Temporary Bookmarks are bookmarks that expire after a certain amount of time automatically. While most users prefer their bookmarks to last indefinitely some might want to be able to add temporary bookmarks to the system without having to worry about manually uninstalling them after a certain period of time. One prime example would be to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Copy URL To Clipboard When Copying Text In Firefox
Quoting text on a website usually requires to include the url of the website the quote was found. Some webmasters prefer not to do this but visitors like the possibility to check the source for additional information to research the topic further. And sometimes it comes in handy to check if the article on one [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Moving The Firefox Disk Cache To Another Drive
The Firefox disk cache is usually located on the same drive that Firefox got installed. In Windows it is located in the Documents and Settings folder. It usually is a good idea to have temporary directories located on a fast hard drive. In this case the hard drive that Firefox was running on was a [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Setup Firefox To Use Minimal Screen Estate
Firefox 3 displays five bars at the top of the application window before it is starting to show the website’s contents. There is the title bar, the menu, the navigation toolbar, the bookmarks toolbar and the tabs of course. They take up about 132 pixels in height on the screen which is more than a [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Manage Firefox Plugins
One relative unknown feature of Firefox 3 is the ability to manage plugins in the browser’s interface. Many would be surprised that this feature is now available in the Firefox Add-ons menu. The add-ons menu has been revamped in Firefox 3 to include new features such as searching for and installing Firefox add-ons right from [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox Numbered Tabs
A rather unknown feature of Firefox is the ability to quickly switch tabs with the shortcut [CTRL 1-9]. It obviously only works for the first nine tabs, additional tabs cannot be accessed with the shortcut. If less than nine tabs are open pressing a number that corresponds to a non existing tab will activate the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox Copy Code
While most users want to make sure that copied text from their web browser does not contain any formatting or code some users might just need that. Web developers for instance might be inclined to copy the html instead of the plain text to be able to process it further or use the information to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Add Noise To Firefox
There is no obvious option in Firefox to add sound to the web browser. Sound is probably something that most users would not want to let near their web browser because they feel it is distracting them from other tasks. Still: There are users who prefer a beep whenever they are clicking or when a [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox Drag And Drop Search
Firefox offers many ways to perform searches. It displays a search bar on the top right by default, provides access to keywords that can be used to search and has lots of third party add-ons that add search to the right-click context menu. The Drag & DropZones extension for Firefox is different and at the [...]