Mozilla Firefox Tips and Tricks

Mozilla Firefox Tips and Tricks.

1) More screen space: Make your icons small. Go to View - Toolbars - Customize and check "Use Small Icons."

2) Use smart keyword: You can make your searches faster by customizing the search bar of Firefox, for example if you go to Youtube or Wikipedia in the search field of any of these, right click and select "Add a keyword this search, give a name, keyword, and write a short cut and easy to remember (eg "Videos" or "Wiki") and save. Now, when you do a search for any of these terms, go to the address bar of Firefox, type "Video" or "Wiki" and the name "Video" or "Wiki", then click Enter. Instant Search!!, While productivity?

3) Keyboard shortcuts: Here is where you become a true Jedi. In no time you will learn, and when you do, your surfing will very fast and fluid. Here are some of the most common (and I use them daily)

Space: The scroll down the current page.
Shift + Spacebar: The current scroll the page up.
Ctrl + F: Find words in the current page.
Alt-N: Look for a next word.
Ctrl + D: Add to Favorites or Bookmarks.
Ctrl + T: Open a new tab.
Ctrl + K: Focuses the search box.
Ctrl + L: Focus the address bar.
Ctrl + +: Increase the text size.
Ctrl + -: Reduce the text size.
Ctrl-W: Closes the current tab.
F5: Refresh or Reload the current page.
Alt + Home: It guides you to your homepage.

4) Auto: Another shortcut, I swear it's very useful. Go to the address bar (Control-L) and type in the name of a site without "www" or ". Com. For example "google". Then press Control + Enter, and will automatically add the "www" and ". Com" and take you there as if by magic. For .net click Shift + Enter, and for directions .Org, press Control + Shift + Enter.

5) Tabbed Navigation: Instead of using the mouse to select different tabs you have open, if you like using the keyboard, these shortcuts are:

Ctrl + Tab: Go to the next tab. ->
Ctrl + Shift + Tab: Go to the previous tab. <--
Ctrl +1-9: Go to the tab number you choose.

6) Mouse shortcuts: Sometimes you're using the mouse and is easier to use a mouse shortcut to return to the keyboard. these interest you:

Clicking the middle button on a link: Open a new tab.
Shift + Wheel down: Previous Page.
Shift + Wheel up: next page.
Ctrl + Wheel up: Reduce text size.
Ctrl + Wheel down: Increase the text size.
Clicking the middle button on a tab: Closes the tab.

7) Delete items from the history of the address bar: In the address bar, select the page you want to delete and press theSupr button.

8) It accelerates Firefox: If you have a broadband connection, you can use pipelining or segmentation to accelerate the load of your pages, the steps: About writes ": config" within the bar of directions and presses Enter. It writes "network.http" in the field of the filter, and changes the following configurations (double click in them to change them): It forms "network.http.pipelining" to "true" It forms "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" It forms "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to a number of approximately 30. Also, button straight anywhere and selects New; Whole number. "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and forms its value to "0 ". This S-value the amount of time that the navigating delay before acting on the received information.

9) It limits the ram use: If Firefox occupies uses much memory, you can limit the amount of ram that used. Again, it sees about: config, filter "browser.cache" and it selects "browser.cache.disk.capacity". It is formed to 50000, but you can reduce it, following the memory that you have. Test with 15000 if you have between 512 and 1 GB of ram.

10) It reduces the ram use when Firefox is diminished: Perhaps this it is the best trick of all. We are going to create an entrance in about: config so that when we diminish Firefox reduces the ram use. We enter about: config/New right Click//Logical/"config.trim_on_minimize"/Value "true"

11) To clear or to move the button to close of the eyelashes: You beat accidentally in the button of closing of the eyelash of Firefox? You can move them or eliminate them, again through about: config. "browser.tabs.closeButtons" publishes the option. Breadfruit this the meaning of each value:
0: It shows a button to only close in the active eyelash
1: (By defect) Sample the button to close in all the eyelashes.
2: Acquittal the button to close.
3: (For the users of Firefox 1.x), it shows the button to close at the end of the bar of eyelashes.

12) It easily avoids the new filters of the Megaupload with Firefox:
1). We go to the bar of directions, in Firefox.
2). It writes: "about: config" and presses Enter.
3). In filter it writes: "general.useragent.extra.firefox ".
4). Double click to the result of the filter.
5). It replaces the value that it has by the following one: "Firefox/2.0.0.4 MEGAUPLOAD 1.0 "