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I would recommend the keyconfig extension. It allows you to change the shortcut back to Ctrl+E. After its installed, look for the preference "key_openDownloads" and change it to accel+E.

You know what would be really good? Every web browser using the same bookmark directory. Then you could switch from one to the other and they would all stay in sync. Phwoar. :-)"

Easy to do if you know how. I use this.

These are keywords. If not there, I think you can find a link at Firefox Help.

There is one in the default bookmarks file with the keyword "google" (it's under Quick Searches, I think), but you may as well just change it to "g".

I used keywords for the longest time (still do for a lot of things), but in the last few months I've started using the search box for Google / Pubmed / Vivisimo. It's quite useful-just press ctrl+K and type in your query, as opposed to ctrl+L (or alt+D) for the location bar.

I find this to be much better.

To get back the good old Qute theme from 0.8:

Right click this link and select "Copy Link Location."

Then left click here, paste the link into the "Remote URL" box on the right, and click Install.

Ahh... feels like home again ;)

If only sites like these were hosted on some sort of P2P network where any browser could access it, but the 'site' could distribute load across many hosts (and have differing information -- bad that it's not global and constant, but good that it's not controlled and thus can always exist -- an acceptible trade-off).

I'm tired of having to copy links to new drivers or utilities and paste them to IE to open them.

Check out the "open with IE" extension then.
Right clicking a link gives you the option to open it with IE, and the same goes for the page you are viewing.

While you're there, check out all the extensions, there are lots to choose from that extend the functionality of Firefox and make it exactly the browser you want.

Not quite. It is only a browser, but the plugin structure and all that is different from Mozilla. Firefox is based on the Mozilla source, but it's been gutted and reworked to be leaner and meaner, and a lot of things have changed, so plugins and skins have to be Firefox-specific. However, it's tons faster than Mozilla and much smaller, too, and there are already tons of skins and plugins for it. The authoritative resource for Firefox skins/plugins is here, and more are being ported every day, so chances are, if there's a plugin or skin you love for Mozilla, you can find it for Firefox.

Or you could just download the keyconfig extension. With it, you can assign whatever key you want for 'Back'.

And here is the extension that allows window cloning with keyboard commands. Enjoy!

> The old theme, Qute, is now available from Arvid Axelsson's site.

Yep, just right click this link: http://www.quadrone.org/graphics/Qute/Qute.jar and select "Copy Link Location".

Then go to http://www.texturizer.net/firefox/themes/#install, paste the link into the "Remote URL" box on the right, and click Install.

Ahh... sanity restored.

Take a look at Session Saver. This will save sessions states (including tabs) if the browser crashes or if you choose to (File->Save Session).

...run Firefox from removable media. I'm sure a similar stunt could be pulled for Thunderbird or Mozilla if you need mail.

See the Firefox FAQ.

It's easy.

It looks very nice!! (a work in progress, and this maybe an older version).

save to disk: pinstripe theme

use the tool here to install it.

Extensions, my friend. For example, there's a user agent switcher that you can customize. there's also a lot more on that page of course, and for the other stuff there's the about:config mentioned in another reply.

<a href="http://www.texturizer.net/firefox/adblock.ht ml">modify your user-content.css</a>

Ok. I figured it out. When I used a fresh profile, the mouseover does work. My profile in FireFox 0.8 had TabBrowser Extensions installed and that extension by itself prevented the mouseover popup and that is why I never saw anything when mousing over.

It's rather amusing, seeing something that says "advertisement: " and then... nothing.
Once again, "FIREFOX >> YOU," adservomg piece of trash.

I have not had one popup since I fully switched to FireFox (around 6 months ago).

There is also a FireFox extension that blocks those annoying Flash popunder ads.

Firefox with this code blocks most ads.

I don't see any ads... Whare you talking about?

Oh, you must not be using firefox and
This

Actually I can't blame anyone for taking any money for advertising. Advertising is like free money. Someone gives you cash and you give them almost nothing in return. Especially as people like me who block every ad in ever medium (I don't watch television and am stilly trying to block radio ads). Don't blame the messenger, they're just doing their job and getting a free ride. If you think about it, they're probably ripping MS off. I mean, who reads Linux Today that doesn't know that MS Sux0r?

You are running, FireFox, right? :)

cLive ;-)

Its been done.

Ugh... I think a such site shouldn't be visited at all! ;-)

Anyway, with the User Agent Switcher extension for Mozilla/Firefox you are able to choose the behavior of your browser. The website will think you are IE/Opera/Netscape...

Cheers.

I wonder where I can try that out... It seems that in the past few months I have adblock'ed all flashes on the sites I usually visit :)

Granted, it doesn't have all the features of the IE version (no PageRank-o-meter, for one - although I'm not exactly crying in my beer over that one) but it's out there...

to open a url in a new window it's ALT+ENTER.
to open a url such as "cnn" and add ".com", use CTRL+ENTER
to open a url such as "sourceforge" and add ".net", use "SHIFT+ENTER"
to open a url such as "slashdot" and add ".org", use "CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER"

Feel free to criticize after you RTFM.

Ask and it shall be given unto you...

Disable blinking elements

Isn't Firefox great? ;)

Link!

I got this extension just a couple of days ago, and 'tis loads of fun. I don't know how it stacks up to , ahem, "professional" design tools like Frontpage and Dreamweaver, but compared to my design platform of choice (Emacs) it greatly speeds up the hunting of weird CSS glitches.

There's a nice download extension for FireFox 0.8 which shows the downloads in a status bar at the bottom of the browser. It shows Download progress and then you can either open the download folder or launch the downloaded item when done.

using a little bit of google and the filter in about:config
to get external apps to open new tabs, follow these directions:

Click Here
(granted it should be an on/off option but we're still pre-1.0)

to get links to open in a new tab even if they should open in a new window:

set: browser.tabs.opentabfor.linkclick = 'true'

yay! flashblock works under galeon 1.2.5 which happens to be my browser of choice, mainly because it supports sessions.

I love firefox, but the thing I find most annoying are the options. The default options is laughable in it's lack of customizablility. The Things they left out does somewhat better, but also covers some wacky settings I couldn't give 2 cents about. about:config is like my dad's garage. Sure it has everything you need to build a car/house/small government ... but try and find a screwdriver in that mess.

I complain because I wish there was better tab management. As a windows developer who uses gvim I tend to have dozens of windows open at any one time, so having one browser with multiple tabs is a godsend. What I really need, however, is to have all external links (email, trillian, url files) open in a new TAB. Not a freaking window, and not over the current tab I have open. I used Tabbrwoser Extensions for a while and loved the functionality of it. I eventually tracked a nasty bug back to it however. Once or twice a day my CPU would kick into overdrive, 99% used up by firefox. I would have to kill it to get control back and would subsequently loose all my various web pages. As a web developer I found this extremely frustrating. Alas I'm forced to disable my favorite extension and I've been unable to find another one that works properly or a property in about:config that does what I need .... [/rant] *gasp* I need a breath

I love firefox, but the thing I find most annoying are the options. The default options is laughable in it's lack of customizablility. The Things they left out does somewhat better, but also covers some wacky settings I couldn't give 2 cents about. about:config is like my dad's garage. Sure it has everything you need to build a car/house/small government ... but try and find a screwdriver in that mess.

I complain because I wish there was better tab management. As a windows developer who uses gvim I tend to have dozens of windows open at any one time, so having one browser with multiple tabs is a godsend. What I really need, however, is to have all external links (email, trillian, url files) open in a new TAB. Not a freaking window, and not over the current tab I have open. I used Tabbrwoser Extensions for a while and loved the functionality of it. I eventually tracked a nasty bug back to it however. Once or twice a day my CPU would kick into overdrive, 99% used up by firefox. I would have to kill it to get control back and would subsequently loose all my various web pages. As a web developer I found this extremely frustrating. Alas I'm forced to disable my favorite extension and I've been unable to find another one that works properly or a property in about:config that does what I need .... [/rant] *gasp* I need a breath

Firefox does have a google tool bar

Well, yes. Firefox in it's default form is ugly. Just like IE. But why don't you look at the themes?
In the end, one of the reasons I switched was because I could make it look better. Phoenity Modern is my theme of choice, it fits into the default stylings of both Windows XP and my chosen Fluxbox theme, and it really does look better than the default IE interface, IMHO.

http://texturizer.net/firefox/faq.html#q2.2

It requires a registry key to be added if you installed from a zip file.

Posted from Mozilla Spacemonkey

You're still using Spacemonkey? I'm runing Mozilla Uberphoenix.

On a serious note, the Web Developer pluging can't be beat. It allows you to do many useful things, such as turning off CSS at a site that doesn't use it properly, plus a whole list of other useful tools for web developers.

From http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#googleba r

Google Bar
by GoogleBar Team

From the plugin homepage

...While we are in no way affiliated with Google inc, our current release emulates all of the basic search functionality of the toolbar...

Use FlashBlock in Firefox to only play the Flash that you want.

You might be interested in checking out the FlashBlock extension for Mozilla's Firefox browser. Instead of playing the Flash file, it puts a flash logo there. If you want to view the Flash file, click on the logo. Now you've got the best of both worlds, and it looks much nicer than "Missing plugin..." :-)

/home/<userName>/.mozilla/<profileName>/<randomTex t>.slt/user.js

There is a lot of 'bloat' available for FireFox right Here

The thing is, it's not required bloat, rather optional bloat.

Firefox has another great advantage that I see frequently overlooked: AdBlock

That little extension has made my web browsing pure joy. It blocks every ad I've come across, including flash ads, and it supports wildcards so I can right-click and block entire "ad" directories from servers without losing other content. It's beautiful.

I switched from Mozilla Mail to Thunderbird 0.5+ using these instructions.

Calendar extension for Thunderbird. Have fun :)

Using Firefox:
Tools>Options
Web Features
Uncheck Java\Javascript right there. No more Java or Javascript ads.

For flash, install flashblock. It simply changes the browser so that you must click on a button before it will show the flash movie.

Adblock is a extension for Mozilla/Firefox that can block images, javascript, and even flash, among others. Works great.

Another simple trick is that many ads are common sizes, so with Mozilla and Firefox, you can do this to block images of certain sizes.