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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 [...]
Launching Gmail in Firefox from mailto Links
Firefox 3 has brought about a whole slew of new features and abilities, one of them is being able to register webapps as link handlers. What is a link handler? In this example, when a web user clicks an email address a properly configured computer will open the default email program with the clicked email [...]
Disable Firefox Extension Installation Delay
This shouldn’t surprise you - I’m a huge fan of Firefox. Probably the greatest attraction for most is its extensibility through the aptly named Extensions. These little snippets of addon code provide the Firefox browser additional functionality, letting you personalize and customize your browsing experience. If you are like me and enjoy trying out a [...]
Spell Check all Fields in Firefox
The flexibility of the Firefox browser is one of its main assests in the browser supremacy war. In addition to the multitude of extensions available many features can be further customized through Firefox’s advanced config, generally hidden and uknown by most of its users. The current release of Firefox has an inline spell check feature, [...]
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