Basic Firefox and Tips
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oops sry another qns to ask. erm i tried logging into blogger and it doesn't prompt me to save the password...
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Some sites disable it...
Not just Blogger. Yahoo! Mail does it too. -
ok thanksOriginally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:Some sites disable it...
Not just Blogger. Yahoo! Mail does it too.
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Stop pop-ups
With pop-up blockers, most of us hardly see any pop ups any more. But there will be web masters who want to use pop-ups, and in an illegal way.
This happens because web masters made use of Firefox's default settings and used it to launch pop-ups.
Here's how to stop them:
Type in about:config in the address bar.
Right click and select New > Integer.
Copy and paste privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins and give it a value of 2. -
Those who love keyboard shortcuts will love this new trick. In Firefox 2, when you accidentally close a tab, you go to History > Recently Closed Tabs.
Press Shift + Ctrl + T to bring re-open the tab you accidentally closed. This trick works for Linux machines too.
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Firefox's close buttons can be irritating especially if you use an optical mouse. When an optical mouse goes haywire, you can accidentally close a tab that you don't want to close.
Here's how to remove the Xs.
Type in about:config in the address bar.
Locate browser.tabs.closeButtons. Decide what values you want. Personally, I put 0.
0: Display a close button only on the currently active tab. This is a nice way to keep from accidentally smacking into a close button for the wrong tab.
1: Display close buttons on all tabs (default).
2: Don't display any close buttons; the only way to close a tab is by pressing Ctrl-F4. Pleaes note: Ctrl-F4 only works for Windows. Those using Linux or Mac, it might do something else instead. Check the Firefox's guide to find out what shortcut commands are for closing a tab.
3: Display one close button at the end of the tab bar (Firefox 1.x's default). -
Open bookmarks in another tab
1. Type in about:config in the address bar.
2. Locate browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace
3. Right click and select Toggle to change this value to False. If it is false, leave it alone. -
Lazy people might like this trick...
Rather than press the End, Home, Page Up or Page Down button to get to a particular page, you might prefer it to jump to the page you want in one click.
1. Type in about:config in the address bar.
2. Scroll down to ui.scrollToClick.
3. Right click and and select Toggle to change the value to True. If it's true, leave it alone. -
CacheViewer
View Firefox's cache and saves the stuffs you want.
Might work for some streaming videos and music. -
Convert Firefox's history.dat file into readable text files
Good idea to find out what somebody has been doing lately.
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http://www.sgforums.com/?action=post_display&post_id=6823925
To stop Firefox from launching other applications. -
FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension)
FEBE backs up your extensions, themes, and (optionally) your bookmarks, preferences, passwords, cookies and just about everything else Firefox offers (it can even backup/restore your entire profile).
http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2109
Good extension for Firefox users who wanna backup/restore or even migrate to another PC. -
http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/08/03/firetune-the-ultimate-firefox-hack-for-windows/
For those who don't really know how to tweak Firefox despite the instructions written here. This tool will do it nicely for you. -
is there any shortcut keys to switch betweens tabs? Thanks
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Ctrl + TabOriginally posted by ninek200:is there any shortcut keys to switch betweens tabs? Thanks -
Besides Ctrl + Tab, there's Ctrl + Shift + Tab. This will reverse the switching of tabs.Originally posted by ninek200:is there any shortcut keys to switch betweens tabs? Thanks
There's also Ctrl + X (X is a number more than 0, less than 10). This will go directly to a tab.
For example, you are at the 5th tab. You want to go to the 2nd tab. Press Ctrl + 2 will bring you there.
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More about writing Mozilla Configuration Files. They can be very useful in a work environment.
A normal configuration files is written with a text editor. It must always start with " // " , without the quotes.
So your file will look like this:
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lockPref("network.proxy.http", "proxy.singnet.com.sg");
Bold part - is the settings that you want to lock down to prevent changes. This can be obtained from about:config.
Blue part - is the value.
Once you've done with writing, save it as a normal text file, and use a byte shifting program to encode it.
Program or Do it online
Save the configuration file (.cfg) to where Firefox is installed (usually in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox)
Open this folder in Mozilla Firefox (greprefs) and locate this file: all.js
Scroll all the way down and add in this line:
//use my own configuration file
pref("general.config.filename", "mozilla.cfg");
Bold part - comments, not necessary needed, but will be helpful if you run into some problems.
Save this file, restart Firefox and make sure that there's no errors. If you run into errors, you will need to double check where you went wrong,
There are a few things to take note of:
1. Integer must not be wrapped up in quotes.
Example:
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lockPref("network.proxy.type", 1);
this is correct
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lockPref("network.proxy.type", "1"); this is wrong.
2. Some settings are linked together, like the proxy settings.
Example:
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lockPref("network.proxy.http", "proxy.singnet.com.sg"); this is incomplete.
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lockPref("network.proxy.http", "proxy.singnet.com.sg");
lockPref("network.proxy.http_port", 8080);
lockPref("network.proxy.type", 1);
Highlighted in blue is a complete file.
3. Strings must be in quotes.
Example:
//
lockPref("network.proxy.http", proxy.singnet.com.sg); this is wrong
//
lockPref("network.proxy.http", "proxy.singnet.com.sg"); this is correct
Once you are done and it's ready for the work environment, recompile Firefox, put the installer on your server, write a script to silently install it and rewrite the all.js file.
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Hi everyone, I have officially switched to firefox as my default browser and I'm dumping IE! Lol.
But one problem, for my MSN when I click on email inbox, it still comes out as IE instead of firefox, although I had already set it as the default browser. Why is this so? Any solution to it?
Thanks!
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1. Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs
2. On the left hand side, click on Set Program Access and Defaults
3. Under Choose a default web browser, select Firefox.
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Yes, I have already done it as stated in my earlier post. It's already my default browser. But when I click on "E-mail inbox" in MSN, IE still pops up instead of firefox...Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:1. Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs
2. On the left hand side, click on Set Program Access and Defaults
3. Under Choose a default web browser, select Firefox.
4. Click OK to apply the changes. -
If that doesn't work... then you can do nothing. MS doesn't like their any other things to take over their products...Originally posted by technoboy:Yes, I have already done it as stated in my earlier post. It's already my default browser. But when I click on "E-mail inbox" in MSN, IE still pops up instead of firefox...