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How to make Firefox Old Addons compatible with Firefox 3.5 or higher

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

I think more than 50% of the world wide Firefox users might have updated to Firefox 3.5.

Immediately, after upgrading to Firefox 3.5, most of us might have see some of the Addons that we were using might not be compatible with Firefox 3.5.

What if you got accustomed to some addons which you want to use at any cost with Firefox 3.5? This is trick will help you to Make Firefox Addons compatible with Firefox 3.5 or higher. Once you apply this you don’t have to worry much about Mozilla’s updating of Firefox to the latest version fixing all the memory leaks, vulnerabilities and other security loopholes.

How to make Addons compatible to Firefox 3.5 or higher?

The solution is to add some configurations in Firefox settings (which is similar to Windows Registry). All the changes you make from here on are done at your own risk. Do revert the settings if something goes wrong.

  1. Type about:config address bar of Firefox browser and hit enter. It will give you a warning. Just click the button “I’ll be careful, I promise!” and proceed…
    Make Addons Compatible to Firefox 3.5
  2. It will show a huge list of values. Now, right click any where in the free white-space on the screen and click on New –> Boolean, then name the Boolean as checkCompatibility – make it false in the next step.
  3. again right click and click on New -> Boolean and name as checkUpdateSecurity and choose false.
  4. After doing this changes to get the changes applied, Restart the Firefox browser. Now install the addon that was not supported or compatible by Firefox 3.5 and install it.
  5. Restart the Firefox browser once again. Now, the not compatible addon will work with Firefox 3.4 :)

Hope you liked this trick.

Thanks to Blogote

How to submit Website / Blog to Bing Webmaster Tools

Friday, June 5th, 2009

This is my first post on Bing (Microsoft’s Search Engine). There are hundreds and thousands of bloggers blogging about Bing Search Engine.

I want to share a tip on how to get your Website or Blog indexed by Bing Search Engine.

Bing also offers a facility like Google Webmasters tools where you can “submit the your site URL to Bing” so that their search engine can do indexing of your web pages whenever they are published. This way your site can be included in the Bing and get some traffic.

With this Bing Webmaster Tools, you can submit site, also troubleshoot the crawling and indexing of your site (if problems are there), submit sitemaps and view statistics about your sites.

Add a Website URL to Bing Search Engine

Add a Website URL to Bing Search Engine

How to submit Website URL to Bing using Bing Webmasters Tools

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How to Highlight Special Paragraphs or Sentences in the post or article

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Few days back, Atul from Ocean of Web left a comment at How to Block Visitors from specific IP using .htaccess hack.

This is what he asked :

Hi Nihar
Make sure you backup .htaccess file before you making any changes.

for this line in red color box with cross mark, are u using any plugin for this

You can check the comment here

In above post where he left the comment, I have put the following:

Make sure you backup .htaccess file before you making any changes.

Today, i am going to share the CSS and images and also tell you how you can add these Custom Paragraphs or Sentences to highlight them in your Blog post

How to add Custom Paragraphs or Sentences in your Blog post

  1. First open your Theme’s style.css file and then copy the below CSS snippet at the end of the file. Note: all themes doesn’t have css filename as style. So, check accordingly.
    .info {font-size: 11px;color: #191919;background: #ebe9ce url(images/info.gif) no-repeat 5px center;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif, "Courier New";line-height: 125%;margin: 10px 0px 0px;padding: 12px 12px 12px 25px;display: block;font-weight: 400;width: 80%;border-top: 2px solid #DAD6A5;border-bottom: 2px solid #DAD6A5;}
    .warning {font-size: 11px;color: #191919;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif, "Courier New";line-height: 125%;background: #e3aeae url(images/warning.gif) no-repeat 5px center;display: block;margin: 10px 0px 0px;padding: 12px 12px 12px 25px;font-weight: 400;width: 80%;border-top: 2px solid #D68585;border-bottom: 2px solid #D68585;}
    .download {font-size: 11px;color: #191919;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif, "Courier New";line-height: 125%;background: #d5ecd5 url(images/download.gif) no-repeat 5px center;display: block;margin: 10px 0px 0px;padding: 12px 12px 12px 25px;font-weight: 400;width: 80%;border-top: 2px solid #A9D8A9;border-bottom: 2px solid #A9D8A9;}
    .alert {font-size: 11px;color: #191919;line-height: 125%;background: #FFE5BF url(images/alert.gif) no-repeat 5px center;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif, "Courier New";display: block;margin: 10px 0px 0px;padding: 12px 12px 12px 25px;font-weight: 400;width: 80%;border-top: 2px solid #FFC46A;border-bottom: 2px solid #FFC46A;}
    .note {font-size: 11px;color: #191919;font-family: Verdana, "Times New Roman", Times, Georgia, serif;line-height: 125%;background: #eaf2f5 url(images/note.gif) no-repeat 5px center;display: block;margin: 10px 0px 0px;padding: 12px 12px 12px 25px;font-weight: 400;width: 80%;border-top: 2px solid #B7D2DD;border-bottom: 2px solid #B7D2DD;}
    .click {font-size: 11px;color: #191919;font-family: Verdana, "Times New Roman", Times, Georgia, serif;line-height: 125%;background: #fcfbed url(images/click.gif) no-repeat 5px center;display: block;margin: 10px 0px 0px;padding: 12px 12px 12px 25px;font-weight: 400;width: 80%;border-top: 2px solid #F2EDB0;border-bottom: 2px solid #F2EDB0;}
  2. Now, if you check the above css code. It is using some images. Below, i am providing the images.zip file. Please download it and upload it in your THEME DIR/images/ directory. If you don’t see images directory under your THEME directory, then create one and extract the images from the images.zip file.

    Download Images for above CSS code

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How to Block Visitors / Traffic from a Specific Country

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

There are times when you don’t want the Visitors or Traffic to your Website or Blog from a Specific Country.

What could be the reason for blocking a country or countries?

Your site may have data that you don’t want to expose to some countries or your site is getting lot of abuses from a country. There could be any other reason as well. In such cases the site owner or Blog owner would want to block the unwanted traffic from a country.

How to Block Visitors or Traffic from a Country?

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How to avoid Hotlinking of file and images using .htaccess hack

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Yesterday, i posted a .htaccess hack to Block Visitors from specific IP using .htaccess

Today, i am here again to share with you one more .htaccess hack.

What is HotLinking?

Avoid / Prevent Hotlinking of images or files (Credit http://www.conquerhosting.com)

Avoid / Prevent Hotlinking of images or files (Credit http://www.conquerhosting.com)

Inline linking (also known as hotlinking, leeching, piggy-backing, direct linking, offsite image grabs and bandwidth theft) is the use of a linked object, often an image, from one site into a web page belonging to a second site. The second site is said to have an inline link to the site where the object is located.

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