How to set master password in Mozilla Firefox | Browser Security.

Are you concerned about passwords and other login details that you have stored in your browser? Whatever it may be whether it’s your bank details, email IDs or Social site login details; all your usernames and passwords should be safe and secure. To secure yourself from hackers you have to consider several things when surfing the World Wide Web. You should not use or store passwords of highly secure web portals on public computers; you should always maintain strong passwords, you should never share your personal or laptop computers with others and so on. But anyhow when the password goes strong remembering it will be really annoying. We have previously discussed about saving passwords in browsers like Chrome, Firefox and IE. Here we will see how to set master password in Mozilla Firefox that is to secure all your saved passwords.

There is still a debate goes on which web browser is safe and secure; personally I myself consider Firefox is good at both privacy and security. Just like other web browsers Firefox saves your login details for feature purpose and that is only if you grant permission. The next time when you revisit the website you don’t have to type in your login details which allow you to authenticate quickly.  But the fact is unless you set the master password, Firefox lets anyone to utilize and view your saved passwords. If you share computers or if you think that your passwords stored are at high risk then it’s highly recommended to setup a master password.

How to setup Master password in Mozilla Firefox

Firefox by default does not use the master password option, before you can use it you have to define it.

Step 1: Open your Firefox web browser and click on Firefox menu at the top left corner, navigate to options and then click on options.

Step 2: Now move on to security tab in options window.

Step 3: Next in there you will see an option called “use a master password”. Just check that and enter your master password twice. Also you can see the password quality meter, to protect the information make sure that you have set strong password.

Step 4: When done click on OK and you will see a message that says “master password successfully changed”, click on ok again. That’s it!

Now clear your browser cache and now open any site that Firefox has previously stored your usernames and passwords. Before it fills your login details on that particular site you will see a message like this where you have to enter your master password.

From now on nobody can use or view your usernames and passwords in Firefox unless they know your master password.  Also you can remove or change your master password in feature by going to options >> security tab but to do so you have enter the current password.

If you like to add some additional features to the built in master password you can try the master password add-on for Firefox. After you install this add-on you will be asked to restart your web browser. When done you will see a small lock icon at your address bar, just click on that and you will get more features like auto logout, auto lock etc.

Hope this post helped you to set master password in Mozilla Firefox. Do you think that your passwords are safe now, also which web browser you think to be best in terms of privacy and security? Please let us know in comments below.

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Your password should be more than 9 characters in length, it should contain a combination of uppercase, lowercase, symbols, punctuation’s and moreover you should not use password that can be easily guessed like common words, real names, substitutes etc. All such rules and instructions can be seen in secure websites like online banking, online shopping sites, Gmail, forums, social networks etc. In order to make your password difficult to crack and to highly protect your online content most sites recommend you to set strong passwords.

How many different passwords can you remember in your mind; one, two, three not more than that? It is really very hard to remember passwords for every websites that you use day to day. So you can save all the passwords in a text file or you can even save it in your mobile phones and when you revisit the website you can use it to enter the login details. But that’s not a good idea; instead you can make your web browser to remember passwords, so when you revisit that particular webpage browser will automatically fill out the login details. Here let’s see how to enable or make Google chrome, Firefox and IE browsers to remember passwords.

Quick links:

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Internet Explorer

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How to enable or make browsers to remember passwords

When logging into a site you might have noticed a popup window or a notification window that will have options like “remember password for this site” “not now” and “never remember password for this site”. Here we will see how to save passwords in chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Make Google chrome to remember username and passwords

In your chrome web browser when you login to any site you will see a popup message at the top of the browser. For example login to your Gmail, Facebook or any account in any website and you will see a message like this that says “Do you want Google chrome to save your password”.

Just click on save password and your chrome browser will stores both the username and password. When you revisit the webpage again, Google chrome will automatically fill the login details which saves you time.

How to enable remember password in chrome

In Google chrome by default this option is enabled that is whenever you login to a site, you will see this message. If you have already saved the username and password for a webpage, then you won’t see this. In case if you don’t see the saved password and don’t get this option for any websites then here is how you enable remember password option in chrome web browser.

Drop down the chrome menu icon at the top right corner and then click on settings. Now scroll down and click on advanced settings. At the bottom you will see passwords and forms, just check both “Enable Auto fill to fill out web forms in a single click” and “Offer to save passwords I enter on the web”.

Now restart your chrome browser and you will see remember password message when you login to a site. In case after enabling the option, if you still didn’t see it then you might have checked “never for this site”.

If you check never for this site then Google chrome will never show the option to remember password, here is how you undo it. Drop down the menu icon click on settings >> show advanced settings and in passwords and forms click on manage saved passwords. Now you will see an area with a list of sites that is never saved, just remove every websites from that list.

Hope this helped you to save passwords in Google chrome.

How to save username and passwords in Firefox

In Firefox when you login to a site you will see a message like this one below. Even though if you have ignored (not now) the message then you can simple click on the key icon to get it back. Clicking on remember password will save your username and password. Clicking on never remember password for this site in Firefox will never get you this option for that particular site until the exception is removed.

How to enable remember password in Firefox

Drop down Firefox menu icon, go to options and then choose options. Now you will have several options, just click on security tab and in passwords field check on “remember passwords for sites” which will get you that save password option for each and every site.

In case if you have checked “never remember password for this site” in Firefox then here is how you remove that exception. Drop down Firefox, go to options >> options. Now move on to security tab and then click on exceptions in password area. Now you will see a list of websites for which passwords will not be saved. Just remove everything, click on OK and then restart your Firefox, that’s it!

Hope this helped you to make Firefox remember your username and password.

How to force Internet Explorer to save passwords

Internet Explorer is little different than both Chrome and Firefox. In Internet Explorer when you enter you login details you will see a message at the bottom of your browser that says “would you like to store your password for this site”. If you click yes then Internet Explorer will save your password and when your revisit that particular webpage, IE will automatically fill the login details.

To enable IE to save your password, drop down the settings gear icon at the top right corner and then click on Internet options.

Now move on to content tab, open auto complete settings and in there check “usernames and passwords on forms” and “ask me before saving passwords”.

In case if you have selected “not for this site” then there is no other way to undo your decision.  If you later change your mind and wish to store passwords in IE then the only option you have is delete all previously stored passwords and history.

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How to receive your emails in your Gmail primary inbox | Handling Gmail tabs.

Have you subscribed to any email newsletters and not at all receiving any one of it in your inbox. That may be because those email newsletters delivered to your Gmail promotional tab which in most cases we do not open it. Is your business hugely depends on email marketing if so then are you gathering data on your email campaigns, if yes then how is the stats? Do you feel that the email click through rate or open rate is low, even that may be because your email lands straight to your recipients promotional tab and not on primary tab?

You know that in Gmail you can see three tabs at the top such as primary, social and promotional. I personally love that feature of mails getting organized. Also I can see that 50% of email lands in my promotional tab, 30% email lands in social tab and only 20% of email drops on primary tab which is personal and highly relevant. Why is that? In the middle of 2013 Google updated Gmail with this new interface adding three different tabs (primary, social, promotional) which are used for categorizing incoming emails. This feature is designed to make user inbox clear and organized. It will be helpful for them to see the most priority emails first. Also this email classification will be very useful for users to spotlight and read important messages on same category all at the same time.

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Here is how your mails are categorized into following tabs

Primary – Messages that are highly relevant and personal will land in this folder such as mails from friends, family and whatever that doesn’t suits on other tabs.

Social – You know that most of your social networking site notifications and messages will land on social tab. Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, Gaming sites, dating sites etc.

Promotional – It is the place for junk emails. All deals, offers, marketing emails and any promotional emails can be seen here.

Other than this there are two other tabs such as updates and forums which you can enable it if you want. To enable these two tabs click on the + sign next to promotional tab and then select the tabs to enable.

Updates – This is where you will receive auto generated messages, confirm messages, update notification, statements and bills.

Forums – All your online discussion board, mailing lists, and messages from online communities will appear in this tab.

This feature is useful for Gmail users, but how about a marketer who’s business greatly relies on email marketing. Just like the spam folder, the promotional tab in Gmail is a folder where most of the junk emails are filtered. E-commerce promotions, new product deals, services, automatic emails like newsletters, RSS and even  important banking messages will mostly end up in promotion tab. Recently I found to be not receiving any email newsletters from the blog’s that I personally love reading and subscribed to. Lately I found that all those emails are delivered to my Gmail promotional tab which I don’t open most of the time.

This promotional tab not only concerns business owners, but also blogs that send daily and weekly newsletters are also affected a lot. So if you are a user who missing your favorite blog newsletters then know how to receive emails in Gmail primary inbox. If you are the one who feel like your email newsletter open rate is low then be sure to educate your recipient about moving mails from promotional tab to primary inbox.

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How to receive emails in Gmail primary inbox – Handling Gmail tabs

Whenever you receive a new mail you will see an indicator on each tab telling how many new messages you have received since you last checked. Mostly you can see lots of new messages in promotional tab. All those email are automatically sorted to such tabs by Gmail which you can handle it according to your own preference. If you find any of your private, personal or most important conversation landing on any other tabs instead of primary tab then you can move it permanently.

Left click on the email, hold it, drag the email to primary tab or just right click on any email, click move to tab and select the tab where you wish to move the email. When done you will see a small notification at the top telling “The conversation has been moved to “primary” Do this for feature messages from “this sender “. Click on yes to permanently receive all messages from that sender on your primary tab. Now all the upcoming emails from that particular sender will land on your Gmail primary tab and not on promotions tab.

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Tip for small businesses

Most of the online business (b2b, b2c) engages in email marketing to stay connected with their clients and consumers. Not all people will view their promotions tab so to reach your audience you have to make sure that your email lands on your recipient primary inbox. Also you have to frequently monitor your email analytics like number of open rates, click through rates etc. From my point of experience I found that Google places email to promotional tab that are automated (not human sent) like RSS. Here are few tips to land all your emails in Gmail primary tab

• Mention your recipient name in email
• Be sure to add subject in emails
• Keep the message short and clear
• Avoid using more images in the email body
• Try not to add more links in the email; if you do so then it is a sign of promotion.
• Lastly make sure to educate your audience about receiving emails in primary inbox.

Hope this article helped you to manage Gmail tabs effectively, receiving email in Gmail primary inbox and few tips to land your emails in recipient’s primary inbox. If you like this article then please share it on social sites and to receive more useful updates we suggest you to subscribe our RSS feeds.

Tutorial on How to create signature in Gmail with image, logos and HTML links.

In this post we will see how to create signature in Gmail with image, logos and HTML links. One of the best ways to promote your business or brand is by email and we have made an article about importance of email marketing. Sending an email to your customers and loyal subscribers from your own domain name rather than using Gmail shows the uniqueness of your brand. See how to create a professional email address with your domain name and integrating it to Gmail. Also we made a post on how to access multiple Gmail accounts in one browser. Hope those articles helped you out. Now lets see how to create signature in Gmail with image, logos and HTML links.

Another way of showing brand awareness is by having a signature in every email you send. Also your logo gets cached easily by your customers and friends if you have a logo in your signature. Signature can be added as plain text, address, links, images and logos. It will be added at the bottom of every mail that you send.

How to create signature in Gmail with images, logos and HTML links

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1. Login to your Gmail account and drop down the geared symbol at the top right corner and open settings.
2. In general settings scroll down and you will see signature settings. Enable signature.
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4. You have many options to add in your signature. To add text signature enter your address details or your name. Now you can select your font styles, font size and font color.
5. To insert image in signature click insert image icon and add it align it as you wish.
6. To link the signature image click on the image you inserted and select the link icon and enter the URL of the page.
7. Once done scroll down and click save changes.

Now whenever you send an email you will have a signature added below. Hope this article helped you on how to create signature in Gmail with images, Logos and HTML links. Please share and subscribe.

How to setup an email address with your own domain name

Recently We have made a post about Using One Browser for Multiple Gmail Accounts, but now we were posting more topics about emails (Importance of email marketing | Using multiple Gmail accounts in one browser) and we were posting lots of tutorials for new bloggers and web designers. In this post you will learn how to setup an email address with your own domain name.

If you are new to blogging or web designing you must know the features that come with your domain name and hosting. You might have visited contact us page for many websites in which they will have an email id @ their domain name which is unique and creating an email address with your own domain name is easy.

If you are a web designer then your clients will surely ask for an email id @ their own domain name. Most of the hosting companies have this feature which allows you to create an email id at your domain name and it depends on your plan. Having an email id @ your own domain name shows your quality in your business service.

How to setup an email address with your own domain name

Create an email address @ your domain name

1. Login to your site’s cPanel or control panel
2. In mail section locate and open “Email accounts”
3. Now enter your details (user@yourdomain.com and password) and create account

Note: To reduce server load and prevent spam mails reduce the mail quota as you wish.

You have done creating an email with your domain name! Now it’s time to forward and integrate your new email to your Gmail account.

Why should I forward my mail to my Gmail Account?

Example Interface:
Most of our hosting webmail’s (squirrel mail, horde mail, round cube) will have fewer features and we usually don’t access it all the time. So instead of using our own webmail we will use Gmail.

Email forwarding allows you to forward an incoming mail automatically from one mail to another. For example jack@blogtimenow.com receives a mail which is forwarded to @gmail.com. So jack has a website dohhnutt1ghost.blogspot.com and to show the quality he uses and publishes his email jack@blogtimenow.com at his contact page and when someone sends an email to this ID it will be automatically forwarded to jack@gmail.com.

Setup Email forwarding in your cPanel

Open forwarders in your mail section and click add forward. Now enter your email detail to forward that is new mail created @ your domain name and the destination Gmail to forward. Once done click add forwarder.
Example Interface:

Now all your email you receive @ your domain name will be forwarded to your Gmail account.

Integrate your own domain email in your Gmail account.

You have done forwarding your mail to Gmail account. Now when you reply to that mail or if you wish to send a mail using your own domain email you don’t have to access your webmail. You can just compose and sent it right from your Gmail account.

1. Login to your Gmail account and open Gmail settings
2. Go to Accounts tab and you will see “send mail as” option
3. Now Click “add another email address you own” and a popup opens
4. Enter your name and email address@ your domain name and proceed to next step
5. Now Gmail needs to verify your email address, so click send verification
6. You will receive a verification code and verification link to your new email address@ your domain. Click that link or enter verification code and you are done.
7. Now make that email address a default one.

Example Interface:

Now when you send a mail to someone from your Gmail account they will receive a mail from you@yourdomain.com that you created.

What you have learned – 1. how to setup an email address with your own domain name, 2. Forwarding incoming mails to your Gmail account and 3. Integrating your new domain email with Gmail account.

Hope this article helped you out on how to setup an email address with your own domain name. Share this post and if you are able or unable to setup an email address with your own domain name please leave an comment below so that I can help you out.