Mozilla Firefox Useful Tips & Tweaks

Mozilla Firefox Tips And Tweaks

1. You want to more screen space then make your icons small. For that press ALT + V then u will get the View ->Toolbars -> Customize and check the 'Use small icons' box on the bottom of the page.


2. Using Smart keywords . If there’s a search you use a lot (let’s say searchind.blogspot.com’s people search), this is an awesome tool that not many people use. Right-click on the search box, select “Add a Keyword for this search”, give the keyword a name and an easy-to-type and easy-to-remember shortcut name (let’s say “actor”) and save it. Now, when you want to do an actor search, go to Firefox’s address bar, type “actor” and the name of the actor and press return. Instant search! You can do this with any search box.


3. Some Shortcut keys for Mozilla Browser is

• 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)

4.  How to Auto-complete particular site address in URL Bar. This is another keyboard shortcut, but it’s not commonly known and very useful. Go to the address bar (Ctrl+L) and type the name of the site without the 'www' or the '.com'. Let’s say 'google'. Then press Control-Enter, and it will automatically fill in the 'www' and the '.com' and take you there – like magic. For '.net' addresses, press Shift-Enter, and for '.org' addresses, press Control-Shift-Enter.

5. Use the Tab navigation without using the mouse. with the following 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)
• Ctrl+Pageup or Pagedown

6. Using the Mouse shortcuts it is easier than go back keyboard every time to do some action

• 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)

7. Delete items history from address bar. Firefox having the ability to automatically show previous URLs you’ve visited, so far in the address bar’s drop-down history menu. But sometimes you just don’t want those URLs to show up (I don't want to reveal it). Go to the address bar (Ctrl+L), start typing an address, and the drop-down menu will appear with the URLs of pages you’ve visited with those letters in them. Use the down-arrow to go down to an address you want to delete, and press the Delete key to make it disappear.

8. Creating a user.js file is the another way to customize Firefox, so that it speed up your browsing. You’ll need to create a text file named user.js in your profile folder (see this to find out where the profile folder is) and see this example user.js file  that you can modify. Created by techlifeweb.com , this example explains some of the things you can do in its comments.

9. Another way to speed up your browsing is about:config. The true power user’s tool, is about.config isn’t 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’s address bar. See Mozillazine’s about:config tips and screenshots .

10. Add a keywords for a bookmark. By using these keywords Go to much faster your bookmarks. Right-click the bookmark and then select Properties. Put a short keyword in the 

keyword field, save it, and now you can type that keyword in the address bar and it will go to 

that bookmark.

11. How to Speed up ur Firefox browser. For that 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’s optimized for dialup connections). Here’s how:

1. Type 'about:config' into the address bar and hit return. 
2. 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.

12. Limit RAM usage,if Firefox takes up too much memory on your computer, you can limit 

the amount of RAM it is allowed to us. Again, go to about:config, filter “browser.cache” and 

select “browser.cache.disk.capacity”. It’s set to 50000, but you can lower it, depending on how much memory you have. Try 15000 if you have between 512MB and 1GB ram.

13. Reduce RAM usage further for when Firefox is minimized. This setting will move Firefox 

to your hard drive when you minimize it, taking up much less memory. And there is no 

noticeable difference in speed when you restore Firefox, so it’s definitely worth a go. Again, 

go to about:config, right-click anywhere and select New-> Boolean. Name it 'config.trim_on_minimize' and set it to TRUE. You have to restart Firefox for these settings to take effect.

14. When you are accidentally click on the close button of Firefox’s tabs don't be panic. To overcome that problem,press Ctrl+Sht+T then u automatically reopen the closed window.

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