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Stylish Chrome and Firefox Bookmark without Add-Ons

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The picture below shows my Firefox bookmark toolbar with Icon for each website I bookmarked. It is easy to create this iconic-bookmark which is for me the best way on how to bookmark your website on Firefox or Chrome. What you need to do is:Open Firefox or chrome browser. Right click anywhere below the address bar and select Bookmark toolbar. Now Drag the Icon of any website you want to bookmark into the address tool bar. You sill see the toolbar will show both Icon and the Website name. Right click on the Icon and select properties. Now Empty the name field and click OK so that the bookmark toolbar will only shows the icon. Delete the icon and bookmark : Right click on the icon and select delete. Icon not showing : Check the URL by right click and select properties, make sure the URL is correct. Cannot Drag the Icon : Some website does not have this feature, so you need to right click on the bookmark toolbar and select New Bookmark and Inset the URL manually. Some websi...

How to Change Google Search Location

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For some reason, sometime Google mistakenly redirect or set your location such as you live in Canada but it tells you you are in UK. Sometimes wrong location could prevent you from using certain iGoogle feature. You can tell the location base on the URL itself such as: www.google.ca : Google Canada www.google.com : Global/America www.google.co.uk : United Kingdom Now what you have to do is to type in the URL base on your location such as www.google.ca if you live in Canada. If you want to change this permanently, just set the default search preference URL on your browser.  There are other specific URL that are useful: 1. www.google.com/ncr Ncr refer to "no country restriction" which is an alternative to www.google.com and this will always takes you to google.com without redirecting you. 2. http://www.google.com/ search?q= This is a default url when you search using Google.com. What this trick do is instead of going to google.com hompage which will redirect to...

Firefox - How to Turn Off/Disable Spell Check

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Spell check could be annoying if you are using a lot of abbreviation, short hand writing style, or writing a specific terms which is not recognize by the dictionary. Spell check by default is enable, so whenever you are typing email, Facebook status or new tweets it will check your spelling and underline wrong spelling with a red line. If you are using Firefox here is a simple step to turn it off or on. 1. Click Firefox Button and select option. 2. Click advance and uncheck the box which say "check my spelling as I type".  3. Click OK to apply this setting. This option will permanently disable spell check until you re-activate it back again by using the same method.  There is another way to do this and it is by changing Firefox configuration. Keep in mind that the first method I mentioned above is the best way to do this. Changing your Firefox configuration (advance setting) can be harmful to the stability, security, and performance of Firefox. Type "About:...