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Additional pages cover Setup (initial installation), Toolbars & Context menus, Bookmarklets, Bookmarks, Keyboard shortcuts, Keyword shortcuts, and Tabbed browsing. -- Special Topics: Firefox 3 Introduction (presentation/introduction) for both beginners and advanced users, and preferred use Styles instead of using userChrome.css (same coding).
Short topics: Google, Default Browser, Firefox Documentation, Firefox Portable, New Profile, Places (Fx3), Profile, Quick Launch (Windows), Use of Mouse, Use of Tabs, Search / Google, New Profile, Search Engine assistance in Generating, -- AwesomeBar (new page)
Information found on this page includes: An Introduction, Firefox notes, Customizations of Firefox and some specific extensions (Launchy, CopyURL Plus), Invoking Notepad, Problems with Firefox, FAQ about Firefox 2.0 (Fx2 issues), Extensions with short descriptions for my choices, accessing an additional home page by changing the throbber, newest section is Firefox 3 Beta concerns Found (see #fx3comments).
Organization of this page: Generate the Table of Contents (Alt+O) for this page and other webpages by installing the Document Map extension, then from the View menu, click on sidebar and then Document Map.
Mysterious Disappearances: This page keeps disappearing from the server.
These notes should save you time finding materials to run Firefox like you want it. Most of the browser features and shortcuts are the same in any browser, so using or switching to Firefox should not be a problem and the Bookmarklets don't have the size limitations of Internet Explorer 6. Most keyboard shortcuts added have to do with tabbed browsing, and shortcuts for changing font sizes are like welcoming back old friends (Netscape).
This page includes everything needed to install Firefox and describes most of the customizations I've made on my system including descriptions of over 130 extensions on this page which I've used and am currently using over ninety of them. In other words there is not much point to a list of a mere 5 or 10 top extensions, many of which may eventually be incorporated in Firefox. The beauty is that many people have written code to enhance Firefox, and you can pick and choose what is suitable for your own usage. Customization you will not find here are: RSS feeds, Themes, music, audio, visual. Nor will I get involved with those lists of why others might prefer Firefox.
Firefox: The latest version is Firefox 3.0 updates to Firefox itself appear to be coming out about the middle of each month. Use Firefox - Rediscover the web to download the latest Firefox Updates to Firefox and to Extensions can be checked automatically if you want through Tools, Addons, Find Updates; likewise, if you don't like hidden things running you can turn them off and check things when you want to. (Release notes for 3.0.8 are available), in addition you might want to check out Field Guide to Firefox 3 (dria.org blog). [png] and expecially Features.
Where to Get (download) Firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ or with latest news: http://www.mozilla.orgUpdates: Updates can be automatic or manually checked. (Tools, options, Advanced, Software Update: Check Now).
Old versions: The problem often turns out to be something else, but if you want to restore an older version, you will probably find it in your downloads; otherwise, start at ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/ then choose version, platform (win32), language (en-US).
- Installing a previous version of Firefox
- Mozilla Firefox 2, Firefox 2.0.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until mid-December, 2008.
Bleeding Edge and Release Candidates not for general consumption:
- Nightlies (Minefield) Firefox 3 -- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ -- are used for bug days
- Release Candidates Firefox 3 -- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/
- Releases and Betas -- http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
- Get Firefox - Get Firefox and Betas are here
- Releases - MozillaWiki, page for tracking in-progress releases. Upcoming (future), and Current (supported) Release Dates. Answers: "When is the next release / version coming out".
Mozilla: [Features] [FAQ] [Tools, Options] [keyboard shortcuts (no longer decent)] [menu];
Mozillazine KB: [Firefox] links to problem solving (issues); and, installation and customizations (FAQ)In order to learn how to use Firefox efficiently you should become familiar with using HELP (F1), shortcuts, and menu items as a starting point.
The main difference most people will experience is the addition of Tabs in addition to separate Windows, much of which can be seen in the Keyboard Shortcuts.
Firefox web browser, my notes on setting up and customizing Firefox with selected extensions after having used Internet Explorer.Have been using Internet Explorer for several years, and wanted to have more flexibility using Mozilla Firefox which offers more robust bookmarklets (IE limits size), better Ad Blocking (project) to block banner ads, and block popups. The initial frustration with Firefox was not being able to easily get into an editor like Notepad (see Launchy extension, below), and in not being able to copy the link and title to paste into source as an href anchor (see copyurl, below).
Something probably unique to my site is the page on use of Right Click menus in Firefox, which are properly called Context Menus because the menu changes depending on where you right-click.
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Menus, Search Bar and Firefox Throbber
(#searchbar_menus)
Search Menu Searchbar: The Searchbar (defaults to Google search engine) that comes with Firefox is too SMALL and Narrow. (BTW, move the Search Toolbar to end of Firefox menus). Solution: see Change the width of the searchbar (400 pixels and is self adjusting) in userChrome.css but first read about creating keyword shortcuts for your profile and chrome directories to help you locate the chrome directory for modifications. Why anyone would want to install an extension to do the same thing is beyond me -- incidentally the search bar will expand automatically in Firefox 2.0, leaving one to wonder what would happen if it is on the same row as the location bar which also expands, since there is no relative percentage maximums.
The search bar that comes with Firefox has a drop down that can easily be customized to add additional or delete (uninstall) search engines (Mycroft). Do not bother with the Googlebar extension, it is not needed, and the Mycroft customized search engine additions provide far more flexibility. For a picture of my actual search drop down click here, or see a different example. For the Advanced Search for Mycroft Search Engines, Mycroft Project: Sherlock & OpenSearch Search Engine Plugins
Menus & Tabbed Browsing: Ctrl+T, bottom of folder in directories/links has “Open in Tabs” -->
The Throbber can be changed to address additional home pages with up to four pages with the "Throbber Button" extension.
Location Bar
Use icons without text on most toolbars. New Tab button comes with Firefox, but is enhanced with Drag and Drop
extensionwhich has been built-in since Firefox 1.5. You could use Ctrl+click on a link instead of drag and drop. The Launchy extension provides the ability to invoke Notepad, installed browsers such as IE or Opera, the Windows Explorer, or a choice among text or HTML editors.At the right end I have Open a New Tab to facilitate use of Drag to Tab, and the Launchy icon as a time saver alternative to having to use a secondary menu within the context menu.
Suggest you continue reading below for problems, adaptations and customized implementations now; and, use the links at the top of this page later for more detailed usage of Menus, Toolbars & Context menus.
Plug-ins: (Firefox list of popular plugins – For a more complete list see bottom of that page, and check specifically for your system ). Be careful where you obtain plug-ins from -- the pages listed on that page would be the right places to use.
-- PluginDoc: Windows (Most Popular))
-- PluginDoc: Windows (A - Z), Mozilla Plugin Support on Microsoft Windows
Adobe Reader: PDF files should be directly opened with the Acrobat Reader (.pdf file type), never allow browsers to open them.
Java Plug-in -- Most users should be at Java 6 for more information see automatic update warning to check out your Java plug-in (Important !!!)Diagnosing plug-in problems
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Video_or_audio_doesn't_play
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Background_music_does_not_play
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Issues_related_to_plugins
- Also see problem with "obj-tabs" option in Adblock under flash.
To find what plug-ins are installed type about:plugins into the location bar. Read topics within http://kb.mozillazine.org/Category:Plugins
The Infolister give you a nice listing of installed extensions, plug-ins, and themes. You can compare your list to mine to make sure your versions are at least as high as mine, see my /example/ though most don't actually show the version there.
This is what I have for my actual listing for about:plugins you can check the date I created file by looking at the directory that the Plug-ins.htm is in (using Windows 2000).
Change plug-ins location: gemal.dk - Mozilla - Plug-ins with Mozilla, also see Move plugins to another location - Firefox - MozillaZine Knowledge Base which may describe other locations that would be found.
As mentioned at the beginning, I'm not into themes, but you can see what themes you have with Tools, Themes and you can obtain theme addons at Themes: Firefox add-ons or you can build your own search engine for themes see
Firefox Notes (#firefox)
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| (-) | Copy URL + Title |
| (-) | Copy URL + Selection |
| (-) | Copy URL + Title + Selection |
| (1) | Copy URL + <dt>title<dd>selection / url |
| (2) | Copy URL + <a href=...>...</a> |
| (3) | Copy URL + <a href=...title=selection>...</a> |
| (4) | Copy URL + <a href=...>...</a>, selection |
| (5) | Convert TEXT to HTML code |
| (6) | DIV Offset + <a href=...>...</a>, selection |
There are 3 built-in menu items that you may or may not
see depending on what is selected,
and whether you RightClick on a link or not. Forward slashes in
display represent new line.
| B1: | Title/url | -- available, even if url has no Title |
| B2: | Selection/url | -- available if there is a selection |
| B3: | Title/selection/url | -- available if there is a selection |
The additions: 1) is a dictionary list entry, 2) is the basic HTML link, 3) HTML link selection internal, 4) HTML link selection external as comment, 5) will create HTML code from text, 6) will create an offset listing if you install the required style. There is no check when presenting the additions that you have a selection or that the cursor is on a link.
If you end up with doubled set of options, see doubled problems on my page which provides more extensive notes on COPYURL Plus, create a link for HTML
Launchy will launch a program, or editor from a webpage or a link. The Notepad editor is included in Launchy context submenus, providing sought after ability to edit with Notepad when using Firefox. I wanted to also include HTML-Kit and Edit Pad Lite. Since it is more difficult to click on a submenu item, suggest installing the Launchy toolbar as well.
Launchy (Context menu)
Launchy Links context menu The following code goes into the launchy.xml file that you create in your chrome directory (see customizations), per instructions in http://gemal.dk/mozilla/launchy.html Launchy will look for a file called launchy.xml in the chrome directory in your profile
(If you are bothered by words running through tables, especially on low resolution monitors, see write-up with Toggle Word Wrap).<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <configurations xmlns="http://launchy.mozdev.org/configurations"> <application> <label>Edit Pad Lite</label> <type>7</type> <command>C:\program files\JGsoft\EditPadLite\editpad.exe </command> <arguments>-editor</arguments> </application> <application> <label>MS Front Page</label> <type>7</type>,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, <command>%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office XP\Office10\frontpg.exe</command> <arguments></arguments> </application> <application> <label>Windows Explorer *1</label> <type>1</type> <command>c:\ winnt\explorer.exe</command> <arguments></arguments> </application> <application> <label>HTML-Kit</label> <type>7</type> <command>%ProgramFiles%\Chami\HTML-Kit\Bin\HTMLKit.exe</command> <arguments></arguments> </application> </configurations>For a sample launchy.xml to be able to bring up more browsers, and to be able to bring up other Firefox profiles with other versions of Firefox, see example launchy.xml.Before adding anything to launchy.xml use Tools/extensions select Launchy and check the options list. Even though Windows Explorer should work as File Explorers (type 6) from options, I had to add it to browsers (type 1) for it to work for me to look at directories and to verify an extension is opening in it's default (opened bug 8874). Although not shown I did find value in also adding NOTEPAD to extensions (type 1) so that you can get to notepad from a link, not recommended for others because a fragment-id would mess up direct usage.
With the above XML for Launchy in place, I get the additional context menus in Firefox that I wanted and basically the results I want and need to use the Windows Explorer, not to be confused with Internet Explorer.
- A link of the form http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8874 will fail in Launchy with “The path '8874' does not exist or is not a directory” -- an error message, but quite tolerable and understandable as there is no file extension. [right click on the above link, choose Launchy then choose Open link in Windows Explorer *1]
- A link of the form http://gemal.dk/mozilla/launchy.html will open just fine in the default browser and is needed and lets me know if my default browser is properly defined and working. [right click on the above link, choose Launchy then choose Open Link in Windows Explorer *1]
- Open a link to a local directory such as file:///c:/temp/ in Firefox, then right-click on white space (non link) then from Launchy bring up Windows Explorer. [left-click to open link, then right click within the browser's directory view to bring up Launchy then Open in Windows Explorer *1]
The additional entry for Windows Explorer is needed to open said directory with Windows Explorer from within HTML.- Don't open the link from the browser but use the Launchy context menu to open the link to a local directory such as file:///c:/temp/ [right click on the above link and choose Open link in Windows Explorer *1 or from the Launchy default Browse link in Explorer.
In the case of Open Link there actually is no need for the additional XLM definition, though I personally like it as a choice with the browsers even if duplicated.- A link to a .jpg file such as ../icons/ff_launchy_irfanview.jpg opens according to it's file type and lets me know that it is properly defined and working, and more to the point lets me bring it up in it's intended application without additional definitions for Launchy. [right click on the above link, choose Launchy then choose View Image in IrfanView]
- Place cursor anywhere but a picture or a link on this page, using Launchy this page should reopen this page in the default browser. [right click on the above link and choose Open in Windows Explorer *1]
Don't worry too much about the type, you will see how they group from the above examples. Within their group the items are alphabetical.
To help create a Launchy entry use file search to find the directory, if you have a problem it could be you have more than one, or you can't simply use something like frontpg.exe as you could from the Run program dialog.
If you have installed IrfanView (and have .jpg defaulting to IrfanView) you can read the Exif Data information recorded by digital cameras or photo retouching by right-clicking on the picture, choose Launchy, then IrfanView, use shortcut character “I” to see picture information. [notes on IrfanView]
|| that’s all (´(´), ’(’),
and as arial -- that’s all (´(´), ’(’) ) ||
¥
z
Q
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Any changes that you make to the fonts, apply only to your own system, the main purpose here is so that you can see pages the same in Firefox as seen in Internet Explorer. I did include a barcode font described on my Mail Merge page (Excel & MS Word) just to show that any fonts you added to your Windows system can also be made available in Firefox.Writing your own HTML then you should be using HTML escapes or Unicode characters, though you may not find a substitute for everything even in Unicode. For more information on symbols used in HTML see my Symbols page.
I just wanted to be able to include some symbols regardless of the browser. On my search page are some symbols at the top which are fine in Internet Explorer but no good in Firefox. I have included some JavaScript on the search page to spell out some of the material that would otherwise be completely ambiguous. Can't use UDF-8 either for the webpage because that would mess up Internet Explorer. An attempt to use images proved unwieldy. Found the solution though in adding the fonts to Firefox as follows:
This customization, if wanted, usually has to be redone after each upgrade to Firefox. [Windows fonts]
The following workaround is only for pre Firefox 3 as fontEncoding.properties file is not found/used in Firefox 3 and I can't find any solution for Firefox 3.
Bug 424610 - Wingdings-font characters display incorrectly; fontEncoding.properties hack is gone
Bug 411604 - rich messages (HTML) do not render wingdings font (a symbol font) e.g. displays "J" instead of ☺ smiley
Bug 90643 - Does not render symbol font as commanded by CSS
If documents are under your control you can recode wingdings, but not all browsers will pick up unicode and sizes and alignment vary, see Wingdings character set and equivalent Unicode characters, even on Vista there are still at least 85 wingding characters that have no Unicode equivalent.To Make Webdings and Wingdings available ♦ make the following changes:
#-- Free 3 of 9 barcode available from Matthew Welch http://www.squaregear.net/fonts/
#-- fixing by hand -- Enabling Symbol font for Mozilla on Windows
#-- http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/Wfonts.html
#-- file:///c:/program files/Mozilla Firefox/res/fonts/fontEncoding.properties
# Symbol font
#encoding.symbol.ttf = Adobe-Symbol-Encoding
encoding.free3of9.ttf = windows-1252
encoding.symbol.ttf = windows-1252
encoding.wingdings.ttf = windows-1252
encoding.wingdings2.ttf = windows-1252
encoding.wingdings3.ttf = windows-1252
encoding.webdings.ttf = windows-1252
#For the changes above, use an editor (HTML-Kit) that will not make it CRLF, must be LF -- Do Not Use NOTEPAD.
Once completed you should be able to see: symbol(D delta), webdings(‡ skier‡), wingdings(( black phone, ♦ star, ¥ target, z point of interest, Q airplane), wingdings 2(' white phone, R check mark in a box, ù 3 stars), and wingdings 3(_ arrow) in Mozilla just like you; would see in Internet Explorer. If those are correct you should be able to see this Font Table on your PC system exactly as it appears in IE on your PC system.
#-- for Mozilla file is file:///c:/program files/Mozilla/res/fonts/fontEncoding.properties
#-- for Firefox portable file is #-- file:///F:/FirefoxPortable/App/firefox/res/fonts/fontEncoding.properties‡ In the example above the double dagger(‡) symbol ‡ or ‡ has been substituted for Windows ‡ and still shows a skier in a successfully implemented webdings font.
Windows characters 130-159 (x'80'-x'8F') are considered invalid by W3C standards, though widely recognized and in use from the 1980's and now registered as the windows-1252 code page (Win-Latin1) at IANA [ref, ref.] and are described in The ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup document.
Short test for superscript/subscript, okay in firefox where x<sup>n<sub>i</sub></sup> renders correctly as xni, but IE6 displays as xni as if it was x<sup>n</sup><sub>i</sub> [Ref]
Not having an automatic tie in to Notepad for View Source, can be alleviated by any of the following:If you change your default editor, you can still view the source of a webpage from the location bar as follows: [ref(1), ref(2)]
- Configuration Changes to tie into Notepad with Ctrl+U
view_source.editor.external set to True
view_source.editor.path set to c:\winnt\notepad.exe [use \windows\ in Vista instead of \winnt\]
The above is now a documented Tip in Firefox Help: Tips & Tricks, “View page source using an external program”.
Note the above change will change your Edit,View (Ctrl+U) to Notepad as an editor, so you lose the nondestructive browser viewer.
You can still view source in the DOM with a keyword shortcut ("view-source:"): javascript:location = 'view-source:'+location
There is also a problem with view_source.editor.path in that "View Selection Source" on the Context Menu often fails.
Getting "unresponsive script errors" on context "view source" have increased dom.max_script_run_time in about:config from 10 to 15, but don't expect that to change anything. try extracting the notepad symbol at end of this page with view source selection. DOM is busted Fx2 also happens in safe-mode see ...
- Launchy, provides for notepad see notes (above) and in extension table (below). If not on your local drive Notepad brings up a temporary copy, which is easily identified at the title bar.
MenuX. provides Alt+X as a shortcut. MenuX has/causes too many problems so suggest not using MenuX.- Web Developer, provides default shortcut of Ctrl+Shift+` (accent grave) but you must specify the location of notepad (i.e. c:/winnt/notepad.exe or in Vista use c:/windows/notepad.exe), You can change the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+` to the easier to use Alt+X with the keyconfig extension. If not on your local drive Notepad brings up a temporary copy, which is easily identified at the title bar. I prefer the configuration change though, since I've found out about it (see first item using Ctrl+U).
- JSView Add-on, allows you to open the source code of any web page in a new tab or in an external editor. If the website you are viewing contains any external js/css files, an icon will appear that says "CSS", "JS", or both. Each individual file can then be viewed by clicking on the filename from various menus. (Haven't tried this ext because not really working with JavaScript, or CSS).
view-source:http://www.google.com/
default browser — it doesn't really matter.
Though Firefox is now my default browser, I had continued with IE as the default just in case it made a difference, as it does on the Microsoft update sites. Was perfectly happy that Firefox was invoked from links in Outlook Express which was all that really mattered to me – perhaps because Firefox was installed later.– You've normally decided which browser you want to use by selecting that icon from your Quick Launch or from the desktop, but Launchy provides the means to bring up any additional installed browser looking at the same page you have up from within Firefox.folder options, files types... and Windows Explorer, because I have added Explorer to the list of browsers within the launchy.xml , it is easy to remove the filename portion of a URL at the location bar to get to the directory listing (on your local drive, and some websites) then to use Launchy to invoke Explorer which since it is a directory brings up Explorer listing. Columns in the directory not normally seen in a default Windows directory have been included via View, Choose Columns. The Comments column is used by Excel. You might choose different or additional columns for other directories. Directions to make Firefox your default browser.
Name Size Type Modified Created Accessed Attrib. Comm. firefox.htm 194 KB HTM File 2006-05-24 09:53 PM 2004-08-09 10:45 AM 2006-05-26 12:00 AM A rightff.htm 69 KB HTM File 2006-05-26 06:45 AM 2004-08-11 11:03 PM 2006-05-26 12:00 AM A index.htm 3 KB HTM File 2004-11-02 98:56 AM 2004-08-16 11:42 AM 2006-05-26 12:00 AM A
Firefox Problems:
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| accessibility.browsewithcaret | default | boolean | false |
| accessibility.warn_on_browsewithcaret | default | boolean | true |
| accessibility.typeaheadfind | default | boolean | false |
F7 is a toggle for caret browsing, when it comes with the dialog you must reply with NO
concerning turning caret browsing on.
The fix for this problem is to eliminate the MenuX extension. Will be checking if problem recurs at all.
keyconfig extension is now preventing PageUp, PageDn, SpaceBar from working
like Caret Browsing had before with F7.
Tools, Options, Advanced, General, Accessibility:
[_] Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages (formerly: Allow text to be selected with the keyboard) [uncheck same as false for caret]
[x] Search for text when I start typing (formerly: Begin Finding when you begin typing) nice feature, hopefully not involved with problems
With caret browsing off, the blinking cursor {|} is off.
You can go for hours or weeks without further problems, but will still have problems later on even though you are careful to keep caret browsing off, so keep in mind
the other workaround about opening a new window (Ctrl+N) or if you
installed Duplicate Tab (Ctrl+Shift+N) would be better. In any case, if you
are one of those that has a problem, you will never be able to work when caret browsing is on. Another problem (feature) of caret browsing is that it changes
getting to end of a page from End key to Ctrl+End key.
The following additions to user.js should alleviate problem
caused by inadvertently hitting F7 which changes the setting. This
will reset when Firefox is restarted.
. Upgrading to Firefox 1.5.0.1
seemed to work for some, but then got sound only even after
moving window and scrollbars, so if using ADBLOCK suggest
you uncheck the option. IE users may have the same problem
with flash files and I've not run across a solution.
Use
// Get SpaceBar, PageUp, PageDown to work properly if F7 hit accidentally
// see http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm#caret(problems)
user_pref("accessibility.browsewithcaret", false);
user_pref("accessibility.warn_on_browsewithcaret", true);
If you just want to Restart Firefox, like you do just after installing an addon, it would be a lot
easier for you if you installed the “Quick Restart” extension and used Ctrl+Alt+R keyboard shortcut.
Problems in starting Firefox – problems cont'd (#willnotstartup)
If Firefox will not start, first check to see if FIREFOX.EXE is already running by checking your running tasks — ctrl+alt+del, Task Manager, Processes. If it is already running then terminate that task and try again, this usually gets you back.Had a rather serious problem in that Firefox would come up in the running tasks (Ctrl+Alt+Del) but not in the running Application (tab) and terminating and restarting did not work. Had to backup my profile (2005-03-19), uninstall Firefox from the file folder (not found in uninstall programs), and delete all it's files and then a complete reinstall of Firefox 1.0.1 (and 1.0.2 was coming out the next week is now available). Probably somewhat of a symptom the firefox that would not start had a zero size XUL.mfl
http://techpatterns.com/forums/about372.htm (which is not a Firefox forum), and in
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser_will_not_start_up#How_to_Make_Firefox_Start
Though safe mode did not help, I did have to delete and recreate a profile, after reinstalling Firefox. Safe mode allows you to disable or uninstall extensions without invoking any extensions -- for Windows the command would be:
"C:\program files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -safe-mode
firefox.exe -profilemanagerSome other things you can do with Start Run or System shortcuts:
firefox.exe -new-window about:blankfirefox.exe -new-window <url>see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments
#List_of_command_line_arguments_.28incomplete.29Some Quick Launch suggestions for Windows users
Restoring some specific profile files, after reinstalling Firefox after complete removal.
Files I restored from my thumbdrive backup so far were: bookmarks.html, cookies.txt, chrome/userChrome.css, chrome/userContent.css, and chrome/launchy.xml which put me in good shape for my options, and menus, then simply reinstalled the extensions that I really needed. Was a lot more conservative about what I really need as you can see to the right (I had a slow memory impaired computer, much better after upgrading from 128MB RAM to 512MB RAM since then). With limited RAM the important ones are: Adblock, Context Highlight, Copy URL+, Drag to Tab (built-in), Launchy, InfoLister (better than Listzilla), Sort Bookmarks, and Web Developer.The good news is that I don't seem to have the extra Mozilla Firefox window without customizations opening along with the Firefox window when I open Firefox.
Related Material: Gripes about Firefox web browser (computergripes.com)Alternate browsers
There is no excuse for being shut out from the internet when your favorite browser fails at a critical moment, you should always have a couple of other browsers installed and available to fall back on to check connectivity and to search for a resolution of problems.
Don't know where this came from, but when I hover over an image this shows up, and it is annoying, covers up text, and even worse often gets stuck and won't go away. Seems to match description of various “floating image toolbar” extensions -- but I have no such extension installed that I know of. In fact the comments on one such extensions say it is annoying. Incidentally properties on the context menu provides additional information: size on disk (if not local), and alternate text – to this annoyance is absolutely worthless. Finally resolved: turn off option in MenuX -- Display tips for tools/images -- now back to displaying titles only in a small strip for images (not alt).
image url: http://www.google.com/imageslogo_sm.gif
link url: http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en
width: 150px
height: 55px
Another annoyance is when a Firefox window opens too small, not only is it hard to find, but it is hard to resize with the cursor unless you remember to use Alt+SpaceBar first to move or resize a window.
Initial comments concerning what I was going to do in Firefox 2.
- Move the cache out of the profile, does not belong in my backups. (finally done 2006-12-25). For users who started with Fx 1.5 or later the cache is not in the profile.
- I forced extensions to not check version compatibility and it appears that I've not lost any extensions, certainly none of my most used that I've tested. (see disabled).
Fx2 - about:config preferences (#fx2config)
How To Modify Hidden Preferences Using about:config, only if you don't know how.browser.tabs.closeButtons 3 (Display a single close button at the end of the tab strip -- Firefox 1.x behavior)
browser.tabs.tabMinWidth 10 (still only 24 tabs FULL width, to do better make changes to userChrome.css)
extensions.checkCompatibility False (read the article, can be risky), use False to continue to use old extensions
browser.urlbar.hideGoButton True (to remove "Go" button from Location bar)Fx2 - Sudden Connection Refused Messages (#firewall)
Common problem after a Firefox automatic update is a failure in being able to connect to the internet, caused by Firewall rejecting connection.
- Allow Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla Suite access to the Internet with your firewall [ http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firewalls]
- Error loading any website
Fx2 - menus (#fx2menus)
- Tools,Options, General is now Tools,Options,Main
- Tools, Extensions is now Tools, Add-Ons
- History (History) Menu replaces Go menu item, and interferes with Sage extension (Alt+S). Use Menu Editor extension to hide the useless History (Ctrl+H) button and get back wasted menu bar space.
Fx2 - Private Data (#fx2data)
- Updating to a new version of Firefox may involve big changes, so suggest clear the cache once in Fx2, even if you normally clear cache often.
- Privacy in Firefox Help: Options Window may cover all of this (have to check these out again)
- Clear Private Data In Firefox Browser For Windows, Scott Orgera, attempts to explain exactly what you would be clearing (Tools, Options, Privacy). You would normally choose not to clear your passwords, or cookies (Browser History, Down Load History, Saved Form information, cache, cookies, Saved Passwords, Authenticated Sessions).
- Erase history Firefox, more explanations of private data in Firefox.
- Firefox built-in Search Bar (best by far)
- Google Search Bar (unwise choice)
- Location Bar,
- Back & Forward,
- History (Go) Button,
- Distrust | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation, Hide surfing trails that the browser leaves behind. AKA Private Browsing.
Fx2 - Toolbars (#fx2toolbars)
- Get rid of Green Arrow (GO) to right of location bar.
browser.urlbar.hideGoButton set to True (default is False) [ref]- Can get rid of search button to right of the search bar. and the Go button to right of Location Bar (see userChrome changes on tabs.htm page).
- Use of Throbber to address additional home pages is available in an extension [background], the extension is better than the original lost feature.
- Mailbox button dropped from Firefox (use SeaMonkey) can be restored to Firefox as a toolbar button with the "Get mail" extension. The extension's author and several other authors have removed their extensions from AMO (moved to author's site). Read about additional AMO problems. The extension assignment remains reserved and the author can put his extension back on AMO or simply point to his own pages from AMO as several other extension author's have done.
- Problems with toolbars, or can't bring up Firefox 2.0 after upgrading from a previous version see deleting localstore.rdf;
- Problems with adding/deleting searchbar engines, delete or rename search.sqlite file
Fx2 - Bookmarks Bar (#bookmarksbar)
- Major problem: scroll bar on many tabs (caused by a forced Bookmarks Scrollbar extension) obscures 75% of tab names leaving only top 25% exposed. Only recourse is the nice new button at right of tab bar (left of right only tab close button); Allowing tabs to squeeze down real tight helps. Bug 358154. AND see solution in link.
Fx2 - Bookmarks (#fx2bookmarks)
- Bug 357922 - Bookmarks missing after installing Firefox 2
- Lost bookmarks - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
- Profile in use - MozillaZine Knowledge Base, parent lock, read-only, profile in use Bug 193749 - bookmarks and personal preferences are lost after system crash due to power failure, bookmarks and personal preferences are lost after system crash due to power failure
- Bookmarks and Keyword Shortcuts both onsite contain usage information.
Fx2 - Files (#fx2files)
- Important files in profile: bookmarks.html, and passwords {signons.txt and key3.db, and from older versions of Firefox you might have <number>.s}
- Unimportant files that can be recreated: see localstore.rdf (toolbar layout)
Fx2 - Find and scrolling problems (#fx2find)
- See Problem with Find involving caret browsing.
Fx2 - Home Page differs (#fx2home) more info ►
Fx2 - localstore.rdf (#localstore)
Appears to be the most common problem in moving up to Fx2, but also common after updating Firefox or extensions.
- Rename localstore.rdf (effectively deleting it) seems to fix a lot of things. Firefox will recreate it. For me that simply meant hiding four toolbars and moving built-in searchbar back to the menu bar. Fixed keyconfig extension. Size reduced from 88KB to 6KB)
Deleting localstore.rdf will reset your customized toolbars, window positions and sizes, tree sort orders, and similar settings. A new file will be created on start up or when the application first needs to write to the file.
Before deleting localstore.rdf: Take a snapshot of your toolbars before doing this so you can quickly recustomize (View, Toolbars, Customize) by choosing small icons, and dragging items on/off/around toolbars.
Firefox 3 has a built-in delete of localstore.rdf via View, Toolbars, Customize (Toolbar), Restore Default Set (Button), which can be used without knowing your profile location.- symptoms seen: some extensions not updating, Firefox won't start, localstore.rdf of 80KB or more, When recreated it was 5KB expect you may start to have problems with slowing down when it gets back up to 20KB. I have 84 enabled extensions.
- Some additional files that can be deleted from profile (2007-02-26, Nir), also see Browser will not start up [KB], and the following may solve some "can't find file" errors but starts up slowing Delete sessionstore.js in the Profile_Folder and if you see multiple files sessionstore-##.js with a number in the name then delete them as well. [ref], also see Documentation of what is in profile or on Gemal's site.
- Additional references: Localstore.rdf, Corrupt localstore.rdf
Fx2 - Tabs Bar (#fx2tabsbar)
- Major annoyance: shiny metallic tab markings with center shading, harsh annoying and hard to read on laptop depending on angle even with my active tab color choices, was going blind with that garbage. Have since found the solution from a search for "flat tabs" or "classic tabs", see my Tabs Page.
- Change tab color, particularly the active tab in userChrome.css
- Tabs scroller was poorly done, you will have to live with it. If it's any consolation Opera's multiple rowed tabs bar is unusable (test at tabs.htm#multitabs_loadtest).
- See Fx2 - about:config preferences (above), also see Tabbed Browsing in Firefox (onsite) page.
- Put the close button back to far right of the tabs strip as in version 1 with Browser.tabs.closeButtons set to 3
rather than Fx2 default on each tab.
- More information on Tabbed browsing (onsite)
Fx2 - Extensions (#fx2ext)
- Tools, Extensions Replaced by Tools, Add-Ons
- This page (firefox.htm#ext) lists many extensions see Extensions Table below on this page.
Problem that was missed by 2.0.0.8 and will be fixed in next update:
Bug 396695 - Add-ons are disabled after updating. Users can fix this problem by opening their profile folder and removing three files (extensions.rdf, extensions.ini and extensions.cache) Actual bug title was "Add-ons go into 'needs to restart' loop commonly after a firefox update" [ref: regression-bugs-in-Firefox-2008]http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_install_ themes_or_extensions_-_Firefox#Corrupt_extension_files
Fx2 - Status Bar (#fx2statusbar)
- FIND bar is too high but must have min/max same or lose words behind. Make the min/max height constant in userChrome.css (see code)
#find-field-container {min-height:18px !important; max-height:18px !important;}Fx2 - Display (#fx2display)
- Displays only HTML code or gibberish (server configuration issue).
Fx2 - Fonts (#fx2fonts)
- Font changes was not working because I used Notepad instead of HTML-Kit to edit an "LF"-only file.
- Website colors are wrong - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
Fx2 - Images (#fx2images)
- permissions.default.image. set to 1 to load all images, prior to Firefox 1.5 was known as permissions.default.image. and prior to Firefox 2.0 was network.image.imageBehavior and had additional options in the Tools,Options,Content tab. Also could get accidentally disabled at: Tools, Web Developer, images, disable images,
[_] external images -- more comments- The option for "Shrink to fit" has been removed in Firefox 2. If you wish to change this from the value you had set in your previous version of Firefox, change the value of browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing the default is True.
- Images or animations do not load - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
- Object has been blocked - MozillaZine Knowledge Base, Zone Alarm
- Zone Alarm problems with Firefox and startup, images, etc. Remove Firefox from ZA then let ZA find the new Firefox application. Also see specific to Map Quest and ZA
Fx2 Videos won't play (#fx2videos)
- Windows Media Player - MozillaZine Knowledge Base (.WMP), In some cases the plug-in files may be missing, however, and Windows Vista installations do not include the WMP plug-in files.
Fx2 Problem sites (#fx2sites)
Link Checks, check how items are opened for some of the sites listed here.See additional comments just below the following list.
- Yahoo Email Beta wants to change context menu (it is an unsafe practice to allow sites to change), to allow the change Tools, Options, Content, [x] Enable Java, [Advanced], [x] Allow Scripts to Disable or Replace context menus [2007-04-01]. If works only by disabling Adblock see user error with filter (preferences). Sorry, Yahoo! Mail Beta does not support your browser (dead-link). Latest things on Yahoo mail Yahoo Blog. Yahoo Mail, also see Crash using Yahoo Messenger
Popups allowed: geocities.yahoo.com
The latest thing now is that email and chat are locked together, you can get out of chat, and can get back to Classic mail but it is difficult. First make sure that you have no contacts, then in your Yahoo profile make sure that only those in your contacts list can see you. When you get logged out of chat but not out of your userid, go to the actions dropdown next to where you see your login id and choose "return to classic" don't give the devils any information other than you don't want chat or spyware and want back to clasic email.
You may have to remove all cookies for Yahoo, and turn off JavaScript then choose "classic" or old once in Yahoo, after you have created new cookies, you should be able to use Yahoo and Firefox in the normal manner with JavaScript enabled. You should allow cookies in Yahoo or you will probably have the same problem again later.- Yahoo login, if using Redirect Remover use "add defaults" in the extensions Options to include as an exception http://*.rd.yahoo.*/my/login/drawbridge/signin/
- Google Advanced Search in Fx 2.0.0.4 -- remove Butler from GreaseMonkey scripts (2007-06-01)
Popups allowed: googgle.com, google.ca, groups-beta.google.com, groups.google.com- Hotmail, can't print second page, see Bug 154892 - Splitting Absolutely positioned frames not implemented - Missing second page of content when printing or print previewing this site.
Popups allowed: by4fd.bay4.hotmail.msn.com, by107fd.bay107.hotmail.msn.com, by101fd.bay101.hotmail.msn.com, accountservices.msn.com, accountservices.passport.net- Hotmail and problems with many sites, screen turns white and redirection problems. Will pursue as as cookie problem must use classic (2008-01-31 for about 3 weeks on 2.0.0.11). Google search: "Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete" 2.0.0.11 hotmail
Removed a lot of extensions without success
Solution appears to have been deleting all hotmail.com, live.com,msn.com cookies and allowing same. Immediately after can access hotmail (though very slow) and generated cookies for h.live.com, p.live.com, login.live.com, mail.live.com
Google, addons.mozilla.org, and cookies dialog are also still slow on 2.0.0.11- Hotmail using 3.1Betas -- Bug 462428 - Regression preventing Minefield from working with latest Hotmail upgrade
- YouTube, not a problem but it did ask to download/install Flash Player and had been having problems elsewhere with some movies so maybe things will be better now in 2.0.0.12. To improve the quality of YouTube videos include &fmt=22 in the youtube.com url.
- gmail Can't see email in Firefox 2.0.0.5 nor in Opera (can see in IE) – solved: At the bottom click on "Basic HTML" instead of "standard..." (Grant 2007-07-22); tips/tricks for Gmail: gmail Auto Bcc, Using GMail as an Online Hard Drive
- GMail problem in Shiretoko, GMail (bug 477101), problem with JIT (Just in Time) change javascript.options.jit.content to False.
Additional comments concerning use of popups, cookies, passwords all sites:
Many sites require JavaScript and under Advanced the only item I allow is for scripts to raise or lower windows.pop-ups while I do have exceptions (tools, options, contents; exceptions) for when pop-ups are turned off, I generally do not suppress pop-ups, but do rely on other means of controlling unwanted urls including the Adblock extension, and hosts file.
Put another way, any site that serves third party ads in images or pop-ups is unlikely to have your interests at heart and makes a mockery of any privacy policy statement they show on their site. Unfortunately there are far too many such sites to block third party images.
If you have "Redirect Remover" (RDR) extension you will have to make some exceptions, and it is easily enabled/disabled at the status bar. The "Adblock" and "GreaseMonkey" extensions are easily enabled/disabled at the status bar without affecting your entire session by going through tools, addons.
Concerning sites requiring passwords to view material, avoid them if you can. Less than 1% of the sites cause a lot of problems. Unless they hold your money or confidential material, there really isn't much need for most of them, nor for you to use such sites. Be sure to use unique passwords. See private data.
Long time to download (#slow)
Pipelining may slow down some sites such that they never appear to download or take a long time to download. A common site that is mentioned is filehippo.com, which was slower but did load; whereas, acdsee.com simply took forever, and was not improved with pipelining off (nefarious site, after it loads, it redownloads, privacy policy also is slow).Content in Firefox window bounces (#bounces)
Window shakes (Mozillazine KB), Content within Firefox window bounces, jitters, dances, dancing\ due to lack of bookmarks, bookmarks toolbar, or bad theme. (2006-12-26)Calling Out (#callout)
Connections established on startup - Firefox - MozillaZine Knowledge Base, SSL, Live Bookmarks, updates, home page, phishing sites, prefetch linksScript Busy (#scriptbusy)
Something to test after adding/enabling an Extension: Ctrl+A (select all) followed by right-click to bring up context menu. Big problem if instead of context menu you get "A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete [Stop Script] [Continue]". These extensions are a problem: and have been disabled/uninstalled: Line Marker (200607), Quick Sum (0.1), Translate (0.6.0.9), gTranslate (0.3.1). Also as you approach Firefox 2.0.0.12 some extensions that get (not responding) and similar errors.Main References [bookmark with a keyword shortcut to documentation] (#mainreferences)
- About:config entries - MozillaZine Knowledge Base, about:config is a list of preferences that you can change. Several of the references above are listed in this document and expanded elsewhere. [aboutconfig:]
- Firefox Help: Tips & Tricks [FFTIPS:]
- Firefox Menus [ffmenus] ♦
- Firefox - MozillaZine Knowledge Base, Issues and FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) ♦
- Firefox Help: Options Window, has been replaced by this dummied down comic book style (SUMO) reference without tabs options, pick your version of Firefox at the top of the article. (Firefox Support Requirements Document - MozillaWiki is written for the below average internet user)
- Options_window [Tabs options] ♦, descriptions for Tools, Options usage [toolsoptions:] link directly to the tabs part, this document is intact despite conversion of appearance (was always on Mozilla.org).
- Mozilla HELP, Tutorials (this page no longer very helpful)
- Profile directory shortcut [profile:] , Profile folder [profilefolder:], Files in Profile (gemal), Migrating settings to a new profile
Also see Major Problems topic near end of this web page.
About (#about)
- You can type any of the following onto the location bar for more information about your Firefox:
about:about, about:blank, about:buildconfig, about:cache, about:cache?device=memory, about:cache?device=disk, about:cache?device=offlilne, about:config, about:crashes, about:credits, about:license, about:info, about:logo, about:mozilla, about:neterror, about:plugins, about:neterror, about:robots
see http://kb.mozillazine.org/About_protocol_links -- MozillaZine Knowledge Base
Have suggested about:profile and about:addons in Bug 367596 – [RFE] Create a support info page/lister.- InfoLister extension, adds about:info, a listing of your extensions, themes, and plug-ins.
- My own infolister listing can be seen here, and my user.js, prefs.js, userChrome.css, and userContent.css can be seen as text file content.
Research Problems (#research)
The following keyword shortcut can help you find knowledge base articles with solutions to practically every problem you may encounter in Firefox.Install as a bookmark: ( -intitle:talk eliminates docmentation discussions)
Title: :: Mozilla KB search (or KB_: Mozilla KB search) Keyword: :: (or KB:, or KB_:) Location: http://www.google.com/search?num=100 &q=site%3Akb.mozillazine.org+-intitle%3Atalk+%S
Many things can be customized by creating and maintaining userChrome, userContent, or user.js to solve (or possibly create) problems. Read more about Customizing MozillaFind your profile (#profile)
Important !!! Material on hidden files and on finding your profile has been moved to Finding Profile, and Assigning a "profile:" keyword shortcut, and a "chrome:" keyword shortcut.Create a Windows shortcut as well for your profile directory (#quicklaunch)
Important !!! material on “QuickLaunch additions for Firefox Usage on Windows” has been moved to another page.Continued
You can check customizations by typing about:config (also) on the location bar.
Specific Customizations (also see Firefox notes, above, and see Firefox 1.0 Rediscover the Web)
You can copy the following files example-user.js, example-userChrome.css, example-userContent.css and drop the “example-” from the file names.
c:\program files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile\chrome <-copy fromread about in: Firefox Help: Editing Configuration Files (David Tenser, now --brokenlink--), also see Flii's Tips [--brokenlinks--][ archived versions of Flii's Tips phoenix and firebird are now Firefox], remaining Mozilla.org customizations pages remaining: Customizing Mozilla (appears as Unix)
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\NOP.Default\US\chrome
- user.js (#userjs) are your changes and overrides pref.js which is recreated each time. See http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips.html#beh_icons for examples (Tips and Tricks) ♦ of what you can control. user.js is in your profile directory and you have to create it yourself before adding to it.
-- disable the display of bookmark icons and "favicons" (I want them, but some people don't)- Disable blink --
user.js -- Firefox Help: Tips & TricksMozilla Support articles no longer offer tips, you can check out what I use in chrome/userContent.css (txt) and chrome/userChrome.css (txt).- Enable pipelining (experimental) -- user -- Tips & Tricks, formerly Texturizer.nst, David Tenser ♦
- Make all pop-up windows conform -- user gracefool {broken}
- userChrome.css, restyling the browser's UI, such as buttons and toolbars and menus (elements)
- userContent.css, restyling web pages the browser displays (style)
- Examples of my own configuration files (user.js, userChrome.css, userContent.css) can be found in my code portion of website as text (.txt) files.
- The ADBLOCK project is a major extension of Firefox that everyone (does or should) automatically install so you don't have to do the extra work. But the information in the following may still be of interest in how it and how other things in Firefox work. (use the ADBLOCK extension instead of:
Eliminate 3rd party advertisements -- userContent.css
floppymoose.com, Joe Francis, but other have some embellishments that may be of interest as well:
Firefox help: Blocking Advertisement, Neil Jenkins
gozer.org: Mozilla: Ad Blocking [brokenlink try searching], Mike Hokenson- Customizing Mozilla (mozilla.org), hints about some of the less well documented features in Mozilla which can be customized to suit the user's preference.
- Disable marquee tag -- userContent.css -- Firefox Help: Tips & Tricks ♦
also Change cursor for links that open in new window, Change cursor for JavaScript linksSandbox for link types mouseovers: (mouseover on a link normally shows hand cursor -- exceptions noted below, prefs)
Normal Link, With Target="_New" (red background, cross hair cursor), With Target="_Blank" (red background, cross hair cursor), Email link (example), Redirect to false link (pink background), script (double arrow cursor),
While looking for examples ran across an unrelated site concerning links, and form buttons with rounded corners (Nifty Corners), this one seems to more than the usual examples.
Some things than can be seen and/or documented(printed to a file).Some things to keep watching:
- about:config settings (documentation)
- Don't know of any means of exporting (/printing) a filtered listing
- Adblock
- can be exported and imported as text files
- Bookmarks, is bookmarks.html in your profile, can be imported/exported from Manage Bookmarks (Ctrl+B)
- (see bookmarks page. — would like means of stripping out icons for documentation usage)
- Extensions (list with InfoLister Extension)
- Can create text or HTML file, Mine can be found here (InfoLister_Listing) as an HTML file and used my own template.
- Keyboard shortcuts (personal)
- See the Keyconfig extension (don't know about printing)
- Keyword shortcuts
- Enhanced Bookmark Search (EBS), and Keyword Bar specifically to view keyword shortcuts, also see my documentation on Keyword shortcuts (don't know about printing)
- userChrome.css, userContent, and user.js in chrome, chrome, profile
- these are text files and can be seen/printed (may be in Linux form "LF"-format )
- philwilson.org: How to export Firefox's history to a text file,
http://philwilson.org/blog/2005/01/how-to-export-firefoxs-history-to-text.html- philwilson.org: How to export Firefox's history to a text file
- Mozilla2:Unified Storage - MozillaWiki
protect your system, speeds up downloads, and helps protect your system. (![[typing]](../icons/ff_ext_typing.jpg){kind=icon}
Learn touch typing, or improve your typing. [options] [Menu|tool|task bars] (normally disabled)
Randomly surf to a link on current page. [button][options] 
hold the Alt+click (pop-up), Ctrl+Alt+click (new tab), Shift+Alt+click (new window/tab), select text(context menu). Includes an optional sidebar, which of course you would refuse.
To cycle through that list you can use the normal forward and back button and so the forward and back button of your mouse. To avoid scripting errors and hidden activity try to
After installing read the
Custom Toolbar Buttons Maker, making a customized version of just the buttons you want; thus, keeping the file size as small as possible. Just tick the check boxes, hit Submit, and you have a customized version of 
[footprint, will tolerate no more than this one to left of status bar]
Replace the menus with a button (blue ball) to invoke menus. [icon] Move icon to menu bar from customize.
Copy to clipboard a
single link via context menu as a formatted link the document's URL along with the title or
the selection. Can be used also to convert text to HTML formatted code. Besides the home page for this extension be sure
to look at the 
New Tab icon, shown on to the
right. For other choices I prefer to use 
detects if a website sends a cookie and shows if this cookie was blocked, allowed or only allowed for session in the statusbar of your browser. It also enables you to change the cookie permissions of websites on demand. [options] [task bar]
![[Goggle Notebook]](../icons/ff_ext_notebook.jpg){kind=icon}
[context -- Note This (Google Notebook)] [Statusbar (Open/Close Notebook)]
![[Grab and Drag]](../icons/ff_ext_grabanddrag.jpg){kind=icon}
Enables grab and drag scrolling. [Tools for options][icon (toggle)]
Modification is through Tools, Manage User Scripts —
use Edit to modify, uninstall to remove an entity.
![[gspace]](../icons/ff_ext_gspace_.jpg){kind=icon}
specify output file.
[tools] [![[=O]](../icons/ff_ext_inspectthis.png "Inspect This context menu button"){kind=icon}
Inspect the current/selected element with the DOM Inspector*
[Context]![[=O]](../icons/ff_ext_inspectorwidget.jpg "Inspector Widget toolbar button"){kind=icon}
![[keywords]](../icons/ff_ext_keywordmanager.png "keywords"){kind=icon}
general use due to location and black letters on dark background). And a small dialog popup when this button is pressed showing all existing keywords. Each listed keyword can be double-clicked to be edited. Finally, some filtering capabilities are present to help finding a specific bookmark/keyword. [
(built-in)
![[G]](../icons/siteadvisor_red.jpg "red: alert! may be unsafe, have malware, generate spam"){kind=icon}
![[G]](../icons/siteadvisor_yellow.jpg "yellow: use caution"){kind=icon}
![[G]](../icons/siteadvisor_unknown.jpg "gray: untested/unknown"){kind=icon}
![[G]](../icons/siteadvisor_green.jpg "green: probably safe"){kind=icon}
actually puts the site rating on the links within a Google search
so you can steer clear of unsafe sites.
[
Draw a ruler across any webpage to check the width, height, or alignment of page elements in pixels. Uninstalled, due to status bar bloat, and seldom used.![[|mouse zoom image|]](../icons/ff_ext_mousezoom.jpg){kind=icon}
Fx3: uses your View, Zoom, {text | text-only} option in Firefox, but adds additional mouse functionality. (see ![[(:)]](../icons/ff_ext_nearby_lighted.jpg){kind=icon}
![[( )]](../icons/ff_ext_nearby.jpg){kind=icon}
Geographical META data. Related: 
clipboard/titlebar.
Lets you take a screenshot of any open window and save it as an image, copy it to the clipboard or submit it to Imageshack. [Tools submenu](also see 
Appears to be available only for the first instance (Window) of Firefox in the system status bar.
My 
Restart Firefox such as after enabling or disabling an extension, adds "Restart Firefox" to File menu has shortcut Ctrl+Alt+R (or Ctrl+Alt+F4).
Style for 
Redirect Remover detects relinking URLs like 
When enabled
(
Resize textareas to your needs. (see Resizeable Textarea)
![[rss]](../icons/ff_rss_feed.jpg "as seen on lcation bar"){kind=icon}
![[SEO Firefox]](../icons/ff_ext_seo_firefox.jpg "checks Google results / incompatible with ???"){kind=icon}
![[places|Sort Bookmarks]](../icons/ff_ext_sortplaces.jpg){kind=icon}
we all look for as recursive sorting through folders, and even has an option to automatically resort a changed bookmark folder. Very fast (1 sec.). Useful companion: ![[T/T]](../icons/ff_ext_translator.jpg "translator status bar button, choose language and preferences"){kind=icon}
web translation extension that allows you to translate any web page into nearly any language at the click of a status bar button,
right-click to select and invoke a translation.
capture video and image files from many sites.
Icon gets animated when downloadable videos are detected, and a menu allows you to download files by simply clicking an item. [button|context][Options]
You can setup the extension to automatically convert the downloaded movies to your preferred video format.
![[online]](../icons/ff_online.jpg){kind=icon}
![[offline]](../icons/ff_offline.jpg){kind=icon}
Online/Offline indicator for status bar. (Firefox default icons)
![[offline]](../icons/ff_offline_new.jpg){kind=icon}
![[online]](../icons/ff_online_new.jpg){kind=icon}
![[home]](../icons/ff_home.jpg){kind=icon}
, and your throbber
![[throbber]](../icons/ff_throbber.jpg){kind=icon}
pages
(#homepage)
![[created with notepad]](../icons/pf_notepad.jpg "created with notepad"){kind=icon}
![[HTML-Kit]](../icons/pf_htmlkit.jpg "HTML-Kit for checking with HTML Tidy"){kind=icon}
W3C Validator at w3.org (checks coding) ||
W3c Link Check of this page || Spellcheck this page at
eKstreme.com (can also use the one built-in to your email)
