Customize the Google country-specific search in Firefox
Perhaps you have noticed that by default google.com redirects you to a country-specific version of google based on your IP. This is extremely noticeable when you are travelling or using a proxy. We...
View ArticleHow to change the number of suggestions in Firefox address bar
One thing I love about Firefox is the ability to tweak almost every aspect of your browsing experience. Another thing I love about Firefox is that once a tweak is discovered it remains valid in all the...
View ArticleCreate your own Certificate Authority using OpenSSL on CentOS
OpenSSL is an implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols. It is open-source and is the de-facto standard toolkit for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS). It is written in C...
View ArticleCreating and signing certification requests using OpenSSL
In our previous tutorial about creating your own Certificate Authority, we introduced OpenSSL – an open source commercial-grade toolkit, which implements SSL and TLS (Secure Sockets Layer and Transport...
View ArticleHow to setup Apache HTTP and HTTPS virtual hosts
Virtual hosting is a way of hosting several servers on a single machine. This technique is widely used in shared web hosting, because it greatly reduces hosting costs, since multiple customers use one...
View ArticleEnable on-demand tab loading in Firefox 8
Modern day websites and browsers are not very friendly to slow computers with little memory. However this is “by default”. There are a lot of fine tunings that you can make to a browser, which will...
View ArticleSet different download locations for different filetypes using Opera
There is one thing about most browsers that really annoys me. It’s related to the download location. First of all it can take you half an hour to find how to change the default download location and...
View ArticleDisable favicons in Firefox
Favicons are the little icons that appear on each tab in your browser. Although they can help you find which site you have opened in a given tab, when you have a lot of tabs opened, they can really,...
View ArticleHow to forbid downloading files with Internet Explorer
Assuming that if a user of a given machine has chosen Internet Explorer as his/her browser, one can conclude that the user is not quite aware of hat he/she is doing. So just to be safe, it may be a...
View ArticleEnable URL autofill in Firefox
A little thing that bugs me about Firefox is that when you start typing an URL in the address bar there is no autofill: However, Mozilla have again predicted that I and other people will whine about...
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