9 Tips and Tricks To Make Firefox More Useful For Geeks

Posted In Resources, Tips & Tricks - By Pritam Priyadarshi On Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 With 2 Comments

The Mozilla Firefox is indeed a cool and creative browser featuring a great number of embedded and dedicated attributes. Mostly the web developers do use Mozilla Firefox for web development. As a newbie, you can also do some modifications which will make you browse internet FASTER, SMARTER and SAFER. Here are some tips :

Tip No- 1

Do you know, when we minimize Mozilla Firefox, it takes some space around 10 MB. But you can stop it by a simple little trick –

1. Open Firefox then type “about :config” in the Address Bar.
2. Press enter
3. Right click on this page and select ‘New -> Boolean’
4. select ‘True’ >press Enter
5.Restart Firefox..

It will increase the speed of Firefox by a certain amount.

Tip No – 2

Here are some shortcuts for the Firefox web browser:

Ctrl + A—-Select all items on a webpag

Ctrl + C —-Copy a selected item to the clipboard

Ctrl + V—-Paste an item from the clipboard into a document

Ctrl + D—-Add the current page/document to your favorites

Ctrl + E—-Open the IE search utility

Ctrl + F —-Open the FIND box to search the current document

Ctrl + H—-Open the History utility

Ctrl + I —-Open the Favorites utility

Ctrl + L or Ctrl + O—-Go to a new location/document

Ctrl + N—-Open a new window

Ctrl + T—-Open a new tab

Ctrl + P—-To Print the current page/document

Ctrl + R or F5—-To Refresh the current page/document

Ctrl + S—-Save the current document/page

Ctrl + W—-Close the current window / tab

Alt + Home Key—-To go to your default homepage

Alt + Right arrow key—-To go forward one page

Alt + Left arrow key—-To go back one page

F11—-To get the full page view

Alt + Spacebar + X—-Window Maximize

Alt + Spacebar + R—-Window Restore

Alt + Spacebar + N—-Window Minimize

{NB : These shortcuts also do work in Opera and Internet Explorer }

Tip No- 3

Opening Firefox in a firefox ??I think you are surprised !!

just copy paste the URL and see what happens…

PHP Code:
” chrome://browser/content/browser.xul ” {without quotes}

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  1. Satyam says:

    quite helpful….cool

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