Fire Tune - An awesome Firefox tuning tool

Fire Tune is an awesome tool created by Totalidea Software with a very simple interface and does a very good job of tweaking Firefox according to the users' preferences. A snapshot of the interface is shown below.


The tool is less than a mb in size and doesn't take more than 2 min to setup. You can download it from here.

Apart from Fire Tune, they also have tweaks for Windows XP/Vista and Outlook 2002/2003/2007. Check out the all their products here.

And for all those who haven't used Firefox, you can download it from here.

Firefox crossed 300 million downloads

My favorite browser has achieved yet another milestone. :) Kudos!

BTW the official download counter can be found at the spreadfirefox homepage.

Using IE in Firefox

Even the hardcore Firefox users like me need to use Internet Explorer once in a while. There are two reasons for that:

1. Sometimes you need to perform cross-browser testing to make sure that your website is being displayed correctly in both browsers

2. Certain sites, like the Microsoft Windows Update homepage, require the user to be using Internet Explorer

3. MS Sharepoint is not compatible with Firefox.

In order to avoid having to switch between browsers you can use a Firefox extension called IE View. The extension allow the user to load pages under Internet Explorer with a single right-click, and it also makes possible to make some sites load under IE by default.