Torbutton for Firefox 4

Torbutton is a 1-click way for Firefox users to enable or disable the browser's use of Tor. It adds a panel to the statusbar that says "Tor Enabled" (in green) or "Tor Disabled" (in red). The user may click on the panel to toggle the status. If the user (or some other extension) changes the proxy settings, the change is automatically reflected in the statusbar.

I lately upgraded my firefox 3.6 to firefox 4 and so far it looks pretty good and I am having fun with the new firefox. But many of the old add-ons were not working and I had to upgrade them as well. Among them, torbutton was also not working so I checked the mozilla addons site but apparently didn't find any update to it. I could each time edit the network preferences to set the proxy but I am too lazy to do that always so checked the torproject site and found new release of torbutton.
Torproject has released alpha version of new torbutton that will work for firefox for now. Though its still in testing phase and might need to be worked on, we can still use it and seems to work well except I can't see the menus properly when I right-click on the torbutton icon.

To download and install torbutton in FF4, Click Here. Btw, the new add-on manager makes the installation process pretty simple and sleek.

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ieHTTPHeaders : An IE alternative for livehttpheaders add-on

Well IE sucks but still if you need to use it and require some http header viewing addon like livehttpheaders for mozilla firefox, then there exists a tool called ieHTTPHeaders serving the same purpose.

I won't write much about it, just visit the official webpage for more information and download links:
Official webpage of ieHTTPheaders
Thanks.

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Browsing the restricted forums without registering

Well it has worked for me and I am posting how you can browse the restricted forums by misusing the SEO things(I guess). A website traffic hugely depends upon the google search and hence most of the websites allow the google bot to crawl and index their pages for appearing in the search result. Now the google bot useragent is allowed to crawl any restricted forum and hence they can index those pages.

The requirement is the useragent switcher add-on for firefox which can be downloaded from HERE. Install this addon and restart it.

Now in the firefox menu, under tools, you will see a new option Default User Agent from where you can choose different user agents and add new user agents. Among the available user agents, you will find the Google Bot 2.1 useragent under the Search Robots option. Choose the Google Bot 2.1 as your default user agent and now start visiting the forums that were asking you to register. It will also work on other types of websites which usually require login. I hope this helps you. Thanks :)

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Mozilla Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

Firefox is becoming more and more popular among the web browsers and this page lists the keyboard shortcuts that can be used with Mozilla Firefox.

F1     Opens Firefox help
F3     Find more text within the same webpage
F5     Reload the current webpage
F6     Toggles the cursor between the addressbar and current webpage
F7     Toggles Caret Browsing on and off.
       Used to be able to select text on a webpage with the keyboard
F11     Switch to Full Screen mode 
CTRL + A  Select all text on a webpage
CTRL + B  Open the Bookmarks sidebar
CTRL + C  Copy the selected text to the Windows clipboard
CTRL + D  Bookmark the current webpage
CTRL + F  Find text within the current webpage
CTRL + G  Find more text within the same webpage
CTRL + H  Opens the webpage History sidebar
CTRL + I  Open the Bookmarks sidebar
CTRL + J  Opens the Download Dialogue Box
CTRL + K  Places the cursor in the Web Search box
CTRL + L  Places the cursor into the URL box
CTRL + M  Opens your mail program to create a new email message
CTRL + N  Opens a new Firefox window
CTRL + O  Open a local file
CTRL + P  Print the current webpage
CTRL + R  Reloads the current webpage
CTRL + S  Save the current webpage on your PC
CTRL + T  Opens a new Firefox Tab
CTRL + U  View the page source of the current webpage
CTRL + V  Paste the contents of the Windows clipboard
CTRL + W  Closes the current Firefox Tab or Window
CTRL + X  Cut the selected text
CTRL + Z  Undo the last action

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