Mozilla FireFox Tips
As we know Mozilla Firefox is the Best and very good browser with extensions, add-ons, Language Packs, Plug ins and themes and many new things by which you can execute JavaScript. Mozilla Firefox also has other features like Tabbed browsing, Pop up blocking, Cookie Manager, Download Manager, pause downloads, JavaScript Console, JavaScript Debugger, Select text and perform search, View Selection Source, Cross-platform, Display icons in tabs and address bar, HTTP Pipe lining, XML Base, CSS generated content, CSS2 selectors, Caret Browsing etc. Below are some tricks and tips by which you can use Mozilla Firefox easily.
1. Here is the Keyboard shortcuts.
- Space bar (page down)
- Ctrl+K (go to search box)
- Alt-N (find next)
- Ctrl+L (go to address bar)
- Ctrl+= (increase text size)
- Ctrl+D (bookmark page)
- F5 (reload)
- Ctrl+- (decrease text size)
- Ctrl-W (close tab)
- Alt-Home (go to home page)
- Ctrl+F (find)
- Shift-Spacebar (page up)
- Ctrl+T (new tab)
2. Sometimes in hurry by mistake you click on close button of Firefox tabs. But In Mozilla Firefox you can remove or move close tab button by about:config. Type about:config in address bar then search for browser.tabs.closeButton in search bar. When you find it double click on it. It will show you a prompt with by default value 1. You can change it to different values for different behaviors.
- Enter 0 to display a close button on the active tab only.
- Enter 1 (default Value) to display close button to all tabs.
- Enter 2 to don’t display any close buttons.
- Enter 3 to display single close button at the end of the tab bar.
3. Now we know Mozilla Firefox have giving feature of multiple tabs , so sometimes it is very hard to handle multiple tabs with mouse, so you can also handle tabs by keyboard. Below are some tips to handle tabs by keyboard.
- 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)
4. Here is the Mouse shortcuts for Mozilla Firefox.
- Middle click on link (opens in new tab)
- Shift-scroll down (previous page)
- Shift-scroll up (next page)
- Ctrl-scroll up (decrease text size)
- Ctrl-scroll down (increase text size)
- Middle click on a tab (closes tab)
5. about:Mozilla : When you enter this string in address bar then pressed enter then you will see that this page will show a quote from “The Book of Mozilla” with RED background like this
“And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.”
From The Book of Mozilla, 7:15
6. about:credits : When you enter this string in address bar then pressed enter then you will see that this page will show a page with heading of “Our Contributors” in Alphabatic view. In Short this page will show names of Contributors who created Mozilla.
7. about:plugins : This string will show list of installed plug ins in Mozilla Firefox Browser.
8. about:config : When you enter this then you will see several setting key, By which you can set all configurations of Mozilla Firefox Browser. But if you don’t know any about it then please don’t try to change it. By these configuration settings you can do anything with Mozilla like You can spped up Mozilla speed by 400 percent etc.
9. about:cache : When you use this to get information then by this string you will get all information about Memory cache device and Disk cache device and also your all cache details of Mozilla.
10. about: This will show Logo of Mozilla Firefox with version, Contributors information, License information and Build configuration of Mozilla Firefox.
11. about:buildconfig:This will show all build configuration of Mozilla Firefox.
12. about:license: This will show all information related to license like Mozilla Public License, # GNU General Public License, GNU Lesser General Public License etc.
13. If you want to spped up your Mozilla Firefox then
- Type about:config into the address bar and hit return. Type network. http in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):
- Set network.http.pipelining to true
- Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true
- Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
- Now, 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.



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