Thursday, October 09, 2008

Mozilla Firefox

There are various browsers available in the market of software. The intelligence lies in which browser is to be used under what circumstances.

One of the browsers adorable is Mozilla Firefox.Though Mozilla installs small, efficient products, it is build on a very large open source that supports a complex and flexible structure underneath as a SQL db server with Linux kernel or J2EE. Use of XUL instead of simply HTML-applications also called LAMP X, allows Mozilla to overcome all UI mess in terms of navigation, layout and performance.The Mozilla platform and applications can be sliced a number of ways so that the balance between client and server is determined by people, not dictated by the technology.

1. Can add multiple home pages on launch of browser.i.ie by inserting "|" in the default bookmark without quotation.
2. debug scripts using programming
3. Few key commands to work faster
    -- Ctrl- and Ctrl+ can be used to zoom in and out
            -- Ctrl+t new tab
            -- Ctrl+k to move cursor to the search box
            -- Ctrl+w close window
            -- Ctrl+F3 search
            -- find text as u type using /
            -- back and forward alt+<-- alt+-->
            -- Ctrl+ and Ctrl- change font size
            -- Ctrl+l to move to the location bar
            -- switch between tabs ctrl+tab
      and lots more of them...
4. can add-ons to get working more colorful and fast.
5. Add ons supporting different themes and templates, mail notifications, cross platform ftp support and many more.(something similar to winscp)
6. customise browser using monkeygrease and greasemonkey.
7. seesion restore oncrash

There must be many more stuff available.On the whole its cool to work on such applications knowing their potential rather blindly using them.

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