One of my pet peeves about tabbed web browsers is the blank tab page. More specifically, it annoys me when I click to open another tab and I get a "New Tab" page, or completely blank page. I'm a Google fan; I want Google to load. I just don't understand why Microsoft and Mozilla won't make the default setting load your homepage for new tabs!

Out of the box FoxTorrent does not require any configuration -- it simply works. You don't need to configure NATs or UPnP, or bypass firewalls. The client also keeps running even if Firefox has been closed, because it starts a daemon process named RedSwoosh in the background when Firefox is first launched.

FoxTorrent has a small footprint. On my machine the client never consumed more than 5MB of memory while downloading files and 2MB when idle.

For a technical person, this system is a bit problematic because the full list of preferences doesn't appear anywhere on disk, and the standard way to change those preferences is to use the Firefox User Interface, which also is incomplete. That interface provides GUI elements (buttons, fields and check boxes) for only the most basic of the preferences available. Firefox isn't trying to be Emacs, after all. The rest of the preferences have to be dug up from elsewhere.

That other place is the special string about:config, which can be typed in the Firefox Location bar where the addresses of Web sites are entered.

A systematic way to determine which extension or theme is the culprit involves disabling all extensions, then re-enabling them one by one until Firefox breaks again. Of course, you'll need to restart Firefox each time you disable or enable an extension. Then, when you think you've found the problem extension, disable that most-recently enabled extension to confirm that it's the source of your woes. If an update is not available for it, uninstall the extension permanently. There's bound to be another extension that offers a similar feature, so go shopping on the Mozilla Updates site, and around the Web. Losing an extension is never the end of the world!

Firefox 3.5 is already the most widely used browser in the world. A lot of openness in the web that we enjoy today and that we take for granted is because of the open source browser, Firefox. Light the world with Firefox video is a nice depiction of Firefox through the years. But how many of you actually knew that there are a number of Firefox based browsers which are as good or oven better than Firefox? Here is a list of 5 Firefox based browsers you should know.

Screengrab will capture what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame... basically it saves web pages as images - either to a file, or to the clipboard. It captures Flash too!

If you spend most of your computing life in Firefox, it makes sense to consolidate other online activities in your browser. There are extensions that can help you to do just that: you can manage your bookmarks with the del.icio.us extension, chat on IRC channels using Chatzilla, and read RSS feeds in Sage. Jabber instant messaging users have their own extension: the SamePlace, a nifty IM client that, besides the basic Jabber functionality, offers a few unique and useful features.