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Google Searching Tips

see http://www.google.com/help/operators.html
Intitle: operator
Intext: operator
link: operator
site: operator

Firefox Information

For faster performance:
- run in safe mode either from Start Menu or firefox.exe -safe-mode
- uninstall unused and disabled extensions
- enter about:config in URL line and then modify browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewes (change -1 to 0) which will not store previous pages, but usin back button will take longer
- enter [Ctrl]+J and clean up previous downloads
Ctrl-Shift-T - to reopen last closed tab
Ctrl-Drag Tab - to copy a tab already open
Firefox Smart Bookmarks (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Places_query_URIs) - examples:
- Most Visited: place:queryType=0&sort=8&maxResults=10
- Top Sites For Keyword Xyz: place:queryType=0&sort=8&maxResults=10&terms=xyz

Internet Explorer Information

in IE to customize for search engines:
1. Regedit
2. go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchURL
3. Edit->New->Key - create new key abbreviation: y for Yahoo, g for Google, mskb for MS Knowledge Base
4. Edit default value: 'http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=%s' for Yahoo, 'http://www.google.com/search?q=%s' for g, 'http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=%s' for MSKB
to remove items from IE right-click menu
go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt and delete subkeys
turn off IE6 error reporting
go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main and change IEWatsonEnabled String to 0
to disable pictures pop-up toolbar for page:
put on page: <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />
or on a per-image basis add the attribute galleryimg="no" to the IMG tag
to allow full IE6 download - after download setup tool change it's shortcut to: C:\ie6setup.exe /c:"ie6wzd.exe /d /s:""#E"""
under Tools -->Internet Options click on 'Advanced' tab and uncheck "Show friendly HTTP error messages." to see real ASP errors. - if still don't show up run Internet Services Manager and in the home directory tab of web site or application click on the configuration button and then click on 'App Debugging' tab and make sure "Send detailed error messages to the client" is selected
[Ctrl]-[Enter] - press after enter URL like yahoo on Address line - the www. and .com are then added automatically for you - if this doesn't work use regedit and browse to the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoComplete] registry key and make sure the "Append Completion" setting is "yes"
[Ctrl]-[mouse wheel] - increase/decrease the default font size
[Ctrl]-[F5] - get the latest version of the page irrespective of cache settings
[Ctrl]-D - bookmark the current page
[Ctrl]-F - opens the Find dialog box for searching within a page
[Ctrl]-I - toggle favorites
[Ctrl]-N - open a new browser window
[Ctrl]-O - open a new location
[Ctrl]-W - close the current window
[Ctrl]-P - print the page you're viewing
[Alt]-[Home] - goes to your designated home page
[Al]-[Left Arrow] - go back a page
[Alt]-[Right Arrow] - go forward page
[Alt]-D or [F6] - go to Address bar and select everything
[Shift]-[mouse wheel] - go forward/back a page
[Shift]-click on link - open link in a new window
[Shift]-click - open the link in a new window
[Shift]-[F10] - see mouse right-click menu
[F4] - access the URL address drop-down list
[F5] - refresh a page
[F6] - will highlight the address line

Netscape Information

Press [Ctrl] + A to select the entire document
Press [Ctrl] + [End] to move to the end of the document. Press [Ctrl] + [Home] to return to the top
use [Alt] + [Left Arrow] to move back a page and [Alt] + [Right Arrow] to move forward a page
press [Ctrl] + [Alt] + T while a page is loading to see what is going on
press [Ctrl] + [Alt] + S to alternate hiding and showing the status bar at the bottom of the Communicator browser window
press [Ctrl] + [Shift] + 1 to open the message center without going to the menu and press [Ctrl] + [Shift] + 2 to open the Address Book
type in 'about:cache' on Location: line to see what is in your cache
type in 'about:image-cache' on Location: line to see what images are in your cache
type in 'about:memory-cache' on Location: line to see what is in your memory cache
You can start Netscape Communicator with the -k flag (kiosk mode: no menus) or the -sk flag (super-kiosk mode: full screen, no menus, no title bar). The command lines would read:
\< path >\netscape.exe -k < URL >
\< path >\netscape.exe -sk < URL >
web page authorizations stored encrypted in a file called fat.db in the cache on the browser

Web Crawler Information

robots.txt file - to give information to web crawlers, spiders

# sample robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow: /includes
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /images
User-agent: Hal-9000
Disallow:

# sample robots.txt - to disallow everything
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

DHTML Information

to hide your mouse-sensitive content until after the page is loaded use something like <BODY onfiltered="show_objects()"> which then shows the content in a function that can be called by the onLoad event handler

XML Information

#PCDATA = "parsed character data"
assign default value to an attribute for an element

<!ELEMENT COLOR (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST COLOR COLORNAME CDATA #FIXED "RED">

CLF (Common Log File) format fields and their contents

remotehost - browser hostname (IP number if DNS is unavailable)
rfc931 - the remote log name of the user (almost always "-" which means unknown)
authuser - the web server authenticated username
date - date and time of the request
"request" - the request line exactly as it came from the client
status - the HTTP status code returned to the client
bytes - the content-length opf the document transferred