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Entries Tagged ‘Firefox’

Faster internet connection with a local DNS cache

One of the things you can do to speed up browsing and general internet activity is to create a local DNS cache. A DNS is a Domain Name Server and its purpose is to convert domain names to IP addresses. Every time you type in a domain name your computer has to ask a DNS [...]

Useful Firefox extensions

Newsfox is a good, free plugin for Firefox that does an good job of handling your RSS feeds with the bonus that it integrates well with firefox’s live bookmarks, reads OPML files, and will let you view the web page by default rather than the plain text.  NewsFox is free (Don’t confuse it with the [...]

  

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