gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » firefox home button http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:32:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Finally Some Good Use For The Firefox Home Buttonhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/11/28/finally-some-good-news-for-the-firefox-home-button/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/11/28/finally-some-good-news-for-the-firefox-home-button/#comments Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:13:20 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=20753 The home button in the Firefox web browser – and actually in every web browser – opens the default homepage of the web browser when it is clicked. Most users do not need that functionality because of better alternatives that are provided by the browsers. It is for example possible to add the homepage to the visible bookmarks, use a keyboard shortcut to open that website or to enter part of it in the address bar.

The developer of Usable Home Button for Firefox must have had similar thoughts. The add-on changes the standard behavior of the home button in Firefox so that it always leads to the root level of the active website. This can be quite handy as it is not always a given that a webmaster has included a link back to the root page of the website on the website.

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Firefox users who are interested in this functionality can download the Usable Home Button add-on for Firefox at the official Firefox website. The add-on is compatible with all versions of Firefox 2 and 3. Firefox 3.6 and later users will experience a bug that shows the disabled home button (when on the root level of the website) as it if is enabled. That’s a bug in Firefox 3.6 and later according to the developer and probably nothing to worry about.

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