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How to enable case sensitive searches when using find (Ctrl+F) Comment googler à partir de la barre d'adresses Firefox. Useful Firefox 3 configuration tweaks. SExpand Firefox 3 comes with several preferences baked into its options dialogs, but there are still a few you can only access by rolling up your sleeves and digging into its configuration manually. Power users have been diving under Firefox's hood to get their browser to behave just how they like since version 0.9, but Firefox 3 offers some new settings that customize its new features.

Let's take a look at our favorite Firefox 3 about:config tweaks for customizing your browser.P What the heck is about:config? Firefox keeps its advanced settings in a giant configuration file in your Firefox directory, and even offers an advanced interface to edit that file in the browser itself. To make these changes, type about:config in Firefox's address bar.

You'll get a half-joking, half-serious message about voiding Firefox's warranty if you change any settings. Got all that? Set Firefox 3 to use Gmail as your default mailto: link client. See richer image colors by enabling color profiling support. How to increase Firefox's maximum pop-up count. How to prevent Firefox from showing bookmarks in the address bar. How to prevent bookmarks from appearing in your Firefox 3 awesome location bar along side browser history and typed urls ? One of the most useful but also very annoying feature in Firefox 3 is their new location bar. It’s useful because you can bookmark and tag websites from the address bar itself. It’s annoying because it pulls down site suggestions from your bookmarks. If you like to stop Firefox 3 from displaying bookmarks in the address bar alongside search history, here are the possible options: Option A: Disable autocomplete drop-down entirely Use this if you don’t want Firefox to display any kind of suggestions in the Address Bar be they from your browsing history or from saved bookmarks.

Open the about:config page and set the value of browser.urlbar.maxRichResults as – 1. Option B: See web addresses that you have typed In this option, the drop-drop remains enabled but it will only suggest website addresses / URLs that you have previously typed in the location bar. Restart Firefox. How to skip the installation delay for Firefox extensions. Enable Firefox address bar auto-completion. How to force links to open in the background. The secrets of about:config. Secure your saved passwords in Firefox. Top Firefox 2 config tweaks. Paste multiple lines to input boxes. 15 Coolest Firefox Tricks Ever. Everybody’s favorite open-source browser, Firefox, is great right out of the box. And by adding some of the awesome extensions available out there, the browser just gets better and better.

But look under the hood, and there are a bunch of hidden (and some not-so-secret) tips and tricks available that will crank Firefox up and pimp your browser. Make it faster, cooler, more efficient. Get to be a Jedi master with the following cool Firefox tricks. 1) More screen space. 2) Smart keywords. 3) Keyboard shortcuts. Spacebar (page down)Shift-Spacebar (page up)Ctrl+F (find)Alt-N (find next)Ctrl+D (bookmark page)Ctrl+T (new tab)Ctrl+K (go to search box)Ctrl+L (go to address bar)Ctrl+= (increase text size)Ctrl+- (decrease text size)Ctrl-W (close tab)F5 (reload)Alt-Home (go to home page) 4) Auto-complete. 5) Tab navigation.

Ctrl+Tab (rotate forward among tabs)Ctrl+Shft+Tab (rotate to the previous tab)Ctrl+1-9 (choose a number to jump to a specific tab) 6) Mouse shortcuts. 8) User chrome. About:config entries. This is not the place to edit your configuration settings. This is a reference to the entries in about:config, where all user preferences can be viewed and modified. In most cases the list below doesn't state whether a given preference applies to all, or only some (and which), of Firefox, Thunderbird, Mozilla Suite, SeaMonkey, or even the now discontinued Sunbird: trial and error is often the only way to tell if some particular preference applies to your version of your application. Users not already familiar with about:config entries should read the companion article, about:config, which describes how to modify values and work with the about:config list. This article does not contain a complete list of all preferences. (For a comparison view of table and actual about:config settings, use the Fox Splitter (formerly Split Browser) extension or the new version of Fox-Splitter to show one above the other.

Accessibility.* has been migrated to Category:Preferences. font. name-list name size serif. Open search results in a new tab. Tweak about:config options with Configuration Mania.