A Little Lunacy!

This is a small tutorial which I wrote by putting together some tips from Mozilla’s knowledge base. It takes only a couple of minutes and saves a lot of your valuable time.

Suppose you have 5-6 or more websites that you visit when you fire up your browser. What you’d normally do is that you would open a new tab manually for each site, then type in the address/select from your bookmarks. Pretty tedious, eh? In this tutorial, we’ll see how we can get Firefox to do the boring stuff for you. All you need to do is tweak a few settings, after which you can open tabs for all your must-visit-daily websites with ONE click. Sounds good? Let’s get our hands dirty, then.

• Run Firefox, then go to Tools->Options. Note down the address in the home page field, in case you want to restore it later.

• Now all we need to do is type in the addresses of the sites you need to open in one go. Do it this way:

http://www.gmail.com|http://www.chelseafc.com|http://www.abhi247.com

• All the addresses need to be separated using the pipe symbol – |. So now that you’ve put the addresses in the home page field, your settings should look something like this:

• Save the changes by clicking OK, then close the browser.
• When you restart Firefox, it will open up a tab for each address that you typed in the home page field, if you have set Firefox to open your homepage on startup. That is not what we want, so we’ll make a few more changes.
• Once again, open up the Options window and set Firefox to open a blank page when it starts.

• Click OK to close the Options dialog.
• Now we come to the one-click part. Right-click on the Menu bar or any of the buttons. Select Customize from the popup menu.

• Drag and drop the Home button onto the toolbar.

• Your toolbar should now look something like this:

• That’s it! Close the Customize window and try clicking on the Home button on your toolbar.

• There you have it. Every single address opened in a new tab. And all you had to do was click the Home button.
• This way, Firefox won’t run off to fetch all those webpages every time it starts and you can open all your favourite websites with one click!

That brings us to the end of this little tutorial. Hopefully this would be useful to a lot of people.

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Sorry to shamelessly steal the slogan of an SUV, but this is the first thing that popped up in my mind as I sat down to write this post. What I’ve got here is a little image that should serve as an inspiration to all geeks and non-geeks alike. I don’t know if anything similar has been posted anywhere else, but here goes:

Now that you’ve seen it, go on and do it. Reclaim your pathetic life before you lose it.

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Five months in Chennai just flew by, albeit at the pace of a kiwi with one wing strapped behind its back. The final few days in Chennai were quite eventful, with me and my team having to toil in order to meet the deadline for a project. Add to that, the excitement of moving to a new place and it felt like 24 hours in a day were not enough.

The new place in question is Pune, which will now be the hub of my blogging activities. I’ve not been able to explore the place so far, but the signs are good and maybe I’ll start liking this city. Of course, the one thing that I’ve learned in my first few days is that the transport system in Pune… err… sucks. Compared to Chennai which had connectivity to almost every nearby suburb by means of local trains, over here you have to rely on the 6-seater rickshaws and the ST buses. And you need to wait for them for a long time. Depending on your luck, it could be a while before you manage to get a ride. Of course, the situation might be different in the city. I don’t want to check it for myself, though.

It’s been raining/drizzling (delete according to time of day) ever since I’ve arrived here, which is in start contrast to the sweltering heat of Chennai. My office, being located on the outskirts of the city, has a scenic view of the mountains. I just hope I don’t end up spending hours looking through the window rather than staring at my monitor.  More on that when I get my workstation.

That’s it, then. I’ll be spending the weekend getting my house in order and learning about the route to my office. And once that’s done, work awaits me on Monday. Cheers, and have a great weekend, fellas!

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