You may have noticed that Firefox changes the size of an image on the web based on the size of the Firefox window. This can be easily tested by opening an image in the browser and modifying the size of the browser window. Firefox automatically adjusts the size of the image. Some users may prefer [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Remove Locales To Make Firefox Start Faster
It happens quite often that Firefox users tell me that their browser is not the fastest to start up. I personally do not have the problem at all, but this can be attributed to the solid state drive the browser is installed on, and the fact that I do not run excessive amounts of extensions [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Display The Size Of All Firefox Add-Ons, In Firefox
How big are the add-ons that you use in the Firefox web browser? You do not get the answer to that question in the web browser. The add-on manager displays all kinds of information, but size is not one of them. But size could be important, especially if a user suspects that add-ons are the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 2
How To Clear The Recent Firefox History
If you are working on a multi-user system you may sometimes want to hide information about visited websites from those other users. While it is possible to do that with the private browsing mode in Firefox, or by deleting all temporary files and the history, it often is more convenient to delete only the recent [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Open Tabs At The Right [Firefox]
A change in the default behavior is often problematic for many users. Firefox 3.6 has introduced a change in the way new tabs are opened. Before Firefox 3.6 tabs were always opened at the right in the web browser which meant that tabs were added as a new tab at the end of the tabbar [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Automatically Discover New Greasemonkey Scripts
If you like to test and install Greasemonkey scripts on a regular basis you might be regularly hanging out at the Userscripts website which contains the largest collection of Greasemonkey scripts on the Internet. It is not that practical as you have to always head over to the site to search for Greasemonkey scripts for [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Display Google Calendar in the Sidebar
If you are using Google Calendar regularly you might find this little Firefox tip interesting. It is possible to display your current and upcoming events that you added to Google Calendar in the Firefox sidebar. This is actually pretty easy to accomplish.