The 7 hidden pages within your Firefox browser. I found myself staring at the “about:blank” parameter for an IE installation today, and that got me thinking if it works in other browsers too. It did. I’m using Firefox, and that cleared the address bar to a blank. And then I figured the developers HAD to include some more address bar commands and started looking them up. Here’s what I found: about: A simple prompt without any parameter will display the Mozilla “about” information. About:buildconfig Obviously, it will show the build platform configuration and parameters about:cache Will display info and statistics regarding your disk’s cache, including the name of your cache’s directory and a list of the entries you can find there. About:config Oh look, many many info. About:plugins Of course, what is Firefox without it’s powerful extensions? About:credits It’s time to give the credit to whoever deserves it. About:Mozilla This is a weird thing.
Have fun browsing through your browser’s internal features. Incredible Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts Which You Probably Don't Know About. As my search for methods to increase my browsing productivity continues, I have come across some excellent keyboard shortcuts for Firefox (my preferred browser) which I will discuss here . I am sure you’ll benefit from it if you use Firefox as your browser . 1: Automatically complete .org and .net addresses Yes, we know that if we type ‘google’ in the address bar and press Ctrl+Enter it directly goes to www.google.com . But what about .org and .net addresses? 2: Alt + D You can use this to navigate directly to the browser address bar of firefox. 3: Ctrl+T and Ctrl+Shift+T Ctrl+T helps you to open a new tab and Ctrl+Shift+T reopens the last closed tab.This comes quite handy in case you accidently close a tab. 4: Alt+Enter This can be an extremely useful shortcut. 5: Use of Delete Key The Delete key can be pretty useful because it helps you delete specific addresses in browser history or autocomplete forms. 6: Ctrl+Tab Ctrl+tab helps you to navigate between different firefox tabs quite easily.
Simple Firefox Tips and Tricks (Some of Which You Might Not Know...) 1) Drag and drop There are many things that you can drag and drop in Firefox. Drag the favicon of any site to your home icon to set it as the home page.Drag a hyperlink (or image) to the new tab icon to open the link in a new tab.Drag a download link (or image file) to the download icon to instantly download the file.Drag a highlighted word to the search bar (beside the address bar) will bring you to the Google search result page for that word.
If you drag the highlighted word to the address bar (and press enter), Firefox will perform a Google “I’m Feeling Lucky” search 2) Keyboard shortcut Other than the usual shortcut keys such Ctrl + T:open new tab, Ctrl + N: open new window etc, here are some not-so-well-known, but useful, shortcut keys: Ctrl + Enter: Insert www and .com to the address bar. 3) Mouse shortcut 4) Bookmark keyword search If you set a keyword for your bookmark, you can easily open the bookmark simply by typing the keyword in the address bar. 5) about:config. 6 Tips to Supercharge Mozilla Firefox with Middle Mouse Button. January 17, 2008 – 4:49 pm A typical computer mouse has 3 buttons but only two buttons remains dominant in our daily computer usage.
For those who don’t know, the middle mouse can become quite useful too, if one know how to use it properly. In this post, I will show you 6 tips to supercharge your Mozilla Firefox with the middle mouse button , thus making your web browsing experience better than before. 1- Click on a link with the middle mouse button to quickly open a link in a new tab . No more right click -> “Open Link in new tab”! 2- Press the Control ( Ctrl ) button and scroll the mouse wheel backward to increase Firefox’s font size . 3- Press the Shift button and scroll the mouse wheel forward to move a page forward and scroll backwards to go the previous page. Below are Mozilla Firefox’s about:config hack to modify hidden preferences (mouse related). 4- Change the value of middlemouse.paste to true . 6- Change the value of mousewheel.withaltkey.action to 1 . Share! How to change Firefox settings to improve YouTube performance. Does YouTube often pause and freeze when you’re watching a video?
Here’s a trick that can fix the problem if you browse the web with Firefox. YouTube accounts for a significant portion of my online activity, so I’m naturally frustrated if it doesn’t work properly. Almost every video I watch pauses after 3 seconds or requires me to play, press pause, and wait 5 minutes until the video has fully loaded before I even attempt to play it. Turns out this and other playback problems of YouTube or Flash videos may be caused by Firefox’s restore feature. Firefox maintains a restore features that backsup your tabs and content every 10 seconds. Thankfully, therer’s a fix courtesy of a Lifehacker reader who had a similar problem. 1. You will see a message warning you that changing the advanced settings could affect your browser’s performance. 2. You should now see all other labels removed except for sessionstore. 3. This changes Firefox from saving your session every 10 seconds to every 2 minutes.