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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Download Helper - Download videos from youtube, facebook and almost any site

Today, I found a new mozilla addon that I can use to download any videos, audio and photo galleries easily from any site including but not limited to youtube, facebook, myspace, etc.

DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video and image files from many sites.

Just surf the Web as you are used to, when DownloadHelper detects it can do something for you, the icon gets animated and a menu allows you to download files by simply clicking an item

For instance, if you go to a YouTube page, you'll be able to download the video directly on your file system. It also works with MySpace, Google videos, DailyMotion, Porkolt, iFilm, DreamHost and others.

Since version 3.1, you can setup the extension to automatically convert the downloaded movies to your preferred video format.

When you are on a page containing links to images or movies, you can download some or all of them at once. Moving the mouse over the items in the menu will highlights the links directly in the page to make sure they are the ones you want to pick up.

DownloadHelper also allows you to download files one by one, so that you keep bandwidth to surf for other stuff to download.

To modify your preferences, like changing the download directory, right-click on the icon and choose "Preferences".

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Running firefox inside firefox

This is not a useful thing but still is a fun trick to show to your friends.

Just paste the following code in your mozilla firefox address bar and hit ENTER to see the new firefox inside the firefox.

chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

View the screenshot below to see how it looks like:

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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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