Friday, December 2, 2016
Take care while saving password in Mozilla Firefox
Take care while saving password in Mozilla Firefox
Take care while saving password in Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is the popular browser holds around 22% of the global market share. It surpasses internet explorer in many aspects like security, fastness, variety of plugins and addons, etc. It has been experienced that people start browsing from Internet explorer (Because it is the default browser of Microsoft windows) subsequently switch over to Firefox due to multiple reasons. Not going to too much details, lets come to the topic. Browsers using different techniques to save the passwords . Retrieval of the saved passwords are not a difficult task.
Extreme care must be taken while saving the password in Firefox because it is very easily accessible to anyone without using any tools . If you are using a single personal computer then it will not be an issue but if you are browsing from a cyber cafe or a shared computer, then any one can see your saved passwords.
How to view the saved passwords
Open Firefox go to Tools > Options
In this select Security tab, there you can see the Saved password button. Click on that, It will display the site address, user name. To view the saved password click on show password button. It will display all saved passwords.
Remember : Deleting history and cookies and all offline data will not delete the saved password. If you want to delete the saved passwords click the remove all button.If you have accidentally saved the password in a shared machine then dont forget to remove the passwords by following the above mentioned steps.
If you are using your personal computer it is advisable to protect all your saved passwords with a master password. For this click tools > options> security> enable use master password option, then a pop up window will come up to enter a master password. If you enter a master password then you will be asked to enter this password once per session. It is important that you have to remember the master password.
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Thursday, October 27, 2016
Using Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts for better browsing experience
Using Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts for better browsing experience
Mozilla Firefox Shortcuts for Beginners:
Many people who migrate from Internet explorer to Mozilla Firefox will find the browsing easier if they know the some of the shortcut keys that would make their browsing convenient.Some of the shortcuts used in the Firefox are collected and posted below.
Using Shortcuts while entering URLs:
| Action | Shortcut |
| Location Bar | Ctrl+L |
| Automatic .com Address | Ctrl+Enter |
| Automatic .net Address | Shift+Enter |
| Automatic .org Address | Ctrl+Shift+Enter |
Using Shortcuts for Basic Navigation:
| Action | Shortcut |
| Previous Page | Alt+Left |
| Next Page | Alt+Right |
| Refresh Page | Ctrl+R |
| Home | Alt+Home |
| Stop | Esc |
| Location Bar | Ctrl+L |
| Bookmark Current Page | Ctrl+D |
| Search Engine | Ctrl+K |
Using Shortcuts for Tabbed Browsing:
| Action | Shortcut |
| New Tab | Ctrl+T |
| Close Tab | Ctrl+W |
| Recover Closed Tab | Ctrl+Shift+T |
| Open Address in New Tab | Alt+Enter |
| Open Link in New Tab | Ctrl+Click |
| Open Link in New Tab | Ctrl+Shift+Click |
| Select Tab | Ctrl+(1 to 8) |
| Select Last Tab | Ctrl+9 |
| Next Tab | Ctrl+PageDown |
| Previous Tab | Ctrl+PageUp |
| New Window | Ctrl+N |
Shortcuts for Searching a Page Text:
| Action | Shortcut |
| Find | Ctrl+F |
| Next Result | Alt+N |
| Previous Result | Alt+P |
| Highlight All | Alt+A |
| Match Case | Alt+C |
Other/Miscellaneous:
| Action | Shortcut |
| Bookmarks | Ctrl+B |
| History | Ctrl+H |
| Downloads | Ctrl+J |
| Zoom In | Ctrl++ |
| Zoom Out | Ctrl+- |
| Reset Zoom | Ctrl+0 |
| Full Screen | F11 |
| Advance to Next Link | Tab |
| Help | F1 |
See the Mozilla Firefox Site for still more Keyboard shortcuts.
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