Do you want to know who the people behind Mozilla Firefox are?
Well, here's the trick:

1. Open Firefox
2. In the address bar, type "About:Credits" without the quotes
3. Press ENTER

Voila! A list of those geniuses behind everyone's favorite browser is displayed.

Labels: Browser, Firefox, Secrets, Tricks

Did you know, Google has created versions of its search engine for Windows, Linux, and BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution)? If you don't know what those three are, they are called your Operating Systems or OS, the main brain of your computer. Well anyway, for more information on the what the OS is, you may visit the OS Wiki.

The Google - Windows version is characterized by the Google sign on the Windows default wallpaper, Bliss. The Linux version injects the iconic penguin in the logo. Finally, the BSD version shows the devil icon of the OS on the logo.



There used to be a Mac version, but for some reason, it isn't there anymore. For now, if you look at the page, it just displays the accessories you can get for your Mac.

Source: www.eggheaven.com

Labels: Browser, BSD, Google, Linux, Windows

In an article written by Mark Ontkush, he points out that "an all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts." According to him,

Take at look at Google, who gets about 200 million queries a day. Let's assume each query is displayed for about 10 seconds; that means Google is running for about 550,000 hours every day on some desktop. Assuming that users run Google in full screen mode, the shift to a black background will save a total of 15 (74-59) watts. That turns into a global savings of 8.3 Megawatt-hours per day, or about 3000 Megawatt-hours a year. Now take into account that about 25 percent of the monitors in the world are CRTs, and at 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, that's $75,000, a goodly amount of energy and dollars for changing a few color codes.

In response to this, Google created a black version of its search engine. The Blackle has the exact same functions as the white version, but with lower energy consumption. Check it out at www.blackle.com. Here's a snapshot of the black version:

Labels: Browser, Google, Trivia

Here are yet another set of nifty tricks you can do with Mozilla Firefox:

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Firefox within Firefox

1. Open your Mozilla Firefox
2. In the address bar, type the following URL: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

See what happens :)


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The Firefox Joke

1. Open your Mozilla Firefox
2. In the address bar, type the following: about:mozilla

You will see the following text (Sorry Spoiler =P):

Labels: Browser, Firefox, Tricks