Firefox

Force Firefox to Save Paypal Password

Trying to login to Paypal, your bank or credit card account, airline website, Yahoo, MSN, or any number of other online sites and for some reason Firefox doesn't ask you if you want to save your password? So, you have to type it in every time you want to log in. We show you how to force it to remember your passwords... read more »

Searching Google via the Firefox Address Bar

 Looking to change the default behavior of the Firefox address bar (ie. when it conducts searches)? Right now, if you mistype a web address, it tried to find the website you were looking for, similar to Google's "I'm feeling lucky" feature. The problem is, that's not very useful for most people - as what are the odds it's going to find it? ... read more »

Looking to Reduce Your Firefox Footprint?

Firefox is supposed to have efficient memory handling, especially with the release of version 3. However, that doesn't appear to be the case out of the box, and especially not once you've installed a series of plugins. To resolve this you'll need to optimize Firefox's memory footprint... read more »

Yahoo Pages Crashing Unexpectedly?

Are you having trouble getting Yahoo pages (such as those for Yahoo Finance) to load and display properly in Firefox (or any other browser for that matter)? This problem haunted us for the longest time - we would try and access finance.yahoo.com to check stock charts and what not while having a dozen other tabs open and wham - Firefox would freeze, new pages would not load, and we'd lose our open work in existing pages... read more »

Having trouble getting Windows to wake up?

A common problem users experience when running Windows Home, Professional, XP, or Vista - is that it won't resume from standby or hybernation. In particular, while Windows will go into standby or hibernate, on occasion it won't wake up. Or - it will sound like it's woken up, and your keyboard lights may work, but your monitor won't come back on... read more »

Why Does Firefox Stall (Hang) Intermittently?

I have encountered this problem off and on. My solution for the moment is to clear the cache, as Firefox is known to experience cache problems. read more »