In Ubuntu, if you are using firefox, clicking on address bar (urlbar) does not select the entire text. For those who come to linux from windows environment this is irritating. In windows, not in just IE but even in firefox, click on address bar behaves the same way i.e. it selects the entire text.
There is a very small tweak required to achieve this in linux / Ubuntu. In address bar type 'about:config' and press enter. Click on 'I'll be careful, I promise!' button. Type 'urlbar' in the filter bar. Find entry 'browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll' and set it to true by double clicking on it.
You are all set now! Click and enjoy!
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Tips & Tricks with Firefox
I love firefox! Who doesn't!? But here are certain tweaks that will make your firefox even better! Read through and implement them...
How to make firefox faster?
On a broadband connection, you can make your firefox load pages must faster by changing some of it's default settings. Here is how to:
How to have 'inline autocomplete' feature in firefox?
In Internet Explorer, you can set the feature of 'inline autocomplete' on to enable auto complete the URL as you type it in the address bar. Firefox has the autocomplete feature but lacks the 'autofill' element that IE has. This was one feature I missed the most in firefox. However, you can change this!
1. Go to 'about:config' as in point 1 above.
2. Search for browser.urlbar.autoFill. This feature is disabled by default. To enable it, doubleclick on the entry.
Voila! The address bar now auto-completes exactly as it does in Internet Explorer!
Want to make a copy of all the settings that you just changed?
You have now made a lot of changes to the firefox's default settings. Are these settings portable? Can you take them with you wherever you go? Can you easily replace them in your other machines so that everytime you don't have to go to about:config? Here is how to do that:
1. Open windows explorer and go to the folder where you installed your firefox. (In most cases, it should be 'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox [ver]'.
2. Once in that folder, go inside to folder '\Data\profile'. In this folder there is a file named 'prefs.js'. This file is all you need. Make a backup of this file. When you want your settings to be replicated, just replace this file with the one you just backed up.
3. To see what is inside the file, make a copy of it, rename it to 'prefs.txt'. Windows will come up with a warning that you should not do it. Ignore it by clicking on 'OK' button. You can now open the file and see what's inside!
How to make firefox faster?
On a broadband connection, you can make your firefox load pages must faster by changing some of it's default settings. Here is how to:
1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
network.http.pipelining,
network.http.proxy.pipelining, and
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.
3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!
Courtesy: Forevergeek.com
How to have 'inline autocomplete' feature in firefox?
In Internet Explorer, you can set the feature of 'inline autocomplete' on to enable auto complete the URL as you type it in the address bar. Firefox has the autocomplete feature but lacks the 'autofill' element that IE has. This was one feature I missed the most in firefox. However, you can change this!
1. Go to 'about:config' as in point 1 above.
2. Search for browser.urlbar.autoFill. This feature is disabled by default. To enable it, doubleclick on the entry.
Voila! The address bar now auto-completes exactly as it does in Internet Explorer!
Want to make a copy of all the settings that you just changed?
You have now made a lot of changes to the firefox's default settings. Are these settings portable? Can you take them with you wherever you go? Can you easily replace them in your other machines so that everytime you don't have to go to about:config? Here is how to do that:
1. Open windows explorer and go to the folder where you installed your firefox. (In most cases, it should be 'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox [ver]'.
2. Once in that folder, go inside to folder '\Data\profile'. In this folder there is a file named 'prefs.js'. This file is all you need. Make a backup of this file. When you want your settings to be replicated, just replace this file with the one you just backed up.
3. To see what is inside the file, make a copy of it, rename it to 'prefs.txt'. Windows will come up with a warning that you should not do it. Ignore it by clicking on 'OK' button. You can now open the file and see what's inside!
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