Revving the fox

The new "guess" feature in the location bar, where it attempts to guess the site using both the titles of the web-pages as well as the URL's, is brilliant

One point on this:
to open a Web link as a new tab, you can right-click on it and select “Open in new tab” from the pop-up menu. But I prefer simply pressing Ctrl and clicking on the link
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It's even easier to just click with middle-button (the scroll-wheel) on your mouse, to open a link in a new tab
 
some of these features are so useful
 
WOW, another Firefox article. :)
JJ, this is the sort of content we need. Useful stuff.
To add, another way I stumbled on to open tabs, is to double click the tab bar.
 
Live Bookmarks?

This is my fav feature and is incredibly useful for MyBB forumites too:

At the top-right of the forum and the news pages' address bar you will see the orange RSS feed link. Click it. You then have the option to subscribe to the feed using live bookmarks - click subscribe now at the top left. You now have the live bookmark feed that updates every 15 minutes - excellent way to keep up with the latest news and newest forum posts.

Remember to add one for the forum and one for the news page... same can be done for most of the other MyBB sections too - this is one way to turn you into a real MyBB junkie (read grandmaster lol).

Just click your new live bookmark on the bookmarkss toolbar to get the latest list of articles.
 
This is really great!!
Can't wait to hear about the extensions, I'm so close to spilling the beans with the extensions that i know about. I'll just have to wait a week.....

Firefox FTW!!!
 
One of my favourite tab shortcuts seem to have been missed, clicking a link with the middle button or mousewheel also opens that link in a new tab, just like ctrl+click.
 
D McLeod wrote:
* Another location bar feature is the ability to go directly to specific Web pages. For example, if you’re interested in reading reviews at the Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) about the Coen brothers’ Oscar-winning thriller No Country For Old Men, simply type “imdb no country for old men” (without the quotes) in the location bar and press enter. It’ll take you directly to the database’s entry on that movie. Neat.
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Yes, this is a great feature, but for it to work you must go to the website, click in the Search input field on the site, right-click and choose "Add a keyword for this search", in this case 'imdb' and then typing 'imdb no country for old men' will take you directly to that search result.
I use this keyword functionality a lot, especially for sites like wikipedia so I can go directly to the search result on that site, without having to google the result first.

Some more FF tips & tricks I use:

As far as appearance go, I disabled the Bookmarks toolbar (right-click at top, and deselect bookmarks bar).
I then enabled the address bar to do my Google ZA searches automatically as well.
To do this, create a user.js file (if it doesn't already exist) in your FFox profile folder on your h/drive (usually in C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\). Edit your "user.js" file, and add:
// Change to normal Google search:
user_pref("keyword.URL", "http://www.google.co.za/search?btnG=Google+Search&q=");
Save it, restart FFox. Now you have an address bar that also acts as a google.co.za enabled search bar as well.

Now you can free up space on the toolbar by removing Firefox's built-in search box (right-click on the toolbar, select Customize, and drag the search box off the toolbar).

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)

Speed up Firefox:
If you have a broadband connection 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:
* 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.

Limit Firefox's use of RAM:
If you have a PC without an abundance of RAM installed, then FFox may appear to eat too much of your RAM. You can reduce the amount of RAM it uses by:
1. Type about:config into your address bar and hit Enter.
2. In the Filter text box, at the top of the page, type browser.cache.
3. Double-click the "browser.cache.memory.capacity" entry.
4. The default is 50000. If you don't have a lot of memory on your system, for example, between 512MB and 1GB, change the number to 15000 and click OK.

I guess we'll have to wait until next week to give our views on FF add-ons.
 
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add-ons

FF is great although some pages does not load correctly on FF, Check out "IE tab" works great for all those pages... The best thing about FF for me are the add-ons some of my favorites are: Bugmenot, DownThemAll, FireFTP and IE tab...
 
Globetrotter said:
Speed up Firefox:
If you have a broadband connection 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:
* 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.
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Hey thanks so much for that. One of my reason for hating FF was the way it loaded pages so badly compared to IE. Even though I use FF at home, i'll give it a try here at work as well now
 
try flipping through your tabs using Ctrl-Tab. Want to do that from right to left instead? Use Ctrl-Shift-Tab.
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Or ctrl-pg up/ ctrl-pg down

Last tip on tabs: to open a Web link as a new tab, you can right-click on it and select “Open in new tab” from the pop-up menu. But I prefer simply pressing Ctrl and clicking on the link.
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Even easier way... Middle mouse wheel click the link :)

If you have a high resolution monitor, you can maximize your screen space by putting everything on one tool bar and using the tiny menu extension to hide the system menus
 
Kalvaer said:
Hey thanks so much for that. One of my reason for hating FF was the way it loaded pages so badly compared to IE. Even though I use FF at home, i'll give it a try here at work as well now
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That's mostly due to most pages being written to display properly in IE. And IE doesn't follow the standard very closely which means to get it to look nice in IE you often end up breaking it for most of the other browsers.

To give you an idea of how far IE is from following the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium: http://www.w3.org/) you can run the Acid 3 test which checks compliance to the standards.

http://acid3.acidtests.org/

Here are the results of most browsers:
http://www.anomalousanomaly.com/2008/03/06/acid-3/
 
Is there a short cut to open a link in a new window instead of tabs for FF... I've never been a fan of Tabs.. old habits die hard.

xsist10 said:
That's mostly due to most pages being written to display properly in IE. And IE doesn't follow the standard very closely which means to get it to look nice in IE you often end up breaking it for most of the other browsers.
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I've heard that before as well. But what I meant was how the images actually loaded faster in IE, than in FF. The new changes though with the pipes seems to have speed that up quiet a bit

Another thing that bugged me is usually pages like Youtube. When I use FF, I so often get the error message that states (This video doesn't exist anymore). but open the exact same page with IE.. and it loads???
 
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Kalvaer said:
Another thing that bugged me is usually pages like Youtube. When I use FF, I so often get the error message that states (This video doesn't exist anymore). but open the exact same page with IE.. and it loads???
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Is your IE set up for a proxy like dsl-cache.saix.net? If you add this to FF, then youtube works - dont think this is actually a FF issue - think it's SAIX & their transparent proxy at the far end of your connection.

I just use foxyproxy add on to switch it on or off as required- nice and fast.
 
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