Get rid of that yahoo search in firefox

I was unable to change the search engine in my Firefox. I had changed it several times but the next time with all the surprises I would see it reverted back to the default Yahoo search, that is actually not useful to me. I found it very annoying though. Anyway I did some googling to find a way out, but not that useful! so here is a solution finally got me out of it.

1- open firefox and enter "about:config" in the address bar. here you can see the configuration parameters.

2- search the word "yahoo"in the search box in upper part search bar.

3- change the value of the parameter "browser.search.defaultenginename" to "Google".

4- change the value of the parameter "searchreset.backup.browser.search.defaultenginename" to "Google".

5- change the value of the parameter "searchreset.backup.keyword.URL" to "http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=&#8221".

6- done!

Yahoo search is not that bad but I personally prefer Google, beside when you want to do some search in Persian, it just sucks man! but in return Google handle it very good. so why should I use Yahoo!

firefox: resolving memory leak issues

Yes, firefox is a great browser. But it has some memory management issues. I mean there is a memory leak (or garbage memory) problem. It means that firefox consumes memory without any use. even sometimes you can see in the Windows Task Manager that the Mem Usage of firefox in the Processes tab is increasing constantly!!!

There is a simple solution that doesn't fix it completely, but makes it better to some extends. This is not a fix for memory leak but it affects it. It will move firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, and as a result it will take up less than 10mb of memory while minimized. this is one of the options in the firefox that does not included in the standard user interface. so if you want to enable it, follow the instructions bellow:

1- in the address bar type "about:config" and press enter. by doing this you can access to varable configuration console. it's something like windows registry.

2- right click somewhere on the page and select new boolean, and in the poped up window type "config.trim_on_minimize" and then press enter.

3- now select True and then press enter again.

4- now restart firefox and it's done!

if you are interested to working or understanding about About:config entries, there is a good reference and here is a link:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries

and here is some secrets and tweeks:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9020880

have fun and good luck!

which browser to use

I used AOL Netscape Navigator, Apple Safari, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera for web browsing so far.

actually AOL played a significant role in the launch of the Netscape 6 browser and the first Mozilla-based, Netscape-branded browser was released in 2000. then in the year 2003 an independent foundation was created to support the continued development of the open source web suite. in fact AOL was a major source of support for the Mozilla Foundation. today AOL officially ended the support for Netscape.

I used to use Netscape before, but it wasn't fast enough. but today, open source Mozilla Firefox is fast & secure. and guys I think there is no reason to use that crappy IE again! but seriously don't use Microsoft IE for web browsing, specially IE 7. this is my advise to you! if you have not any security tools it just take less than 5 minutes from the time you executed IE, to fill your computer with all kinds of malicious softwares, malwares, worms & ... .

instead of IE you can use Mozilla Firefox or Opera.

in some companies workers are forced to use IE but in your home you can decide by yourself which browser to use. right?

Firefox has same functionality as IE and it is much more secure. and Opera has much more features and good functionality but less compatibility. but I prefer to use Opera as my primary web browser program and Firefox as secondary program. because Opera is very fast, feature rich and secure. it has many optional features. in earlier versions of Opera I experienced some compatibility issues with persian sites but now it's all gone. and I rarely encounter a site that is not compatible with opera.

hey Google released a web browser too. it's name is Chrome. but it's just new & I didn't use it much yet.

security threats

today we all use the internet for many routine works and either professional works. and I can't imagine browsing the web without any security programs! an antivirus, a firewall and other security tools like anti spywares and so on ... . in fact security threats are increasing insanely. so you as a user have to use safe browsers ( like Mozilla Firefox & Opera and I really recommend not to use IE at all (I even blocked it by my firewall) ) with use of good security tools that really keeps you up to date and ready for new online and offline threats. one of the best solutions is to use of tools like Kaspersky Internet Security or NODE32 Smart Security & so on. such tools merged all the security tools in to one package with good integrity.

it might worth it to buy a commercial key for your Kaspersky Internet Security (that i'm sure it does). but some of users prefer to use other ways to use the software. there is a tool called KKP (Kaspersky Key Finder) that helps users to find active keys that are still usable. most of you guys know that the key will work for a short time and then again story starts from the begin; (it means the key is black listed) actually it is time to find another activation key! in the link below you can see how does KKP work!

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/10/24/investigating-how-kaspersky-key-finder-finds-and-downloads-kaspersky-keys/

so if you've read the link above, you already know that this program uses a static database updating manually and are hosting on free web hosting servers. so this program may stop working suddenly and there is no guaranty to keep it working.

by the way I really prefer to buy a legal copy!