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Mozilla Firefox Tips n' Tricks

This is the place where we collect neat tweaks and customizations for the Firefox browser.

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Speed up Firefox

There are hundreds of tweaks of how to speed up your web surfning in Firefox. However, many depend on the speed of your computer or your bandwidth, and may slow down your browsing experience if yoru computer or bandwidth is too slow or fast. The ones listed here are independent of such performance.

Type "about:config" in the address bar, and use the filter to search and change the following values:

  • "network.dns.disableIPv6": set "false".
  • "network.http.pipelining": set "true".
  • "network.http.proxy.pipelining": set "true".
  • "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests": set "8".
  • "content.notify.backoffcount": set "5".
  • "plugin.expose_full_path": set "true".
  • "ui.submenuDelay": set "0" (zero).

For extensive tweaking, refer to [http://www.tweakfactor.com/articles/tweaks/firefoxtweak/1.html the Firefox Tweak Guide].

The QuickSearch function

Instead of navigating to google or wikipedia or other search engines before doing your search, you can do this directly from the location bar. In this example, I will use google. This is how it goes:

1. Go to the site you want to QuickSearch. Search for something that will be easy to spot in the url, say "IIIIIIIII". Now, in the location bar, you will have an url looking something like this:

http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&q=IIIIIIIIIII&btnG=Google-s%C3%B6kning&meta=

2 Replace your search term (IIIIIIII) with %s, and copy the url to the clipboard.

3. Create a bookmark: Bookmarks->Manage Bookmarks->Right click wherever you want to save it (The QuickSearch folder seems appropriate, doesnt it?), and select "New Bookmark".

4. In the form that pops up, type a descriptive name in the "Name:" field. Paste your url in the "Location:" field. In the "Keyword:" field, type a prefix you want to use in the location bar when searching ("g" for example).

Now, in the location bar, type "g Pat Metheny Group" and firefox will do a google search for Pat Metheny Group.

Examples:

Google:

Keyword proposal: g

Location: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s&btnG=Google+Search

Google image search:

Keyword proposal: img

Location: http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=%s&btnG=Search

Wikipedia:

Keyword: wiki

Location http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go

External player for web embedded media

A lot of people have been getting trouble trying to make a firefox plugin for embedded media to work. Install [https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=446 this] extension, configure it to use your favorite media player and start watching those trailers!

Refer to [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=33107 this] thread for troubleshooting.

The adblock plugin

Tired of ads, but don't have the time/knowledge to configure your [https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=10 adblock extension] to block all those flashing animations? Now there is an extension that [https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1136 automatically updates your adblock filter].

Ever wanted to download an embedded movie or flash animation, but couldnt find the address in the source code? There is an easier way. Now, whenever there is embedded media, there will be a small "Adblock" tab pointing out from it. Click it, copy the address, click cancel, paste it wherever you want. Done!

1) In gaim, click Tools->Preferences->Plugins & click the check box next to "Remote Control" (You may need to restart gaim)

2) In Firefox, type about:config in the location bar. Then right click in the list, and select New->String. In the box that pops up, type

network.protocol-handler.app.aim

and click OK.

3) In the second box that pops up, type:

gaim-remote uri %r

Refer to [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=28620 this] thread in the Ubuntu forums.


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