Showing posts with label Mozillia Firefox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mozillia Firefox. Show all posts
FireFox 3.5 New features + Google Chrome Portable!
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Firefox User Agent Addon!
When the web browser is accessing the web server to download the web page’s contents, it sends a user agent to the web server to identify what kind or type of browser, platform and application is used to view the website. User agent FIREFOX add on allows the web server to respond separately to different systems or apply different behavior and features to a different browser.Below are examples of what you can do using the User Agent Add-On for Firefox:
The I-phone:
Switch the user agent of Firefox, simply add the User Agent for iPhone and change from the toolbar the user agent to iPhone and visit any web site with iPhone service. For the free magazines you have to visit the following url - www.zinio.com/iphone.
The PS3 Youtube Tv:
YouTube service specifically aimed at being watched on TV... www.youtube.com/tv, as announced by YouTube. YouTube says the site is available for the PlayStation 3 and the Wii. When you visit it on your computer, you’re redirected to the normal homepage.here is the following hack to view it anyway (HTML’ified):
- Install User Agent Switcher 0.6.11 for FireFox
- Set Mozilla/5.0 (PLAYSTATION 3; 2.00) and Opera/9.23 (Nintendo Wii; U; ; 1038-58; Wii Internet Channel/1.0; en)
- Go to http://www.youtube.com/tv
- Press F11 (FireFox full screen)
- Connect your PC to the TV (See how-to videos)
The Nintendo Wii:
This one allows you to acess the wii shop, you don’t need a wii for this one.
View the wii shop in firefox:
The wii uses a browser to communicate. By emulating this browser with firefox, you can surf the wii shop.
1. Open Firefox
2. Install the User Agent Switcher
The previous tech-recipes on the use of this tool is also killer.
3. Click Tools4. Click User Agent Switcher
5. Click Options -> Options
6. Click User Agents
7. Click Add
8. Description: wii
9. User Agent: Opera/9.00 (Nintendo Wii; U; ; 1038-58; Wii Shop Channel/1.0; en)
10. Click OK X 2
11. Click Tools again
12. Select User Agent Switcher
13. Select wii 14. Copy and paste one of these links into firefox and visit it:
Main Channel:
http://oss.shop.wii.com/oss/common/vc/W_01.jsp?language=en®ion=USA&country=US Surf the Manual! http://209.67.106.203/en_US/html/manual/USA/startup.html
My Nintendo Membership Link:
http://oss.shop.wii.com/oss/common/vc/S_02.jsp?language=en®ion=USA&country=US&&state=init
Sonic The Hedgehog Page:
http://oss.shop.wii.com/oss/common/vc/B_05.jsp?titleId=000100014D414845
Visit the source for more information.
Googlebot 2.1
When you use this user agent you can get into “member only areas” of quite a few sites, Read Rss feeds without signing up ect.
There are many other things to play around with the user agent addon for Firefox just do a search on google and you will find more things to get into. This post was just to explain the basics and get you started. So have fun and enjoy the new areas of the web to explore.
Xml List you can import to Firefox User Agent Addon:
(Does not include Playstation3 or wii) but all others.)
http://techpatterns.com/forums/about304.html
Check your User Agent here:
http://ipchicken.com/
http://whatismyuseragent.dotdoh.com/
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Firefox 3 tune-up guide!
Starter and Power User Guides to Firefox 3
Need a in-depth tutorial on using the features in Firefox 3? DRIA have come up with the Field Guide for Firefox 3 with guide for each of the features Firefox 3 brings with it. You can learn more about the bookmarks or see what performance enhancements have been made.
The folks at Lifehacker have also written the Firefox 3 power user guides for making Firefox 3 more useful and better. You can find tips such as adjusting the smart location bar’s suggestions, deleting mistyped URL from the suggestions list, smart bookmarking tips and more.
Mashable also provides another much needed guide to learn more about Firefox 3 and its features. Webware gives you a Producers view of Firefox 3 talking about the behind the scene working of Firefox. And last but not the least checkout the review of Firefox 3 done by CyberNet news.
Top Features In Firefox 3
The folks at Lifehacker have written a wonderful post to highlight the top 10 features in Firefox. Lifehacker details the new features such as the new interface, the new add-on manager, malware protection and more. If you have just begun using Firefox you can find out what it is all about by reading the top 10 Firefox 3 features.
Tweaking Your Firefox 3 Location bar
Many people have said that they do not like the way Firefox 3 location bar works and may want to do away with it. Mozilla Links heard you right and have put up a comprehensive list of 9 tweaks you can apply to the Firefox 3 location bar to make it much better or disable it once and for all.
Make Firefox 3 More Faster
We love the speed of Firefox 3 but not many people will let us be satisfied with it. The XP Tech Support guys want you to want for more and tell you how to get it too. Read their trick on making Firefox 3 even more Faster.
Convert Firefox into a Social Networking Hub
Social networking is definitely one of the best way to get in touch with friends and family and share things with them, but why live a scattered social networking life when you can easily convert Firefox into your Social Networking hub with useful add-ons and extensions.
Recover Firefox 2 passwords in Firefox 3
Did you lose your passwords on your move from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3? Thepinkc Ultimate Geek has a handy article on how you can recover your passwords from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3.
Restore Lost Bookmarks From Firefox 2 in Firefox 3
We know that passwords are not the only thing you care about and bookmarks are important to you as well. If you have lost your bookmarks during the transition, Jeetblog has a life saving article that will restore your lost Firefox 2 bookmarks in Firefox 3.
If you believe that prevention is better than cure you should definitely look at how you can backup your bookmarks and restore them at a later date in Firefox 2 and Firefox 3.
Disable Autocomplete Location Bar in Firefox 3
Firefox comes built with a great and versatile location bar, but we know many of you may not be used to it and may want to switch to the plain old Firefox 2 location bar. SimpleHelp was kind enough to detail the steps to disable the autocomplete feature and revert the location bar settings to Firefox 2.
Customizing Your Firefox 3 Toolbar
Over a period of time we have told you how to create a customized toolbar in Firefox as well deleting the customized toolbar you have created. Talking about Firefox 3 About.com gives you a in depth tutorial to help you create a customized toolbar in Firefox 3.
Select and Copy Multiple Areas of Text in Firefox 3
We know how difficult it is to copy texts from different areas while you are browsing the Internet, it’s just painful to keep copy pasting multiple times till you have got all the information you want. In this tip which we had written earlier we tell you how you can select and copy multiple areas of text in Firefox 3. Well go ahead read it and save yourself some time the next time you go out to research something.
Quickly View Stored Password for Any Website in Firefox 3
Ever wondered if you have any passwords stored for the website you are browsing currently, check out a quick way to view stored passwords for any website in Firefox 3.
Quickly Save All Images and Media Files From the Website Your Visiting
Many a times you may need to save all the images or media files from the website you are currently visiting. Technospot tells you how you can quickly save all the media files including images using a nice little trick.
Add-ons, Add-ons and more Add-ons
How can Firefox be without the useful add-ons and extensions? Here are few useful links to get started with Firefox add-ons and extensions.
- Webmonkey provides a handpicked list of top extensions for Firefox 3
- GHacks tells you about the 5 essential Firefox 3 add-ons you must be using.
- CNet editors have put up a list of 12 must have Firefox add-ons.
- Amit from Digital Inspiration tells us about SnagIt for Firefox 3.
- MakeUseOf tells you about 6 extensions that will save you time.
- Lifehacker talk about four extensions that will help you tweak Firefox 3’s Awesome Bar.
- Mashable once again points us to 30 Must have Extensions that are compatible with Firefox 3.
Also don’t forget to read our the list of Firefox Extensions we have been promoting.
Firefox 3 Themes
Well how can we forget something that makes Firefox 3 look much more nicer and jazzier? Check out the links below to find out which theme suits you best.
- CybernetNews tips you on how to get a Firefox Vista theme for XP and vice versa.
- FirefoxFacts tells you about the 5 best themes for Firefox 3.
- Life Rocks has a extensive list of themes you can use on Firefox 3.
- Hongkiat tells you about 30 nice themes that are compatible with Firefox 3.
Haven’t found the theme that satisfies you? You can always checkout the Mozilla add-on repository for themes.
Firefox 3 Tips and Tricks Updates
Like we said this list will continue to grow, the new features we discover will go into this category as we discover it or has been submitted to us.
Getting the most out of Firefox 3 Page Info Menu
Firefox 3 has a brand new Page Info Menu for which we have already included a couple of tricks in our original post. GHacks in the meantime wrote a interesting post on leveraging the Page Info Menu to get the most out of it. Technospot adds their expertise on how you can find interesting information from the info menu.
Getting Ready For Firefox 3 with Backups
Firefox Facts has a interesting article on the different things you should be backing up before your Move to Firefox 3.
Trim the Location Bar in Firefox 3 to One Line
Don’t want more information in the location bar, GHacks tells you how you can trim the Firefox 3 location bar to one line. Digital Inspiration on the other hand tells you how to disable favorites from appearing in the location bar.
Post Firefox 3 Installation Tips
Kong Technology has a interesting article on things you should do after you have installed Firefox 3.
Export Firefox 3 Bookmarks to Bookmarks.html
LyteByte has a nice little tutorial on how you can export your Firefox 3 bookmarks to bookmarks.html file.
Find How Often You Visit a Web Site in Firefox 3
Lifehacker has another good article that shows you how often you visit a site in Firefox 3.
Make Most of Firefox 3 Full Screen Mode
MozillaLinks has a nice article on how you can get the best out of the Full screen feature in Firefox 3.
Applying User Styles to Firefox
Want to change the way Firefox looks without using any additional themes? Lifehacker has a nice tutorial on applying Functional Firefox User Styles.
Firefox 3 Tips and Tricks
Ryan from CyberNet News has put up a list of tips and tricks that will allow you to enhance your browsing experience with Firefox 3.
Putting about:config in the Sidebar
One of Lifehackers readers shows you how to put the about:config in the sidebar so that you do not have to open a new tab every time you want to change a configuration.
Troubleshoot Crashing or Hanging problems in Firefox 3
How to Geek has a interesting article to troubleshoot Firefox 3 if it hangs or crashes frequently.
Five ways to master bookmarks in Firefox 3
Webware tells you how you can take control of the new bookmarks in Firefox 3 and become a master with in five simple ways.
Import Del.icio.us Bookmarks into Firefox 3
Adam from Lifehacker shows you how you can import your bookmarks from Del.icio.us into the bookmarks system for Firefox 3.
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Firefox addons I personally recommend!
There are about 123 Firefox extensions and growing plus the themes, greasemonkey scripts, tweaks, mods ect. This is a list of tested Addons that I use now, or in the past that I found to be the most productive and usefull. I will continue to update this list with Firefox addons that I forgot about at the time of this post or have not tested yet! The list below is definitely some of the very best!
Gmail Manager - Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.
TwitterFox - notifies you of your friends’ tweets of Twitter.
ChatZilla - is a clean and easy to use Internet relay chat (IRC) client.
Adsense Notifier - Displays your Adsense earnings on the statusbar.
Bookmark with Del.icio.us - Integrate del.icio.us right into Firefox. Easily access your bookmarks and post new bookmarks. Post a bookmark without leaving the page you are on.
StumbleUpon - is an intelligent browsing tool for sharing and discovering great websites.
FoxyTunes - Listen to music while surfing the Web, and control your favorite media player without ever leaving the browser.
Stealther - surf the web without leaving a trace in your local computer by *temporarily disabling history (and address bar), cookies, formFill, disk cache and sending of ReferrerHeader. Verify details of what exactly it can work for you.
NoScript - allows JavaScript, Java (and other plugins) only for trusted domains of your choice. This whitelist based pre-emptive blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities with no loss of functionality
LastPass - is an online password manager and form filler that makes your web browsing easier and more secure.
Greasemonkey - Let's get this out of the way right up front: Greasemonkey is not for the faint of heart. It basically allows you to add JavaScript to any Web page, but writing these scripts requires a good knowledge of scripting. The good news is that there are many generous souls out there who share the scripts they create on UserScripts.org.
When first installed, Greasemonkey does nothing. It just enables the scripting. You'll have to write, or install, scripts before you see any changes on your pages.
So what do these scripts do? Almost anything you can do with JavaScript. For example, I use both Google's Gmail and Reader services. I found a script that causes Reader to appear on the same page as my Gmail. That's a pretty big change. (It's easy to disable a script, and even easier to universally disable Greasemonkey, in case you need to undo a change.)
ColorfulTabs - Having too many tabs open can lead to a lot of confusion, but this extension will assign your tabs different colors so you can tell them apart easier.Adblock Plus - The popular, yet controversial extension has been updated to work with the latest version of the browser, and it’s still doing what it does best: blocking ads.
DownThemAll - A popular extension that assists you in downloading multiple files from a page with just a few clicks.
Firebug - A mainstay of the developer community, Firebug strips down Web pages quickly and lets you work on JAVA, HTML, CSS and more, directly inside the browser.
Flagfox - See a flag in the status bar that tells you what country the server is in for the website you are on. You can then look up more detailed information on the server, giving you some extra security in case the site is a fake.
IETab - Sometimes you just have to look at some things in Internet Explorer due to coding issues. Well, using a tab inside of Firefox is a far sight better than having to open up IE itself.
Video DownloadHelper - The easy way to download Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites, audio and picture galleries.
ColorZilla - An extremely handy tool for Web developers to let them see the RGB and Hex values of any color on a Web page
FireFTP - is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.
Copy Plain Text - Copies text without formatting.
Google Images Re-Linker - This will let you click the thumbnail images on images.google.com, skip the referred framed page, and jump straight to the full-size image.
Sxipper - Forget your passwords! Sxipper accurately fills in forms, manages passwords and your OpenIDs.
CoolIris - Full-Screen, 3D -- Cooliris (formerly PicLens) transforms your browser into a visually stunning, lightening fast way to search, discover, view and share online photos, videos and more. Our unique "3D Wall" lets you effortlessly zoom your way around thousands items on a single, ever-expansive wall. It's the fastest way to search and enjoy Google Images, YouTube, Flickr, Hulu, and hundreds of other sites. See http://www.cooliris.com/product for a list of all features and supported sites.
FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions. In fact, it goes beyond just backing up -- It will actually rebuild your extensions individually into installable .xpi files. Now you can easily synchronize your office and home browsers.
ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog.
ReminderFox displays and manages lists of date-based reminders and ToDo's. ReminderFox does not seek to be a full-fledged calendar. In fact, the target audience is anybody that simply wants to remember important dates (birthdays, anniversaries, bills, etc) without having to run a whole calendar application. ReminderFox makes sure you remember all of your important dates via easy-to-use lists, alerts, and alarm notifications.
Nightly Tester Tools - This Extension fixes compatibility issues if a firefox extension doesn't work with your current firefox build!
Picnik - This extension adds a menu option when you right click on images to make it easy to pull the image into Picnik for editing.
Tree Style Tabs - Show tabs like a tree.
Stylish is a Firefox, Thunderbird, Flock, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite, and Songbird extension that allows easy management of user styles. User styles empower your browsing experience by letting you fix ugly sites, customize the look of your browser or mail client, or just have fun. With an online repository at userstyles.org, you don't even need to know how to write styles yourself; just a couple clicks and the chosen style is applied. Stylish is to CSS what Greasemonkey is to JavaScript, and unlike other methods of using user styles, most styles take effect immediately.
Feel free to add to this list in the comments
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Firefox mouse wheel tips!
Did you know that in Firefox, you can do more with your mouse scroll wheel than just scroll a web page up and down?
Here are a few tips on using your mouse scroll wheel in Firefox that could save you some time.
1. Closing Tabs
To close a tab just place your mouse cursor on a tab and click with the scroll wheel. This is more convenient and faster than clicking the small cross on the tabs, especially when you want to close several tabs.
2. Opening hyperlinks in a new tab
Very often we would like to open a link in a page in a new tab. The normal way to achieve this is by right-clicking on the the link and choosing ‘Open Link in New Tab‘. Here’s a much quicker way. Just click on the link with the scroll wheel. Presto! the link will open in a new tab. You can even click on the Home button or the Forward/Back button to open the respective url in a new tab.
3. Paste URL & Go
Sometimes you would need to copy a link from another source and paste it into the address bar and hit Enter to open the link. There is an easier alternative in Firefox. You can just press the scroll button in the content area to paste, and go to the url. By default this functionality is disabled in Firefox but you can enable it with two simple tweak in about:config. Why two tweaks? Because of a bug in Firefox, the ‘Paste URL & Go’ does not work if AutoScroll is enabled. So besides enabling the paste and go feature you need to disable autoscroll. So here we go. Enter about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Look for the Preference Name middlemouse.contentLoadURL and double-click on it to change it’s value to true.
That’s all to it. Here are few different ways you can use the Paste URL & Go feature after you have copied a url.
- Pressing the wheel button in the content area pastes the url and loads the page in the current tab.
- Holding down the Ctrl key and pressing the wheel button opens the url in a new tab.
- Holding down the Shift key and pressing the wheel button opens the url in an entirely new Firefox instance.
4. Scrolling through the tabs
When you have many tabs open, an arrow appears on either end of the tab bar to let you scroll through the tab bar and view the hidden tabs. There is a much easier way. Just place your mouse cursor anywhere on the tab bar and scroll your mouse wheel up and down to scroll through the tab bar.
5. Moving Forward/Back
You can use the scroll wheel as an alternative to using the Forward and Back buttons on the toolbar. Hold down the Shift key and rotate the wheel forward to view the next page or rotate backward to see the previous page.
6. Zooming
To zoom into a page, hold the Ctrl key and turn the scroll wheel away from you. Similarly, to zoom out, hold the Ctrl key and rotate the scroll wheel towards you.
These are some fantastic tips! Grade A+ I now use them everyday! Thanks to ITecnobuzz!
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Microsoft Abandons Internet Explorer 8!
Redmond, WA – As the Mozilla Foundation releases Firefox 3 and tries to set a record for most downloads in a day, they will be receiving help from an unlikely source: Microsoft. Steve Ballmer announced early Monday that Microsoft would be halting development on Internet Explorer 8 and focusing the company’s efforts on Firefox 3. “I’m going to be downloading it myself, and I’ve told all our employees to download Firefox 3 on Tuesday and instructed our programming teams to start working on making the open source browser better rather than stumble around with Internet Explorer 8,” said Ballmer. “I mean, why bother? Firefox 3 has the ‘AwesomeBar,’ you can’t seriously expect to compete with that, can you?”
Ballmer said that Firefox 3.0 will be the standard browser included with Windows 7 installations along and will replace Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista SP2. “We’ve been looking for something to try to salvage Vista, and this could be it,” said Ballmer.
The Mozilla Foundation was surprised by the news. Carmen Pinter, head of press relations for the Foundation, said, “We’re closing in on 20% of the marketplace, and we know Microsoft is worried, but we didn’t expect this. We predicited capitulation with the release of Firefox 4.0 in 2011 which will have the ‘TotallyAwesomeBar.’”
Ballmer pleaded with other browser makers to coalesce around Firefox. “Why should we have so many programming hours going into different browsers? It’s so easy for everyone to contribute to Firefox. Safari and Opera programmers should get on board too. If we all rally around one browser then consumers will be the big winners, and that’s always been a priority for Microsoft,” said Ballmer.
The programmers working on Internet Explorer 8 were excited. “I can’t wait to stop working on IE8, fucking thing sucks. Most people around here already use Firefox anyway and are sick of doing it Live,” said browser programming team leader William Reily. The Mozilla Foundation said it welcomed any contributors to the project, even from its arch rival Microsoft except “we don’t want any of the people responsible for Internet Explorer 6. They could set back Firefox decades.”Via - http://www.bbspot.com/
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All of us developer types generally use Firefox anyway. I have no need for IE. Microsoft has proven that they do not care nor have the marbles to create a stable browser. Let it die, man! With browsers like Firefox and Opera, not to mention Google Chrome and other up-and-comers, IE is useless to me!
You can say that again! Ive been using firefox since day one and I love it, the sheer amount of plugins alone beats the tar out of ie! Its also open source software so you can pretty much taylor it to your every need, what more could you want. Ive always hated the way ie takes over your whole o.s. since it is intergrated with windows. The only reason its market share is so high is most people (Newbies) wont change cause they either belive in the holy grail of Microsoft or to old or lazy to take the time to read about better options.
Not to mention the millions at work, cafes, libraries, schools and other institutions that are restricted from using anything else!!! Yeah dont forget about those stats. Anyway how you could miss firefox slaying ie all over the net is beyond me! Id never go back to ie and all its bugs and problems. Firefox rulez and thats just how the cookie crumbles! If you agree or disagree Id love to here about it in the comments and why!
Geek to Live: Consolidate Firefox’s chrome!
by Gina Trapani
You’re a power web surfer, so of course you use Firefox. But while the Firefox team has done a great job of creating an interface that accommodates most web surfers, you’re not most surfers. There are bunch of unnecessary buttons, menus and doodads in the Firefox control area (the “chrome”) that you don’t need, taking up space you could be using to see and do more with your web pages and tabs.
Screen real estate is precious; let’s make the most of it. Today we’re going to make over the Firefox default chrome and consolidate only the stuff you need into as little space as possible so you can scroll less and see more while you surf.
BEFORE: Check out the default Firefox chrome layout, with tabs and the bookmarks toolbar turned on (click to enlarge).
Not bad, right? Still, there’s a bunch of space there that could be utilized a lot more efficiently.
AFTER: Here’s what our consolidated version will look like (click to enlarge).
With the same amount of information and features, the compacted version takes up 23% less vertical space (about 113px versus 145px on my setup), giving you more room to see your web pages and less reason to scroll. (Also, the consolidated version fits more tabs across than the default. See the previously-posted Top Firefox 2 tweaks article for more on that.)
Let’s take a closer look at exactly what went where in our makeover. All the highlighted areas and buttons in this screenshot are either removed or utilized in our compact version:
Let’s get started making the most of every pixel on your chrome.
Note: Many (but not all) of the chrome adjustments below involve editing your Firefox userChrome.css configuration file. Detailed information on how to do that is included in the How to edit userChrome.css section below.
Combine the menu and navigation bar
Right-click on it, and uncheck “Navigation toolbar,” and it will disappear, pulling everything up a row.
Remove the Edit and Help menus
Now that the navigation area is up on the menu bar, you want to get rid of anything you don’t need taking up horizontal space, because you want to see as much of the current web page address as possible.
If you’ve got all the Edit keyboard shortcuts memorized (Copy Ctrl-C, Paste Ctrl-V, Find Ctrl-F, Select All Ctrl-A), you don’t need the Edit menu. And if you’re a Firefox power user, chances are you never use the Help menu, either. To remove both of these menus, add the following to your userChrome.css [1]:
/* Remove the Edit and Help menus
Id's for all toplevel menus:
file-menu, edit-menu, view-menu, go-menu, bookmarks-menu, tools-menu, helpMenu */
#helpMenu, #edit-menu { display: none !important; }
Using that same code and the menu id’s in the comments (between the /* and */), you can hide any other menu you don’t use.
If you don’t like the idea of getting rid of menus, an alternative is to compress them all into one menu item with submenu’s using the previously-mentioned TinyMenu extension.
Remove disabled back, forward and stop buttons
userChrome.css tweaks will remove those buttons only when they’re not usable anyway (they dynamically appear when they can be used.)
/* Remove Back button when there's nothing to go Back to */
#back-button[disabled="true"] { display: none; }
/* Remove Forward button when there's nothing to go Forward to */
#forward-button[disabled="true"] { display: none; }
/* Remove Stop button when there's nothing to Stop */
#stop-button[disabled="true"] { display: none; }
I (and maybe you) also never use the Home button. It can be removed with this snippet in userChrome.css:
/* Remove Home button */
#home-button { display: none; }
Remove the Go button
userChrome.css:
#go-button-stack, .search-go-button-stack {
display: none !important;
}
Note that you can also use an about:config tweak to turn off the Go button. (Set the browser.urlbar.hideGoButton config value to true).
Remove the search bar magnifying glass
userChrome.css:
/*Remove magnifying glass button from search box*/
.search-go-button-stack { display: none !important; }
Remove the “throbber”
userChrome.css:
/* Eliminate the throbber and its annoying movement: */
#throbber-box { display: none !important; }
Organize your bookmarks into folders
How to edit userChrome.css
In order to modify certain aspects of Firefox’s chrome, you have to edit a file called userChrome.css stored in your Firefox profile directory. This file is user-specific and can be easily copied from one Firefox installation to another. Here’s where your userChrome.css file is located, depending on your operating system:
Windows XP/2000C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\chrome\
where xxxxxxxx is a random string of 8 characters.
Windows 95/98/MeC:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\chrome\
Linux~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/chrome/
Mac OS X~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default/chrome/
With Firefox closed, open your userChrome.css file and append whatever chunks of code listed in this article float your boat. Alternatively, right-click the link to this copy of userChrome.css that incorporates all of the changes made in this article. Back up your existing userChrome.css, place the downloaded version in your profile directory and launch Firefox to see the changes.
FireTorrent plugin for firefox!
We are proud to announce that FireTorrent is the world’s first BitTorrent plugin for the Wyzo and Firefox web browsers. Suitable for novice and advanced users, FireTorrent allows you to download torrents without the hassle of a 3rd party application.
The result: a great user experience that is attractive to both people that are new to downloading torrents and advanced users.
The FireTorrent plugin includes the very latest technologies and standards to ensure that your download completes quickly and reliably, including advanced features such as STUNT connections, uPnP NAT traversal, uTorrent compatible peer exchange, and many many more!
If you are a Firefox user, feel free to download the standalone FireTorrent plugin here.
Or if you like to try new things, give our Wyzo browser a try for an all-in-one media experience: you won’t be disappointed!
Manage multiple Firefox profiles!
If you simply browse for different reasons - like work, blogging, school research, or play - you may want to use different Firefox settings each time you sit down to surf. Luckily, the Firefox profile manager can manage multiple browsing personalities for a single user on the same desktop.
Most likely, right now when you launch Firefox it uses the default profile to load all your preferences, browser toolbars, extensions, bookmarks, history, cookies, configuration changes and tabs, and you use this same set of preferences every time you surf. Firefox’s profile manager, however, lets you create and choose to use other browsing personalities. Check out how one blogger uses a distraction-free work-only Firefox profile to stay focused.
To get started setting up your multiple browser users, you’ll start up the Firefox profile manager. To do so, from the command line, run Firefox with the —profilemanager argument. On Windows XP, that looks like picture above!
Via[Lifehacker original post and more detail]
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User Styles for firefox add on!
Userstyles.org is a collection of styles that puts you in control of the appearance of websites and of Mozilla applications. These styles can remove annoying parts of websites, change the colour scheme, streamline your browser, and much more.How does it work? First, install the Stylish extension into Firefox, Flock, or Thunderbird. This is the application that’ll let you manage styles. (Users of other browsers, see your options here.)Next, find a style you like. You can do this by searching or choosing a category in the top right. Many styles will have pictures and descriptions to tell you what they’re about. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, you can make a request in the forum and someone will likely write a new style for you. Styles are just CSS, so if you’re a web developer you can be up and writing your own styles in no time.
Once you’ve found one that you’re interested in, press the “Load into Stylish” button on that style’s page. A Stylish window will come up confirming the style you picked. Press Save.
The style should now be applied. If it was a style for a website, go visit that website and you’ll see the style’s effect. If you don’t like what it did, you can turn it off easily. Just click on the in the status bar (lower right of the window), then pick Manage Styles… This will list all the styles you have installed. Click on the checkmark, and the style will be turned off.
So that’s it. If you want more detailed help, see here. Feel free to report bugs, request features. and ask questions in the forum.
Google Earth Plug-in for firefox and internet explorer!
Windows only: The freeware Google Earth plug-in integrates Google Earth with your web browser, embedding the 3-D glory of Earth in Firefox or Internet Explorer. The results, which you can see in the video above, are impressive. There isn’t a ton of Google Earth plug-in integration on the web yet, but check out the samples to understand the possibilities, like switching between Google Maps and Earth on-the-fly. The Google Earth plug-in is Windows only, supports Firefox and Internet Explorer.
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Firefox 3.03 Portable!
A good way to test Firefox 3 without having to install it over your precious Firefox 2 client is to download and run the Firefox 3 portable version which comes with all features of Firefox 3 but does not tamper with previous versions of Firefox in any way. The portable client uses its own profile which is located in the same directory structure as the program’s files.
It pretty much does everything that Firefox 3 can do as well. It is possible to install extensions and themes for instance. Bookmarks can best be imported into the portable version. Just point it to your bookmarks.html file in your Firefox 2 profile folder.
It is even possible to run both the Firefox 3 portable version and another Firefox version at the same time. To do that you need to create another profile for the portable version. Head over to Ghacks article that explains how to multiple Firefox profiles simultaneously.
Ive been using this for quite sometime now and this is the best firefox out there I love it!!
Best Firefox 3 Addons 2008!
No Squint - NoSquint allows you to adjust the default text zoom level, and optionally remembers the level per site. Also Zooms whole sites to fit the resolution on your widescreen or lcd flatscreen monitor. This add-on is a must have I love it!
Ad-Block Plus - Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.
No Script - The best security you can get in a web browser! Allow JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from sites you trust. A Must!
FlagFox - Displays a country flag in the status bar depicting the location of the current website’s server, and provides quick access to detailed location and webserver information. Shows Ip and Hostname of site on mouseover of country Flag. Very nice!
Video Download Helper - The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites. This works also for audio and picture galleries. Must have!
Stylish - Stylish allows easy management of user styles. User styles empower your browsing experience by letting you fix ugly sites, customize the look of your browser or mail client, or just have fun. With an online repository at userstyles.org, you don’t even need to know how to write styles yourself; just a couple clicks and the chosen style is applied. Stylish is to CSS what Greasemonkey is to JavaScript, and unlike other methods of using user styles, most styles take effect immediately. User guide: http://userstyles.org/stylish/help Eye Candy.
SmoothWheel - SmoothWheel offers an enhanced and configurable version of the built in smooth-scroll. It uses some unique algorithms for smoothness and adaptive behavior (scrolls fast or slow according to the “intention” of the user). Allows to read long web pages easily. You can actually read WHILE scrolling. Kind of like the credits at the end of a movie, but controlled by scrolling the mouse wheel. Works with text-boxes and drop-down boxes too. Does its job.
Greasemonkey - Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to customize the way webpages look and function. Hundreds of scripts are already available for free. And if you’re the savvy sort, you can also write your own. The Rapidshare, megaupload, link checker script is absolute must have.
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AeroFox - Aero Fox theme redone for Firefox 3. Aero style glassy buttons on a glossy background. Nice looking theme (Use small Icons!)
Vista on Xp - Theme you don’t like the green in the XP theme of Firefox 3? Get the blue one of Vista for your XP!
Cs Lite - This extension will allow you to easily control cookie permissions. It can be accessed from the statusbar, a toolbar button, or the context menu. Just click on the icon to allow, block, or temporarily allow the site to set cookies. You can also view, clear or edit the cookies and exceptions by right clicking on the cs lite icon. For safer browsing you may choose to deny cookies globally and then enable them on a per site basis. You can also download a blocklist that contains a list of untrusted hosts that you may choose to import into FF and block. The blocklist can be configured to automatically update or can be updated manually. This is a lighter, scaled down version of CookieSafe. It contains less features, but is considerably easier to use. The extension has been completely recoded from top to bottom making this the most stable version to date.
FireBug - Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. Nice for webmasters, bloggers.
Split Browser - Splits browser like explorer in windows side by side anyway you like on the fly! It will help you in various cases. For example, to compare multiple webpages, to show a calendar always, and so on.
Firefox 3 speed guide!
The Mozilla FireFox V3 is no doubt a great browser , but with some little tweaks , you can double its performance!
1. Enable pipelining
Browsers are normally very polite, sending a request to a server then waiting for a response before continuing. Pipelining is a more aggressive technique that lets them send multiple requests before any responses are received, often reducing page download times. To enable it, type about:config in the address bar, double-click network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining so their values are set to true, then double-click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set this to 8.
Keep in mind that some servers don’t support pipelining, though, and if you regularly visit a lot of these then the tweak can actually reduce performance. Set network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining to false again if you have any problems.
2. Render quickly
Large, complex web pages can take a while to download. Firefox doesn’t want to keep you waiting, so by default will display what it’s received so far every 0.12 seconds (the “content notify interval”). While this helps the browser feel snappy, frequent redraws increase the total page load time, so a longer content notify interval will improve performance.
Type about:config and press [Enter], then right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) somewhere in the window and select New > Integer. Type content.notify.interval as your preference name, click OK, enter 500000 (that’s five hundred thousand, not fifty thousand) and click OK again.
Right-click again in the window and select New > Boolean. This time create a value called content.notify.ontimer and set it to True to finish the job.
3. Faster loading
If you haven’t moved your mouse or touched the keyboard for 0.75 seconds (the content switch threshold) then Firefox enters a low frequency interrupt mode, which means its interface becomes less responsive but your page loads more quickly. Reducing the content switch threshold can improve performance, then, and it only takes a moment.
Type about:config and press [Enter], right-click in the window and select New > Integer. Type content.switch.threshold, click OK, enter 250000 (a quarter of a second) and click OK to finish.
4. No interruptions
You can take the last step even further by telling Firefox to ignore user interface events altogether until the current page has been downloaded. This is a little drastic as Firefox could remain unresponsive for quite some time, but try this and see how it works for you.
Type about:config, press [Enter], right-click in the window and select New > Boolean. Type content.interrupt.parsing, click OK, set the value to False and click OK.
5. Block Flash
Intrusive Flash animations are everywhere, popping up over the content you actually want to read and slowing down your browsing. Fortunately there’s a very easy solution. Install the Flashblock extension (flashblock.mozdev.org) and it’ll block all Flash applets from loading, so web pages will display much more quickly. And if you discover some Flash content that isn’t entirely useless, just click its placeholder to download and view the applet as normal.
6. Increase the cache size
As you browse the web so Firefox stores site images and scripts in a local memory cache, where they can be speedily retrieved if you revisit the same page. If you have plenty of RAM (2 GB of more), leave Firefox running all the time and regularly return to pages then you can improve performance by increasing this cache size. Type about:config and press [Enter], then right-click anywhere in the window and select New > Integer. Type browser.cache.memory.capacity, click OK, enter 65536 and click OK, then restart your browser to get the new, larger cache.
7. Enable TraceMonkey
TraceMonkey is a new Firefox feature that converts slow Javascript into super-speedy x86 code, and so lets it run some functions anything up to 20 times faster than the current version. It’s still buggy so isn’t available in the regular Firefox download yet, but if you’re willing to risk the odd crash or two then there’s an easy way to try it out.
Install the latest nightly build (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/), launch it, type about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Type JIT in the filter box, then double-click javascript.options.jit.chrome and javascript.options.jit.content to change their values to true, and that’s it - you’re running the fastest Firefox Javascript engine ever.
8. Compress data
If you’ve a slow internet connection then it may feel like you’ll never get Firefox to perform properly, but that’s not necessarily true. Install toonel.net (toonel.net) and this clever Java applet will re-route your web traffic through its own server, compressing it at the same time, so there’s much less to download. And it can even compress JPEGs by allowing you to reduce their quality. This all helps to cut your data transfer, useful if you’re on a limited 1 GB-per-month account, and can at best double your browsing performance.
Original text above found at: http://www.itechnobuzz.com/
Other firefox speed related tips:
Fire Tune Firefox 3
FireTune is a simple freeware utility that will help you to fine tune Firefox 3. It is meant for tuning network related settings and is done with respect to your computer speed and Internet speed. This saves you lots of time which you would waste while doing this optimization manually. Click here to download this utility. If you feel that the changes done with Firetune are not up to the mark then you can always revert back to your original settings.Manual about:config tweaks:
The following tweaks are obtained by typing about:config and then modifying the page. Make sure you make a back up copy just in case something goes wrong. Here are some of the speed tweaks for the experimentally orientated.
Step one: Type about:config in the address bar and hit enter
Step two: Make the following modifications to the file by typing in the values on the respective fields to get the desired result (feel free to experiment)
network.http.max-connections 30 to 96
network.http.max-connections-per-server 15 to 32
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 6 to 8
network.http.pipelining false to true
network.http.proxy.pipelining false to true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 30 to 8
network.http.pipelining.ssl false to true
network.http.proxy.pipelining false to true
Related links:
Webchunks
FasterFox
Fasterfox Lite without prefetching
MozillaZine
Darrell Nortons firefox speed tweaks
Greasemonkey
Firefox Preloader
Speed Dial
UPX.org - Compress FireFox Exe and .Dll Libraries
After downloading and extracting UPX, execute the following statement on the command line in the extracted directory: for %v in (*.exe *.dll components\*.dll plugins\*.dll) do upx "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\%v"
