Opera + Tor - Private browsing ka BAAP..:)

OperaTor (Windows Only) is a small software bundle that combines the power of Opera and Tor to create totally anonymous browsing. Best part, it is portable so you can stick it on a thumb drive.



If you don’t know what Tor is, it is a program that channels your internet through a large network of proxy servers. This means if you try to access a website, a few computers will be in between you and the server you are trying to connect to.
Personally I had some trouble loading the images and it was a little slower than I wanted. Personally, when I used the original Tor and configured Firefox for it, it loaded faster than OperaTor. Hopefully future releases will fix some of the small bugs here and there.
Update 1/26/09: I found out it works behind some surf-controls and internet filtering proxies by simply bypassing them (for when you are at school or at work)
OperaTor Website (Portable FreeWare)

How to Enable Right Click in Websites

You are probably sometimes tried to save images or copy the contents of the website site that forbid their use of the right-click. Most websites use javascript to prohibit the use of the right-click , so to enable it you should disable the javascript.

There are many ways to do ti , the simplest by my opinion is using Web Developer 1.1.9 , firefox add-on .
1) Downlaod Web Developer 1.1.9 from this link
2) Click Disable button

3) Select Disable Javascript

4) Again select “All Javascript” option.

Browse Privately in Chrome Without Going Fully Incognito

 

Incognito mode in Chrome is great for private browsing sessions, but its annoying that it disables other things too, like cookies. Here's how to keep sites from being logged in your history in an otherwise normal Chrome session.

If you want to browse privately but still be able to stay signed into all your sites, you can keep your history from logging them without the trouble of an entire Incognito session. Reader tutleman explains:

Though Chrome is a great browser, I'm always bugged by the fact that I can't tell it not to save my history without being in incognito mode. To fix this, just head on over to
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/History on a Mac, or C:\Users\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\History on Windows. Then, just set the history file as read only. Poof! Now Chrome won't keep your browsing history past the current session.

To set a file as read only in Windows, just right click on it, hit Properties, and check the "Read Only" box. In OS X, right click on the file, hit Get Info, and under "Permissions" set every drop-down to Read Only.

New Add-Ons For Web-Browsers.......!!!!

Extend Search Engine Options In Firefox With Advanced Search

In some cases it is hard to get a correct result for a search even from Google. This generally happens when we search files related to any specific program like MS Word file. Advanced Search is a Firefox extension allow search engines to specifically search for certain program formats and websites so as to go for specific types.

As soon as installation is done, extra features are displayed on Firefox Search Bar. You can specify the numerous formats including PDF, Video, Google Earth Kmz, image files, Word, Power Point, Excel,etc.

It also provides site and webpage specific search results. And if the search engine is capable of providing results in multiple languages, this add-on also supports it.

Highlighted text is searched via right click context menu. Thus makes it easy to find results as per criteria.

Some hot keys are as follows :

• F8 opens file type menu (for file type).
• F7 opens search mode menu (for particular specific).

So enjoy the fast and effective way of searching. Add-On(Advanced Search)

Save multiple sessions in Firefox & Chrome on multiple computers

For those who use Firefox and Google chrome browsers, you have the option to save sessions and restore them later. This allows keeping only 1 set of such sessions. However, further functionality can be extended,in a way that one can save multiple sessions and run it on other computer’s as well.

TabCloud is a Firefox add-on or a Chrome extension for this idea. It is basically a browser tab and session manager which lets you save groups of open tabs.The user can later access it on another device. In this application a user has to login into a Google account in order to save the details.This provides security in a connection.

What can be done:

• Click on the TabCloud icon on the menu, you will then see your current open windows and previously saved windows,
• Now, one can save open windows or restore saved ones.
• Also, one may delete previously saved windows.

Other Features :

• Give names to save any open window.
• With the help of favicons,you can easily recognise websites.
• Saved tabs can be accessed from any place by Android
• Promptly reorganise your tabs by drag-n-drop technique.
• Securely hosted by Google, login with your Google Account

TabCloud is an superb add-on to manage browser sessions across multiple computers. Add-On(TabCloud)

Speed up Web Browsing in Linux

In modern computer systems, the biggest bottleneck of information tends to be in communicating with the hard disks. High seek times and relatively slow transmission rates when compared to RAM speeds can add up quickly. This was a necessary evil back when RAM space and costs were at a premium, but now it is not uncommon to see 4GB of RAM on laptops, and even 12GB on desktops.
For  users whose primary computer use is browsing the internet (either for work, writing articles, or lolcats) and have some extra RAM, moving the browser cache to the RAM from the hard disk is a definite option for increasing speed.
In Linux systems (specifically Fedora and Ubuntu systems), this can be achieved for Chrome and Firefox by creating a larger ramdisk, mounting the ramdisk after boot, and then setting the browser of choice to use that ramdisk as a cache. The necessary commands to do this are readily available on the internet, which makes life easy. Using ramdisks for performance boosts are not exclusive to browsers, and can be used for other software such as Nagios for example.
We have previously covered a tool called Espérance DV for moving cache to RAM in Mac OSX, and for any Windows users feeling left out, there are ways of making Firefox bend to your will. Obviously you will see an increase in RAM use (duh), but this shouldn’t be a problem unless you are running out of free RAM on your system. Remember, free RAM is wasted RAM.

Google Chrome Theme for XP users

If you have used Google chrome and you liked the simplicity of it then here we have something similar for you. Simple but attractive look of Google Chrome is now available for Windows XP too. Checkout this screenshot.

click on the image for larger view

The theme is developed by a developer at DevianArt. The download pack consists of everything you will require to make your XP look like Google Chrome. Download the file from the download link given at the end of this article. And do read the Read Me.txt file from the pack.

Download Google Chrome theme for Windows XP (7 MB)

Faster Browsing With RAM Disks

A coworker approached us today wondering if they could get a performance boost using Samsung’s newly announced 256GB SSD. Most of their work is done in browser, so we said “no”.
They’d only see benefit if they were reading/writing large files. Their system has plenty of RAM, and we decided to take a different approach. By creating a filesystem in RAM, you can read and write files much faster than on a typical hard drive. We decided to put the browser’s file cache into RAM.
We installed the Espérance DV preference pane in OSX to facilitate RAM disk creation. It’s really simple to setup. Just select how much space you want to dedicate to the disk and create it. You can have Espérance DV recreate the RAM disk on start and even have it automatically restore from a disk image. There is a check box for moving Safari’s Web Cache to the RAM disk, which creates the necessary symlink. You can also use it to speed up Xcode builds. Moving Firefox’s cache is fairly simple:


$ rm -r ~/Library/Caches/Firefox
$ ln -s /Volumes/RamDisk/Firefox ~/Library/Caches/Firefox


Since the browser isn’t having to hit the hard disk on every page load anymore, the performance is much snappier. Xbench says our random reads from RAM are now 86.19MB/sec instead of 0.61MB/sec when the cache was on the hard drive.
We immediately began looking for ways to get the entire OS into RAM; Tin Hat is a version of Linux that does that.
We’re very happy with the results of our RAM disk browser upgrade. Let us know in the comments if you’ve had a similar experience doing this in Windows.

Firefox CSS Hack: Change Navigation Icons

Why settle for the standard home icon on your browser? If your home button brings you to hackaday.com, why not make the icon reflect that destination? This hack is quick and simple. We’ll take you through it using Firefox 3 and the default theme with standard sized icons.

We start by using our favorite graphics program to make an icon that is 24×24 pixels, and then saved is as a PNG file without compression.
To use the new image as a home icon, we edited a Cascading Style Sheet which is stored in the file classic.jar. On Ubuntu 9.04, this was found in /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.13/chrome/ but the file will be located elsewhere on other operating systems. We made a backup of classic.jar and then unzipped the contents (JARs are basically the same as zip files).
In the unzipped archive, we navigated to the folder /skin/classic/browser/ and opened browser.css using a text editor. This is where the magic happens and although we only changed the home button icon, there’s a lot more possibilities you should look into. We changed the #home-button entry so that the image URL pointed to our new file using the file:/// format. Here’s what ours looked like after the change:

view sourceprint?

#home-button {

list-style-image: url("file:///path_to_our_icon/hackaday-icon.png");

}

We saved this file, then zipped up the file structure back into a file called classic.jar and copied it to the same location we originally found it. A quick restart of Firefox showed the new icon. Let us know your other Firefox tweaks in the comments!
Update: [Colby] pointed out that this type of CSS change should be made in the “userChrome.css” file. He’s right and here’s how:
Find your user profile directory and go to the “chrome” sub-directory inside of it. Create the file “userChrome.css”;  there may already be an example file that you can just rename.  The important bit of this CSS file is the namespace line that tells Firefox how to use it.  Here is what ours looks like:

view sourceprint?

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* set default namespace to XUL */

#home-button {

list-style-image: url("file:///path_to_our_icon/hackaday-icon.png") !important;

}

In order to get Firefox to listen to our new icon we had to had the “!important” keyword. Now just restart firefox and bask in the glory of your new home icon.

Custom Shortcuts From Firefox Address Bar

We picked up a great Firefox bookmark tip from [Colin]. He wanted an easier way to look up bug numbers on the launchpad bug tracker.
Because the url is always the same with the bug number at the end of the address, he replaced the final portion of the url with %s. Now, when he types the keyword followed by the bug number in the address bar the bug page loads right up.

We don’t do all that many bug searches but it’s immediately obvious that this can be useful in a lot of ways. In the photo above you can see we’ve set up a shortcut to the tag pages for hackaday.com. Now we just type “hack” with the tag we want after it. Add this to your bookmarks and try typing “hack firefox” into the address bar.

Password Sync Feature Added to Google Chrome

 

Good news for Google Chrome users - the long-anticipated password syncing functionality has just popped up in the Developer version of the Google Chrome Web browser, which means similar support for users of the beta and stable versions of Chrome is likely to be just around the corner.

We were able to test the new syncing functionality this morning between multiple computers and encountered no errors or obstacles. Password syncing appears to be a go!

Spotted Earlier this Year in Settings, but Was Flaky

Although support for password syncing was spotted earlier this year in Chrome's settings by the folks at Download Squad, the implementation was flaky and wasn't working for all users, they reported. This latest update may hopefully deliver more stability to the feature.
According to the release notes for the Dev Channel build of the Chrome browser, linked to yesterday by the official Chrome Releases blog, a number of issues relating to password synchronization have now been addressed.

Message Appears on New Tab Page

In our case, we saw the badge indicating an update was available for Google Chrome. After performing the update and relaunching the browser, we noticed a note at the bottom of the New Tab page in Chrome indicating the feature. It read: "New! Google Chrome can now sync your passwords."

Clicking the link to enable the feature brought up a "Set up Sync" box where you must fill in your Google Account password. A second screen then appeared, offering you the option to encrypt your password data using either your Google Account password, or, for added security, a special "sync passphrase" - that is, a phrase or sentence that's harder to guess.

After updating from the Beta release to the Dev build on a second machine, we were then able to configure password synchronization from the settings on the additional device. To set it up, Chrome prompted for the passphrase we had just created.

No Official Mention?

Despite the feature's appearance, there's no official mention of password sync being added in the blog post on the Google Chrome Releases website. However, the bug fixes mentioned above do show there's a lot of work going into polishing this new addition.
It's also interesting that the Google Chrome Dev channel is primarily focused on stability improvements right now, a trend which typically indicates that Chrome 9 (the current beta) is probably about to go stable while Chrome 10 (the current Dev build) is about to move into the beta spot. At this point, the beta testers would then have access to the password sync feature, too.
But given that Google hasn't made an official announcement about the launch of password syncing, it's unclear whether or not the feature was supposed to debut just yet, Dev version or otherwise. Will it survive the next Dev build update? Or is this just another accidental sighting, like the one that popped up in October, but was not truly functional? Stay tuned.
In the meantime, for those of you running the Dev build of Chrome, you can try out the new functionality now. Mac and Windows builds are supported. We have not tested on Linux.

Hey Facebook.ers.... & twitter..ers It's For You

Now you can set your facebook status and tweet's just by selecting text in your Firefox browser.

It is quite common that we come across several quotes or lines that we like them and also wish to share them either on Twitter or Facebook, but find it boring to cut, copy and paste the stuff. But not now. Statusus is a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows setting a Facebook status or Twitter's tweet by highlighting text from any website.



All you have to do is simply

• Highlight and right-click the desired text.
• And set your status via the Statusus option.

This eliminates the need to copy and paste text for setting a status. Another very important feature is that companies that disseminate information regarding new developments (e.g. in the technology sector) can also update their readers by immediately posting a URL or news regarding an important development. This Statusus option is of great use.

Detect Naughty Pictures and Video with Nude.js

 

No, Nude.js isn't a Node.js parody or alternative. In fact, I was kind of disappointed to discover that it wasn't. I've become that special sort of geek that would rather read about server side JavaScript than about nudity.

But this is actually pretty cool. It may seem prudish, but if you have antiporn rules you need to enforce on any sort of Web app that allows uploads, this could be helpful. The author, Patrick Wied, suggests it could be used in client-side proxies to ensure child-safe surfing.

Working

1. You use your web browser to make a request for "/about.html" on a Node.js web server.
2. The Node server accepts your request and calls a function to retrieve that file from disk.
3. While the Node server is waiting for the file to be retrieved, it services the next web request.
4. When the file is retrieved, there is a callback function that is inserted in the Node servers queue.
5. The Node server executes that function which in this case would render the "/about.html" page and send it back to your web browser.

Firefox Trick for super speed browsing!

Reduce the amount of RAM Firefox uses for it’s cache feature

Here’s how to do it:
1. Type “about:config” (no quotes) in the adress bar in the browser.

2. Find “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer”
3. Set it’s value to “0“;(Zero)

Increase the Speed in Which Firefox loads pages

1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit Enter.
(Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipeliningit will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.)

2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 10.

This means it will make 10 requests at once.

3. Lastly, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0“;.(Zero)

This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages faster now.
Optionally (for even faster web browsing) here are some more options for your about:config (you might have to create some of these entries by Right Click –> New– > Interger or String

network.dns.disableIPv6: set “false”
“content.notify.backoffcount”: set “5“; (Five)
“plugin.expose_full_path”: set “true”.
“ui.submenuDelay”: set “0; (zero)

Reduce RAM usage to 10mb when Firefox is minimized:

This little hack will drop Firefox’s RAM usage down to 10 Mb when minimized:

1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter “config.trim_on_minimize”. Press Enter.
4. Now select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.

These simple tweaks will make your web browsing with Mozilla Firefox 2-3 times faster and easier. And I think they are fairly easy to apply. Enjoy!

Now Customize Your Mouse Settings Firefox

To control mouse in Firefox and to scroll between tabs is a difficult task. So to over come this problem we have MouseControl is a Firefox extension that allows you to customize mouse settings to scroll between tabs, open/close tabs, duplicate current tab and change zoom levels from the mouse buttons.

In MouseControl , to configure settings, click on the Options button (accessible from the Tools, Add-ons section)

MouseControl also gives you facility to set scrolling options and choose between a right to left or left to right tab view. A list of numerous functions that you can perform with the mouse via this extension are as follows:

1. To open a new tab: double click the right click button.
2. To scroll between tabs: hold the right click button and use the middle scroll to move between tabs. Left click to return to original tab.
3. To close a tab: click on the tab with the middle scroll.
4. To open a closed tab: hold the middle scroll button for a second.
5. Duplicate tab: hold duplicate tab after right clicking twice
6. Zoom in/out: hold left mouse button and scroll up and down to zoom in/out. You can reset the zoom levels by clicking the middle scroll.

MouseControl is a use full part which helps in fast and effective use of mouse. MouseControl is quite a dynamic extension that adds new features to the mouse buttons in Firefox and makes it easier to manage tab functions via the mouse. This extension works with Firefox 3 and 4 (b8pre) .Install MouseControl

8 Hidden Firefox Secrets Revealed

 

The best thing about Firefox is that just when you think you know everything there is to know about the browser, something new comes along and surprises you. Here are few hidden tips and tricks. Maybe these are old hat and you know

them already. Or maybe you had no idea these could be done. Lets see how many of these you know already.

1. Open docx file using Firefox without Office 2007: Now, you can view docx files using Firefox by installing OpenXMLViewer which is available for Windows, Mac and Linux users. It is an useful extension for users who haven’t upgrade to Microsoft Office 2007. Basically, the extension will convert docx documents into HTML format so that web browsers can render and display to users. So, the extension is not able to shows embedded objects.

2. More screen space: Make your icons small. Go to View – Toolbars – Customize and check the “Use small icons” box.

3. Mouse shortcuts: We all are aware of the Keyboard shortcuts. But have you ever tried Mouse Shortcuts. Sometimes you are already using your mouse and it is easier to use a mouse shortcut than to go back to the keyboard. Master these cool ones

• Middle click on link (opens in new tab)
• Shift-scroll down (previous page)
• Shift-scroll up (next page)
• Ctrl-scroll up (decrease text size)
• Ctrl-scroll down (increase text size)
• Middle click on a tab (closes tab)

4. Limit RAM usage: If Firefox takes up too much memory on your computer, you can limit the amount of RAM it is allowed to us. Go to about:config, filter “browser.cache” and select “browser.cache.disk.capacity”. It’s set to 50000, but you can lower it, depending on how much memory you have. Try 15000 if you have between 512MB and 1GB ram.

5. Reduce RAM usage further for when Firefox is minimized: This setting will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, taking up much less memory. And there is no noticeable difference in speed when you restore Firefox, so it’s definitely worth a go. Again, go to about:config, right-click anywhere and select New-> Boolean. Name it “config.trim_on_minimize” and set it to TRUE. You have to restart Firefox for these settings to take effect.

6. Move or remove the close tab button: Do you accidentally click on the close button of Firefox’s tabs? You can move them or remove them, again through about:config. Edit the preference for “browser.tabs.closeButtons”. Here are the meanings of each value:

0: Display a close button on the active tab only
1: (Default) Display close buttons on all tabs
2: Don’t display any close buttons
3: Display a single close button at the end of the tab bar (Firefox 1.x behavior)

7. Smart keywords: Smart keywords are an easy way to search specific websites directly from the Firefox Location bar. Instead of going to the targeted website, finding the search function, and executing the search, you can search the website using Firefox, while you are at any website.

For example, suppose you search The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) on a regular basis. You can define a smart keyword to enable searching IMDB through your browser. To search IMDB for information on William Shatner, you would enter the following in the Firefox Location bar: imdb William Shatner

To create a Smart Keyword you can follow the steps given in this Tutorial

8. Firefox Optimizer: Firefox Optimizers for Mozilla Firefox v1.x / 2.x / 3.x was developed for an easy and fast optimization of your browsing experience with Firefox. It is based on a collection of popular and well working optimization settings used and tested by the experts. You can download this software from here.

3 Amazing Firefox Hacks

 

What good is a browser unless you can tweak it, hack it and bend it to your will? No good at all. The more you can hack it, the better it is. And that means that Firefox must be a great browser as when ever you feel that you know everything

 

What good is a browser unless you can tweak it, hack it and bend it to your will? No good at all. The more you can hack it, the better it is. And that means that Firefox must be a great browser as when ever you feel that you know everything

about it you come across a bunch of hidden (and some not-so-secret) tips and tricks available that will crank Firefox up and pimp your browser. Make it faster, cooler, more efficient. So today I have come up with 3 amazing firefox tricks you might not be aware of.

1. Save Session For All Tabs Opened In Multiple Firefox Windows

If you are an ardent user of Firefox then you may be aware that when more than one firefox windows are opened up, in that case when you close a firefox window, it does ask me the option to save the session and exit, rather it ask to close all the tabs in that firefox window, but it wont save the tabs in other windows. So this way you could not save the session for multiple tabs opened in multiple firefox windows.

In such a case, there is only one option left to save the session for all the tabs opened in separate firefox windows by terminating firefox through task manager, here is how you do it.

Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to quickly launch task manager, click the process tab and locate firefox.exe and right click selecting the exe and click End Process Tree.

Next time when you will open firefox it will open all the tabs in all the windows that were previously open.

2. Open & Log In to Multiple Accounts Gmail, Facebook, or Twitter Accounts In FireFox

Firefox extension CookiePie manages Firefox’s cookies—small bits of text stored on your computer that tell a site you’re logged in, for example—in such a way that you can log into the same site multiple times.

How to use it?

Just follow the steps given below:

• Install CookiePie Firefox Extension.
• Create a new tab or use an existing one.
• Open the context menu of the tab (i.e: Press the right mouse button over the tab) and select “Toggle On/Off CookiePie”.
• A cookiepie icon will appear over the tab.
• Go to a site (e.g.: http://www.gmail.com) and login into your account.
• Create another tab.
• Enable CookiePie on that tab too.
• Log in with another account on the same site.

3. Bypass Download Waiting Time On Rapidshare, Megaupload, zShare, Mediafire etc

SkipScreen is a really useful firefox  addon for lot of users who download  various types of files from the popular file and media sharing sites like Rapidshare, Megaupload, zShare, Mediafire, and more.

Most of these file sharing web sites have a annoying waiting time limit before a free user can start downloading the requested file. So, SkipScreen can be really useful in saving your time wasted seeing the download waiting time as it removes the screen of download waiting time from these media sharing sites.

SkipScreen monitors the pages where you see the download time and will get the content you want before the download waiting time completes.