If you're not using more than 4-5 tabs at a time in Firefox, then you can move on and disregard this article, but if you're one of those hardcore web surfers that happen to have 50 sites open at a time, sometimes even more, than it would be a great idea to have all your tabs displayed on the screen at a time too, don't you think?


<-234x60 Half Banner - left->As you can see above, if you want to select a tab that's out of view, you have to press a button to scroll to the right, until you find it. Not quite a time saver, in my opinion... but we'll make things right in an instant. Just sit back and watch!

- Unfortunately, to have your tabs arranged on multiple rows, you need to download and install this extension. Once you got it and it's in place, we can move on...


- After restarting Firefox, open the Tools menu and left click on Tab Mix Plus Options.


- In the Display>Tab Bar area, select Multi-row and enter the maximum number of rows to have in Firefox, as you can see below.


- Press Apply, restart the browser and enjoy the result!

Since the connection speeds go higher and higher these days, it's no longer a problem to open large images from various web pages, but when you want to choose a nice wallpaper for your new 22" wide monitor, clicking again and again to show the images Firefox loads at full size can become really annoying, as you can see below.


Fortunately, I found a hidden setting that allows us to make Firefox open all large images at full size, instead of trying to fit them inside the browser's window, and here's how to make things right...

- Before anything else, type "about:config" in the address bar, and then press Enter.


- In the Filter field, enter "browser.enable" to show only the setting we have to change.


- Double click the field highlighted in the screenshot below to change it.


- From now on, high resolution images will load properly, without being resized to fit the window.


If you want to navigate inside these high resolution images, you can simply use the scroll bars in Firefox, your arrow keys or the scroll buttons of your mouse, if you have one of those models with vertical and horizontal scroll buttons. To disable this setting and return to the defaults, go through the steps above again, and be sure that the browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing preference's value is true.

This is it, I hope you'll find this as useful as I did!

Firefox has an incredible amount of settings that can be changed, but only a few of them are available in the Tools>Options menu. For example, when you start typing an address that you already visited, Firefox shows a popup menu with all the URLs that match what you are writing in the address bar, but what about setting it to also complete these addresses automatically?


As you can see in the screenshot above, if you want to reach a certain address, you have to use the down arrow, or type it entirely. Let's see how can we change this...

- First of all, you have to type "about:config" in the address bar, and then press Enter.


- In the Filter field, enter "browser.urlbar.autoFill" to show only what we need...


- Double click the field highlighted in the screenshot above. As you can see below, now its value is "true", so inline completion is enabled.


- Now simply start typing an URL and notice the change!


To get back to the default settings, simply repeat all the steps above, there's nothing easier, but I hope you'll consider this useful and it's going to work well(it may be possible for some people to have a conflict between some extension and this setting, but for me, this works just great!).

If you want to change the view mode of the Windows Photo Gallery software, this option may not be as easy to find as one would expect, especially because the way this program's interface was conceived. Microsoft's choice was to take some options out of the menus and bring them one step closer to the user, and while this may be a good move for novice Windows users, experts may find themselves lost for a while...


Today, I will show you how to change the view mode of the Windows Photo Gallery, as I was saying, but I'll also show you how to sort your pictures, as a bonus. Here we go...

- First of all, press the Start Orb, type "gallery" and open the Windows Photo Gallery.


- Navigate to the folder where your pictures are located. I will use the ones that are already available in Vista Ultimate.

- Press the small button located to the left of the search box, and select a new view mode.


- Go to Group By to change this setting, if you need.


- If you want to change sorting criteria, choose a different option in the Sort By submenu.


- Check the Table of Contents view below, maybe this is what you were looking for!


While Windows Photo Gallery is available in all Vista versions, the themed photo slideshows are only available in the Home Premium and Ultimate ones, but I'll leave this topic for a future article. This is it for now, I hope you found out something new today, and you'll get back tomorrow too!

The Telnet client was always a part of the Windows operating system, but if you type "telnet" in Vista's search box, it won't come up. If you really need it, the good news is that Microsoft didn't remove it, they simply disabled it, but you can make it available again in only a few easy steps, as I am going to show you right now...



- Press the Start Orb, and open the Control Panel.


- Left click on Programs.


- In the window that opens, left click on Turn Windows features on or off.


- Scroll down to the item called Telnet Client and select the radio button to its left.


- Press OK and wait until Microsoft gets all your personal data(don't worry, I was joking!).


- Press the Start Orb again, type "telnet" in the search box and click the highlighted item to start the program.


- Enjoy the old Telnet client in Vista!