Changing User Agents to surf as Googlebot

Here is tip to change firefox user agent to surf as Googlebot

Type about:config in adress bar

Now go to "general.useragent.extra.firefox"

Double click on it and change it to "Googlebot 2.1". Now this will change your user agent to the google bot.

Alternatively you can use this firefox User agent switcher add on

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Firefox extensions

gTranslate

With gTranslate you can translate any text in a webpage just by selecting and right-clicking over it. The extension uses the Google translation services to translate the text.


Auto Copy Firefox Extension

Select text and it's automaticaly copied to the clipboard. hence no need to press ctrl+c or right click and select copy


Gmail Notifier

A notifier for Gmail accounts. it notifies u when u have new mail in ur gmail account


Image Zoom

Easily zoom in, zoom out, fit image to screen or set custom zoom on individual images within a web page. All this can be done by using the context menu or a combination of mouse buttons and scroll wheel. Handy to see the finer details of smaller pics or to make very large pics fit within your screen


Google preview

It lets you preview the search url of google

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Speed up FireFox browser with pipelining

To make Firefox faster by taking advantage of Pipelining u ndeed to do this

Open the configuration page of Firefox by typing "about:config" in address bar

Now find these lines

network.http.proxy.pipelining = false and change it to true

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 4 and change it to 8

network.http.pipelining = false and change it to true

Now right click on the configuration page and select new > integer

Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set it's value to 0


Alternatively you can use this firefox plugin for this tweak

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