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Firefox: Change Address Bar Search Provider

Firefox: Change Address Bar Search Provider

Technology
When Firefox performs a search from the Address Bar, it queries the search engine string you have setup within Firefox. If it’s using Yahoo, you can switch to Google. Don’t like Google? Use DuckDuckGo. Here’s how to switch which search engine Firefox searches when you use the address bar to search.   1. In Firefox type about:config in the address bar and press ENTER. 2. Locate and double-click the entry for keyword.URL 3. Set the value based on which search provider you would like to use for your address bar searches. Here are a few search strings you can use. Yahoo: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p= Ask: http://www.ask.com/web?q= Bing: http://www.bing.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q= DuckDuckGo: http://duckduckgo.com/?q= Go...
Firefox 4 vs Internet Explorer 9

Firefox 4 vs Internet Explorer 9

Technology
I was a fan of Mozilla FireFox, always used their browser. however the day I downloaded FireFox 4 and used it. I start losing interest in them because it loads pages very slow, it made me think that I have some problem with ISP I am using. As it was in my mind that from the day I am facing slow page loading from the day I start using Mozilla FireFox so I start looking for its alternative. Later I got to know that Microsoft has also launched its new version of Internet Explorer (IE9). Since I had a bad experience with IE8 and IE7, I was afraid to use this one, but later I found that unlike its previous version, this version of Internet Explorer (IE9) is much more cooler than FireFox 4. It is more stable and also loads pages faster. It is true that FireFox 4 has cool interfac...