
There are several software programs which allows you to take the screenshot of your desktop, but sometimes you need to capture the screenshot of a webpage. It is easy enough to do it if the whole section of the screenshot that you wish to capture can be displayed on the screen. If you want to take the screenshot of a…
Google Chrome have been revamping many of their settings and preferences pages. As Google Chromium is the browser on which the more stable chrome is based on, the latest and greatest (and worst!) usually lands on chromium first. The latest to make landfall is the new Extensions manager or settings page. Currently, it seems to maintain most of the previous…
Almost all modern browsers support a user customizable CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) that you can use to modify the look and feel of a website when it is displayed on your browser. You could change the fonts, the color and even the layouts of almost all websites using custom user stylesheets. I am sure there are atleast a couple annoying…
