firefox tips
Have Firefox always open links in the current tab
We’ve all experience this: you are happily doing your daily web surfing, clicking links here and there until you hit that one website. This annoying website has their web links all configured to open in a new browser window! Perhaps, now that every browser supports tab-based browsing, if the link opened in a new tab [...]
Getting rid of the New Tab button in Firefox
If you have a wide-screen monitor, and let’s be honest, most of us do, then this quick Firefox tip isn’t for you. However, if you are a minimalist, or more likely, a netbook user, then this tip could prove beneficial.
As a keyboard enthusiast, I tend to lean on all the known shortcuts in Windows and [...]
Expand shortened URLs to the real address
URL shortening services became wildly popular a few years back. Users could take a long and complicated website link and pass it to a service like Tiny URL that would condense the link and essentially make it portable. The short address could then be passed more easily through email and forums where a longer address [...]
Ensuring your browser plugins are up to date with Mozilla Plug-In Check
Mozilla, the group of developers behind the hugely popular Internet Explorer alternative browser Firefox, have taken on the responsibility of ensuring it’s users are fully patched and not exploitable by any of the known vulnerabilities in many of today’s most popular browser plugins. Initially, Mozilla was informing users of out-dated Flash plugins by notifying users [...]
Have the Firefox tab bar auto hide
Tab-based web browsing is an experience we are all likely familiar with and likely can’t live without, at least I can’t. The highly useful feature unfortunately takes up a fair bit of screen real estate in the user interface. This problem is magnified with the proliferation of netbooks whom many use as a secondary computer [...]
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