I recommend a lot of FireFox extensions here on Tim Matheson, but what if you could make your own FireFox extension and never download one again? Roachfiend.com has a great article titled “How to create Firefox extensions” and thats just what it teaches you. Imagine that.
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Lifehacker editor Gina Trapani has an interesting method of securing your web traffic via a SSH SOCKS proxy. This is a great way to keep co-workers and employers from snooping on your traffic. This method is ideal for public wi-fi networks where you don’t want to share your entire browsing session with everyone on the network (including the provider).
You’re at an open wireless hotspot, but you don’t want to send your web browsing data over it in plain text. Or you want to visit a non-work-approved web page from the office computer without the IT team finding out.
If you use Firefox you are probably familiar with the tab feature. Tabs allow you to organize open windows in a tabbed based environment from within Firefox. There is a hidden shortcut not known by most users using the scrollable wheel of the mouse and the SHIFT key. If you hold down SHIFT and Scroll your mouse wheel up or down you will navigate back and forth through the history of the current active browser tab. For example if you want to quickly go back a page or two simply press and hold the SHIFT key and scroll your mouse wheel down. This method of navigation also works in Internet Explorer. The shortcut is the same and I tested it in IE6 and IE7