Firefox

Well my new Sony VAIO laptop has just arrived so ive spent the last 4 hours transferring everything over from my old desktop PC, I can’t believe how difficult and how long the proves took. The first thing i wanted to do was transfer all my Firefox plugins, bookmarks and passwords, i used the FEBE Firefox plugin to backup and transfer all my Firefox plugins and passwords, works like a dream!

As for moving all my files over, Well i tried uasing windows built in “windows easy transfer” program but it was anything but easy, it took nearly an hour to calculate how many disk would need to transfer everything before it finally told me that i would need 32!!! 32 blank disks!
luckily with a little help from a friend i used the network transfer option and with alot of tweaking and general time consuming tasks we finally got it all transferred. It did give me a good opportunity to delete alot of stuff i no longer need and decided to clear up my seemingly endless list of cookies.

SEO Quake is a browser add-on for Firefox that was designed to aid in Search engine optimization for webmasters. It helps webmasters measure the success of their SEO campaign and compare it with their competitors. The latest versions are available for download at the Mozilla website. It has a rich feature set and like most things to do with Firefox – it’s free.

First it is a toolbar, the SeoBar, which shows the parameters, selected in options, for the page currently displayed in the browser window. It takes up minimal space in doing so and has almost no learning curve. Soon it becomes second nature to glance up at the bar and instantly know the essentials of a page such as Google’s and Alexa’s ranking for it. This also makes it easy to scope out advertising prospects quickly and easily. The options for parameters displayed by the bar are fully customizable by the user.

It’s more noticeable feature, is its addition of extra information to search engine results pages. It can add information such as Google Page Rank or Alexa Ranking with a few clicks of a mouse. Also possible is, the re-ordering of the results on a search page based on separate criteria such as Alexa Rank or the number of pages from each site, that are, indexed by Google and so on.

Also included is a tool for the creation of new user-defined parameters that can be a combination of existing parameters or an entirely new formula. This allows for a high level of customizability.

The tool can also highlight “no follow” links when viewing a web page making it great when commenting on blogs

A warning is necessary, however. This add-on works by querying the search engine for information to fulfill each requested parameter. This may lead to frequent repeated requests and a resulting IP address ban. To avoid this, such information is usually stored in cache, so ensure that your browser settings accommodate this.

Finally, the add-on is tiny in size but big in potential as it simplifies the difficult task of search engine optimization, particularly for those inexperienced, new webmasters. It is compatible with newer versions of Firefox.

Nothing is more irritating to a webmaster than posting up a lot of links only to find that the site has them as no-follow making them pointless as far as search engine bots go. This makes it sensible to check the page to see if your links on it will count to search engines.

You could do this the long way by checking the page source code of every site you visit for the relevant parameters – do-follow or no-follow. If no tags containing the parameters are found it is usually safe to assume that the links are do-follow. If opening up the source code of every site you scout, when that source code can contain hundreds of lines, isn’t your thing then you can make use of the SEO for Firefox add-on that is designed to aid webmaster search engine optimization. The feature that helps in this task it the one that highlights no-follow links in red, saving you the time of posting your link and checking back the source code only to find that your efforts were in vain.

All links that are not highlighted red are do-follow and are good for improving search engine results, providing that the site they are on is also indexed by the search engine you are trying to improve your standing with. One more fact of importance is that; given the demand the add-on places on the computer’s processing power, however, it should be left off except when actively scouting for a place to put up links.

SEO for Firefox video

The title of this could also be, Microsoft vs. World. Well, not really but, you know what I mean. On the ever-growing World Wide Web, browsers are vying for the top spot as the favorite of millions of internet users. Funny enough, the first ever browser, Netscape is barely worthy of mention based on recent popularity studies.

A recent study indicated that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer continues to dominate the market but not without some strong competition for Mozilla’s, relatively new, Firefox browser. A number of features set these competitors apart.

For instance, Firefox features the all-too-familiar tabbed browsing feature. No more opening multiple browser windows, eating up your precious RAM and slowing down everything on your computer. While a more recent Explorer version can provide the same feature, Firefox pioneered the idea and there is a definite difference in feel when using tabs in Firefox as opposed to Explorer.

Also a very important topic amongst those interested in browsers is that of security. Most studies show Firefox as marginally better in this field as well even though Internet Explorer had years of a head start. This has been partially associated with the way in which Explorer is tied into the operating system while Firefox is a completely independent application.

Add-ons are a popular browser feature that enables enhancements to be made to browser by users. Well Firefox does anyway. Internet Explorer is notoriously hard to code add-ons for while Mozilla even provides help in doing so on their website. They welcome users who add functionality to the browser and a much wider range of applications are available, doing everything from music playing to game downloads.

Finally, a feature of Firefox exists that is not really a part of the browser on a whole, but is rather a modified version made by users called Firefox Portable. This application allows you to take your browser, along with its history and bookmarks, with you everywhere on a USB Flash Drive.

While statistics continue to show Internet Explorer as dominant,Firefox is getting more and more share of the market