The strange close tab problem in firefox

I had been experiencing this problem for the past few days, namely

Whenever i close firefox, with multiple tabs open, it doesnt show the usual "tabs are open, do you want to close" confirm dialog box. This really intrigued me and today I found the soultion.
Just open firefox, in the address bar type "about:config"(without quotes)

then in the filter text box, type
browser.tabs.warnonclose

click on the entry named "browser.tabs.warnOnClose
If it is set to false, double click it to make it true

After this, whenever i closed by firefox session with multiple tabs opened, firefox issues the confirm dialog

Cool

(note: For all those hackers out there, about:config, is a place to really check out all the cool featues hidden in firefox, but be sure to backup before proceeding
that is, if you are in windows, copy the file prefs.js located at - C\documents and setting\<user Name>\Application data/mozilla/firefox/profiles)

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Posted on Monday, March 24, 2008 @ 1:58 AM by Justin

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Adding more search engines

(The mini search engine tool bar)

All of you might have noticed the cool mini tool bar located at top right of our Firefox browsers, saving us time and effort whenever we wanted to search something in Google. It saves us time and effort by not having us to type the address - www.google.com in the address bar, wait for the page to load and then type in the search query. Yeah, i know its not so difficult, but in case if you happen to search quite often, you will surely find the search tool bar, a real boon.

So coming back to the topic : Adding more search engines to the search tool bar. Its pretty easy actually. Our first stop would be the mozilla addons site 's section on Search engines. If you dont happen to find the search engine of your choice here; lets go to http://mycroft.mozdev.org This is just an awesome site, with about 12546 search engine plugins!! I really liked the 25 most frequently downloaded plugins and the section for google search plugins. I bet you will find the search engine, that you want to add to the search toolbar, here. In case if you do not, go the main page and you can search for it there.

Once you find your plugin, click on it, and firefox will ask if you want to add it to the list of search engines available in the search bar and say yes. And you have your favorite one added to the list.

Below I have included my search engine list.


(My search engine list)

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Posted on Thursday, August 30, 2007 @ 11:47 AM by Justin

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Mozilla rules


(Graph of browsers that, visitors to this blog use)


About 84 % of visitors to this blog, use Firefox or Mozilla based browsers, while visiting this site. Firefox 2.0.x is the browser used by the maximum number(67.23 %) of visitors. The bar at the top(the longest one) depicts this.

These stats are generated, thanks to a free site called statcounter.com - and in just a few steps, you too can have your stats about your blog/site generated in real-time !

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Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 @ 12:38 PM by Justin

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