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POPSThink you deleted your cookies? Think again... More: Users who want to control or investigate Flash cookies have several options, according to reader Brian Carpenter: Windows: * Better Privacy extension for Firefox - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623 * Ccleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com/ Mac OS X: http://machacks.tv/2009/01/27/flushapp-flash-cookie-removal-tool-for-os-x/ Where to find these flash cookies: * Windows: LSO files are stored typically with a “.SOL” extension, within each user’s Application Data directory, under Macromedia\FlashPlayer\#SharedObjects. * Mac OS X: For Web sites, ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/FlashPlayer. For AIR Applications, ~/Library/Preferences/ and ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/FlashPlayer/macromedia.com/Support/flashplayer/sys * GNU-Linux: ~/.macromedia
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POPSAll-in-One Sidebar - Sidebar Extension for Firefox! You can set the orientation to left or right, set the minimum, default and maximum width and the behavior on browser startup. All-in-One Sidebar provides enhancements for many built-in features, which are related to the sidebar. Keyboard shortcuts (default settings) All keyboard shortcuts are fully configurable. So it would be possible to prevent collisions with other extensions. Open the options dialog to configure the shortcuts, click the button "Shortcuts" and change them to your needs. I just un-installed Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 b/c it was creating a conflict with a lot of my other applications. When my Firefox 3.0.8 was re-installed all my settings, addons & BOOKMARKS had disappeared. Fortunately I had made a backup of my bookmarks in "aio" (---otherwise, I would have lost about 3 years worth of bookmarks) I re-installed "aio" and restored my bookmarks. That is just one of many features that I really like!
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POPS13 Alternative Search Engines That Find What Google Can’t Google has become the standard search engine of virtually every web-goer on the internet today. In fact “to Google” is pretty much synonymous with “to search”. But that certainly doesn’t mean that other search engines can’t do a decent, if not better, job and this list has been compiled for just this reason. So check out this catalog of awesome alternative search engines that are certain to help you search faster and more efficiently on that World Wide Web.
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POPSFirefox Video Download Helper Just like it says. Website has user manual, tech support, etc. Use the Install link on the right to get the extension, or find it on the Firefox Extensions site: https://addons.mozilla.org/en
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POPS15 Firefox Add-ons Suggested Johnathan's is a blog about software. It's worth a skim through the Archives. From this article, I found several Firefox Add-ons that I will be trying, including: " * Tab Mix Plus – Adds a host of helpful options for displaying and managing tabbed pages. * ScrapBook – When you don’t have time to read everything, ScrapBook saves the entire Web page and its linked page (you choose the depth) for your future perusal. * Google Notebook – one of several competing add-ons that enable you to clip, collect, organize, and annotate Web pages or parts of them; essential for researchers." A Clipmarks competitor?