about:config
Disable and Remove Favicons in Firefox Bookmarks
Favicons are those itsy-bitsy icons that appear in your browser’s URL or address bar, browser tab, and bookmarks list. The premise for the icons is to be used to quickly identify or distinguish websites from one another, visually. The idea sounds solid but in my experience it’s rarely as pleasant and painless. Typically, in Firefox [...]
Changing the Mouse Click Behavior in Firefox’s Address Bar
Everyone is a usability expert it seems. It seems more and more that as software matures, layouts and organization of tools and components are switched around just for the sake of change. Sure the developers state it’s after hours of research and usability testing that leads to the switcher-roo but I’m not sure I buy [...]
Tweak Firefox’s Session Store Frequency
I’m a huge Firefox fan just as most computer enthusiasts are and the current release of Firefox, Firefox 3.0, is unquestionably their best release ever. Just one of the game changing features that Firefox offers by default is the saving of active session. Basically at defined intervals Firefox will take a pseudo snapshot of your [...]
Changing the Search Engine in Firefox’s Awesome Bar
You are likely aware that searches can be executed directly from Firefox 3’s Awesome Bar – the address bar whose functionality was greatly enhanced in the latest release of the browser. You probably wouldn’t have a reason to be reading this post if you didn’t. To me, it is a curious feature because Firefox already [...]
Adjust the Amount of Results in Firefox 3’s New Location Bar
One of Firefox 3’s new features is found in the address bar. The address bar auto-completes URLs and page titles all while prioritizing the list by frequency and date of visits. Some have found this feature so awesome that it’s been unofficially dubbed the “AwesomeBar.” It’s effectively doing a keyword search on your browsing history [...]
