Category: tricks

FirefoX RoX! here are some haX Part 1

Hi!

Remember how some folks complained that there’s no point in opening Firefox inside Firefox? 👿 Well, here’s a useful trick for you! 😀

You know what happens when you type a “word” into the Firefox address bar, right? Yep, it triggers a Google search for that “word.” For example, if you type “wordpress” in the address bar and hit Enter, Firefox will run a Google search for “wordpress.”

But what if you actually want to visit wordpress.com or wordpress.org? Here’s the trick!

First, open a new tab in Firefox by pressing Ctrl+T. Type “ANYTHING” in the address bar, then press Ctrl+Enter. It’ll automatically add http:// and .com taking you to http://www.ANYTHING.com.

If you press Shift+Enter, it’ll go to http://www.ANYTHING.net. And if you hit Ctrl+Shift+Enter, it’ll add http:// and .org, sending you to http://www.ANYTHING.org.

How cool is that? 😕 Okay, maybe not that cool, but I’m sure it’s handy!

C.J.

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Forbidden side of a web site-See what web sites hide from you

Hi!

It seems my previous Firefox trick (or hack) has gotten a bit famous, hasn’t it? Anyway, here’s another hack! man… am I turning into a life hacker or what? 🙄 This one’s a really curious thing to check out.

We all know what search engines do, right? Yes, search! Baby, search! They scour everywhere for everything. And what do website owners do? They use all sorts of SEO (search engine optimization) tricks to make things easier for search engines, so the SEs can crawl the directories inside their sites smoothly and bring more traffic! Hm… Okay, C.J., enough with the technical stuff! why are you telling us all this? Here’s why…

Did you know there are some directories on websites that owners don’t want the general public to see? Yep, there are! So, what do they do to hide them from us? They don’t exactly bribe the search engines 😀 nah! what they do is add a text file listing the directory names that should be skipped during searches. Search engines read that file first and leave those bits out of the search results page…

But you know us geeks can’t stay out of trouble, right? Yep! There’s a way to peek at those hidden directories! All you have to do is tack on /robots.txt after the domain name and see what the site owners don’t want you to find 😈

How about checking out what Mr. Bill Gates is hiding from us? 😀 Here you go:

http://www.microsoft.com/robots.txt

And what about Larry and Sergei? Yep!

http://www.google.com/robots.txt

Oh, and guys (and gals), you’d better not try this with WordPress.com, or our good old buddy Matt might kick me out of WP 8O. He’s a pretty open guy and probably doesn’t have much to hide :D, but why risk it? 😆

C.J.

Disclaimer: This is totally for educational purposes, and I’m not responsible for any trouble you get into with this!

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Firefox Inside Firefox

Hellow Fellows!
You know that many of us spend lot of our computing time on the internet and most of that time we use Firefox tabs to open all our favorite sites and services inside Firefox right?, yes, Gmail inside Ff, Yahoo inside Ff, ebay inside Ff, Banking inside Ff ect. ect. ect… With all these favorites inside Firefox, How about opening Firefox inside Firefox? Not bad ha? and its really easy too! just type in this url in a new tab in Firefox and there you go! Firefox inside Firefox!

chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

Disclaimer: I guarantee that this will work with Firefox. But I have no responsibility of any damage that cause Internet Explorer users by Using this with IE to Open Firefox inside IE 😆
C.J.

update: feel free to visit my new blog http://seejay.net for more Firefox tricks!