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This one’s similar to LiveHTTPHeaders for FireFox. IE’s handling of headers is sometimes different than FireFox so it’s always nice to see what’s going on under the hood:

ieHTTPHeaders is an Explorer Bar for Microsoft Internet Explorer that will display the HTTP Headers sent and received by Internet Explorer as you surf the web. It can be useful in debugging various web-development problems related to cookies, caching, etc.

Tip: Once installed, the plugin can be accessed through the View > Explorer Bar menu.

Listamatic is a list definitions repository.

You can view many different types of list definitions here. It just goes to show you the many different ways in which you can write a list through CSS. You can submit your own for others to use as well.

Spyware is become more and more prolific. Thankfully, so is our awareness of it. Here is a review of some utilities you can use to clean up your computer. Even if you think you are safe, run one of these anyways. You never now for sure until you do.

“Click on the icon in the status bar to view all the browser windows with a single click.”

Think of OSX’s Expose but for Firefox tabs.

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=1457

Most news outlets are reporting on IE being problematic with spyware and virus, and recommending the public migrate to Firefox to evade such annoyances. Here is a web site that will help you get up and running with downloadable CDs you can share with your friends and family. And the best thing is, it’s free!

>> It seems like copy and paste functionality in forms is really unpredictable in Firefox so I did some digging and their is indeed a known bug.

- Jaime

“Provides some basic tools to help with search engine optimization. Including google backlinks, yahoo, backlinks, PageRank check, http header viewer, and more. All features are available by right-clicking on an open area of a web page.”

This is an excellent tool that’s easy to use. You simply right click on a link and run the appropriate SEO function.

Cnet reviews and ranks everything else, why not web browsers….

Follow the directions below to push Firefox’s page retrieval time to the max. Basically what it does is increases the number of maximum simultaneous HTTP requests for any given web request. You will see a significant increase in page load times. The directions were grabbed from this website, but streamlined below:

1. Type “about:config” at the address bar and hit enter
2. Change the following entries to these new values (right click the row to change it’s value)
• network.http.pipelining = true
• network.http.proxy.pipelining = true
• network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 30
3. Lastly, right click anywhere on the page and select New, 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.

Along with mozilla, Google has come up with a great shortcut for quickly getting the definition of a word or search term. If you type define:something google will find definitions on web pages and display the first one with a link to more.

Mozilla’s search feature works similarly but it usues dictionary.com’s search engine. If you type dict something onto the location bar of Firefox it will auto redirect the search to them.

For more useful Google search tools visit Google Labs or the Mozilla Dict extension home page.