Firefox extensions

If you are not using Firefox, you are limiting yourself to an inferior browser like IE which you are probably using. You don't have to use the beta release of Firefox like I do. Firefox 1.07 is way better than Opera. Don't even mention Internet Explorer - the only reason IE is fast is because Microsoft
preloads it at startup. You can do this for Firefox as well -- next
lesson will cover that.

Back to Firefox 1.07.... give yourself a favour and download and
install it. After that, there are a lot of extensions and "hacks" or
rather features. There is the "ad block" extension, the "tab browser
preferences", and the "download manager tweak". All of which I highly
recommend and use. But the best one is getting rid of those annoying
pop-ups when a site is not responding or down. To do this:

1. type about:config in the URL

2. type "browser.xul.error_pages.enabled"

3. set it to true by double click.

That's it. When you read the pages to the Age or the NY Times and some
ad site is timing out for example, you will never get a timeout
pop-up! This means the page will continue to load in the background
(assuming you are of course using tabs while browsing). I usually have
at least 3 tabs running simultaneously in one window but this tweak
gets rid of the user input while loading the pages. Just load and if
some pages don't load, just keep loading!