Firefox 3: Shorten URL Bar Rich Results

Firefox 3's URL bar has the ability to show rich results, relevant sites that you have visited in the past. Here's how to limit the amount of results you get.

1. Enter about:config in the URL bar
2. You might get a page warning against the changing of settings. Just click "I'll be careful, I promise!" to continue
3. In the filter, type browser.urlbar.maxRichResults
4. Double click the entry and change it to whatever amount you want (I have mine set at 10)

GMail : Display all unread mails.

If you keep a large amount of email in your Gmail Inbox, it can sometimes be difficult to locate all of your unread mail. Instead of scrolling to hunt for them, you can simply perform a basic search and quickly get a collection of anything that you have yet to read.

1. Go to Gmail.
2. In the Search box at the top of the page, input the following:

label:(unread inbox)


3. Click the Search button.

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Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 released

Several bugs and two security issues have been fixed in Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 and it is advised to update the email client as soon as possible. The security issues that have been fixed in Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 have been classified as moderate. They fix crashes with evidence of memory corruption and one JavaScript privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution.

The seven other issues that have been fixed can be found at the Rumbling Edge website. One random crash has been fixed for instance. If your check for updates does not find a new version head to the official Thunderbird website, the new version is already provided as a download on the main page there.

Disable Extension Install Delay in Firefox.

Whenever you install an extension, Firefox will show the above message box. Initially the Install button will be grayed out for 3 seconds, during which you have to sit there, watching the timer ticking down. Even though there are very good reasons why such a delay is put in force, still some of us have felt the need to remove that. How do you do that ?

  1. Type about:config into the Firefox address bar and hit enter.
  2. Click on "I'll be careful, I promise!" button.
  3. Enter security.dialog_enable_delay into the Filter text box. Double click on that preference value and change the value to 0

Enable Proxy Support for Prism.

We talked about Mozilla's Prism earlier. Prism is built on Firefox engine but has none of the Firefox bells and whistles.. There is no way you can directly change any settings. I am behind a proxy most of the time so I tried to figure out a way to setup the proxy for Prism. The method is not very intuitive but here it is.



  1. Run prism. The following dialog should pop up.

    Type about:config into the URL field. Give it a name like config and enable the check box Desktop to create a desktop icon. Click OK.
  2. Once the above steps are done, an icon named config would have been created on your Desktop.
    Double click that shortcut to see the following window.

    Click "I'll be careful, I promise!" button to show the main configuration screen.
  3. Type network.proxy into the Filter field.
  4. Double click on network.proxy.type and give it anyone of the following values:
    0 - Direct connection, no proxy. (Default)
    1 - Manual proxy configuration. (If in doubt, select this)
    2 - Proxy auto-configuration (PAC).
    4 - Auto-detect proxy settings.
    5 - Use system proxy settings (Default in Linux).
  5. Double click on network.proxy.http and enter the IP Address of your proxy server.
  6. Double click on network.proxy.http_port and enter the port of your proxy server.
  7. Repeat the above two steps for network.proxy.ssl and network.proxy.ssl_port

For your information, this is how my values look:
network.proxy.type = 1
network.proxy.http = 192.168.0.1
network.proxy.http_port = 8080
network.proxy.ssl = 192.168.0.1
network.proxy.ssl_port = 8080
That's all. You can now close the about:config window. Now prism should start working over the proxy.

How to go green ?

List of how-tos from TreeHugger to get started on the green-revolution.



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The online version of Time Magazine, named No Impact Man one of the world's top 15 environmental websites.

Check out the other 14 :



  1. Grist
  2. TreeHugger
  3. Dot Earth
  4. Climate Change
  5. RealClimate
  6. Environmental Capital
  7. No Impact Man
  8. EcoGeek
  9. Ecorazzi
  10. Switchboard
  11. Mongabay
  12. Climate Ethics
  13. Climate Progress
  14. World Changing
  15. Planet Ark

Get Sandy on gTalk.

Email-based digital personal assistant Sandy can be a really helpful manager for to-do lists and calendar appointments, but only if you don't mind composing new messages for every change.

Worry no more. Its quite simple to add Sandy to your GTalk via its wonderful Twitter integration.

Step 1. Go to http://twitter.com/devices
Step 2. Add twitter@twitter.com on google talk
Step 3. There's no step three! There's no step three!

How to simulate "No to all" when copying in Windows XP

If you've ever copied a folder's worth of files in Windows, you've come across the Confirm File Replace dialog, which asks you if you want to replace an existing file with a new file. You have the option to answer Yes just for this file, Yes to All—which will just replace all the originals with the new copies—or you can say No; what's missing is a button to say No to All. Rather than clicking No countless times if No to All is what you really want, tech weblog Online Tech Tips points out that Windows simulates the No to All response if you hold the Shift key and then click No.
How to simulate "No to all" when copying in Windows XP [Online Tech Tips]