As all of us know that firefox is the best Browser with lost of awesome extensions and Themes. It ha s lots of features like Live Bookmarks, Pop-up Blocker, Streamlined Interface, Protection from Spyware, Spell Checking, Improved Tabbed Browsing and Open Source, More Secure. Download Firefox free Fom here. But you can enjoy lot of things in Firefox, here are some Tricks that i want to share with you:
1. 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)
2. Mouse shortcuts.
* 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)
3. 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 “trueâ€
* Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining†to “trueâ€
* 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.
4. Keyboard shortcuts.
* 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)
5. 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. Clck here for more Mozillazine’s about:config tips and screenshots.
6. Remove the close tab button. Sometime you accidentally click on the close button of Firefox’s tabs? But with this trick you can move them or remove them, again through about:config. Edit the preference for “browser.tabs.closeButtonsâ€.
* 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 behavior)
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Great tricks buddy. I didn’t know much about the mouse shortcuts this will definitely help me since I got a wireless mouse
Thanks for this information. I think it useful and very interesting. (especially 3 tip about speed up Firefox)
Simple and easy tricks. I have written a post to back up the about:config file.
great tips, thanks.
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My personal favorite favorite Firefox keyboard shortcut is ‘/’ to do a text find (like vi).
thanks for the tip
thanks 4 the tips! #3 was the one i didn’t know, i posted a blog with a link back to here…happy holidays!
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Merci pour le truc au sujet du pipelining. Je vais prochainement écrire une traduction en français de cette partie de votre article.
Merci
best Browser with lost of awesome–hey, dude, you lose anyone who might have even the slightest interest in your ravings if you are incoherent–like why is browser capitalized, and lots is transposed (lost)
DUH
hey, its not ctrl+1-9. its ctrl+alt+1-9.
Don’t worry about accidentally closing a tab because you can always do “UNDO Close Tab” by simply right-clicking on the tab bar and choosing “Undo Close Tab”. It even works multiple times and will re-open many closed tabs.
Nice list of firefox tweaks.
excellent,useful for the firefox crazy
don’t forget Ctrl+Pg Up and Ctrl+Pg Dn for moving through the tabs!
in your pipelining section, you have – set integer to “0?.
this might be confusing for other readers…
Thanks, bro. I picked up a couple of your points.
holding shift + middle button.. open the link and switch to a new tab.
that about:config thing was nice, gotta learn about it
thanks a lot for the browser.tabs.closeButtons !!
yes, i’m the kind of person who accidentally presses them !
i don’t need them ’cause i can always use the middle click.
this tricks are very awesome
If you accidentally close a tab, then go to history, then recently closed tabs, and select the one you closed.
Here’s a couple more. Ctrl+N opens a new window and Ctrl+B opens bookmarks in the sidebar.