TRICKS ON MOZILLA FIREFOX

MOZILLA FIREFOX is being used by so many people so here are some of the latest tricks with which you can enjoy.......

HERE ARE SOME OF THE TRICKS FOR FIREFOX

1) More screen space. Make your icons small. Go to View – Toolbars – Customize and check the “Use small icons” box.

2) Smart keywords. If there’s a search you use a lot (let’s say IMDB.com’s people search), this is an awesome tool that not many people use. Right-click on the search box, select “Add a Keyword for this search”, give the keyword a name and an easy-to-type and easy-to-remember shortcut name (let’s say “actor”) and save it. Now, when you want to do an actor search, go to Firefox’s address bar, type “actor” and the name of the actor and press return. Instant search! You can do this with any search box.

3) Keyboard shortcuts. This is where you become a real Jedi. It just takes a little while to learn these, but once you do, your browsing will be super fast. Here are some of the most common (and my personal favs):

• Spacebar (page down)
• Shift-Spacebar (page up)
• Ctrl+F (find)
• Alt-N (find next)
• Ctrl+D (bookmark page)
• Ctrl+T (new tab)
• Ctrl+K (go to search box)
• Ctrl+L (go to address bar)
• Ctrl+= (increase text size)
• Ctrl+- (decrease text size)
• Ctrl-W (close tab)
• F5 (reload)
• Alt-Home (go to home page)

4) Auto-complete. This is another keyboard shortcut, but it’s not commonly known and very useful. Go to the address bar (Control-L) and type the name of the site without the “www” or the “.com”. Let’s say “google”. Then press Control-Enter, and it will automatically fill in the “www” and the “.com” and take you there – like magic! For .net addresses, press Shift-Enter, and for .org addresses, press Control-Shift-Enter.

5) Tab navigation. Instead of using the mouse to select different tabs that you have open, use the keyboard. Here are the shortcuts:

• Ctrl+Tab (rotate forward among tabs)
• Ctrl+Shft+Tab (rotate to the previous tab)
• Ctrl+1-9 (choose a number to jump to a specific tab)

6) Mouse shortcuts. Sometimes you’re already using your mouse and it’s easier to use a mouse shortcut than to go back to the keyboard. Master these cool ones:

• Middle click on link (opens in new tab)
• Shift-scroll down (previous page)
• Shift-scroll up (next page)
• Ctrl-scroll up (decrease text size)
• Ctrl-scroll down (increase text size)
• Middle click on a tab (closes tab)

7) Delete items from address bar history. Firefox’s ability to automatically show previous URLs you’ve visited, as you type, in the address bar’s drop-down history menu is very cool. But sometimes you just don’t want those URLs to show up (I won’t ask why). Go to the address bar (Ctrl-L), start typing an address, and the drop-down menu will appear with the URLs of pages you’ve visited with those letters in them. Use the down-arrow to go down to an address you want to delete, and press the Delete key to make it disappear.

8) User chrome. If you really want to trick out your Firefox, you’ll want to create a UserChrome.css file and customize your browser. It’s a bit complicated to get it.

9) Create a user.js file. Another way to customize Firefox, creating a user.js file can really speed up your browsing. You’ll need to create a text file named user.js in your profile folderthat you can modify.

10) about:config. The true power user’s tool, about.config isn’t something to mess with if you don’t know what a setting does. You can get to the main configuration screen by putting about:config in the browser’s address bar. See Mozillazine’sabout:config tips and screenshots.

11) Add a keyword for a bookmark. Go to your bookmarks much faster by giving them keywords. Right-click the bookmark and then select Properties. Put a short keyword in the keyword field, save it, and now you can type that keyword in the address bar and it will go to that bookmark.

12) Speed up Firefox. If you have a broadband connection (and most of us do), you can use pipelining to speed up your page loads. This allows Firefox to load multiple things on a page at once, instead of one at a time (by default, it’s optimized for dialup connections). Here’s how:

• Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Type “network.http” in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):
• Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
• Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
• Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
• Also, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

13) Limit RAM usage. If Firefox takes up too much memory on your computer, you can limit the amount of RAM it is allowed to us. Again, go to about:config, filter “browser.cache” and select “browser.cache.disk.capacity”. It’s set to 50000, but you can lower it, depending on how much memory you have. Try 15000 if you have between 512MB and 1GB ram.

14) Reduce RAM usage further for when Firefox is minimized. This setting will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, taking up much less memory. And there is no noticeable difference in speed when you restore Firefox, so it’s definitely worth a go. Again, go to about:config, right-click anywhere and select New-> Boolean. Name it “config.trim_on_minimize” and set it to TRUE. You have to restart Firefox for these settings to take effect.

15) Move or remove the close tab button. Do you accidentally click on the close button of Firefox’s tabs? You can move them or remove them, again through about:config. Edit the preference for “browser.tabs.closeButtons”. Here are the meanings of each value:

• 0: Display a close button on the active tab only
• 1:(Default) Display close buttons on all tabs
• 2:Don’t display any close buttons
• 3:Display a single close button at the end of the tab bar (Firefox 1.x behaviour
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  Use desired background image for Firefox toolbars

  
  

  You can put your desired image as Firefox toolbar background. Just add following code in youruserChrome.css file:

  
  

  /* Use desired image in Firefox toolbars */
  menubar, toolbox, toolbar, .tabbrowser-tabs {
  background-image: url("image.gif") !important;
  background-color: none !important;
  }

  
  Replace image.gif text in above code with your image file name. Also put the image in same location as userChrome.css file.
  
  
  

  Remove desired items from main menu

  If you want to remove any particular menu item from Firefox menu bar, you can add following code in youruserChrome.css file:

  /* Remove Help menu */
  #helpMenu {
  display: none !important;
  }

  Above code only hides Help menu. To remove other menu items, you can use following IDs in place of helpMenu in above code: file-menu, edit-menu, view-menu, go-menu, bookmarks-menu, tools-menu.
  
  
  

   Display bookmarks or history sidebars on right-side of Firefox window

  To display bookmarks or history sidebars on right-side of Firefox window instead of left, add following code in your userChrome.css file:

  /* Move sidebars to right-side */
  hbox#browser { direction: rtl; }

  hbox#browser > vbox { direction: ltr; }
  
  
  
  
  

  Change mouse cursor for hyperlinks that open in a new window

  This trick is my favorite. This trick changes the mouse pointer when you hover the cursor over hyperlinks that open in a new window. It makes it easier to differentiate between links that open in same window and links that open in new window. Just add following code in your userContent.css file:

  /* Change mouse cursor for hyperlinks that open in a new window */
  :link[target="_blank"], :visited[target="_blank"],
  :link[target="_new"], :visited[target="_new"] {
  cursor: crosshair;

  }
  
  
  
  

  Speed up Firefox page rendering mechanism

  By default, Firefox doesn't try to render a page for 250 milliseconds while it's waiting for website data. But you can change this functionality by using about:config and add new Integer preferencenglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0. Now Firefox will immediately start showing the web page
  
  
  
  

   Set an external program to view page source

  When you want to view page source, Firefox opens it in its built-in page source viewer. If you want to view page source in your desired text editor program like Notepad, open about:config and set the preferenceview_source.editor.external to true. After that set the preference view_source.editor.path to full path of your desired program's EXE file for example, C:\Windows\Notepad.exe.

  NOTE: Both files "userChrome.css" and "userContent.css" can be found in Firefox Profile folder. To know more about these files, please visit following link:
  
  

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