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-[Firefox:The Ultimate Browser]-Mega Thread
Firefox is the ultimate browser which is the faster, more secure, and fully customizable way to surf the web. It has a lot of feature which make it ultimate browser and first choice for web surfing.
I'm creating this thread to post the best information about Firefox from all over the internet here. Post all new tweaks or extensions here.*www.techenclave.com/images/smilies/jockey.gif
Top Features:-
Private Browsing: Surf the Web without leaving a single trace.
Password Manager: Remember site passwords without ever seeing a pop-up.
Awesome Bar: Find the sites you love in seconds (and without having to remember clunky URLs).
Super Speed: View Web pages way faster, using less of your computer’s memory.
Anti-Phishing & Anti-Malware: Enjoy the most advanced protection against online bad guys.
Session Restore: Unexpected shutdown? Go back to exactly where you left off.
One-Click Bookmarking: Bookmark, search and organize Web sites quickly and easily.
Easy Customization: Thousands of add-ons give you the freedom to make your browser your own.
Tabs: Do more at once with tabs you can organize with the drag of a mouse.
Instant Web Site ID: Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with simple site identity.
Smaller Memory Footprint:Short and sweet, Firefox uses less of your computer’s memory while it’s running.
Memory Management : With a new management function in place, Firefox keeps memory usage under control. The XPCOM cycle collector continuously cleans up unused memory. Plus, hundreds of memory leaks have been remedied.
Faster Page Load : A redesigned page rendering and layout engine means you see Web pages faster—and in the way they were meant to be seen.
Color Profile Support : The colors in your online photo albums will be sharper and more brilliant than ever, thanks to improvements to our graphics engine.
Super Speed: Fasten your seatbelt: Firefox 3.5 includes the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which gives the browser dramatically better performance than ever before. Firefox has always been fast, but this is the fastest Firefox ever (more than twice as fast as Firefox 3, and ten times as fast as Firefox 2), meaning Web applications like email, photo sites, online word processors and more will feel snappier and more responsive.
Firefox Performance: Fast — Faster — Fastest
Results of a SunSpider test on a Windows XP machine
*www.mozilla.com/img/tignish/firefox/performance-chart.png
>>>>>>18,148 ms>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>3,669 ms>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1,524 ms!
Source
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A List of Add-ons that I use:-
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Adblock Plus : Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.
ChatZilla : A clean, easy to use and highly extensible Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.
ColorfulTabs : The most beautiful yet the simplest add-on that makes a strong colorful appeal. Colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appearance of the interface.
DictionarySearch : Looks up a user selected word on online dictionary...
DownThemAll! : The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox!
Easy YouTube Video Downloader : Easiest Youtube video downloader ever, single click non-intrusive direct download buttons for FLV, 3GP, MP3, MP4, 720p HD and 1080p Full-HD qualities.
Echofon (Formerly TwitterFox) : Echofon (formerly TwitterFox) notifies you of your friends' tweets on Twitter. Great for twitter user..
FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) : It allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions. In fact, it goes beyond just backing up -- It will actually rebuild your extensions individually into installable .xpi files.
NeatDigitForum : Digit forum without nagging ads and with new features
Yoono : All your social networks and instant messaging in one easy to use sidebar. Get all your friend updates, update your status and share stuff easily across Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and more - all at once! Simplify your online social life.
Screengrab : It will capture what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame... basically it saves webpages as images - either to a file, or to the clipboard.
Shorten URL: Shorten long URL from context menu or toolbar button with your selected URL shortener and display the result in location bar.It can even copies shorted URL to clipboard. Supports more than 100 URL shorteners.
Tab Mix Plus: Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager.
WOT : Web of Trust warns you about risky sites that cheat customers, deliver malware or send spam. Millions of members of the WOT community rate sites based on their experience, giving you an extra layer of protection when browsing or searching the Web.
Source: Me
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Some keyboard shortcuts:
To use the keyboard shortcuts hold down CTRL and press one of the following:
R Refresh current page
F Find in page
G Find Again (used in conjunction with Ctrl F)
J Page Info (same as properties in IE)
- Decrease font size
+ Increase font size
S Save current page to disk
P Print current page
A Select All
T Opens a new tab and takes the focus to the new tab
O Open Local File. This is one of the biggest changes from IE where both Ctrl-O and Ctrl-L opened a dialogue box for a URL.
L Changes focus to the Address bar
Tab Scrolls through the tabs from current window towards the right. Loops back to the first tab when rightmost tab is reached
1..0 The numbers 1 to 0 takes the focus to Tab 1 to 10
N Opens a new window like IE
W a tab or if there are no tabs, close the window
B Open bookmark sidepanel
D Bookmark current page
H Brings up the history dialogue box on the right. Useful if you closed a page accidentally and forgot the URL. Or to make sure your kids are not looking at pr0n
U Show page source
Y Open downloads window
K Focus goes to search bar
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Firefox Ultimate Optimizer 2010 : This is the must have tool for ANY Firefox user. Firefox is great, but with FireFox Ultimate Optimizer it’s awesome. Gone are the days when Firefox consumes huge amounts of memory, acts sluggish and totally crashes out.
This Firefox tool is not a plugin, but a stand alone application that will optimize Firefox in real time! It Keeps the resource usage very low. For example I had Firefox using 150megs of ram while running, I started up this utility and almost instantly Firefox was using less than 2 megs of ram!
This program was written by Fellipe, but it seems his site is often non-responsive & only in Spanish, therefore we are offering this package with an installer and extra language files. It’s totally free!
Very small program, super easy to install, no real setup needed, run it and it just works.
For Windows XP, 2000 and Vista
Source : Me
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Launch External Apps from Firefox :-
Do you need an easy way to access external apps such as Notepad or other apps while you are browsing? See how simple it is to set up customized launch buttons for your favorite apps with the External Application Buttons mod for Firefox 3.0+ extension.
Setup
Once you have installed the extension the first thing that you will need to do is open the “Customize Toolbar Window” and grab the “External Applications Toolbar”. Place it into your browser’s UI in a location that best suits your needs.
*www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/externalapps01.png
Once you have placed it where you want it and closed the “Customise Toolbar Window” you will see a “blank spot” in that location. Do not worry…the toolbar is still there…it is just empty for the moment.
*www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/externalapps02.png
There are two methods for adding an external app to your new toolbar. The first is by using the “Right Click Menu” and selecting “New Button…” which lets you browse for the exe file of the app that you want to add. The second is “drag-and-drop”. For our example we have decided to use the “drag-and-drop” method.
*www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/externalapps03.png
And just like that you can now access an external app with just one click.
*www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/externalapps04.png
As you can see Notepad opened up very nicely…
*www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/externalapps05.png
Here is what the “Right Click Menu” looks like for our new toolbar.
Note: Clicking on “Customise” will open up the “Customise Toolbar Window”.
*www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/externalapps06.png
Clicking on “Properties” will open up the following window for the particular app that you are inquiring about.
*www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/externalapps07.png
Settings
The options are very simple to work with…choose the prefix that you would like for the “Tooltip Pop-ups” for your apps and decide if you want the icons to be size “16 or 32”.
*www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/externalapps08.png
Conclusion
The External Application Buttons mod for Firefox 3.0+ extension can give you quick and easy access to your most needed apps (for taking notes, editing images, saving links, etc.) while browsing.
Source ; Source
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Thats for a start! More coming Soon! Keep Contributing! *www.techenclave.com/images/smilies/happy19.gif *www.techenclave.com/images/smilies/bleh.gif
I'm creating this thread to post the best information about Firefox from all over the internet here. Post all new tweaks or extensions here.*www.techenclave.com/images/smilies/jockey.gif
Top Features:-
Private Browsing: Surf the Web without leaving a single trace.
Password Manager: Remember site passwords without ever seeing a pop-up.
Awesome Bar: Find the sites you love in seconds (and without having to remember clunky URLs).
Super Speed: View Web pages way faster, using less of your computer’s memory.
Anti-Phishing & Anti-Malware: Enjoy the most advanced protection against online bad guys.
Session Restore: Unexpected shutdown? Go back to exactly where you left off.
One-Click Bookmarking: Bookmark, search and organize Web sites quickly and easily.
Easy Customization: Thousands of add-ons give you the freedom to make your browser your own.
Tabs: Do more at once with tabs you can organize with the drag of a mouse.
Instant Web Site ID: Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with simple site identity.
Smaller Memory Footprint:Short and sweet, Firefox uses less of your computer’s memory while it’s running.
Memory Management : With a new management function in place, Firefox keeps memory usage under control. The XPCOM cycle collector continuously cleans up unused memory. Plus, hundreds of memory leaks have been remedied.
Faster Page Load : A redesigned page rendering and layout engine means you see Web pages faster—and in the way they were meant to be seen.
Color Profile Support : The colors in your online photo albums will be sharper and more brilliant than ever, thanks to improvements to our graphics engine.
Super Speed: Fasten your seatbelt: Firefox 3.5 includes the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which gives the browser dramatically better performance than ever before. Firefox has always been fast, but this is the fastest Firefox ever (more than twice as fast as Firefox 3, and ten times as fast as Firefox 2), meaning Web applications like email, photo sites, online word processors and more will feel snappier and more responsive.
Firefox Performance: Fast — Faster — Fastest
Results of a SunSpider test on a Windows XP machine
*www.mozilla.com/img/tignish/firefox/performance-chart.png
>>>>>>18,148 ms>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>3,669 ms>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1,524 ms!
Source
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A List of Add-ons that I use:-
*img687.imageshack.us/img687/3642/addonsp.jpg
Adblock Plus : Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.
ChatZilla : A clean, easy to use and highly extensible Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.
ColorfulTabs : The most beautiful yet the simplest add-on that makes a strong colorful appeal. Colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appearance of the interface.
DictionarySearch : Looks up a user selected word on online dictionary...
DownThemAll! : The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox!
Easy YouTube Video Downloader : Easiest Youtube video downloader ever, single click non-intrusive direct download buttons for FLV, 3GP, MP3, MP4, 720p HD and 1080p Full-HD qualities.
Echofon (Formerly TwitterFox) : Echofon (formerly TwitterFox) notifies you of your friends' tweets on Twitter. Great for twitter user..
FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) : It allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions. In fact, it goes beyond just backing up -- It will actually rebuild your extensions individually into installable .xpi files.
NeatDigitForum : Digit forum without nagging ads and with new features
Yoono : All your social networks and instant messaging in one easy to use sidebar. Get all your friend updates, update your status and share stuff easily across Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and more - all at once! Simplify your online social life.
Screengrab : It will capture what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame... basically it saves webpages as images - either to a file, or to the clipboard.
Shorten URL: Shorten long URL from context menu or toolbar button with your selected URL shortener and display the result in location bar.It can even copies shorted URL to clipboard. Supports more than 100 URL shorteners.
Tab Mix Plus: Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager.
WOT : Web of Trust warns you about risky sites that cheat customers, deliver malware or send spam. Millions of members of the WOT community rate sites based on their experience, giving you an extra layer of protection when browsing or searching the Web.
Source: Me
=======================================================
Some keyboard shortcuts:
To use the keyboard shortcuts hold down CTRL and press one of the following:
R Refresh current page
F Find in page
G Find Again (used in conjunction with Ctrl F)
J Page Info (same as properties in IE)
- Decrease font size
+ Increase font size
S Save current page to disk
P Print current page
A Select All
T Opens a new tab and takes the focus to the new tab
O Open Local File. This is one of the biggest changes from IE where both Ctrl-O and Ctrl-L opened a dialogue box for a URL.
L Changes focus to the Address bar
Tab Scrolls through the tabs from current window towards the right. Loops back to the first tab when rightmost tab is reached
1..0 The numbers 1 to 0 takes the focus to Tab 1 to 10
N Opens a new window like IE
W a tab or if there are no tabs, close the window
B Open bookmark sidepanel
D Bookmark current page
H Brings up the history dialogue box on the right. Useful if you closed a page accidentally and forgot the URL. Or to make sure your kids are not looking at pr0n
U Show page source
Y Open downloads window
K Focus goes to search bar
Source
=======================================================
Firefox Ultimate Optimizer 2010 : This is the must have tool for ANY Firefox user. Firefox is great, but with FireFox Ultimate Optimizer it’s awesome. Gone are the days when Firefox consumes huge amounts of memory, acts sluggish and totally crashes out.
This Firefox tool is not a plugin, but a stand alone application that will optimize Firefox in real time! It Keeps the resource usage very low. For example I had Firefox using 150megs of ram while running, I started up this utility and almost instantly Firefox was using less than 2 megs of ram!
This program was written by Fellipe, but it seems his site is often non-responsive & only in Spanish, therefore we are offering this package with an installer and extra language files. It’s totally free!
Very small program, super easy to install, no real setup needed, run it and it just works.
For Windows XP, 2000 and Vista
Source : Me
=======================================================
Launch External Apps from Firefox :-
Do you need an easy way to access external apps such as Notepad or other apps while you are browsing? See how simple it is to set up customized launch buttons for your favorite apps with the External Application Buttons mod for Firefox 3.0+ extension.
Setup
Once you have installed the extension the first thing that you will need to do is open the “Customize Toolbar Window” and grab the “External Applications Toolbar”. Place it into your browser’s UI in a location that best suits your needs.
*www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/externalapps01.png
Once you have placed it where you want it and closed the “Customise Toolbar Window” you will see a “blank spot” in that location. Do not worry…the toolbar is still there…it is just empty for the moment.
*www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/externalapps02.png
There are two methods for adding an external app to your new toolbar. The first is by using the “Right Click Menu” and selecting “New Button…” which lets you browse for the exe file of the app that you want to add. The second is “drag-and-drop”. For our example we have decided to use the “drag-and-drop” method.
*www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/externalapps03.png
And just like that you can now access an external app with just one click.
*www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/externalapps04.png
As you can see Notepad opened up very nicely…
*www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/externalapps05.png
Here is what the “Right Click Menu” looks like for our new toolbar.
Note: Clicking on “Customise” will open up the “Customise Toolbar Window”.
*www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/externalapps06.png
Clicking on “Properties” will open up the following window for the particular app that you are inquiring about.
*www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/externalapps07.png
Settings
The options are very simple to work with…choose the prefix that you would like for the “Tooltip Pop-ups” for your apps and decide if you want the icons to be size “16 or 32”.
*www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/externalapps08.png
Conclusion
The External Application Buttons mod for Firefox 3.0+ extension can give you quick and easy access to your most needed apps (for taking notes, editing images, saving links, etc.) while browsing.
Source ; Source
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Thats for a start! More coming Soon! Keep Contributing! *www.techenclave.com/images/smilies/happy19.gif *www.techenclave.com/images/smilies/bleh.gif
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- The best security you can get in a web browser!
