Secure Your FireFox Settings and Wand Passwords using Master password

A master password is must if you are using a Internet browser with save wand password and more. It is essential to secure all your settings from anyone. We know it very well that FireFox show the save passwords and it is totally insecure to show save passwords. Here we are telling you how to set a master password in FireFox 4.

• Go to FireFox menu > Options
• Then go to security
• Here select the option “set master password”
• Set your desired master password and save settings

Done! Now all your settings will be saved from anyone and no one can access settings or save passwords without knowing master password.

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FireFox 4 add-ons to Block Adult or Any Unwanted Website

Site blocking is not a readymade feature in FireFox 4 and we are unable to control a bad website directly. But there are some very useful FireFox add-ons available to do so with which we can block any specific website using FireFox 4.

BlockSite

BlockSite is a fully free Firefox ad-on to control bad websites or adult websites. This add-on can block any website or webpage you want. Using this ad-on you can add as many URLs as you want and you can protect your site control with as password. You can enable or disable the plugin anytime.

FoxFilter

FoxFilter is really a very effective add-on an able to block adult websites automatically. Thus this awesome add-on save your family from silly content websites automatically. This add-on block the website based on vulgar keywords find on the websites.

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Firefox 4 vs Internet Explorer 9 vs Opera 11- Comparison Table

	FireFox 4	Internet Explorer 9	Opera 11
GUI	Good	Good	Awesome
Hardware Acceleration	Great for heavy content such as Flash video streaming	It is found number one in hardware acceleration test but Firefox4 was not launched till then	Average
Browsing speed	Awesome browsing speed and you will experience great browsing	Good browsing speed	Fastest browsing speed and great for slow connections using Opera Turbo which has capability to compress webpage graphics such as images
Support for HTML5 and CSS latest version	Full support	Better than Opera but it has some issues with a few websites such as it is not supporting Blogger stats dashboard completely.	A lot of compatibility issues with many websites specially ASP apps based dynamic websites such as Orkut
Plugins	Ultimate treasure of highly advanced add-ons but currently FireFox 4 is blocking some very useful add-ons such as IDM flv downloader	Average	Below average and not so rich if we talk about plugins
Synchronization	Advanced Synchronization option and we can sync everything eve our passwords too. FireFox offers full security for syn data. We can also setup own server for baked up browser data	No options to setup a sync server and not sync account option	Great and easy to use sync option and we can easily sync our browser data using our free Opera account. But we can’t sync passwords.
Private Browsing	One click private browsing option	Same as Firefox 4	Highly advanced private browsing and you can run as private browsing tab along with normal browsing
Security	As FireFox is an open source app so we can’t say more about security but Mozilla has taken strict steps regarding browsing security.	Internet Explorer has been considering the most secure Internet Browser since a very long time and most of ecommerce websites are created compatible to IE	Average security
Bookmark Management	Full featured i.e you can create different folders for bookmarked links and can import and export bookmarks anytime	Average	Same as FireFox 4
Web Developers tools	Web Console to examine webpage,error console and Source code viewer	JScript Profiler a good tool for JavaScript debugging,Source viewer but there are found bugs in developer tool in IE9	Opera DragonFly is an amazing and outstanding tool to inspect page element and found great. Using Opera Dragon Fly it is very easy to find any HTML and CSS element.
Session saving	No	No	yes and we can save a browsing season to load it any time
Wand Password Feature	Not so secured and passwords are viewable in Options and it does not good for security	Not so evolved and you can not delete a selected password	Fully evolved feature
Auto Form Filler	Not available but add-ons are available	NO	In-Built auto form filler
Website Blocking Feature	Available	Available	Available
Speed Dial	NO (add-on available)	Yes	Yes
License	Free	Free	Free

If you are not satisfied or not agree with any of the point given above then feel free to discuss in comments because we love your comments.

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FireFox 4- How to Use Synchronization Feature

FireFox comes with its outstanding feature of complete synchronization. Now you can load your browser options,bookmarks,passwords etc in any other FireFox browser i.e anywhere other than your personal PC or when you reinstalled the program all your data will be restored again. FireFox 4 offers its own sync service via FireFox Sync account or we can also setup our own server for synchronized data.

How to use the Synchronization option in FireFox 4

• First download and install FireFox 4 if you do not have in your PC
• If you are already using FireFox 4 then go to the upper dropdown option bar and select option “setup sync” (this option will be appeared if you are not using sync option currently)

• Now enter your email address and any desired password
• You can also choose any data to sync i.e what to sync
• Now press next and FireFox will give you a sync key which will be used to sync data on any other device or computer other than your currently used PC
• Save this key safely in your PC and also save this key at your personal email account so that you can access this key from anywhere

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