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How to Hide Firefox Tabs to protect your Privacy – Hide Tab Firefox Extension

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

I am very particular about the privacy, especially when you are in at workplace. You are surfing some sites and you don’t want people to know what actually you are browsing? What do you do?

To avoid embarrassing situation, I either use Maxthon Browser to Hide the browser totally or use Rename Firefox Tabs – Firefox Extension. This way i am safe.

Few days back, I got to know about one more Firefox Extension – Hide Tab. As the name suggests, this Firefox Addon will allow you to Hide and Unhide any Firefox Tab of your choice.

Diego A. Ruiz is the developer of Hide Tab Firefox Extension.

Hide Tab Firefox Extension Features

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30.12.2009 Browsers, How-To No Comments

Rename Firefox tabs for your privacy – Firefox Plugin

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

In my previous post, i mentioned How to Hide browser at workplace. But there are other ways to also have your privacy while browsing.

How many times it happens this… You are browsing and somebody walks in and is standing right behind you and you don’t wanna show what you are browsing.

Most of us just keep a watch on others moving around us and do surfing.
Firefox Plugins
Well if you are using firefox, then you rename the open tab. For this you need to install RenameTabs Firefox extension

Here is what Valadrem the developer of this Firefox extension has to say.

Have you noticed that everybody looks the titles of your open tabs? It has a name: Paranoia! And a solution too: TabRenamizer!

If you want to Rename Firefox tabs, all you need is to install TabRenamizer
Plugin

If anyone knows any other plugins, leave a comment.

NOTE: As mentioned at the beginning of this post the link to my previous post Hide browser at workplace. But this is using Maxthon browser.
If anybody knows how to hide firefox browser. Leave a comment.

23.05.2008 Browsers, TipsNTricks 4 Comments

URL Alias for Mozilla FireFox – Very Useful Feature

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Guys, I was waiting for this feature from a long time and its absence was making me stick to Maxthon Browser.

Here it is : URL Alias that is a built-in feature of Firefox.

Kudos to a reader of this blog who commented the following after reading this Article/Post Browser Wars Maxthon Vs Firefox :

Noob left a comment in Browsers War Firefox v Maxthon Post

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28.01.2008 Browsers, TipsNTricks 3 Comments

Browser Wars Maxthon Vs Firefox

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

As i mentioned earlier in my previous article hide browser that “I prefer using maxthon even though i have firefox installed“. Here it is….. I am listing out the features that makes me rate maxthon higher than firefox.Maxthan Vs Firefox Browser Wars

I want all of you after you read this article, take out some time to download maxthon, install it and use it.
I can assure you that the below listed out features will make your browsing much more easier. If you are firefox addict, then you will feel that all these features should be in firefox.

I will list out the features that i compared with the firefox:

NOTE: The features listed below are in the order of my liking

1) Hide Browser:

I feel this feature is very much useful. Using ALT + ~ Key, you can hide the browser, it works as a toggle key. More on this @ Hide Browser at workplace

This feature isn’t available in firefox and there are no plugins/addons available to hide firefox window. But there is a addon/plugin to hide the tab bar for firefox.

Download and Install Hide Tab Bar plugin
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09.01.2008 Browsers 50 Comments

How to Hide browser at workplace

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Today, i am going to pass on a trick that i am using from a long time, way back from 2003. I use it everyday, umpteen times a day at my workplace.
Maxthon Browser
Most of you those who browse at workplace ( to pass the time ) and don’t want others to look at what you are browsing ( especially your boss )

I am using a browser from 2002 – till date and this browser has an option to hide the browser :)

The feature to hide the browser is called “Boss Key” ( you can guess why the feature is named as this :) ). There is a shortcut to hide and unhide the browser Alt + ~ key combination like a toggle switch. The option can be found in File Menu.

The browser is Maxthon (formerly MyIE2). You can download the browser from here.

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07.12.2007 Browsers, How-To, TipsNTricks 12 Comments