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Adobe PDF is just about the best format for sending and receiving documents. For example, as a classical music lover I can tell you that most music scores available online are in PDF, because PDFs are small and are easy to upload and send via email. But what if you need to create or edit a PDF document, or fill in a PDF form? That could be a problem if you don’t have Adobe’s software installed. Well, not really. There is a number of free tools to create and edit PDF documents that don’t need to be downloaded or installed – you can use them from any computer that has an Internet connection. Here are 5 top tools to create and edit PDFs online.

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If you’ve recently visited the Firefox add-ons website, I’m sure you liked its new design and organization. Now it’s a lot more user-friendly and finding and installing add-ons has never been easier. But that’s not all – the new Collections and the Add-On Collector extension are the real corkers!

So, what are Collections? Simple, really – they are packs with various add-ons, themes, and language packs. For example, there is a collection called Reference Desk, which is really handy for students. This collection consists of 13 add-ons, including Hyperwords (one of my favourites), Merriam-Webster dictionary, and Read It Later – a handy little add-on that lets you bookmark pages you want to read later without adding them to your actual bookmarks.

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Ensuring browsing safety is one of the major concerns of equally users and browser developers these days. And it’s understandable because let’s face it – a lot of people practically live online. We buy and sell stuff online, we do online banking, we socialize online, and we even get online degrees. With all that going on it’s a must to protect yourself. Firefox is a very good browser from security point of view because of it’s useful extensions. Here’s a list of top 5 Firefox security add-ons:

1. NoScript

In my opinion, NoScript is one of the best security add-ons out there. It lets you specify which websites are allowed to run active content, like Javascript, Java code and other executable codes, thus protecting you from cross-site scripting attacks (XSS) and Clickjacking attacks. There was an Adblock Plus issue, but the developers fixed it and apologized.

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If you’ve ever used Firefox, you probably would never go back to IE, because Firefox is so much more comfortable to use, intuitive, and fast. And there are all those add-ons that, in my opinion, make it simply the best.

However, having too many add-ons can make the browser slow down and annoy you. To make it fast again, simply run Internet Optimizer, which is part of Auslogics BoostSpeed. With Internet Optimizer you can optimize your connection and browser settings. After running this tool Firefox will be as fast as ever.

But, to tell you the truth, with fast Internet connections available these days speed is not that much of an issue (unless something is really wrong with your settings). I mean, so pages will take 2 milliseconds less to render and your download speed will improve a bit – that’s not really a big deal anymore!

What is important, though, is your browsing experience – usually you don’t sit there for ages waiting for a page to load, but rather waste a lot of time clicking links one by one, looking for the entry you need in your right-click menu, and so on.

Luckily, Firefox has add-ons and here is a list of the ones that save me a lot of time and speed up my browsing experience.

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