Mosey added a link to his comment that pointed to the Firefox add-on Quick Restart in my post about 10 Useful Firefox Add-ons That Don’t Get Glamorised. It’s more often than not the small changes that make a huge difference. I do test many Firefox extensions, tweaks and themes and one thing that bothered me a lot was that not every menu had a restart Firefox option. When you uninstall an extension in Firefox it tells you that you need to restart Firefox but it does not offer the option to do so.
So the only way to restart Firefox would be to close the browser manually and open it again. I never bothered to look for an extension that would automate the process until Mosey presented it to me on a golden platter.
Quick Restart basically adds the possibility to restart Firefox with a keyboard shortcut or by pressing a button. The keyboard shortcut CTRL ALT R does the job for me but you can also add a button to a toolbar by right-clicking a toolbar and selecting customize from the menu that pops up.
Just drag and drop the Restart button and the functionality becomes available. One thing that was not working was the Restart Firefox entry in the Tools menu. It did not appear after installing Quick Restart, not a big loss in my case because I use the shortcut.
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I’ve been using the Toolbar Buttons extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2377 which has a restart button and numerous other useful buttons.
toolbar buttons is handy, but if you are a serious extension addict there are two essential extensions which add this feature and many others for making working with extensions so much easier:
mr tech’s local install, and allinone sidebar.
All in one Sidebar also offers a restart function. It’s easy because you only have to restart after youve downloaded all the extensions you wanted.
Is Firefox Quick Restart really faster than AioS?
Has somebody solved the problem with the tools menu?
At the moment the add-on keeps crashing my firefox when i install or update it, which is disturbing. I suppose this could have something to do with the not working tools menu entry?
Cagliostro I don’t think it is related. The add-on did not crash on my computer, maybe it’s another add-on that’s causing the incompatibility ?
Wow, thanks for the mention, Martin! :) It is much appreciated! *feels kind of a bit important now :P* I’m glad you find it useful!
I can also confirm that the add-on didn’t crash my laptop (4 years old now!)
I think the main reason why I have decided to uninstall after AioS testing it is because I only use a few functions of this useful plugin, and to keep the browser running smoothly, I only install what I need. :)
p/s: I didn’t know I could press Ctrl+Alt+R to restart with Quick Restart, thanks for the tip! I always just click on ‘File’->’Restart Firefox’. I see that it does have the keyboard function right next to it, how blind can one be? :)
p/s2: Mosey is a girl.
Hi
thank you for the information.
Now Mr. Tech Toolkit extension has this functionality plus you can control how extensions work in Firefox.