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Or use the Vacuum Places Improved (what kind of name is that anyway) addon from AMO:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13878
Available for FF 3.5+. Labelled experimental at the moment, but works just fine. Works magic with the "awesomebar" suggestion speed: fetching suggestions has never has been so snappy.

You can't disable it - thats the debacle. A lot of people don't like it, but the Firefox devs have essentially told us to shut up and live with it.

C'mon, they haven't really said that -- you can actually config it in various ways, e.g., setting "browser.urlbar.matchbehavior" to 3 (using about:config), and using "browser.urlbar.maxrichresults" to control the display. There's also some more configuration being added in newer versions, e.g., see this bug.

about:config
set browser.urlbar.maxRichResults to 0

Not exactly the way it was, but closer.

Also, try extensions:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

Personally I like the awesome bar, but having choices are a good thing.

... because an XPI extension is written in XUL and/or Javascript, while a plugin is a compiled DLL that the browser loads up into its address space. they are two different things that work in different ways, even though they both add features to the browser. That's not to say that Flash couldn't be hosted on Mozilla's add-ons site, just that you are unlikely to see it in the form of an XPI file.

Why some people always assume the person that is talking has no knowledge of what he or she is saying?, please take a look at Mozilla Extension reference and you will see that you can package plugins inside an XPI (/plugins/* reference on the exampleExt.xpi sample)

No assumption was intended and I apologize for giving you that impression. I just honestly believed at the time that you had this wrong because I made a mistake. I stand corrected. Thank you for taking the time to point this out, because even when it's a rather inconsequential thing like this, I still don't want to believe things which are false.

If I may revise my answer to your question, I would speculate that they don't produce an XPI for the Flash plugin because it would be incompatible with IE, which still has a large marketshare. So to Adobe, this would represent one more separate thing to have to keep track of and maintain. I doubt that they would do this in the absence of overwhelming demand for it. I also speculate that someone else would not be able to package an XPI for them because they probably don't permit others to redistribute their copyrighted software.

... because an XPI extension is written in XUL and/or Javascript, while a plugin is a compiled DLL that the browser loads up into its address space. they are two different things that work in different ways, even though they both add features to the browser. That's not to say that Flash couldn't be hosted on Mozilla's add-ons site, just that you are unlikely to see it in the form of an XPI file.

Why some people always assume the person that is talking has no knowledge of what he or she is saying?, please take a look at Mozilla Extension reference and you will see that you can package plugins inside an XPI (/plugins/* reference on the exampleExt.xpi sample)

Pain is there for a reason.... unlike this freaking 1.5" wide text area I am typing in.

Try installing Stylish and adding the following custom stylesheet.

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
 
@-moz-document domain("idle.slashdot.org") {
  div.quote, blockquote {
    font-style: italic!important;
  }
 
  textarea#postercomment {
    width: 80%!important;
    height: 20%!important;
  }
}

Also...

Chrome remembers open tabs, too, in the form of the "recently closed" history in a new tab.

There's another addon, Tab Mix Plus, which includes a recently-closed tabs list in the right-click menu for the tab bar. (Or just hit ctrl-shift-T to restore the most recently closed tab.) It's actually one of two addons (the other being AdBlock Plus) I would recommend by default if someone wanted to know what addons to use.

One obvious example: If some other tab crashes while I'm typing this, I won't lose what I typed. Firefox might well open a tab pointing back to your comment here, but it wouldn't contain this text.

I haven't used it personally, but there's an addon called Lazarus Form Recovery that claims to solve this particular problem.

I just installed the Tree Style Tab add-on based on your recommendation, and in using it for twenty minutes, I must say that with my browser usage pattern, it may improve the usability of the browser almost as much as the original addition of tabs. I usually leave a number of tabs that I'm working with open, sort of like short-term bookmarks, but in Firefox's display of the tabs at the top, I usually end up with two screen-fulls of tabs. In the default horizontal display, once some of the tabs are off the screen I need to scroll to access them. I can't easily tell which tabs are open, and it's easier to open new tabs than find the ones I'm looking for. This is convenient, but it makes the situation worse.

I'm sure displaying the tabs vertically wouldn't be convenient for the vast majority of people, but for me it's a huge time-saver. As long as the possibility of detailed customization remains, perhaps the simplest interface that makes the most often used features easily accessible is the best default.

We're working on multi-process too, and also hoping to have it in Firefox 4.

I get frustrated when people comment "crashes all the time", "uses lots of memory", or "is slow". There could be hundreds of different causes, each affecting a different tiny percentage of users. Too many people who experience frequent crashes assume that everyone has the same experience, rather than contacting the support team or otherwise trying to figure out what's special about their setup. As a result, even for crashes that affect a whole 1% of users, we never learn enough to fix the bug.

I understand that you'd have to know a lot about software to understand which symptoms fall into this category, so I try not to get mad at users, but rather at software for crashing in the first place or not being helpful for the few users who do experience lots of crashes.

But "works like crap"? That takes the cake.

You also need to read up on what software Firefox is built on, which obviously includes GTK. You could also check the requirements for any firefox package such as the ones provided for Debian and Ubuntu, which clearly mention GTK and their companion libs.

Assuming by Aero Peek you mean the individual taskbar previews, the Bugzilla entry for that feature is currently blocking Gecko 1.9.2, for Firefox 3.6. According to the tracking bug for Windows 7 they also plan on implementing Jump Lists, the progress-bar-in-icon feature for downloads, and others, in the future.

Assuming by Aero Peek you mean the individual taskbar previews, the Bugzilla entry for that feature is currently blocking Gecko 1.9.2, for Firefox 3.6. According to the tracking bug for Windows 7 they also plan on implementing Jump Lists, the progress-bar-in-icon feature for downloads, and others, in the future.

These are all great features of Tree Style Tab, not to mention the ability to place the tabs on either the left or right-hand side of your screen as well as manually resize the pane if you want to see more/less of the page titles.

Mozilla's Fennec will run on WinMo.

What I'd do:

Open IE. Go to http://www.google.com./ Bookmark it. Drag the bookmark to the desktop. (This ensures that it gets its favicon.)

Exit IE, set FF to be the primary browser, remove IE/FF shortcuts on the desktop.

Now all you have is a "Google" shortcut on the desktop, which does exactly what people would expect it to: opens Google. Everyone knows that you can get anywhere on the internet from Google, so that would probably solve the problem.

Finally, for sites that only work in IE, use the IE Tab extension and create a filter list that identifies the IE-specific sites.

SkipScreen works pretty well for RapidShare. I can leave 7 or 8 RS links opened in tabs overnight and in the morning they've all downloaded successfully.

What would prevent Microsoft from striking similar deals with other OEMs, effectively numbing the effects of European regulators? They should go for it.

Meanwhile, Google should improve their Chrome browser's interface so that it is more appealing to the first time user. It is not that beautiful at first sight.

Mock-ups from folks at Mozilla could be an inspiration.

They'll just need a little configuration:

WebVocab (Greasemonkey script): http://webvocab.sourceforge.net/

FoxReplace (Firefox add-on - much less effort): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6510

In Firefox: Tools, Downloads, ClearList (button). Then install the Save Image in Folder add-on.

Your porn breaks will now be 32% shorter or collection 32% larger; thus decreasing pain by 64%, seriously.

He's probably referring to:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469439

There was a simple workaround (LD_PRELOAD) but it has been since fixed.

Agreed. I use Firefox for ordinary browsing and Firefox Portable http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/ for any browsing that I may not want others to come across. Sometimes, I use the Distrust add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1559/ for Firefox if I just want to hide a single page.

What does bother me to the point of anger is the "+" sign to open a new tab and no "X" on the first tab.

Tab Mix Plus lets you customize those.

It seems to have hidden itself.

Fennec play Ogg Vorbis natively, and you may aswell use it as the default browser too :)

Guys at FSF, if you want your message to reach the public, take some web design lessons. For example, take a look at your friends at Mozilla.

Awesome Options 0.7 - its dev so you have to register https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8310

oldbar 1.2 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

old location bar 1.8 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7637

Location Bar Limit - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7674

Using AO and Oldbar I can get nearly 95% or better ff2 behavior of my old ff2 location bar

so while i hate it at least i can minimize my pain

Awesome Options 0.7 - its dev so you have to register https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8310

oldbar 1.2 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

old location bar 1.8 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7637

Location Bar Limit - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7674

Using AO and Oldbar I can get nearly 95% or better ff2 behavior of my old ff2 location bar

so while i hate it at least i can minimize my pain

Awesome Options 0.7 - its dev so you have to register https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8310

oldbar 1.2 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

old location bar 1.8 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7637

Location Bar Limit - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7674

Using AO and Oldbar I can get nearly 95% or better ff2 behavior of my old ff2 location bar

so while i hate it at least i can minimize my pain

Awesome Options 0.7 - its dev so you have to register https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8310

oldbar 1.2 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

old location bar 1.8 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7637

Location Bar Limit - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7674

Using AO and Oldbar I can get nearly 95% or better ff2 behavior of my old ff2 location bar

so while i hate it at least i can minimize my pain

this is why you should just use the Distrust extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1559

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227 Firefox 2 location bar, firefox 3 everything else. Its that simple.

Don't want people to know you are a pervert? There's an add-on for that.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8631

Geez, hasn't everyone heard about Stealther (pr0n mode extension for Firefox) at this point?

First thing I did was set browser.urlbar.matchBehavior or browser.urlbar.default.behavior or whatever it was at the time to try to only search URLs, but then it didn't ignore common prefixes like www.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461483

History Block fixes this problem very nicely. It let's you setup a block list of urls that should not appear in the history.

The only thing more incriminating than that plugin's config file... is coding the plugin itself and writing "I frequent less-than-reputable websites while at work" in its release-notes

History Block fixes this problem very nicely. It let's you setup a block list of urls that should not appear in the history.

> How about just using SSL for the login page? Most of them don't--it's hidden
> in an iframe, and without viewing source or checking the form, you've got no
> reason to be certain your login data will be securely transferred.

There's a Firefox Plugin which you might appreciate, that attempts to address
this issue (or at least make you aware of it):

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11894

If you can remember your passwords, you're doing something wrong.

Just set up a master password with Firefox and get some auto-login addon like Secure Login or use a program like KeePass or Password Safe.

There are hooks for implementing scripting languages, so you don't have to go quite so far out on a limb to pull in an alternative javascript engine:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Tamarin:ScreamingMonkey

I have to ask, why are you using Firefox and Chrome at the same time? I could see Firefox and IE if the latter were open for an IE-only site, though those who know use IE Tab with Firefox. But Firefox and Chrome??

AutoPager for FireFox or
Re-pagination

AutoPager requires 'plugin' scripts for sites (which there is one for technologizer). But it makes it look like one page.

[header]
page 1
page 2
page 3
[footer]

Re-pagination works on most sites I've tried it on (other than those damn Javascript "next" buttons). But it loads a copy of each of the pages.

[header]
page 1
[footer]
[header]
page 2
[footer]
[header]
page 3
[footer]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6984

BETTER PRIVACY PLUGIN.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623

100% compatible with Firefox 3.5*
Please do not ask me about missing updates here, read FAQ at the bottom of this page.

Better Privacy serves to protect against not deletable longterm cookies, a new generation of 'Super-Cookie', which silently conquered the internet. This new cookie generation offers unlimited user tracking to industry and market research. Concerning privacy Flash- and DOM Storage objects are most critical.
This addon was made to make users aware of those hidden, never expiring objects and to offer an easy way to get rid of them - since browsers are unable to do that for you.

Flash-cookies (Local Shared Objects, LSO) are pieces of information placed on your computer by a Flash plugin. Those Super-Cookies are placed in central system folders and so protected from deletion. They are frequently used like standard browser cookies. Although their thread potential is much higher as of conventional cookies, only few users began to take notice of them. It is of frequent occurrence that -after a time- hundreds of those Flash-cookies reside in special folders. And they won't be deleted - never.

BetterPrivacy can stop them, . by allowing to silently remove those objects on every browser exit. So this extension becomes sort of "install and forget add-on". Usually automatic deletion is safe (no negative impact on your browsing), especially if the deletion timer is activated. The timer can delay automatic deletion for new or modified Flash-cookies which might be in use. It also allows to delete those objects immediately if desired.

With BetterPrivacy it is possible to review, protect or delete new Flash-cookies individually. Users who wish to to manage all cookies manually can disable the automatic functions. BetterPrivacy also protects against 'DOM Storage' longterm tracking, a browser feature which has been granted by the major browser manufactures.

Some flash LSO-cookie properties in short...

they are never expiring - staying on your computer for an unlimited time.

by default they offer a storage of 100 KB (compare: Usual cookies 4 KB).

browsers are not aware of those cookies, LSO's usually cannot be removed by browsers.

via Flash they can access and store highly specific personal and technical information (system, user name, files,...).

ability to send the stored information to the appropriate server, without user's permission.

flash applications do not need to be visible

there is no easy way to tell which flash-cookie sites are tracking you.

shared folders allow cross-browser tracking, LSO's work in every flash-enabled application

the company doesn't provide a user-friendly way to manage LSO's, in fact it's incredible cumbersome.

many domains and tracking companies make extensive use of flash-cookies.

These cookies are not harmless.

IMPORTANT
IF YOU PERMIT DELETION OF LSO's,
THEN COOKIE-STORED INFORMATION LIKE
GAME SETTINGS OR LOGIN DATA (YAHOO SEAL)
MIGHT BE LOST! MAKE SURE THAT YOU EXCLUDED
IMPORTANT COOKIES FROM DELETION (SEE FAQ)

Frequently asked questions (FAQ):
Please scroll to the bottom of the page.

Recommended comprehensive Flash cookie article (topic: UC Berkeley research report)
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/you-deleted-your-cookies-think-again/

Wikipedia LSO information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Shared_Object

See what Google finds:
http://google.com/search?q=flash-cookie+super-cookie

Privacy test:
http://netticat.ath.cx/extensions.html
Navigate to BetterPrivacy (right column)

Note:
NO

Flashblock

There are some Firefox add-ons that supposedly delete these "super" cookies. Here is one example.

I have no idea how well they actually work.

All I can say is BetterPrivacy via https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623

To my surprise, you're right, someone actually did it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8885

Ads, what ads ? Are you watching TV or something ?