Firefox - Tips & Tricks
UI Tweaker (Formerly Toolbar Cleanup)
If upgrading from a previous version please to do the following or the extension will now work:
1) Type 'about:config' in the location bar and hit enter
2) Paste this in the blank bar or scroll down to find 'extensions.toolbarcleanup.findbarchanges'
3) Right click on this and select 'reset' and restart firefox and extension will work again
Sorry about that, I deleted the file it calls on and I forgot when you upgrade it doesnt remove old entries from about:config.
This extension allows you to tweak various aspects of the browser's UI.
This extension allows you to do the following via Tools->Extensions->UI Tweaker Options:
- Remove 'For Internet Explorer Users' from the Help menu
- Remove 'Release Notes' from the Help menu
- Remove 'Go' menu
- Remove 'Read Mail (* new)' and 'New Messages...' from the Tools menu (1.5 Only)
- Remove 'Web Search' from the Tools menu
- Remove 'Bookmark Toolbar Folder' from the Bookmarks menu (Only if empty)
- Remove the 'Go' button
- Remove the toolbar separators
- Remove the forward and back button drop down arrows
- Remove the close button from tabbar (1.5 Only)
- Make the address bar corners slightly rounded
- Hide the Search Bar except for the site icon until mouse hover over
- Multi-row bookmarks toolbar
- Show only icons on the bookmark toolbar
- Make non-selected tabs less visible, making active tabs stand out more
- Remove white line under unfocused tabs
- Remove the focus rings around the tab titles
- Show tab favicon only on selected tab
- Relocate the tabbar to the bottom
- Remove the tabbar close button and place on active or hoverd over tabs (1.5 Only)
- Add separators, bold text on status message and other small changes
- Add a keyword when adding a bookmark
- Move the sidebar to the bottom
- Remove the security padlock icon in the statusbar
- Remove the RSS Feed icon from the location bar
- Remove the Min/Max/Close buttons while in Full Screen mode
- Remove the bookmark sidebar search bar
- Remove the location bar drop down arrow
UI Tweaker (Formerly known as Toolbar Cleanup) v1.6.4 - Works with Firefox 1.5, branch and trunk nightlies.
Changelog:
- Fixed a spelling error in description
- Updated the extension description
- Tweaked a bunch of hack descriptions
- Changed any instance of address bar to location bar
- Added a hack to remove the security padlock icon in the statusbar
- Added a hack to remove the RSS Feed icon from the location bar
- Added a hack to remove the Min/Max/Close buttons while in Full Screen mode
- Added a hack to remove the Bookmark Sidebar Search Bar
- Added a hack to remove the Location Bar drop down arrow
- Split the Find Bar hack into 5 separate hacks:
- Remove the findbar borders
- Widen the findbar input field
- Add a separator between the close button and find:
- Add a separator between highlight all and the match case check box
- Make the status messages bold/input field light red when phrase not found
UI Tweaker (Formerly known as Toolbar Cleanup) v1.6.3 - Works with Firefox 1.5, branch and trunk nightlies.
Changelog:
- Added icons in the options menu
- Some spelling error corrections
Hacks that are missing/broke from the latest 1.6.3 version
- Multi-row bookmarks toolbar isn't working for some
- No combined stop/reload button
- Missing Add 'Print' to right-click context menus, allowing users to print via the context menus
UI Tweaker (Formerly known as Toolbar Cleanup) v1.6.2 - Works with Firefox 1.5, branch and trunk nightlies.
Changelog:
- Fixed bug in which only the separator and not the bookmarks toolbar folder was removed from the bookmarks menu
Hacks that are missing/broke from the latest 1.6.2 version
- Multi row bookmarks toolbar isn't working for some
- No combined stop/reload button
- Missing Add 'Print' to right-click context menus, allowing users to print via the context menus
- Needs icons in the options dialog
UI Tweaker (Formerly known as Toolbar Cleanup) v1.6.1 - Works with Firefox 1.5, branch and trunk nightlies.
Changelog:
- Fixed bug in which the remove drop arrows for back/forward buttons and round addressbar hacks were swaped in the options dialog.
- Added back hack for tab close button on tabs (1.5 Only)
- Added back hack for removing Read mail from the Tools menu (1.5 Only)
- Tweaked the extension's description
- Tweaked a couple hack descriptions
- Added a contributor (Pike) to the about dialog
Hacks that are missing/broke from the latest 1.6.1 version
- Multi row bookmarks toolbar isn't working for some
- No combined stop/reload button
- Missing Add 'Print' to right-click context menus, allowing users to print via the context menus
- Needs icons in the options dialog
UI Tweaker (Formerly known as Toolbar Cleanup) v1.6 - Works Firefox 1.5, branch and trunk nightlies.
Changelog:
- Added a working options dialog (Everything is customizeable now!!!)
- Renamed the extension to UI Tweaker (Did not change the guid so no need to uninstall and install this version
- Added hack for icons only on the bookmark toolbar
- Added hack for relocating the tabbar on the bottom
- Added hack for disabling autocomplete in the search bar, location bar and html input fields
- Removed hack for removing 'Read Mail (* New)' and 'New Message...' from Tools menu (No longer needed since this is in the branch/trunk nightlies....Please let me know if this is needed for 1.5.0.*)
- Added hack to remove the bookmark toolbar folder from bookmarks menu (will only work if empty)
- Added hack to remove the back/forward drop down arrows
- Added hack to add a keyword when adding a bookmark
- Added hack to move the sidebar to the bottom
Hacks that are missing/broke from the latest 1.6 version
- When make non selected tabs less visible + remove white line under tab are used together the non select tabs are pink. but if you use the remove close tab button then everything is fine
- Multi row bookmarks toolbar isn't working for some
- No combined stop/reload button
- Missing Add 'Print' to right-click context menus, allowing users to print via the context menus
- Needs icons in the options dialog
These are short and simple tips to make browsing easier. They require no "hacking" files or changing configuration. Middle-click refers to pushing down the mouse wheel in the center of your mouse, if your mouse wheel does not support middle-clicking then crtl+left-click works the same. Laptops utilize both left+right-click as the middle-click button.
Open a blank 'New Tab'
Double-click empty space on the Tab Bar
Open a bookmark in a new tab
Middle-click on the bookmark
Close a tab
Middle-click on the tab will close it
Open your homepage in a new tab
Middle-click on the homepage button to open your homepage in a new tab
Navigate tabs with the keyboard
Ctrl+Tab to navigate tabs to the right.
Crtl+Shift+Tab to navigate the tabs to the left.
Even quicker way is Ctrl+[# of tab]
Set mutliple Home pages
Tools---->Options--->General and seperate each page with the pipe | symbol
(Shift+button above the enter button)
eg. http://forums.mozillazine.org|http://www.google.com|Link:
Rearrange add/remove Icons on the toolbar
Toolbars: View--->ToolBars--->Customize
Let Firefox complete web addresses for you
Type in something like 'yahoo' in the address bar and hit:
Ctrl+Enter to add Link:. before and .com after the text
Similarly, Shift+Enter will add Link:. and .net
and Ctrl+Shift+Enter will add Link:. and .org
Bookmark the current page
3 Simple ways:
Hit Ctrl+D,
drag the icon from the location bar to your Bookmarks folder,
or you can drag the icon to the desktop to make an shorcut for that page
Increase/Decrease font size
Hold Ctrl AND press + or -
Save all open tabs in a bookmark folder
Ctl-D or Bookmarks--->Bookmark This Page, select the "bookmark all tabs in a folder"
then select or create a folder
Stop animated gifs from moving
Press the ESC key
Bookmark an Livebookmark (RSS Feed) if the site offers them
Click the orange button on the status bar and select 'subscribe to rss feed'
Add a keyword for a bookmark
You can give "keywords" to your bookmarks by right-clicking the bookmark and then
Properties. If you put a string in the keyword field now you can type that keyword in
the address bar and it will go to that bookmark. For example, if I have a bookmark for
Fox News website, I might give it the keyword "news". Now, when I type "news" in the
address bar and hit 'enter', the Fox News site is loaded.
Quickly do a search on a word
Highlight a word and drag it up to the search bar and it will do a search for that word
using whatever search engine you currently have selected. Also can right click the
highlighted word and select 'Search Web for "foo"'
You can use these hacks to change the appearance of Firefox by hiding menus, hiding the separator bars, removing menus or even move the tabbar to the bottom.
This file does not exist by default, so you will have to create it yourself the first time. If you can't find the location in the chart I give you, make sure you are able to view your hidden folders/files, since I know XP for sure hides them.
To create the userChrome.css file in windows: Open a text editor (notepad or wordpad) and save the file as "userChrome.css" into a directory listed below according to the OS your using. To edit userChrome.css after it's created just right click on the file and select 'Edit', then edit the file using wordpad or notepad.
Locations to create the userChrome.css file:
Quote:
95/98/ME --- c:windowsApplication DataPhoenixProfiles[profile-name][#s].sltchrome
NT --- %UserProfile%Application DataPhoenixProfiles[profile-name][#s].sltchrome
2000/XP --- C:Documents and Settings[USER]Application DataMozillaFirefoxProfilesdefault.teachrome
*NIX --- ~/.phoenix/[profile-name]/[#s].slt/chrome/
Now that thats out of the way it's time to customize Firefox behind the scenes. All you have to do is copy and paste these settings on a new line in the userChrome.css file and save the file. Next time you open up Firefox the settings will be applied until you delete the setting out of the userChrome.css file.
/* Remove separators between toolbars*/
Quote:
#toolbar-menubar {
min-height: 12px !important;
padding: 0px !important;
margin: 0px !important;
border: none !important;
}
#nav-bar {
border: none !important;
padding: 0px !important;
}
#PersonalToolbar {
border: none !important;
}
#navigator-toolbox {
border-bottom-width: 0px !important;
}
/* Remove Bookmark Toolbar folder from the bookmarks menu */
Quote:
menu[label="Bookmarks Toolbar Folder"] { display: none !important; }
/* Add a keyword when adding a bookmark */
Quote:
#keywordRow { display: -moz-grid-line !important; }
/* Move sidebar to bottom */
Quote:
#browser {-moz-box-orient: vertical; -moz-box-direction: reverse}
#sidebar-box {-moz-box-orient: horizontal; -moz-box-direction: reverse}
#appcontent {-moz-box-orient: horizontal}
#sidebar {max-width: inherit !important; min-height: inherit !important}
#sidebar-box > sidebarheader {
-moz-box-orient: vertical;
-moz-box-direction: reverse;
-moz-box-pack: end;
border-left: 1px solid ThreeDHighlight;
margin-left: 1px;
}
#sidebar-box .tabs-closebutton > .toolbarbutton-icon {
padding: 4px 2px !important
}
#sidebar-title {display: none}
#sidebar-throbber {margin-left: 4px}
/* Remove the close button on the tab bar and sidebar */
Quote:
.tabs-closebutton { display: none !important; }
/* Hide Tabbar close Button */
Quote:
tabbrowser .tabs-closebutton-box {
display: none; }
/* Remove Stop button when there's nothing to Stop */
Quote:
#stop-button[disabled="true"] { display: none; }
/* Remove Back button when there's nothing to go Back to */
Quote:
#back-button[disabled="true"] { display: none; }
/* Remove Forward button when there's nothing to go Forward to */
Quote:
#forward-button[disabled="true"] { display: none; }
/* Multi-row bookmarks toolbar */
Quote:
#bookmarks-ptf {display:block}
#bookmarks-ptf toolbarseparator { display:inline }
/* Make the active tab not bold */
Quote:
tab[selected="true"] { font-weight: normal !important; }
/* Show tab favicon only on selected tab */
Quote:
tab:not([selected="true"]) .tab-icon {
display: none !important; }
/* Make inactive tabs hardly visible */
Quote:
#content tab:not([selected="true"]) {
-moz-opacity: 0.5 !important; }
/* Remove extra padding from the Navigation Bar */
Quote:
.toolbarbutton-1, .toolbarbutton-menubutton-button {
padding: 2px 3px !important;
}
.toolbarbutton-1[checked="true"], .toolbarbutton-1[open="true"],
.toolbarbutton-menubutton-button[checked="true"],
.toolbarbutton-menubutton-button[open="true"] {
padding: 4px 1px 1px 4px !important; }
/* Remove focus rings (dotted rectangle) around active tabs */
Quote:
tab:focus > .tab-middle { -moz-outline: none !important }
/* Remove white line under unfocused tab */
Quote:
tab{
-moz-appearance: none !important;
border-bottom: none !important; }
/* Hide the Go menu */
Quote:
menu[label="Go"] {
display: none !important; }
/* Hide read mail from Tools Menus */
Quote:
menuitem[label="Read Mail (0 new)"] { display: none; }
menuitem[label="Read Mail (0 new)"] + menuseparator { display: none; }
menuitem[label="New Message..."] { display: none; }
menuitem[label="New Message..."] + menuseparator { display: none; }
/* Remove Web Search from Tools Menu */
Quote:
menuitem[label="Web Search"] { display: none; }
menuitem[label="Web Search"] + menuseparator { display: none; }
/* Hide For Internet Explorer Users & Release Notes from Help Menu */
Quote:
menuitem[label="For Internet Explorer Users"] { display: none; }
menuitem[label="Release Notes"] { display: none; }
/* Slightly rounded address and search bar corners */
Quote:
#urlbar {
-moz-appearance: none !important;
-moz-border-radius: 3px !important;
padding-right: 1px !important; }
/* Remove the 'Go' button */
Quote:
#go-button {
display: none !important; }
/* Remove the forward and back button dropdown arrows */
Quote:
#back-button .toolbarbutton-menubutton-dropmarker,
#forward-button .toolbarbutton-menubutton-dropmarker {
display: none !important; }
/* Rollover Searchbar */
Quote:
#search-container {
margin: 0 1px 0 0 !important;
padding: 0 0 0 5px!important;
}
#search-container .searchbar-textbox,
#search-container .textbox-input-box {
margin: 0 !important;
padding: 0 !important;
}
#search-container .searchbar-dropmarker {
margin: 1px 0 0 1px !important;
padding: 0 !important;
}
#search-container * {
width: auto !important;
}
#search-container .textbox-input-box {
width: 0 !important;
}
#search-container:hover .textbox-input-box {
/* width: auto !important; */
width: 200px !important;
padding: 0 0 0 5px !important;
}
#search-container .searchbar-textbox {
-moz-appearance: none !important;
border: 0 !important;
background-color: -moz-dialog !important;
}
#search-container:hover .searchbar-textbox {
-moz-appearance: textfield !important;
-moz-border-radius: 5px !important;
background-color: -moz-field !important; }
/* Find Toolbar Changes enhancements*/
#FindToolbar {
border: 0 !important;
border-top: 0px solid !important;
}
window:not([windowtype="navigator:view-source"]) #FindToolbar {
border-bottom: 0px solid !important;
}
#FindToolbar #find-closebutton:hover {
border-color: transparent !important;
background-image: none !important;
}
#FindToolbar label[value="Find:"] {
margin: 0 !important;
padding: 2px 2px 3px 5px !important;
border-left: 2px solid !important;
-moz-border-left-colors: ThreeDShadow ThreeDHighlight !important;
}
#FindToolbar #find-field-container {
margin: 0 2px !important;
padding: 0 !important;
}
#FindToolbar #find-field {
margin: 0 !important;
padding: 0 0 0 2px !important;
width: 200px !important;
}
#FindToolbar #find-field[status="notfound"] {
color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;
background-color: rgb(255, 240, 224) !important;
}
#FindToolbar checkbox {
margin: 0 2px !important;
padding: 2px 0 1px 4px !important;
border: 0 !important;
border-left: 2px solid !important;
-moz-border-left-colors: ThreeDShadow ThreeDHighlight !important;
}
#FindToolbar checkbox .checkbox-label-box {
margin: 0 !important;
padding: 0 0 0 3px !important;
}
#FindToolbar #find-status-icon[status] {
margin: 0 0 0 2px !important;
padding: 1px 0 1px 4px !important;
width: 22px !important;
height: 18px !important;
border: 0 !important;
border-left: 2px solid !important;
-moz-border-left-colors: ThreeDShadow ThreeDHighlight !important;
}
#FindToolbar #find-status {
font-weight: bold !important; }
The userContent.css file sets the display rules for web content.
This file does not exist by default, so you will have to create it yourself the first time. If you can't find the location in the chart I give you, make sure you are able to view your hidden folders/files, since I know XP for sure hides them.
To create the userContent.css file in windows: Open a text editor (notepad or wordpad) and save the file as "userContent.css" into a directory listed below according to the OS your using. To edit userContent.css after it's created just right click on the file and select 'Edit', then edit the file using wordpad or notepad.
Locations to create the userContent.css file:
Quote:
95/98/ME --- c:windowsApplication DataPhoenixProfiles[profile-name][#s].sltchrome
NT --- %UserProfile%Application DataPhoenixProfiles[profile-name][#s].sltchrome
2000/XP --- C:Documents and Settings[USER]Application DataMozillaFirefoxProfilesdefault.teachrome
*NIX --- ~/.phoenix/[profile-name]/[#s].slt/chrome/
Now that thats out of the way it's time to customize Firefox behind the scenes. All you have to do is copy and paste these settings on a new line in the userContent.css file and save the file. Next time you open up Firefox the settings will be applied until you delete the setting out of the userContent.css file.
/* Change cursor for links that open in new window */
Quote:
:link[target="_blank"],
:visited[target="_blank"],
:link[target="_new"],
:visited[target="_new"] {
cursor: crosshair; }
/* Force text to wrap when it is longer than the screen width */
Quote:
pre { white-space:-moz-pre-wrap }
Open Firefox 1.0 and in the address bar type: about:config
1. Find browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs and double click on it so it = true
2. Find network.http.pipelining and double click on it so it = true
3. Find network.http.pipelining.maxrequests double click on it and change it from 4 to 100
What do these changes do?
1. Then enables advanced tab options in your Tools/Options page
2. This enables option #3.
3. This makes FF use 8 threads to each page.. Bascially, if you thought FF was fast before, try it after this.
u dont need to do step one if u have new firefox version.
This contains various tips and tricks for Firefox. Most of these tips involve editing of text files on your hard drive and is not recommended if you're not familiar with basic file and folder usage. The tips are divided into four categories and sorted by importance/popularity.
Contents
* Browser Appearance
o Use Windows XP styled menus
o Use Windows Classic (9x/Me/2000) styled menus
o Use your own background image for the toolbars
o Make the active tab easier to distinguish
o Don't use bold text on the active tab
o Remove the close button from the tab bar
o Remove items from the main menu
o Remove extra padding from the Navigation Toolbar
o Change the window icon
o Display Sidebar on the right
o Change the width of the Search Bar
* Browser Behavior
o Open external links in new windows or tabs
o Reveal More Tab/Window Options
o Decide which New Windows to Block
o Tweak Find As You Type
o Disable Other JavaScript Window Features
o Use your Netscape 6/7 or Mozilla bookmarks in Firefox
o Change the search mode in the address field
o Disable Bookmark Icons
o Change the Activity Indicator URL
o Prevent URLs from being saved in Location Bar
o Prevent sites from disabling the context menu
* Web Page Appearance
o Ad Blocking
o Disable blinking elements
o Disable
If upgrading from a previous version please to do the following or the extension will now work:
1) Type 'about:config' in the location bar and hit enter
2) Paste this in the blank bar or scroll down to find 'extensions.toolbarcleanup.findbarchanges'
3) Right click on this and select 'reset' and restart firefox and extension will work again
Sorry about that, I deleted the file it calls on and I forgot when you upgrade it doesnt remove old entries from about:config.
This extension allows you to tweak various aspects of the browser's UI.
This extension allows you to do the following via Tools->Extensions->UI Tweaker Options:
- Remove 'For Internet Explorer Users' from the Help menu
- Remove 'Release Notes' from the Help menu
- Remove 'Go' menu
- Remove 'Read Mail (* new)' and 'New Messages...' from the Tools menu (1.5 Only)
- Remove 'Web Search' from the Tools menu
- Remove 'Bookmark Toolbar Folder' from the Bookmarks menu (Only if empty)
- Remove the 'Go' button
- Remove the toolbar separators
- Remove the forward and back button drop down arrows
- Remove the close button from tabbar (1.5 Only)
- Make the address bar corners slightly rounded
- Hide the Search Bar except for the site icon until mouse hover over
- Multi-row bookmarks toolbar
- Show only icons on the bookmark toolbar
- Make non-selected tabs less visible, making active tabs stand out more
- Remove white line under unfocused tabs
- Remove the focus rings around the tab titles
- Show tab favicon only on selected tab
- Relocate the tabbar to the bottom
- Remove the tabbar close button and place on active or hoverd over tabs (1.5 Only)
- Add separators, bold text on status message and other small changes
- Add a keyword when adding a bookmark
- Move the sidebar to the bottom
- Remove the security padlock icon in the statusbar
- Remove the RSS Feed icon from the location bar
- Remove the Min/Max/Close buttons while in Full Screen mode
- Remove the bookmark sidebar search bar
- Remove the location bar drop down arrow
UI Tweaker (Formerly known as Toolbar Cleanup) v1.6.4 - Works with Firefox 1.5, branch and trunk nightlies.
Changelog:
- Fixed a spelling error in description
- Updated the extension description
- Tweaked a bunch of hack descriptions
- Changed any instance of address bar to location bar
- Added a hack to remove the security padlock icon in the statusbar
- Added a hack to remove the RSS Feed icon from the location bar
- Added a hack to remove the Min/Max/Close buttons while in Full Screen mode
- Added a hack to remove the Bookmark Sidebar Search Bar
- Added a hack to remove the Location Bar drop down arrow
- Split the Find Bar hack into 5 separate hacks:
- Remove the findbar borders
- Widen the findbar input field
- Add a separator between the close button and find:
- Add a separator between highlight all and the match case check box
- Make the status messages bold/input field light red when phrase not found
UI Tweaker (Formerly known as Toolbar Cleanup) v1.6.3 - Works with Firefox 1.5, branch and trunk nightlies.
Changelog:
- Added icons in the options menu
- Some spelling error corrections
Hacks that are missing/broke from the latest 1.6.3 version
- Multi-row bookmarks toolbar isn't working for some
- No combined stop/reload button
- Missing Add 'Print' to right-click context menus, allowing users to print via the context menus
UI Tweaker (Formerly known as Toolbar Cleanup) v1.6.2 - Works with Firefox 1.5, branch and trunk nightlies.
Changelog:
- Fixed bug in which only the separator and not the bookmarks toolbar folder was removed from the bookmarks menu
Hacks that are missing/broke from the latest 1.6.2 version
- Multi row bookmarks toolbar isn't working for some
- No combined stop/reload button
- Missing Add 'Print' to right-click context menus, allowing users to print via the context menus
- Needs icons in the options dialog
UI Tweaker (Formerly known as Toolbar Cleanup) v1.6.1 - Works with Firefox 1.5, branch and trunk nightlies.
Changelog:
- Fixed bug in which the remove drop arrows for back/forward buttons and round addressbar hacks were swaped in the options dialog.
- Added back hack for tab close button on tabs (1.5 Only)
- Added back hack for removing Read mail from the Tools menu (1.5 Only)
- Tweaked the extension's description
- Tweaked a couple hack descriptions
- Added a contributor (Pike) to the about dialog
Hacks that are missing/broke from the latest 1.6.1 version
- Multi row bookmarks toolbar isn't working for some
- No combined stop/reload button
- Missing Add 'Print' to right-click context menus, allowing users to print via the context menus
- Needs icons in the options dialog
UI Tweaker (Formerly known as Toolbar Cleanup) v1.6 - Works Firefox 1.5, branch and trunk nightlies.
Changelog:
- Added a working options dialog (Everything is customizeable now!!!)
- Renamed the extension to UI Tweaker (Did not change the guid so no need to uninstall and install this version
- Added hack for icons only on the bookmark toolbar
- Added hack for relocating the tabbar on the bottom
- Added hack for disabling autocomplete in the search bar, location bar and html input fields
- Removed hack for removing 'Read Mail (* New)' and 'New Message...' from Tools menu (No longer needed since this is in the branch/trunk nightlies....Please let me know if this is needed for 1.5.0.*)
- Added hack to remove the bookmark toolbar folder from bookmarks menu (will only work if empty)
- Added hack to remove the back/forward drop down arrows
- Added hack to add a keyword when adding a bookmark
- Added hack to move the sidebar to the bottom
Hacks that are missing/broke from the latest 1.6 version
- When make non selected tabs less visible + remove white line under tab are used together the non select tabs are pink. but if you use the remove close tab button then everything is fine
- Multi row bookmarks toolbar isn't working for some
- No combined stop/reload button
- Missing Add 'Print' to right-click context menus, allowing users to print via the context menus
- Needs icons in the options dialog
These are short and simple tips to make browsing easier. They require no "hacking" files or changing configuration. Middle-click refers to pushing down the mouse wheel in the center of your mouse, if your mouse wheel does not support middle-clicking then crtl+left-click works the same. Laptops utilize both left+right-click as the middle-click button.
Open a blank 'New Tab'
Double-click empty space on the Tab Bar
Open a bookmark in a new tab
Middle-click on the bookmark
Close a tab
Middle-click on the tab will close it
Open your homepage in a new tab
Middle-click on the homepage button to open your homepage in a new tab
Navigate tabs with the keyboard
Ctrl+Tab to navigate tabs to the right.
Crtl+Shift+Tab to navigate the tabs to the left.
Even quicker way is Ctrl+[# of tab]
Set mutliple Home pages
Tools---->Options--->General and seperate each page with the pipe | symbol
(Shift+button above the enter button)
eg. http://forums.mozillazine.org|http://www.google.com|Link:
Rearrange add/remove Icons on the toolbar
Toolbars: View--->ToolBars--->Customize
Let Firefox complete web addresses for you
Type in something like 'yahoo' in the address bar and hit:
Ctrl+Enter to add Link:. before and .com after the text
Similarly, Shift+Enter will add Link:. and .net
and Ctrl+Shift+Enter will add Link:. and .org
Bookmark the current page
3 Simple ways:
Hit Ctrl+D,
drag the icon from the location bar to your Bookmarks folder,
or you can drag the icon to the desktop to make an shorcut for that page
Increase/Decrease font size
Hold Ctrl AND press + or -
Save all open tabs in a bookmark folder
Ctl-D or Bookmarks--->Bookmark This Page, select the "bookmark all tabs in a folder"
then select or create a folder
Stop animated gifs from moving
Press the ESC key
Bookmark an Livebookmark (RSS Feed) if the site offers them
Click the orange button on the status bar and select 'subscribe to rss feed'
Add a keyword for a bookmark
You can give "keywords" to your bookmarks by right-clicking the bookmark and then
Properties. If you put a string in the keyword field now you can type that keyword in
the address bar and it will go to that bookmark. For example, if I have a bookmark for
Fox News website, I might give it the keyword "news". Now, when I type "news" in the
address bar and hit 'enter', the Fox News site is loaded.
Quickly do a search on a word
Highlight a word and drag it up to the search bar and it will do a search for that word
using whatever search engine you currently have selected. Also can right click the
highlighted word and select 'Search Web for "foo"'
You can use these hacks to change the appearance of Firefox by hiding menus, hiding the separator bars, removing menus or even move the tabbar to the bottom.
This file does not exist by default, so you will have to create it yourself the first time. If you can't find the location in the chart I give you, make sure you are able to view your hidden folders/files, since I know XP for sure hides them.
To create the userChrome.css file in windows: Open a text editor (notepad or wordpad) and save the file as "userChrome.css" into a directory listed below according to the OS your using. To edit userChrome.css after it's created just right click on the file and select 'Edit', then edit the file using wordpad or notepad.
Locations to create the userChrome.css file:
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95/98/ME --- c:windowsApplication DataPhoenixProfiles[profile-name][#s].sltchrome
NT --- %UserProfile%Application DataPhoenixProfiles[profile-name][#s].sltchrome
2000/XP --- C:Documents and Settings[USER]Application DataMozillaFirefoxProfilesdefault.teachrome
*NIX --- ~/.phoenix/[profile-name]/[#s].slt/chrome/
Now that thats out of the way it's time to customize Firefox behind the scenes. All you have to do is copy and paste these settings on a new line in the userChrome.css file and save the file. Next time you open up Firefox the settings will be applied until you delete the setting out of the userChrome.css file.
/* Remove separators between toolbars*/
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#toolbar-menubar {
min-height: 12px !important;
padding: 0px !important;
margin: 0px !important;
border: none !important;
}
#nav-bar {
border: none !important;
padding: 0px !important;
}
#PersonalToolbar {
border: none !important;
}
#navigator-toolbox {
border-bottom-width: 0px !important;
}
/* Remove Bookmark Toolbar folder from the bookmarks menu */
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menu[label="Bookmarks Toolbar Folder"] { display: none !important; }
/* Add a keyword when adding a bookmark */
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#keywordRow { display: -moz-grid-line !important; }
/* Move sidebar to bottom */
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#browser {-moz-box-orient: vertical; -moz-box-direction: reverse}
#sidebar-box {-moz-box-orient: horizontal; -moz-box-direction: reverse}
#appcontent {-moz-box-orient: horizontal}
#sidebar {max-width: inherit !important; min-height: inherit !important}
#sidebar-box > sidebarheader {
-moz-box-orient: vertical;
-moz-box-direction: reverse;
-moz-box-pack: end;
border-left: 1px solid ThreeDHighlight;
margin-left: 1px;
}
#sidebar-box .tabs-closebutton > .toolbarbutton-icon {
padding: 4px 2px !important
}
#sidebar-title {display: none}
#sidebar-throbber {margin-left: 4px}
/* Remove the close button on the tab bar and sidebar */
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.tabs-closebutton { display: none !important; }
/* Hide Tabbar close Button */
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tabbrowser .tabs-closebutton-box {
display: none; }
/* Remove Stop button when there's nothing to Stop */
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#stop-button[disabled="true"] { display: none; }
/* Remove Back button when there's nothing to go Back to */
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#back-button[disabled="true"] { display: none; }
/* Remove Forward button when there's nothing to go Forward to */
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#forward-button[disabled="true"] { display: none; }
/* Multi-row bookmarks toolbar */
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#bookmarks-ptf {display:block}
#bookmarks-ptf toolbarseparator { display:inline }
/* Make the active tab not bold */
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tab[selected="true"] { font-weight: normal !important; }
/* Show tab favicon only on selected tab */
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tab:not([selected="true"]) .tab-icon {
display: none !important; }
/* Make inactive tabs hardly visible */
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#content tab:not([selected="true"]) {
-moz-opacity: 0.5 !important; }
/* Remove extra padding from the Navigation Bar */
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.toolbarbutton-1, .toolbarbutton-menubutton-button {
padding: 2px 3px !important;
}
.toolbarbutton-1[checked="true"], .toolbarbutton-1[open="true"],
.toolbarbutton-menubutton-button[checked="true"],
.toolbarbutton-menubutton-button[open="true"] {
padding: 4px 1px 1px 4px !important; }
/* Remove focus rings (dotted rectangle) around active tabs */
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tab:focus > .tab-middle { -moz-outline: none !important }
/* Remove white line under unfocused tab */
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tab{
-moz-appearance: none !important;
border-bottom: none !important; }
/* Hide the Go menu */
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menu[label="Go"] {
display: none !important; }
/* Hide read mail from Tools Menus */
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menuitem[label="Read Mail (0 new)"] { display: none; }
menuitem[label="Read Mail (0 new)"] + menuseparator { display: none; }
menuitem[label="New Message..."] { display: none; }
menuitem[label="New Message..."] + menuseparator { display: none; }
/* Remove Web Search from Tools Menu */
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menuitem[label="Web Search"] { display: none; }
menuitem[label="Web Search"] + menuseparator { display: none; }
/* Hide For Internet Explorer Users & Release Notes from Help Menu */
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menuitem[label="For Internet Explorer Users"] { display: none; }
menuitem[label="Release Notes"] { display: none; }
/* Slightly rounded address and search bar corners */
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#urlbar {
-moz-appearance: none !important;
-moz-border-radius: 3px !important;
padding-right: 1px !important; }
/* Remove the 'Go' button */
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#go-button {
display: none !important; }
/* Remove the forward and back button dropdown arrows */
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#back-button .toolbarbutton-menubutton-dropmarker,
#forward-button .toolbarbutton-menubutton-dropmarker {
display: none !important; }
/* Rollover Searchbar */
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#search-container {
margin: 0 1px 0 0 !important;
padding: 0 0 0 5px!important;
}
#search-container .searchbar-textbox,
#search-container .textbox-input-box {
margin: 0 !important;
padding: 0 !important;
}
#search-container .searchbar-dropmarker {
margin: 1px 0 0 1px !important;
padding: 0 !important;
}
#search-container * {
width: auto !important;
}
#search-container .textbox-input-box {
width: 0 !important;
}
#search-container:hover .textbox-input-box {
/* width: auto !important; */
width: 200px !important;
padding: 0 0 0 5px !important;
}
#search-container .searchbar-textbox {
-moz-appearance: none !important;
border: 0 !important;
background-color: -moz-dialog !important;
}
#search-container:hover .searchbar-textbox {
-moz-appearance: textfield !important;
-moz-border-radius: 5px !important;
background-color: -moz-field !important; }
/* Find Toolbar Changes enhancements*/
#FindToolbar {
border: 0 !important;
border-top: 0px solid !important;
}
window:not([windowtype="navigator:view-source"]) #FindToolbar {
border-bottom: 0px solid !important;
}
#FindToolbar #find-closebutton:hover {
border-color: transparent !important;
background-image: none !important;
}
#FindToolbar label[value="Find:"] {
margin: 0 !important;
padding: 2px 2px 3px 5px !important;
border-left: 2px solid !important;
-moz-border-left-colors: ThreeDShadow ThreeDHighlight !important;
}
#FindToolbar #find-field-container {
margin: 0 2px !important;
padding: 0 !important;
}
#FindToolbar #find-field {
margin: 0 !important;
padding: 0 0 0 2px !important;
width: 200px !important;
}
#FindToolbar #find-field[status="notfound"] {
color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;
background-color: rgb(255, 240, 224) !important;
}
#FindToolbar checkbox {
margin: 0 2px !important;
padding: 2px 0 1px 4px !important;
border: 0 !important;
border-left: 2px solid !important;
-moz-border-left-colors: ThreeDShadow ThreeDHighlight !important;
}
#FindToolbar checkbox .checkbox-label-box {
margin: 0 !important;
padding: 0 0 0 3px !important;
}
#FindToolbar #find-status-icon[status] {
margin: 0 0 0 2px !important;
padding: 1px 0 1px 4px !important;
width: 22px !important;
height: 18px !important;
border: 0 !important;
border-left: 2px solid !important;
-moz-border-left-colors: ThreeDShadow ThreeDHighlight !important;
}
#FindToolbar #find-status {
font-weight: bold !important; }
The userContent.css file sets the display rules for web content.
This file does not exist by default, so you will have to create it yourself the first time. If you can't find the location in the chart I give you, make sure you are able to view your hidden folders/files, since I know XP for sure hides them.
To create the userContent.css file in windows: Open a text editor (notepad or wordpad) and save the file as "userContent.css" into a directory listed below according to the OS your using. To edit userContent.css after it's created just right click on the file and select 'Edit', then edit the file using wordpad or notepad.
Locations to create the userContent.css file:
Quote:
95/98/ME --- c:windowsApplication DataPhoenixProfiles[profile-name][#s].sltchrome
NT --- %UserProfile%Application DataPhoenixProfiles[profile-name][#s].sltchrome
2000/XP --- C:Documents and Settings[USER]Application DataMozillaFirefoxProfilesdefault.teachrome
*NIX --- ~/.phoenix/[profile-name]/[#s].slt/chrome/
Now that thats out of the way it's time to customize Firefox behind the scenes. All you have to do is copy and paste these settings on a new line in the userContent.css file and save the file. Next time you open up Firefox the settings will be applied until you delete the setting out of the userContent.css file.
/* Change cursor for links that open in new window */
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:link[target="_blank"],
:visited[target="_blank"],
:link[target="_new"],
:visited[target="_new"] {
cursor: crosshair; }
/* Force text to wrap when it is longer than the screen width */
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pre { white-space:-moz-pre-wrap }
Open Firefox 1.0 and in the address bar type: about:config
1. Find browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs and double click on it so it = true
2. Find network.http.pipelining and double click on it so it = true
3. Find network.http.pipelining.maxrequests double click on it and change it from 4 to 100
What do these changes do?
1. Then enables advanced tab options in your Tools/Options page
2. This enables option #3.
3. This makes FF use 8 threads to each page.. Bascially, if you thought FF was fast before, try it after this.
u dont need to do step one if u have new firefox version.
This contains various tips and tricks for Firefox. Most of these tips involve editing of text files on your hard drive and is not recommended if you're not familiar with basic file and folder usage. The tips are divided into four categories and sorted by importance/popularity.
Contents
* Browser Appearance
o Use Windows XP styled menus
o Use Windows Classic (9x/Me/2000) styled menus
o Use your own background image for the toolbars
o Make the active tab easier to distinguish
o Don't use bold text on the active tab
o Remove the close button from the tab bar
o Remove items from the main menu
o Remove extra padding from the Navigation Toolbar
o Change the window icon
o Display Sidebar on the right
o Change the width of the Search Bar
* Browser Behavior
o Open external links in new windows or tabs
o Reveal More Tab/Window Options
o Decide which New Windows to Block
o Tweak Find As You Type
o Disable Other JavaScript Window Features
o Use your Netscape 6/7 or Mozilla bookmarks in Firefox
o Change the search mode in the address field
o Disable Bookmark Icons
o Change the Activity Indicator URL
o Prevent URLs from being saved in Location Bar
o Prevent sites from disabling the context menu
* Web Page Appearance
o Ad Blocking
o Disable blinking elements
o Disable
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