Some Quick tips for Mozilla Firefox

Some quick tips for Mozilla Firefox users.

First, quickly access the full configuration menu in Firefox by typing "about:config" in the address bar. In this window you can change a lot of different settings.

Second, quickly open a new tab by pressing CTRL + T.

Third, press and hold CTRL + # where # is 1 - 9 to switch between tabs in the open window.

Finally, hold down CTRL while clicking a link to open that link in a tab or hold SHIFT while clicking a link to open that link in a new window.

Get to the address bar using your keyboard

Quickly get to the address bar in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox by pressing the F6 key on the top of your keyboard. Opera users can press the F8 key to get to the address bar.

Bookmark search engines

Bookmark almost any search engine and have the capability of using it anywhere by following the below simple steps.

1. Right-click within the text box you wish to bookmark and click "Add a keyword for this Search.."
2. Enter a name for the bookmark and then a keyword you wish to use. For example, if you were doing this in computer hope you could type "ch" as your keyword and then click Ok to create the bookmark.
3. Once created in the URL bar type your keyword and what you wish to search for. For example, if you used "ch" as your keyword and wanted to search for Firefox you'd type: "ch firefox".

Internet browser bookmarks

Click Bookmarks and within bookmarks click your right mouse button and select Sort by Name.

Quickly bookmark a web page

Quickly bookmark any web page in all major browsers by pressing CTRL + D on your keyboard. Pressing these two keys together will open the bookmarks or favorites for your browser and allow you to quickly place a bookmark for the page you're currently at. For example, pressing the two keys now would bookmark this page.

Undo closed tab in Mozilla Firefox

Oops !!

Mistakenly closed a tab you didn't want to close?

Press CTRL + Shift + T to undo a close tab. Pressing this more than once will undo multiple closed tabs.

Quickly bookmark a web page in Mozilla Firefox

Bookmark any web page form field and quickly access it from the browser address bar. Below is an example of how you could bookmark the Computer Hope search and quickly search for help anytime .

1. Right-click on the search box in the top left portion of this window.
2. Click "Add a keyword for this search".
3. In the Add bookmark window, type any name or leave it blank and for the keyword make it something simple and easy to remember. For example, "CH" for "Computer Hope" and click Ok.

Now in your address bar you can type: "CH " and then anything you need help with. For example typing: "CH motherbaord" would open the search results for motherboard.

Select only certain text in an HTML table

Quickly and easily highlight only certain rows, columns, or cells of an HTML table by holding down the CTRL key on the keyboard and click each cell individually, clicking and dragging the mouse up or down a column, or dragging a mouse left or right on a row.

For example, if you wanted to select the data in the below second column of the HTML table hold down the CTRL key and while holding down the key click the "Example 2" cell and drag down to "Four". Once selected press CTRL + C to copy the data and paste it elsewhere.

Example 1	Example 2	Example 3
One	Three	Five
Two	Four	Six.

Hide / Tweak the Firefox download window

Remove that pesky download window that appears after downloading a file by adding the Firefox Download Statusbar Add-on to your browser. Alternatively editing the about:config settings as shown below can also disable this window from being displayed.

1. Open a new tab in Firefox.
2. In the address bar type: about:config
3. Locate browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting by copying and pasting the bold text into the Filter box.
4. Double-click the name or value to change the value from True to False. Once done close the tab.

If you've hidden your download Window it can still viewed by clicking Tools and then Downloads or pressing Ctrl + J.

Some Firefox Extensions

Firefox Extensions

Here are a few Firefox Extensions that I consider essential.

Adblock Plus (alternate link)

The Adblock Plus extension can strip nearly every kind of ad out of web pages, including Flash and Java applets, as well as help prevent pop-ups.

Bookmark Sync and Sort

The Bookmark Sync and Sort extension imports/exports XBEL-formatted bookmarks and can synchronize a bookmarks file across multiple installations by uploading to an FTP or WebDAV server, as well as sort all local bookmarks.

Copy Plain Text (alternate link)

The Copy Plain Text extension allows you to Copy text without formatting. This can be useful when pasting into other applications (such as OpenOffice or Word) that support formatted text.

Download Statusbar (alternate link)

The Download Statusbar extension allows you to keep track of ongoing and completed downloads in a hide-away statusbar.

DownThemAll (alternate link)

DownThemAll makes it easy to download all links or images on a page in one shot.

EZNav (alternate link)

EZNav allows you to middle-click on the navigation buttons for different effects. Forward and Backward increments or decrements numbered URLs, and reload navigates up in the URL hierarchy.

Favicon Picker 2

Favicon Picker 2 adds a new option in the Bookmark Manager to allow you to manually select (or clear) the Favicon associated with each bookmark.

FireBug (alternate link)

FireBug is an integrated JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and Ajax debugger for Firefox, including an error console, command line, and inspectors

ForecastFox (alternate link)

ForecastFox displays current and forecasted weather in your status bar.

Greasemonkey (alternate link)

The Greasemonkey extension allows users to add custom scripts to change the behavior of any web page. Many pre-written scripts can be found at Userscripts.org.

Simple RSS Reader : Mozila Addons

When you need to get the news fast, Simple RSS gets you there faster. With only a few clicks you get your favorite news in your toolbar. Simple RSS comes with built in preview, navigation bar and setup panel.

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Simple RSS Reader (SRR) 1.2.2 by Alvaro Junior!

Updated July 15, 2008

Add to Firefox

* Supports all versions of RSS and Atom.

Version 1.2.2 — July 15, 2008 — 64 KB

► Add : Itens per feed.
► Fix : Broken links (site, email) in ABOUT.
► Fix : FF 3.0. Minor corretions in preferences and popup (tooltip).
► Fix : FF 3.0. MOUSEOVER - Change color and pause the feed.
► Remove : Preferences. Show details popups, default now.
► Updated : en-US, pt-BR, it-IT.

► Updating for FF 3.0 compatibility.

Works with:

• Firefox: 1.5 – 3.0.*

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Homepage

http://alvarojunior.com/firefox/extension/

Support

Support for this add-on is provided by the developer at http://alvarojunior.com/firefox/extension/

Comment anywhere on the web without the permission of a site : Mozilla Firefox addons

Reframe It 1.1.3.20090302 by Brian McKinney

Comment anywhere on the web without the permission of a site. Reframe It lets you communicate through specific comments next to the text or images of any website. With it you can highlight comment and share you thoughts thoughts in context. Say what you want where you want to.

Long Description

Everything in Reframe It happens in a collapsible space on the side of your browser. In this margin you can post, read, and share comments as you browse the web.

Reframe It supports sharing via Facebook, Twitter, RSS, HTML, and direct email so you can quickly share your comments.

Works with:

• Firefox: 3.0 – 3.6a1pre

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Homepage

http://reframeit.com

Support

Support for this add-on is provided by the developer at http://reframeit.com/help or by sending an e-mail to support@reframeit.com

Mozilla Firefox : Add ons : Auto Pager 0.4.2.2

AutoPager 0.4.2.2

by Wind Li

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The AutoPager Firefox extension automatically loads the next page of a site inline when you reach the end of the current page for infinite scrolling of content.

AutoPager works with a ton of sites, including Lifehacker, of course, Google .......

Works with:

• Firefox: 1.5 – 3.6a1pre

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Homepage

http://www.teesoft.info/

Add to Firefox

This add-on has a privacy policy.

YSlow : Analyzer of webpages

YSlow 0.9.5b2by Yahoo! Inc..

Ever wonder why a page is taking so long to load? YSlow will tell you why and give you a solution that positively impacts performanc

Categories

YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on Yahoo's rules for high performance web sites.

Add to Firefox

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Long Description

YSlow gives you:
* Performance report card
* HTTP/HTML summary
* List of components in the page
* Tools including JSLint

Advanced Details

* Firefox 3 and Firebug 1.2 beta support
* improved and simplified check for javascript minification
* different coloring for inline vs external CSS and JS ("All CSS" and "All JS" features)
* clickable list of resources as a Table of Contents ("All CSS" and "All JS" features)
* improved colors and presentation in the "legend" of component pies under Stats
* fixed a bug where the same hostname with different port number was counted as a separate DNS lookup.
* misc bugfixes and style tweaks

You must install Firebug: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843