Most Firefox users know that they can start Firefox so that it automatically displays one website which is also known as the homepage. Readers of my blog also know that it is possible to load multiple homepages by separating every website with the | char. To load Ghacks and Google whenever Firefox starts users would [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
Change the Session Store Interval in Firefox
Firefox is by default saving the active session every ten seconds. This is handy if the browser crashes to avoid data loss. I was more than once happy that Firefox provided the session restore functionality to avoid loosing part of the article that I had written during that session. Some users might need to change [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 7
Change Single- and Middle-Click behavior in the Firefox location bar
A left-click in the location bar of Firefox 3 will select the complete URL instead of just moving the cursor to that position. This makes it complicated to select only part of the url. If you do not like that feature and prefer the old behavior I have a nice alternative for you. A left-click [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 4
Remove the Location Bar Star in Firefox
The star in the Firefox 3 location bar can be used to bookmark a website quickly. A white star is indicating that the page has not been bookmarked yet while a yellow star is indicating that the page is already in the bookmarks. Some users prefer the old way of adding bookmarks by using the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 1
Display Colored URLs in Firefox 3 Awesome Bar
The Firefox 3 Location Bar which is also known as the Awesome Bar displays different kinds of data. One user complaint is that one cannot visually distinguish the data. The user -=Ben=- created a style to display different colors depending on the type of data that is displayed in a line. Basically tags are displayed [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 6
Mozilla Weave Synchronizes Firefox Data Online
Everyone who has to work on multiple computers knows that it can be extremely hard to have the same data available on all of the computers where it is needed. If you take Firefox as an example you might miss your bookmarks, settings and stored passwords on another computer and it would be pretty convenient [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 4
Firefox 2.0.0.15 released
Good news for those users who prefer to stick with Firefox 2 for now. Their browser was updated to version 2.0.0.15 today and it is recommended to update Firefox 2 as soon as possible. The update is a security and stability update which should be available right now from the official download page. That page [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 16
Fix Choppy Scrolling in Firefox
One of my readers – Sammy – sent me an email just a few minutes ago that told me of a problem that several Firefox 3 users were having when scrolling websites with large fixed background images. The scrolling was choppy, example sites where this occurred can be found here, here and here. If you [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 6
Firefox is phoning home once a day
Firefox and Thunderbird are phoning home every 24 hours regardless if update notifications have been disabled in both applications. This caused some stir yesterday when a post made the Reddit (thanks Ryan) frontpage that informed users about this. Firefox and Thunderbird are apparently contacting a Mozilla server transmitting information about the IP address, the time, [...]