Firefox 3: 10 tips and tricks
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Firefox 3 came out. Marketing course with Mozilla download day come true, attention has been drawn. Now you need to figure out what's new in the browser and most importantly, how it is convenient and easy to manage, because usability of the program with great competition is often a decisive role in the selection. Let's talk about tweaks, tricks, Hacks and other Easter eggs, which are not covered marketing department of Mozilla.
Reducing the size of Great back button
The first thing that catches your eye in the new interface, Firefox 3 - is a large back button. Although actually very convenient, less likely to miss. But, if the button is just too big for your taste, it's easy to fix. Just click the right mouse button on the toolbar in Firefox, and select Customize. At the bottom of the dialog box tick "Small icons".
Control the number of guessed values in the Smart Location Bar.
One of the features of Firefox 3 is the ability to anticipate your desires. When you type an address in the address bar, Firefox 3 offers you the options you have already viewed pages. However, this list may be very long, default - 12. It is not always convenient. As it is configured? Enter about: config in the address bar and press Enter. Click "I promise that I'll be careful!" Find the line browser.urlbar.maxRichResults in the filter field. Select your desired number of proposals. In the example, the image is selected 3.
Deleting typos when entering the URL.
While the tips in the Smart Location bar is clever enough, but if you enter an incorrect URL-say, a page that does not exist - Firefox 3 will remember it and offer it again later, with a warning that this page does not exist. (Garbage in, garbage out:) To remove the erroneous URL from the list of suggestions for all you need to put the cursor on the proposal and press Del in Windows. This trick also works in any form auto-completion, if you properly manage your user name in the form.
Obsolete extensions
Philosophy of Firefox, it seems, follows the principle of delegation of all extensions to third-party developers. Nevertheless, Firefox 3 was enriched by some of the features, the presence of which eliminates some of the extensions. Here are five extensions that you do not need to Firefox 3:
- NoSquint
- Google Gears
- Resize Search Box
- DownThemAll
- Better Gmail and other Mailto: handler add-ons.
Return "AwesomeBar"
Called Smart location bar, offering completions in a drop-down list to have been more detailed, but more cumbersome, because now shows not only the URL, and page titles. If you are accustomed to the classics Firefox 2
help restore your "AwesomeBar".
Sort your collection Bookmarks
Similar to Smart Playlists in iTunes, Smart Bookmarks (most popular in the Russian translation) Firefox 3 - is a dynamic list of URL, sorted according to certain criteria. Here's how
Using the search parameters. Briefly: Ctrl-Shift-B -> Office -> New tab. Next in line "Address" enter the following:
- 10 most visited bookmarks:
place:queryType=0&sort=8&maxResults=10 - 10 Last bookmark:
place:queryType=1&sort=12&maxResults=10 - 10 most visited sites with Temin "search-bot":
place:queryType=0&sort=8&maxResults=10&terms=search-bot - 5 The most visited sites in the domain yandex.ru:
place:queryType=0&sort=8&maxResults=5&domain=yandex.ru
Hint: To add your most frequently visited pages on the search-bot.net, need to enter into the address bar:
place: queryType = 0 & sort = 8 & maxResults = 5 & domain = search-bot.net.
Set Gmail as your email client by default.
In Firefox 3 you can associate a file type as a desktop, and with the online application. This opens the door for the possibility of automatic start Google mail, when you click on an email link.
Here's how to launch Gmail, when you click on the link mailto.
Say hello to robots
In Firefox 3 came Easter egg, associated with a new way, a talisman in the form
. Type about: robots into the address bar and you'll see Next: 
Enable spell checking in a row
Enter about: config and set layout.spellcheckDefault, equal to 2, to spell check was conducted in a single line in the input area. (There will be fewer errors in headers of your e-mail headers and the title of the blog:)
Tenth Board applies only to users of Mac:
Add Favicon to your bookmarks
You can simply add a site icons from the toolbar, using
.
This is my photo for Your Face. Show yourself!
Photo black and white, unfortunately. But authentic:)
June 20, 2008 at 20:15
What can I say? - Spa-si-bo!
June 21, 2008 at 15:57
A year ago, switched from FireFox to Safari, is now making the reverse transition, as FF under poppy cultivation was much better than before:)
June 21, 2008 at 16:01
Under Mac FF better than the original?
Complete victory:)
By the way, FF 3 is not all critical plug-ins have been updated. In chastnocti, SEOQuake and WebDeveloper, so long as she enjoyed 2.0.0.9
June 24, 2008 at 00:49
Already established, testing ...
June 24, 2008 at 00:55
Spomoni: a successful test. Soon lay out a new interesting material for the plug-ins to the 3 rd Firefox.
June 24, 2008 at 12:01
In treSka already normally works SeoQuake and WebDeveloper -)
June 24, 2008 at 12:05
Yes, already upgraded. Sitting for FF3 now. Incidentally, added another .
A handy plug-Tab Mix Plus still does not work with FF3: (
June 24, 2008 at 12:32
No, my mail collects baht, used so much)
A tab mix apdeyt be released soon, although if you do not come under the bustle another similar plug. Holy place is never empty)
June 24, 2008 at 12:52
It not only mail. In all accounts. Although Vkontakte:)
July 15, 2008 at 12:15 pm
The issue of Better Gmail ... FF now he can see links meyltu, but this is not the only function of Better Gmail, as I recall plugin modifies something else in the account's interface? or not?
July 16, 2008 at 03:06
Thanks, by the way, Del and works under Linux, just cleaned:)
I do not understand why DTA is no longer needed ... I went about some akkov chiat.
July 17, 2008 in 22:51
2 Kolia Shlapak: Better Gmail has not used. And recognize mailto in conjunction with Gmail FF still need to learn:)
July 17, 2008 at 22:54
Today looked set Better Gmail, but there are enough opportunities. So I would not call this plugin useless)
July 18, 2008 at 00:42
Yes, it says "obsolete", it does not mean "useless". Cartoon Robots watched? :)
July 18, 2008 at 00:47
N.)
September 14, 2008 at 18:37
Is it possible to adjust the opening of new tabs next to active? Are there any plug-ins to use the mouse, as in Opera? How can I redirect the links to other applications?
September 14, 2008 at 18:49
Nick: From the default settings tabs in FF you can select only "switch on is revealed to tab or open it in the background. But after the opening of the tab can be dragged. Inconvenient, so I use Chrome: . As for plug-ins do not know. Easier for me to go to the original user-friendly application than to spend time searching and studying Wash Correcting initially awkward interface.
But in general the most comfortable of all - Maxthon. It is a pity that a Vista-compatible kernel panics, it would have benefited only them.
Redirect links to third-party applications: what to have in mind?
September 14, 2008 at 19:28
About dragging know. Maxtone compared with the Opera, not found a control arm, declined. In the first version of FF was not vladok, so long enjoyed the opera. The new version faerfoksa suits: one row of open tabs (do not clutter the screen, like the opera with the multi-display and not be narrowed down to zero, both in the same opera in a one-line); support for encryption, both in value (not exactly sure what, but building our network opera does not work because of the lack of such support).
Redirection options: in particular - to send links to p2p emul.
September 14, 2008 at 19:37
Maxtone, in fact, the add-on IE, I have understood correctly? A FF - an independent browser.
September 15, 2008 at 14:20
Yes, Maxtone superstructure. Only at times more convenient than IE. By the way, strange that you can not find where mouse control. It is supported from the time when it was called MyIE. Called "mouse gestures" in the settings.