How to Block Cookies of a Specific Website?

Cookies are a valuable way to improve the web browsing experience. They do important things such as remembering preferences and login information. However, other sites may use cookie to track you or to record your browsing habits. This tech-recipe describes how to block or allow cookies for one specific page or website.



Steps to Follow

• Launch Firefox and go to the website you want to block cookies.
• Go to Tools->Page info.

In the Page info window, switch to Permissions tab and head to Set Cookies section.

Uncheck Use Default and then choose Block. That’s it. You have blocked cookies from that website.

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Internet Explorer Browser Slow? Few Tips to Fix IE's Browser Problems and Boost System Performance

I think many computer users have experienced problems of their IE browser being slow. Sometimes the IE browser takes you a long time to open. Sometimes it even hangs or freezes in the middle of the way. Without a proper running IE browser, to surf the internet could be very challenging. Follow through the article and you will find several main reasons for this problem as well as the possible solution.




Disable Ctfmon.exe Process
The Ctfmon.exe Process is one of the main reasons for IE browser slow. It is mainly used in Window Internet Explorer7. The functions of this process is to monitor and control active windows and alternative input services such as handwriting, voice recognition and the word language bar. You can disable it if there is no need to use this process. By doing so, the open speed of IE browser can be optimized in a certain degree. You may follow the these steps to disable the process: Control panel---Regional and language options---language tab---click the details button---advanced Tab---click turn off advanced text service---click OK to finish.

Disable 'Plug and Play' feature

SSDP service is known as a problem which can cause application slow downs, this service will constantly search the new installed hardware devices such as printer, mouse, keyboard etc thus consume additional CPU usage. If there is no new hardware you want to install, it is recommended to disable it for the good sake. Here is how you to disable it: Control Panel---Administration tools---Services---search for "SSDP Discovery Service"---right click on it---click stop button at the top.

Clean up unwanted registry entries
Unwanted registry entry is another reason that cause IE browser slow. These entries mainly generated from programs you've uninstalled on the computer. Sometimes you think that you have successfully uninstalled a program, actually there were still many corrupted, redundant entries left in the Windows registry which make it lumpish and sluggish. The best solution is to use registry cleaner like Registry Easy to clean the registry regularly to maintain it as compact as possible.

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How to setup multiple home pages in Firefox

First off, go to Tools, and then Options from the top menu. Click on the Main or General tab.

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So if I wanted to have Google.com and Yahoo.com both set as startup home pages, I would type in the following:
http://www.google.com|http://www.yahoo.com
So your screen should look like this with the multiple URLs in the Home Page box:

And that’s it! Now when you open a new instance of Firefox, both of the tabs will appear! Sweet! Now there’s also an easier method of doing the same thing and that is to Use Bookmark.

Basically, if you have a folder of bookmarks in Firefox and you want to set all of them as your startup home pages, just click the Use Bookmark button and select the entire folder.

Whichever bookmarks you have stored in that folder will automatically be placed into the Home Page text box separated by the pipe symbol. So you can use either method to get multiple start pages in Firefox!

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How to Turn off Firefox Go Button

If you always press "Enter" after entering a URL into your address bar, you may want to consider removing the "Go" button next to it. Removing the "Go" button from Firefox results in a less cluttered Firefox toolbar and a bigger address bar with which to work. The “Go” button in Firefox is rarely used and takes up space on the screen, although not all that much. If you want, you can easily disable it to give your address bar more room.
Notice the little green useless button on the right side.

Steps to Follow

• Just type in about:config into the address bar, 
• Filter by the value: browser.urlbar.hideGoButton

• Double-click on the value in the list to change it to true. 
• The green button should instantly disappear, as you can see in the screenshot.

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How To Change Lan Settings in Firefox

The Mozilla Firefox's local area network settings allows you to specify how Firefox connects to theInternet. Although the network settings are typically controlled by the operating system, the Firefox settings allows you to change how Firefox connects to the Internet. Specifically, you can setup Firefox to use a proxy server, which conceals your true Internet protocol, or IP, address.



This article will help you to get in to LAN settings in Firefox.

Instructions

1. Open Mozilla Firefox.
    
2. Press the "Alt" key to expose the Menu Bar, if it is not already visible.
    
3. Click "Tools" in the top Menu Bar and select "Options".
    
4. Click the "Advanced" tab in the "Options" window, and click the "Network" sub-tab.
    
5. Click "Settings" in the "Connections" section to access the LAN settings.

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Change Ctrl+Enter Behavior in Firefox

Let us discuss how to change Firefox so that Shift+Enter auto-completes *.org instead of *.net. If you are unfamiliar with how this works, you can enter in google into the address bar, and use Ctrl+Enter instead of just hitting enter and Firefox will automatically complete it to www.google.com.

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:

Any changes you make in here should be immediate.

Source:-http://firefox-technical-support.blogspot.in/2011/07/change-ctrlenter-behavior-in-firefox.html

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How To Disable Blinking Text in Firefox

Blinking text on a webpage can be extremely annoying.  Here we take a look at how to disable the annoyance in Firefox.

• Open up Firefox and enter about:config into the address bar then hit enter.

• If you get the void warranty message just click on “I’ll be careful, I promise!” and uncheck the box next to “Show this warning next time” if you don’t want to see it again.

• Now in the Filter box type in or just copy and paste the text below. You will notice the value is set to true. Double click on it to toggle the value to false.

browser.blink_allowed

• Double click on it to toggle the value to false.

Now we have disabled text blinking in Firefox you can restart firefox and check it. 

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