Firefox Tweaks
WARNING! The Firefox
Extension
Guru
is an independent beta-tester and is not affiliated with Mozilla
Corporation. While most of these tips, tricks, suggestions, etc. are
relatively simple to do, there is still a risk of
damaging your profile. Therefore these are
recommended for advanced
Firefox users and should be attempted at
your own risk! Please! Consider backing-up
your profile or creating a new
profile before doing any testing or experimenting.
These
tweaks link back to my WordPress Blog and have been tested to work with
Firefox 2 builds.
Most of these tweaks do not work
with the
Firefox 1.5 and have not been tested but may work with the
Firefox 3.0 builds.
This
list was last updated on: January 1st,
2008:
- Add-Ons
& Download Managers in Sidebar - Allows the Add-Ons
and/or Download Managers to be opened in a sidebar instead of
pop-up window.
- Add-Ons
‘Install’ Button - Adds an 'install'
button to the add-ons manager. ~New!~
- Adding
Additional Feed Readers - External link to CyberNet News
Article.
- Bookmarks:
Backing up and Recovering - A how-to guide on Bookmarks.
- Change
Default Text Editor
- Changes which text editor Firefox uses
by default.
- Change
Progress Bar Color - Tweak to change the color of
the progress bar in the status bar.
- Close
Tab Buttons - Changes the way the Close Tab buttons
are displayed. This tweak allows you to have the close tab button at
the end of
the tab bar (Fx 1.5 behavior), on the current tab, not displayed at all
or on every tab (Fx 2.0 behavior). ~Most Viewed/Requested
Tweak!~
- Download
Manager History Tweak - Changes when completed downloads are
removed from the download manager
- Getting
Your Search Results In New Tab - Displays search results from
the search box in a new tab (instead of the current tab)
- How
to Remove ‘Go’ Button - Removes the
‘Go” button from the address bar
- How
to Remove The Search ‘Go’ Button -
Removes the Magnifying Glass ('Go') button from the search box
- List
All Tabs Button - How to change the location or remove of the
List All Tabs Button (down arrow at end of tab bar).
- Moving/Removing
Search Box - How to move or remove the search box.
- Moving
the Sidebar - How to move the sidebar from the left side to
the right side of the screen.
- Moving
The Tab Bar - How to move the tab bar to the bottom of the
browser window.
- OpenOffice.org
Documents in Firefox
- How to open
OpenOffice.org documents within Firefox.
- Quick
Find Bar Tweaks - Tweaks to add the
‘next’ and ‘previous’ buttons
to the Quick Find Bar and control how long the bar remains
displayed.
- Pause/Restrict/Disable
Animated GIFs - How to Pause or stop animated GIFs. ~New!~
- Removing
Added Words From Fx Dictionary - How-to remove a word added
in error to the Firefox dictionary
- Removing
The Throbber - Removes the Firefox 'Throbber' from the
toolbar.
- Session
Restore Tweak - Allows Firefox to start off where you were
when you closed it. Keeps all windows and tabs intact.
- Spell
Check Tweak - Allows the spell checker to check both single
and
multi-line text area fields
- SSL
2.0 Tweak - Enables SSL 2.0 Protocol still used by out dated
sites.
- Tab
Overflow - How to change or disable the Tab Overflow
(scrolling tabs) feature.
- Transitioning
From Netscape 9 to Fx 2 - How to move over from Netscape 9 to
Firefox 2
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