Cool Firefox Tricks

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Cool Firefox Tricks


As all of us know that firefox is the best Browser with lost of awesome extensions and Themes. It ha s lots of features like Live Bookmarks, Pop-up Blocker, Streamlined Interface, Protection from Spyware, Spell Checking, Improved Tabbed Browsing and Open Source, But you can enjoy lot of things in Firefox, here are some Tricks that i want to share with you


1. Tab navigation. Instead of using the mouse to select different tabs that you have open, use the keyboard. Here are the shortcuts:
* Ctrl+Tab (rotate forward among tabs)
* Ctrl+Shft+Tab (rotate to the previous tab)
* Ctrl+1-9 (choose a number to jump to a specific tab)

2. Mouse shortcuts.
* Middle click on link (opens in new tab)
* Shift-scroll down (previous page)
* Shift-scroll up (next page)
* Ctrl-scroll up (decrease text size)
* Ctrl-scroll down (increase text size)
* Middle click on a tab (closes tab)

3. Speed up Firefox. If you have a broadband connection (and most of us do), you can use pipelining to speed up your page loads. This allows Firefox to load multiple things on a page at once, instead of one at a time (by default, it optimized for dialup connections). Here how:
* Type about:config into the address bar and hit return. Type network. http in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):
* Set network.http.pipelining to true
* Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true
* Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
* Also, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0?. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

4. Keyboard shortcuts.
* Spacebar (page down)
* Shift-Spacebar (page up)
* Ctrl+F (find)
* Alt-N (find next)
* Ctrl+D (bookmark page)
* Ctrl+T (new tab)
* Ctrl+K (go to search box)
* Ctrl+L (go to address bar)
* Ctrl+= (increase text size)
* Ctrl+- (decrease text size)
* Ctrl-W (close tab)
* F5 (reload)
* Alt-Home (go to home page)

5. About:config. The true power user tool, about.config is something to mess with if you don’t know what a setting does. You can get to the main configuration screen by putting about:config in the browser address bar.

6. Remove the close tab button. Sometime you accidentally click on the close button of Firefox tabs? But with this trick you can move them or remove them, again through about:config. Edit the preference for browser.tabs.closeButton
* 0: Display a close button on the active tab only
* 1Default) Display close buttons on all tabs
* 2on’t display any close buttons
* 3isplay a single close button at the end of the tab bar (Firefox 1.x behavior)

[safaboi]

really works on firefox, love it!!!! it really speeds up the response time...

[rista86]

For me it doesn't, it maybe slow it a bit

[Licit]

Thanks it worked for me, great tips for for firefox.

[bintelecom]

great work brother keep it up