There are many hidden gems in Firefox and exploring them makes us to wonder how well Firefox is designed by its creators. Today let us explore what we can do with mouse scroll wheel other than just scrolling the web pages.



1. Moving Back & Forward

Hold the shift key and move the mouse scroll while up and down to move back and forward of the browser history respectively.

2. Close a tab page without even displaying it

Popup ads of yesterday are new tab page ads of today. Few annoying web sites keeps opening popup adds as new tab pages. At times we don’t even want to see what is there in the unwanted tab and close it. Mouse scroll wheels come handy to deal with this situation. Just hover the mouse on the unwanted tab and click using mouse scroll wheel. The tab will be closed immediately.

3. Opening links in a new tab

To open any link on a new tab page just click it using the mouse scroll wheel. In the background Firefox silently opens the link in a new tab page.

4. Scroll line by line while reading a web page

This is the very useful functionality for those who read lot of stuff online. Hold the Alt key while scrolling the page using mouse scroll wheel to move it line by line. This come very handy while you need to scan text line by line.

5. Zoom In and Out images/text

Use CTRL + Mouse Scroll wheel to zoom in and out a web page

6. Scrolling though the tabs

If you open many tabs then Firefox adds a tab scroll as it runs out of space to show all the tabs. The general way of scrolling through the tabs is to use the arrows Firefox displays on the edges of tab area. The quickest way to scroll through the tabs is to use mouse scroll. Place the mouse scroll on any tab and move it up and down to scroll through the pages

7. Open a folder of bookmarks with a single click

Bookmark toolbar of Firefox is very handy to create bookmarks of the favourite web sites that we browse often. The bookmark tool bar also allows us to create folder and group the bookmarks under them. If you click on a folder with mouse scroll wheel, Firefox opens all the bookmarks of the folder in tab pages.

8. Move Up and Down

Click on the web page using mouse scroll wheel to use mouse to move the page up and down

1. Walter Cavanaugh, "Mr. Plastic Fantastic," has 1,196 different valid credit cards.


2. The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.

3. In 1987, a 1,400-year-old lump of still-edible cheese was unearthed in Ireland.

4. There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.

5. In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.

6. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.

7. If an orangutan belches at you, watch out. He's warning you to stay out of his territory.

8. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

9. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.

10. About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.

11. In 1984, a New Jersey man opened a summer camp for Cabbage Patch dolls.

12. You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.

13. How can you tell when a gorilla is angry? It sticks its tongue out.

14. According to one poll, nearly 3/4 of all American women wear a bra that is the wrong size.

15. In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary formally married her 50-pound pet rock.


16. The first sperm banks opened in 1964; they were located in Tokyo and Iowa City.


17. In 1980, the Yellow Pages accidentally listed a Texas funeral home under frozen foods.

18. Cold showers actually increase sexual arousal.

19. 200 college students streaked at the same time in Boulder, CO in 1974.

20. In 1977, a 13-year-old boy discovered a tooth growing on his left foot.

21. In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast.

22. In the early '80s, a toad was discovered that meows instead of croaking.

23. In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.

24. About 96% of all American children can recognize Ronald McDonald.

25. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

26. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

27. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

28. The average human has seven sex fantasies in a day.

29. The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.

30. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

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A look at some of the deadliest natural disasters around the world in the past 40 years:

- May 2008: Earthquake (magnitude 7.8) hits Sichuan province in central China. Thousands are killed.

- May 2008: Cyclone Nargis strikes Myanmar, killing more than 30,000 and leaving an additional 30,000 missing.

- October 2005: Northern Pakistan earthquake (magnitude 7.6) kills about 78,000 people.

- August 2005: U.S. Gulf Coast Hurricane Katrina kills at least 1,600 people in Louisiana and Mississippi.

- December 2004: Indian Ocean tsunami (triggered by magnitude 9.0 earthquake) kills 230,000 in a dozen countries.

- December 2003: Southeastern Iran earthquake (magnitude 6.5) kills 26,000.

- January 2001- Gujarat earthquake (magnitude 7.9), epicenter: Bhuj, Western Gujarat. Over 20,000 killed.

- October 1999- Orissa’s super-cyclone- Over 10,000 killed.

- August 1999: Western Turkey earthquake (magnitude 7.4) kills 17,000.

- October 1998: Central America Hurricane Mitch kills 9,000.

- April 1991: Bangladesh cyclone kills 140,000.

- June 1990: Northwestern Iran earthquake (magnitude 7.7) kills 50,000.

- July 1976: Northeastern China earthquake (magnitude 8.2) kills 240,000, with some estimates at 655,000.

- November 1970: Bangladesh cyclone kills 300,000. World's deadliest cyclone on record.

Google Earth plans to bring even more than Earth and Sky


It was only a matter of time until the Mountain View-based company started looking for new worlds to explore so, after reaching the earth and the sky, Google
gets ready for the ocean. Elinor Mills of CNET reports that Google may be interested in developing a 3D version of the ocean which would be integrated into Google's downloadable tool, Google Earth.

A few weeks ago, Google rolled out Google Earth 4.3 beta, a brand new version of the application which incorporates many new functions such as Street View. Moreover, the Sky support was implemented a long time ago so the Ocean would be an obvious addition.

According to the same source mentioned above, Google refused to comment the speculations, saying that the Mountain View-based company has "nothing to announce right now." However, Elinor Mills writes that Google "has assembled an advisory group of oceanography experts, and in December invited researchers from institutions around the world to the Mountain View, Calif., Googleplex." Moreover, "they discussed plans for creating a 3D oceanographic map, according to sources familiar with the matter."

Obviously, such an improvement would be an amazing update and an extremely useful function for oceanographers because it would help them explore the underwater world. In fact, it's already known the fact that Google Earth is currently being used by numerous scientists out there for all kinds of purposes including monitoring volcano activity in different regions of the world.

"There is no real terrain or depth model for the ocean in Google Earth. You can't get in a submarine and in essence fly through the water and explore ocean canyons yet," Tim Haverland, a geospatial application developer at the Fisheries Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told CNET