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Happy 5th Year Firefox! Would It Still Be The Best Browser In The Future?

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Happy 5th Birthday Firefox ! Glad to hear and celebrate a prospering success of an open source browser, Firefox, in 5 years in a row beating the Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Firefox was release on November 9, 2004 written by the Mozilla geeks which I would say, runs in a cross-platform (M$ Window$, Mac OS X, Linux/Unix) just like Sun Microsystem's Java programming language results in "software that is portable across multiple machine architectures, operating systems, and graphical user interfaces, secure, and high performance" . Due to Firefox innovative technology in the browser arena, many of the browsers that are up-to-date being innovative, and does alleviate its flaws to something more reliable User Experience , obviously, Internet Explorer 8 (I feel being cynical). Firefox still my best choice, not to mention the fast pacing Google's Chrome browser, compared to other browsers. Safari does a good job specially loading a heavy AJAX application. S

Changing the Keyword Location Search Engine For Firefox

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If you might notice, installing Yahoo toolbars might override the settings in your Mozilla Firefox browser. I am not quite fan of Yahoo's search algorithm, as it seems quite naive to me, and I need to change the search engine using Google. To change it, just type (see image below) : about:config on the location toolbar of your Mozilla Firefox browser. Then search for keyword.URL then double click it or right click, and select Modify and paste this http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky&q= Try typing keywords on your location bar and hit enter, you will be redirected to a particular site, or else the Google's default search page. Happy Googling!!! ;-) If you're viewing this blog from a feed, click here to fully read this post =)