Hidden "about:" pages in mozilla firefox!

If u r a web developer or know HTML somewhat then u might have come across a about:blank address/parameter. Actually the developers need to include some more about: addresses for various reasons. These about: addresses are most of the time browser specific and they refers to internal or say hidden pages.
What follows is a list of such about: pages for mozilla firefox!about: A simple prompt without any parameter will display the Mozilla about information. Since it’s accessible from the top menus as well, it’s not quite a hidden feature. (This is equivalent to using Help >> About Mozilla Firefox option.)

about:blank A blank page. Useful for setting as your homepage.

about:buildconfig Obviously, it will show the build platform configuration and parameters. Well if u r not a programmer then u may find only junk! :D

about:cache Displays cache statistics and disk cache directory location. This has following two suboptions.

* about:cache?device=memory Lists memory cache entries.
* about:cache?device=disk Lists disk cache entries.

about:config GUI for modifying user preferences (prefs.js). The most complex and meaningful of them all. Careful on what you plan to change here, your browser won’t run properly after if you play with the wrong things.

about:plugins This option will display detailed information about all the plugins installed for Mozilla Firefox. (Note plugin is different from extension)

about:credits It’s time to give the credit to whoever deserves it. There’s an alphabetically sorted list of all the people that gave their contribution to the development of Firefox.

about:Mozilla This is a weird thing. It will display the so-called Book of Mozilla. Something similar was present in Netscape too. There’s actually no real book although the quotations might give you that impression.

about:license Shows the Mozilla Public License and the Netscape Public License for the piece of software.

Well moreover some extensions add their own about:’-thing like:
about:chrome
about:language
about:tmp
about:flashblock

Wait its not over yet! We love firefox for many reason and one of them is availability of extensions for everything! Well there is a MR Tech About:About extension for this. It adds the following “about:” options to the Help menu:

* about:
* about:config
* about:plugins
* about:about
* about:buildconfig
* about:cache
* about:cache (Disk)
* about:cache (Memory)
* about:credits, about:license
* about:mozilla
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Firefox Tweaks: Address bar as Search BOX - Let Google make you feel Lucky!

If you use address bar as search box in Mozilla Firefox then you can skip to advance options!

Yes in Mozilla Firefox you can just type your search query in address bar and get the search results displyed to you!By default, whenever you hit enter after typing anything in address bar (also called navigation bar/ URL bar), Firefox checks if entered string is valid address or not! If its valid address firefox tries to load corresponding site/page for you! (Note that here if site is down or you have misspelled address, it won’t get directed to search engine). If entered string is a invalid URL, it will be submitted to Google Search and search results are returned!

If its fine with you then its great but if you want to use Google Search with I am feeling option or want to use another search engine as default then read following steps to change defaults search engine or its parameter:

Firefox Tweaks: Address bar as Search BOX

1. Type about:config in address bar of Mozilla Firefox. A page with lots of text and 4 columns will get displayed!
2. Type keyword.URL in filter box. The long list will be trimmed down to just one line! :-)
3. Right-Click on that line and select modify option. A box will be displayed.
4. Enter any of the following string for corresponding search engine!
5. Changes will be reflected immediately with out any restart!
#Search Engine List:

Default Google Search (In case you want to restore originals)
http://www.google.co.in/search?btnG=Google+Search&q=

Google Search with I’m Feeling Lucky (what the hell is difference?)
http://www.google.co.in/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&q=

Yahoo search
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=

Microsoft’s Live.com
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?fulltext=Search&search=

Wikipedia (GO option - Feeling Like Lucky)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?go=Go&search=

Technorati
http://www.technorati.com/search/

Glossary:

#Valid Address: A valid address is something optionally starts with protocols like HTTP (i.e. http://) and ends with domain name (e.g. .com, .org, .net, etc) and must not contain any space in between! So anything that does not this definition is a invalid address. Well firefox does not need to bother about all things and a simple check can be used - whether user entered address contains space or not!

#Google Search with I’m Feeling Lucky: From Google Search Homepage when you enter a query in search box and and instead of hitting Google Search hits I’m Feeling Lucky button, Google will redirect you to the first search result which is often what we want! Continue Reading This Post...

Ultimate Google Way

Look for Appz in Parent Directory

intext:"parent directory" intext:"[EXE]"


intext:"parent directory" index of:"[EXE]"


intext:"parent directory" index of:"[RAR]"This will look for any exe or optionaly for zip, rar, ace, iso, bin and etc.

Look for Moviez in Parent Directory

intext:"parent directory" intext:"[VID]"


intext:"parent directory" index of:"[VID]"

This will look for any video filetype in parent directory. You can optionaly add index:"xvid" or intext:"divx" for specific codec movie.

Look for Muzik in Parent Directory

intext:"parent directory" intext:"[MP3]"


intext:"parent directory" index of:"[MP3]"

This will look for any music files.

Look for Gamez in Parent Directory

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Stop A Restart Process In 3 Steps

Some times we need to stop some restart process quickly. In windows XP some times it gives auto restart warning and here is good solution for it.

1. Go to Start menu
2. Click on RUN
3. Enter the following command excluding hashcodes "shutdown -a"

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