Firefox tips

[Aravapalli]

You can easily double the joy of using Firefox by knowing these essential Firefox tips

1. To quickly find any word in a web page type /word it will highlight the word and press Ctrl+G to “Find Again” that word again
2. If you wish to remove an item from your Address Bar Drop down menu,Highlight it without clicking and use Shift+Delete.
3. Clear your Download history to make the download manager more responsive : Tools | Options | Privacy
4. Type about:cache?device=disk in your address bar to view/save items that you have in your firefox disk cache
5. Type about:cache?device=memory in your address bar to view/save items that you have in your Firefox memory cache
6. Drag any link to the Download Manager Window to add & download the link.
7. If you accidentally delete a bookmark and want to recover it, open the “Bookmarks Manager” and use Ctrl+Z, or Edit | Undo.
8. Double Clicking empty space on the Tab Bar will open a ‘New Tab’
9. Holding down the Ctrl key when you right click to “View Image” or “View Background Image” will open the image in a New Tab or New Window.
10. A bookmarks Folder’s position can also be Dragged & Dropped but you must hold down the SHIFT key while Dragging.
11. You can work offline in Firefox just go to File > Work Offline. This means that you can browse your previously visited pages even when you’re offline this is a really cool feature but not many people who use it.
12. You can bookmark the current page by dragging the icon from the location bar to your Bookmarks folder. You can also drag it to the desktop to make an icon for that page.
13. To stop animated gifs from moving, press the ESC key.

[Aravapalli]

For fixing memory leak in firefox check this link

[GandalfTheGrey]

Thanks for the info on firefox. I used Opera a while back, supporting those cracy troll guys I havent used Firefox, because I an one of those that need to set off sometime to fully understand, and utilize my tools. THis will help me to set off two hours for some tweaking and playing

[Tom]

Hey, really nice set of tips there. I appreciate the time taken to compile these and i'll be sure to use them.

[Kyleira]

Thanks for the great tips. I just prefer using firefox and have for a number of years. I just have not taken any time to learn any of the shortcuts or other fun stuff that this browser offers.

I also checked out the memory leak link and will try it in a little while and let you know how that went. Thank you all for the great information.

[macuser9214]

9 firefox plugins that are useful, (and yes, i wrote this post)

Please comment if you find it useful (at the bottom of the post is the comment form)

FIREFOX PLUGINS YOU SHOULD HAVE!

[Delysid]

The most useful tips that I have found have come straight from Mozilla's website. I disabled the blink and a whole array of Javascript annoyances the other day. These only be used to irritate an end user and not compliment any part of the website.

Thanks for the tips.