Firefox tips

Here are some tips for anything you could want to do with Firefox. Some tips just propose and explain a feature of Firefox, some show how to change the code to do something, and some explain how to customize. If you don't find how to do what you want here, look for an extension that does it.

Usability

• Mouse tips.
• Keyboard tips.
• Mouse+keyboard tips.
• Performance tuning tips. discussion thread summary of the thread

Tabs

• About tabbed browsing.
• Bookmark or save multiple tabs.
• Italicize the title of unread background tabs.

History

• Get a Mozilla-style history window

Customizations

• Move the tabbar
• Customize the context menu.
• Change the phrase "Mozilla Firefox" in the window title.
• Try a new theme to make your browser look different.
• Portable Firefox [1][2]
• Firefox Kiosk

Display

• Install nicer-looking fonts on Linux.
• Disable animated GIFs and images.
• Suppress new windows From target="_blank" links
• Changing Firefox 1.5 menus back to classic look

Profile

• Back up your profile.
• When something's amiss, create a new profile.

Search

• Use the Search Bar.
• Perform quick searches aka keyword searches.
• Take control of Location Bar Search.

Misc

• Throbber button url
• Other hidden "about: pages"
• Access hidden preferences.
• Make external programs in Linux use Firefox for opening URLs.
• How to Override iexplore.exe at the CreateProcess level
• Import cookies from IE to Firefox.
• Move Firefox plugins to a location where it won't be erased by manual uninstalls.
• Use Emacs keybindings instead.
• Send the current page or a link to it to a friend using Firefox.
• Make media stream instead of downloading then playing.
• Access managers, dialog boxes, etc. in a tab or a window.

See also

• List of tips at mozilla.org