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How to do a Clean Reinstall of Firefox

Sometimes, when you have a problem, the only thing it seems you can do is to uninstall and reinstall.
However, when you do that, there are often more steps that you should take, than to just use Add/Remove Programs to uninstall and then reinstall immediately.
Using Firefox as an example, let’s take a look at the steps [...]

Making Viewed Fonts and Images Larger (or smaller)

Ever go to a web site and find that the fonts are huge? Or, maybe they’re too small for your eyes?
Our favorite web browsers, whether we use Internet Explorer 6, IE7, Firefox 1.5, Firefox 2, Opera 8 or Opera 9, have multiple ways for us to change the size of the words we see.
Some of [...]

Filtering Web Content with Windows Content Manager

Subscriber Nena Richard wrote to ask:
In trying to keep grandchildren off “my space,” I loaded “content advisor.”Every site I open asks for a password and I can’t find how to delete it.
Please HELP!
Thanks,
Nena
I assume you mean the Content Advisor that is part of the Windows XP “Internet Options” menu. I’m not familiar with [...]

Why I Recommend Firefox…

I guess it’s been a long time since I’ve gotten on the Firefox versus Internet Explorer subject in my newsletter. For a while last year, I beat it to death…
But, recently, in responding to a reader’s question, I mentioned that I recommended Firefox over IE for web browsing. His response was “You Do?”
The reason [...]

Bookmark Converter – the Review

When you use several web browsers, whether just two such as Firefox and Internet Explorer or more, one thing you might want to do is to copy your favorites (your bookmarks) from one browser to another.
Bookmark Converter, from Magnus Brading, is a nice shareware/trialware program that will allow you to manually convert bookmarks in any [...]

IE7 vs Firefox 2

Windows Fanatics, a blog at lockergnome.com, has a very interesting article IE7 Vs. Firefox 2.0
The conclusion — install both of them and use them interchangeably. If a web site doesn’t work on one, use the other.

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