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Additional pages cover Setup (initial installation), Toolbars & Context menus, Bookmarklets, Bookmarks, Keyword shortcuts, and Tabbed browsing.
Short topics: Google, Default Browser, Firefox Documentation, Firefox Portable, New Profile, Places (Fx3), Profile, Quick Launch (Windows), Use of Mouse, Use of Tabs, Search / Google, New Profile, Search Engine assistance in Generating
Information found on this page includes: An Introduction, Firefox notes, Customizations of Firefox and some specific extensions (Launchy, CopyURL Plus), Invoking Notepad, Problems with Firefox, FAQ about Firefox 2.0 (Fx2 issues), Extensions with short descriptions for my choices, accessing an additional home page by changing the throbber, newest section is Firefox 3 Beta concerns Found (see #fx3comments).
Organization of this page: Generate the Table of Contents (Alt+O) for this page and other webpages by installing the Document Map extension, then from the View menu, click on sidebar and then Document Map.
Mysterious Disappearances: This page keeps disappearing from the server.
These notes should save you time finding materials to run Firefox like you want it. Most of the browser features and shortcuts are the same in any browser, so using or switching to Firefox should not be a problem and the Bookmarklets don't have the size limitations of Internet Explorer 6. Most keyboard shortcuts added have to do with tabbed browsing, and shortcuts for changing font sizes are like welcoming back old friends (Netscape).
This page includes everything needed to install Firefox and describes most of the customizations I've made on my system including descriptions of over 130 extensions on this page which I've used and am currently using over ninety of them. In other words there is not much point to a list of a mere 5 or 10 top extensions, many of which may eventually be incorporated in Firefox. The beauty is that many people have written code to enhance Firefox, and you can pick and choose what is suitable for your own usage. Customization you will not find here are: RSS feeds, Themes, music, audio, visual. Nor will I get involved with those lists of why others might prefer Firefox.
Firefox: The latest version is Firefox 2.0 updates to Firefox itself appear to be coming out about the middle of each month. Use Firefox - Rediscover the web to download the latest Firefox Updates to Firefox and to Extensions can be checked automatically if you want through Tools, Addons, Find Updates; likewise, if you don't like hidden things running you can turn them off and check things when you want to. (Release notes for 2.0.0.10 are available)
Where to Get (download) Firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ or with latest news: http://www.mozilla.orgUpdates: Updates can be automatic or manually checked. (Tools, options, Advanced, Software Update: Check Now).
Old versions: The problem often turns out to be something else, but if you want to restore an older version, you will probably find it in your downloads; otherwise, start at ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/ then choose version, platform (win32), language (en-US).
Bleeding Edge and Release Candidates not for general consumption:
- Nightlies (Minefield) Firefox 3 -- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ -- are used for bug days
- Release Candidates Firefox 3 -- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/
- Releases and Betas -- http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
- Get Firefox - Get Firefox and Betas are here
Mozilla: [Features] [FAQ] [Tools, Options] [keyboard shortcuts (no longer decent)] [menu];
Mozillazine KB: [Firefox] links to problem solving (issues); and, installation and customizations (FAQ)In order to learn how to use Firefox efficiently you should become familiar with using HELP (F1), shortcuts, and menu items as a starting point.
The main difference most people will experience is the addition of Tabs in addition to separate Windows, much of which can be seen in the Keyboard Shortcuts.
Firefox web browser, my notes on setting up and customizing Firefox with selected extensions after having used Internet Explorer.Have been using Internet Explorer for several years, and wanted to have more flexibility using Mozilla Firefox which offers more robust bookmarklets (IE limits size), better Ad Blocking (project) to block banner ads, and block popups. The initial frustration with Firefox was not being able to easily get into an editor like Notepad (see Launchy extension, below), and in not being able to copy the link and title to paste into source as an href anchor (see copyurl, below).
Something probably unique to my site is the page on use of Right Click menus in Firefox, which are properly called Context Menus because the menu changes depending on where you right-click.
Search Menu Searchbar: The Searchbar (defaults to Google search engine) that comes with Firefox is too SMALL and Narrow. (BTW, move the Search Toolbar to end of Firefox menus). Solution: see Change the width of the searchbar (400 pixels and is self adjusting) in userChrome.css but first read about creating keyword shortcuts for your profile and chrome directories to help you locate the chrome directory for modifications. Why anyone would want to install an extension to do the same thing is beyond me -- incidentally the search bar will expand automatically in Firefox 2.0, leaving one to wonder what would happen if it is on the same row as the location bar which also expands, since there is no relative percentage maximums.
The search bar that comes with Firefox has a drop down that can easily be customized to add additional or delete (uninstall) search engines (Mycroft). Do not bother with the Googlebar extension, it is not needed, and the Mycroft customized search engine additions provide far more flexibility. For a picture of my actual search drop down click here, or see a different example. For the Advanced Search for Mycroft Search Engines, Mycroft Project: Sherlock & OpenSearch Search Engine Plugins
Menus & Tabbed Browsing: Ctrl+T, bottom of folder in directories/links has “Open in Tabs” -->
The Throbber can be changed to address additional home pages with up to four pages with the "Throbber Button" extension.
Use icons without text on most toolbars. New Tab button comes with Firefox, but is enhanced with Drag and Drop
extensionwhich has been builtin since Firefox 1.5. You could use Ctrl+click on a link instead of drag and drop. The Launchy extension provides the ability to invoke Notepad, installed browsers such as IE or Opera, the Windows Explorer, or a choice among text or HTML editors.At the right end I have Open a New Tab to facilitate use of Drag to Tab, and the Launchy icon as a time saver alternative to having to use a secondary menu within the context menu.
Suggest you continue reading below for problems, adaptations and customized implementations now; and, use the links at the top of this page later for more detailed usage of Menus, Toolbars & Context menus.
Plug-ins: (Firefox list of popular plugins – For a more complete list see bottom of that page, and check specifically for your system ). Be careful where you obtain plug-ins from -- the pages listed on that page would be the right places to use.
-- PluginDoc: Windows (Most Popular))
-- PluginDoc: Windows (A - Z), Mozilla Plugin Support on Microsoft Windows
Adobe Reader: PDF files should be directly opened with the Acrobat Reader (.pdf file type), never allow browsers to open them.
Java Plug-in -- Most users should be at Java 6 for more information see automatic update warning to check out your Java plug-in (Important !!!)Diagnosing plug-in problems
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Video_or_audio_doesn't_play
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Background_music_does_not_play
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Issues_related_to_plugins
- Also see problem with "obj-tabs" option in Adblock under flash.
To find what plug-ins are installed type about:plugins into the location bar. Read topics within http://kb.mozillazine.org/Category:Plugins
The Infolister give you a nice listing of installed extensions, plug-ins, and themes. You can compare your list to mine to make sure your versions are at least as high as mine, see my /example/ though most don't actually show the version there.
This is what I have for my actual listing for about:plugins you can check the date I created file by looking at the directory that the Plug-ins.htm is in (using Windows 2000).
Change plug-ins location: gemal.dk - Mozilla - Plug-ins with Mozilla, also see Move plugins to another location - Firefox - MozillaZine Knowledge Base which may describe other locations that would be found.
As mentioned at the beginning, I'm not into themes, but you can see what themes you have with Tools, Themes and you can obtain theme addons at Themes: Firefox add-ons or you can build your own search engine for themes see
Firefox Notes (#firefox)
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| (-) | Copy URL + Title |
| (-) | Copy URL + Selection |
| (-) | Copy URL + Title + Selection |
| (1) | Copy URL + <dt>title<dd>selection / url |
| (2) | Copy URL + <a href=...>...</a> |
| (3) | Copy URL + <a href=...title=selection>...</a> |
| (4) | Copy URL + <a href=...>...</a>, selection |
| (5) | Convert TEXT to HTML code |
| (6) | DIV Offset + <a href=...>...</a>, selection |
There are 3 builtin menu items that you may or may not
see depending on what is selected,
and whether you RightClick on a link or not. Forward slashes in
display represent new line.
| B1: | Title/url | -- available, even if url has no Title |
| B2: | Selection/url | -- available if there is a selection |
| B3: | Title/selection/url | -- available if there is a selection |
The additions: 1) is a dictionary list entry, 2) is the basic HTML link, 3) HTML link selection internal, 4) HTML link selection external as comment, 5) will create HTML code from text, 6) will create an offset listing if you install the required style. There is no check when presenting the additions that you have a selection or that the cursor is on a link.
If you end up with doubled set of options, see doubled problems on my page which provides more extensive notes on COPYURL Plus, create a link for HTML
Launchy will launch a program, or editor from a webpage or a link. The Notepad editor is included in Launchy context submenus, providing sought after ability to edit with Notepad when using Firefox. I wanted to also include HTML-Kit and Edit Pad Lite. Since it is more difficult to click on a submenu item, suggest installing the Launchy toolbar as well.
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Launchy (Context menu)
Launchy Links context menu The following code goes into the launchy.xml file that you create in your chrome directory (see customizations), per instructions in http://gemal.dk/mozilla/launchy.html Launchy will look for a file called launchy.xml in the chrome directory in your profile
(If you are bothered by words running through tables, especially on low resolution monitors, see write-up with Toggle Word Wrap).<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <configurations xmlns="http://launchy.mozdev.org/configurations"> <application> <label>Edit Pad Lite</label> <type>7</type> <command>C:\program files\JGsoft\EditPadLite\editpad.exe </command> <arguments>-editor</arguments> </application> <application> <label>MS Front Page</label> <type>7</type>,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, <command>%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office XP\Office10\frontpg.exe</command> <arguments></arguments> </application> <application> <label>Windows Explorer *1</label> <type>1</type> <command>c:\ winnt\explorer.exe</command> <arguments></arguments> </application> <application> <label>HTML-Kit</label> <type>7</type> <command>%ProgramFiles%\Chami\HTML-Kit\Bin\HTMLKit.exe</command> <arguments></arguments> </application> </configurations>Before adding anything to launchy.xml use Tools/extensions select launchy and check the options list. Even though Windows Explorer should work as File Explorers (type 6) from options, I had to add it to browsers (type 1) for it to work for me to look at directories and to verify an extension is opening in it's default (opened bug 8874). Although not shown I did find value in also adding NOTEPAD to extensions (type 1) so that you can get to notepad from a link, not recommended for others because a fragment-id would mess up direct usage.With the above XML for Launchy in place, I get the additional context menus in Firefox that I wanted and basically the results I want and need to use the Windows Explorer, not to be confused with Internet Explorer.
- A link of the form http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8874 will fail in Launchy with “The path '8874' does not exist or is not a directory” -- an error message, but quite tolerable and understandable as there is no file extension. [right click on the above link, choose Launchy then choose Open link in Windows Explorer *1]
- A link of the form http://gemal.dk/mozilla/launchy.html will open just fine in the default browser and is needed and lets me know if my default browser is properly defined and working. [right click on the above link, choose Launchy then choose Open Link in Windows Explorer *1]
- Open a link to a local directory such as file:///c:/temp/ in Firefox, then right-click on white space (non link) then from Launchy bring up Windows Explorer. [left-click to open link, then right click within the browser's directory view to bring up launchy then Open in Windows Explorer *1]
The additional entry for Windows Explorer is needed to open said directory with Windows Explorer from within HTML.- Don't open the link from the browser but use the Launchy context menu to open the link to a local directory such as file:///c:/temp/ [right click on the above link and choose Open link in Windows Explorer *1 or from the Launchy default Browse link in Explorer.
In the case of Open Link there actually is no need for the additional XLM definition, though I personally like it as a choice with the browsers even if duplicated.- A link to a .jpg file such as ../icons/ff_launchy_irfanview.jpg opens according to it's file type and lets me know that it is properly defined and working, and more to the point lets me bring it up in it's intended application without additional definitions for launchy. [right click on the above link, choose Launchy then choose View Image in IrfanView]
- Place cursor anywhere but a picture or a link on this page, using Launchy this page should reopen this page in the default browser. [right click on the above link and choose Open in Windows Explorer *1]
Don't worry too much about the type, you will see how they group from the above examples. Within their group the items are alphabetical.
To help create a Launchy entry use file search to find the directory, if you have a problem it could be you have more than one, or you can't simply use something like frontpg.exe as you could from the Run program dialog.
If you have installed Irfanview (and have .jpg defaulting to IrfanView) you can read the Exif Data information recorded by digital cameras or photo retouching by right-clicking on the picture, choose Launchy, then Irfanview, use shortcut character “I” to see picture information. [notes on Irfanview]
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|| that’s all (´(´), ’(’),
and as arial -- that’s all (´(´), ’(’) ) ||
¥
z
Q
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Any changes that you make to the fonts, apply only to your own system, the main purpose here is so that you can see pages the same in Firefox as seen in Internet Explorer. I did include a barcode font described on my Mail Merge page (Excel & MS Word) just to show that any fonts you added to your Windows system can also be made available in Firefox.Writing your own HTML then you should be using HTML escapes or Unicode characters, though you may not find a substitute for everything even in Unicode. For more information on symbols used in HTML see my Symbols page.
I just wanted to be able to include some symbols regardless of the browser. On my search page are some symbols at the top which are fine in Internet Explorer but no good in Firefox. I have included some JavaScript on the search page to spell out some of the material that would otherwise be completely ambiguous. Can't use UDF-8 either for the webpage because that would mess up Internet Explorer. An attempt to use images proved unwieldy. Found the solution though in adding the fonts to Firefox as follows:
This customization, if wanted, usually has to be redone after each upgrade to Firefox. [Windows fonts]
To Make Webdings and Wingdings available ♦ make the following changes:
#-- Free 3 of 9 barcode available from Matthew Welch http://www.squaregear.net/fonts/
#-- fixing by hand -- Enabling Symbol font for Mozilla on Windows
#-- http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/Wfonts.html
#-- file:///c:/program files/Mozilla Firefox/res/fonts/fontEncoding.properties
# Symbol font
#encoding.symbol.ttf = Adobe-Symbol-Encoding
encoding.free3of9.ttf = windows-1252
encoding.symbol.ttf = windows-1252
encoding.wingdings.ttf = windows-1252
encoding.wingdings2.ttf = windows-1252
encoding.wingdings3.ttf = windows-1252
encoding.webdings.ttf = windows-1252
#For the changes above, use an editor (HTML-Kit) that will not make it CRLF, must be LF -- Do Not Use NOTEPAD.
Once completed you should be able to see: symbol(D delta), webdings(‡ skier‡), wingdings(( black phone, ♦ star, ¥ target, z point of interest, Q airplane), wingdings 2(' white phone, R check mark in a box, ù 3 stars), and wingdings 3(_ arrow) in Mozilla just like you; would see in Internet Explorer. If those are correct you should be able to see this Font Table on your PC system exactly as it appears in IE on your PC system.
#-- for Mozilla file is file:///c:/program files/Mozilla/res/fonts/fontEncoding.properties
#-- for Firefox portable file is #-- file:///F:/FirefoxPortable/App/firefox/res/fonts/fontEncoding.properties‡ In the example above the double dagger(‡) symbol ‡ has been substituted for Windows ‡ and still shows a skier in a successfully implemented webdings font.
Windows characters 130-159 (x'80'-x'8F') are considered invalid by W3C standards, though widely recognized and in use from the 1980's and now registered as the windows-1252 code page (Win-Latin1) at IANA [ref, ref.] and are described in The ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup document.
Short test for superscript/subscript, okay in firefox where x<sup>n<sub>i</sub></sup> renders correctly as xni, but IE6 displays as xni as if it was x<sup>n</sup><sub>i</sub> [Ref]
Not having an automatic tie in to Notepad for View Source, can be alleviated by any of the following:If you change your default editor, you can still view the source of a webpage from the location bar as follows: [ref(1), ref(2)]
- Configuration Changes to tie into Notepad with Ctrl+U
view_source.editor.external set to True
view_source.editor.path set to c:\winnt\notepad.exe [use \windows\ in Vista instead of \winnt\]
The above is now a documented Tip in Firefox Help: Tips & Tricks, “View page source using an external program”.
Note the above change will change your Edit,View (Ctrl+U) to Notepad as an editor, so you lose the nondestructive browser viewer.
You can still view source in the DOM with a keyword shortcut ("view-source:"): javascript:location = 'view-source:'+location
There is also a problem with view_source.editor.path in that "View Selection Source" on the Context Menu often fails.
Getting "unresponsive script errors" on context "view source" have increased dom.max_script_run_time in about:config from 10 to 15, but don't expect that to change anything. try extracting the notepad symbol at end of this page with view source selection. DOM is busted Fx2 also happens in safe-mode see ...
- Launchy, provides for notepad see notes (above) and in extension table (below). If not on your local drive Notepad brings up a temporary copy, which is easily identified at the title bar.
MenuX. provides Alt+X as a shortcut. MenuX has/causes too many problems so suggest not using MenuX.- Web Developer, provides default shortcut of Ctrl+Shift+` (accent grave) but you must specify the location of notepad (i.e. c:/winnt/notepad.exe or in Vista use c:/windows/notepad.exe), You can change the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+` to the easier to use Alt+X with the keyconfig extension. If not on your local drive Notepad brings up a temporary copy, which is easily identified at the title bar. I prefer the configuration change though, since I've found out about it (see first item using Ctrl+U).
- JSView Add-on, allows you to open the source code of any web page in a new tab or in an external editor. If the website you are viewing contains any external js/css files, an icon will appear that says "CSS", "JS", or both. Each individual file can then be viewed by clicking on the filename from various menus. (Haven't tried this ext because not really working with JavaScript, or CSS).
view-source:http://www.google.com/
default browser — it doesn't really matter.
Though Firefox is now my default browser, I had continued with IE as the default just in case it made a difference, as it does on the Microsoft update sites. Was perfectly happy that Firefox was invoked from links in Outlook Express which was all that really mattered to me – perhaps because Firefox was installed later.– You've normally decided which browser you want to use by selecting that icon from your Quick Launch or from the desktop, but Launchy provides the means to bring up any additional installed browser looking at the same page you have up from within Firefox.folder options, files types... and Windows Explorer, because I have added Explorer to the list of browsers within the launchy.xml , it is easy to remove the filename portion of a URL at the location bar to get to the directory listing (on your local drive, and some websites) then to use Launchy to invoke Explorer which since it is a directory brings up Explorer listing. Columns in the directory not normally seen in a default Windows directory have been included via View, Choose Columns. The Comments column is used by Excel. You might choose different or additional columns for other directories. Directions to make Firefox your default browser.
Name Size Type Modified Created Accessed Attrib. Comm. firefox.htm 194 KB HTM File 2006-05-24 09:53 PM 2004-08-09 10:45 AM 2006-05-26 12:00 AM A rightff.htm 69 KB HTM File 2006-05-26 06:45 AM 2004-08-11 11:03 PM 2006-05-26 12:00 AM A index.htm 3 KB HTM File 2004-11-02 98:56 AM 2004-08-16 11:42 AM 2006-05-26 12:00 AM A
Firefox Problems:
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| accessibility.browsewithcaret | default | boolean | false |
| accessibility.warn_on_browsewithcaret | default | boolean | true |
| accessibility.typeaheadfind | default | boolean | false |
F7 is a toggle for caret browsing, when it comes with the dialog you must reply with NO
concerning turning caret browsing on.
The fix for this problem is to eliminate the MenuX extension. Will be checking if problem recurs at all.
Tools, Options, Advanced, General, Accessibility:
[_] Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages (formerly: Allow text to be selected with the keyboard) [uncheck same as false for caret]
[x] Search for text when I start typing (formerly: Begin Finding when you begin typing) nice feature, hopefully not involved with problems
With caret browsing off, the blinking cursor {|} is off.
Bug 311376 – Occasionally ' or / keys start find bar even in textareas [slash, apostrophe, quote, FAYT]. Bypass: Uncheck the Search for text when I start typing (opposite of what was written above, [Nir 2007-06-21, also see Bug 311376#c40].
You can go for hours or weeks without further problems, but will still have problems later on even though you are careful to keep caret browsing off, so keep in mind
the other workaround about opening a new window (Ctrl+N) or if you
installed Duplicate Tab (Ctrl+Shift+N) would be better. In any case, if you
are one of those that has a problem, you will never be able to work when caret browsing is on. Another problem (feature) of caret browsing is that it changes
getting to end of a page from End key to Ctrl+End key.
The following additions to user.js should alleviate problem
caused by inadvertently hitting F7 which changes the setting. This
will reset when Firefox is restarted.
// Get SpaceBar, PageUp, PageDown to work properly if F7 hit accidentally
// see http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm#findproblem
user_pref("accessibility.browsewithcaret", false);
user_pref("accessibility.warn_on_browsewithcaret", true);
Problems in starting Firefox – problems cont'd (#willnotstartup)
If Firefox will not start, first check to see if FIREFOX.EXE is already running by checking your running tasks — ctrl+alt+del, Task Manager, Processes. If it is already running then terminate that task and try again, this usually gets you back.Had a rather serious problem in that Firefox would come up in the running tasks (Ctrl+Alt+Del) but not in the running Application (tab) and terminating and restarting did not work. Had to backup my profile (2005-03-19), uninstall Firefox from the file folder (not found in uninstall programs), and delete all it's files and then a complete reinstall of Firefox 1.0.1 (and 1.0.2 was coming out the next week is now available). Probably somewhat of a symptom the firefox that would not start had a zero size XUL.mfl
http://techpatterns.com/forums/about372.htm (which is not a Firefox forum), and in
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser_will_not_start_up#How_to_Make_Firefox_Start
Though safe mode did not help, I did have to delete and recreate a profile, after reinstalling Firefox. Safe mode allows you to disable or uninstall extensions without invoking any extensions -- for Windows the command would be:
"C:\program files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -safe-mode
firefox.exe -profilemanagerSome other things you can do with Start Run or System shortcuts:
firefox.exe -new-window about:blankfirefox.exe -new-window <url>
see http://kb.mozillazine.org/About_protocol_links (about:config, about:cache,...)see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments
#List_of_command_line_arguments_.28incomplete.29Some Quick Launch suggestions for Windows users
Restoring some specific profile files, after reinstalling Firefox after complete removal.
Files I restored from my thumbdrive backup so far were: bookmarks.htm, cookies.txt, chrome/userChrome.css, chrome/userContent.css, and chrome/launchy.xml which put me in good shape for my options, and menus, then simply reinstalled the extensions that I really needed. Was a lot more conservative about what I really need as you can see to the right (I had a slow memory impaired computer, much better after upgrading from 128MB RAM to 512MB RAM since then). With limited RAM the important ones are: Adblock, Context Highlight, Copy URL+, Drag to Tab (builtin), Launchy, InfoLister (better than Listzilla), Sort Bookmarks, and Web Developer.The good news is that I don't seem to have the extra Mozilla Firefox window without customizations opening along with the Firefox window when I open Firefox.
Related Material: Gripes about Firefox web browser (computergripes.com)Alternate browsers
There is no excuse for being shut out from the internet when your favorite browser fails at a critical moment, you should always have a couple of other browsers installed and available to fall back on to check connectivity and to search for a resolution of problems.
Don't know where this came from, but when I hover over an image this shows up, and it is annoying, covers up text, and even worse often gets stuck and won't go away. Seems to match description of various “floating image toolbar” extensions -- but I have no such extension installed that I know of. In fact the comments on one such extensions say it is annoying. Incidentally properties on the context menu provides additional information: size on disk (if not local), and alternate text – to this annoyance is absolutely worthless. Finally resolved: turn off option in MenuX -- Display tips for tools/images -- now back to displaying titles only in a small strip for images (not alt).
image url: http://www.google.com/imageslogo_sm.gif
link url: http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en
width: 150px
height: 55px
Another annoyance is when a Firefox window opens too small, not only is it hard to find, but it is hard to resize with the cursor unless you remember to use Alt+SpaceBar first to move or resize a window.
Initial comments concerning what I was going to do in Firefox 2.
- Move the cache out of the profile, does not belong in my backups. (finally done 2006-12-25). For users who started with Fx 1.5 or later the cache is not in the profile.
- I forced extensions to not check version compatibility and it appears that I've not lost any extensions, certainly none of my most used that I've tested. (see disabled).
Fx2 - about:config preferences (#fx2config)
How To Modify Hidden Preferences Using about:config, only if you don't know how.browser.tabs.closeButtons 3 (Display a single close button at the end of the tab strip -- Firefox 1.x behavior)
browser.tabs.tabMinWidth 10 (still only 24 tabs FULL width, to do better make changes to userChrome.css)
extensions.checkCompatibility False (read the article, can be risky), use False to continue to use old extensions
browser.urlbar.hideGoButton True (to remove "Go" button from Location bar)Fx2 - Sudden Connection Refused Messages (#firewall)
Common problem after a Firefox automatic update is a failure in being able to connect to the internet, caused by Firewall rejecting connection.
- Allow Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla Suite access to the Internet with your firewall [ http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firewalls]
- Error loading any website
Fx2 - menus (#fx2menus)
- Tools,Options, General is now Tools,Options,Main
- Tools, Extensions is now Tools, Add-Ons
- History (History) Menu replaces Go menu item, and interferes with Sage extension (Alt+S). Use Menu Editor extension to hide the useless History (Ctrl+H) button and get back wasted menu bar space.
Fx2 - Private Data (#fx2data)
- Updating to a new version of Firefox may involve big changes, so suggest clear the cache once in Fx2, even if you normally clear cache often.
- Privacy in Firefox Help: Options Window may cover all of this (have to check these out again)
- Clear Private Data In Firefox Browser For Windows, Scott Orgera, attempts to explain exactly what you would be clearing (Tools, Options, Privacy). You would normally choose not to clear your passwords, or cookies (Browser History, Down Load History, Saved Form information, cache, cookies, Saved Passwords, Authenticated Sessions).
- Erase history Firefox, more explanations of private data in Firefox.
- Firefox builtin Search Bar (best by far)
- Google Search Bar (unwise choice)
- Location Bar,
- Back & Forward,
- History (Go) Button,
- Distrust | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation, Hide surfing trails that the browser leaves behind. AKA Private Browsing.
Fx2 - Toolbars (#fx2toolbars)
- Get rid of Green Arrow (GO) to right of location bar.
browser.urlbar.hideGoButton set to True (default is False) [ref]- Can get rid of search button to right of the search bar. and the Go button to right of Location Bar (see userChrome changes on tabs.htm page).
- Use of Throbber to address additional home pages is available in an extension [background], the extension is better than the original lost feature.
- Mailbox button dropped from Firefox (use SeaMonkey) can be restored to Firefox as a toolbar button with the "Get mail" extension. The extension's author and several other authors have removed their extensions from AMO (moved to author's site). Read about additional AMO problems. The extension assignment remains reserved and the author can put his extension back on AMO or simply point to his own pages from AMO as several other extension author's have done.
- Problems with toolbars, or can't bring up Firefox 2.0 after upgrading from a previous version see deleting localstore.rdf;
- Problems with adding/deleting searchbar engines, delete or rename search.sqlite file
Fx2 - Bookmarks Bar (#bookmarksbar)
- Major problem: scroll bar on many tabs (caused by a forced Bookmarks Scrollbar extension) obscures 75% of tab names leaving only top 25% exposed. Only recourse is the nice new button at right of tab bar (left of right only tab close button); Allowing tabs to squeeze down real tight helps. Bug 358154. AND see solution in link.
Fx2 - Bookmarks (#fx2bookmarks)
- Bug 357922 - Bookmarks missing after installing Firefox 2
- Lost bookmarks - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
- Profile in use - MozillaZine Knowledge Base, parent lock, read-only, profile in use Bug 193749 - bookmarks and personal preferences are lost after system crash due to power failure, bookmarks and personal preferences are lost after system crash due to power failure
- Bookmarks and Keyword Shortcuts both onsite contain usage information.
Fx2 - Files (#fx2files)
- Important files in profile: bookmarks.htm, and passwords {signons.txt and key3.db, and from older versions of Firefox you might have <number>.s}
- Unimportant files that can be recreated: see localstore.rdf (toolbar layout)
Fx2 - Find and scrolling problems (#fx2find)
- See Problem with Find involving caret browsing.
Fx2 - Home Page differs (#fx2home) more info ►
Fx2 - localstore.rdf (#localstore)
Appears to be the most common problem in moving up to Fx2, but also common after updating Firefox or extensions.
- Rename localstore.rdf (effectively deleting it) seems to fix a lot of things. Firefox will recreate it. For me that simply meant hiding four toolbars and moving builtin searchbar back to the menu bar. Fixed keyconfig extension. Size reduced from 88KB to 6KB)
Deleting localstore.rdf will reset your customized toolbars, window positions and sizes, tree sort orders, and similar settings. A new file will be created on start up or when the application first needs to write to the file.
Before deleting localstore.rdf: Take a snapshot of your toolbars before doing this so you can quickly recustomize (View, Toolbars, Customize) by choosing small icons, and dragging items on/off/around toolbars.- symptoms seen: some extensions not updating, Firefox won't start, localstore.rdf of 80KB or more, When recreated it was 5KB expect you may start to have problems with slowing down when it gets back up to 20KB. I have 84 enabled extensions.
- Some additional files that can be deleted from profile (2007-02-26, Nir), also see Browser will not start up [KB], and the following may solve some "can't find file" errors but starts up slowing Delete sessionstore.js in the Profile_Folder and if you see multiple files sessionstore-##.js with a number in the name then delete them as well. [ref], also see Documentation of what is in profile or on Gemal's site.
- Additional references: Localstore.rdf, Corrupt localstore.rdf
Fx2 - Tabs Bar (#fx2tabsbar)
- Major annoyance: shiny metallic tab markings with center shading, harsh annoying and hard to read on laptop depending on angle even with my active tab color choices, was going blind with that garbage. Have since found the solution from a search for "flat tabs" or "classic tabs", see my Tabs Page.
- Change tab color, particularly the active tab in userChrome.css
- Tabs scroller was poorly done, you will have to live with it. If it's any consolation Opera's multiple rowed tabs bar is unusable (test at tabs.htm#multitabs_loadtest).
- See Fx2 - about:config preferences (above), also see Tabbed Browsing in Firefox (onsite) page.
- Put the close button back to far right of the tabs strip as in version 1 with Browser.tabs.closeButtons set to 3
rather than Fx2 default on each tab.
- More information on Tabbed browsing (onsite)
Fx2 - Extensions (#fx2ext)
- Tools, Extensions Replaced by Tools, Add-Ons
- This page (firefox.htm#ext) lists many extensions see Extensions Table below on this page.
Problem that was missed by 2.0.0.8 and will be fixed in next update:
Bug 396695 - Add-ons are disabled after updating. Users can fix this problem by opening their profile folder and removing three files (extensions.rdf, extensions.ini and extensions.cache) Actual bug title was "Add-ons go into 'needs to restart' loop commonly after a firefox update" [ref: regression-bugs-in-Firefox-2008]http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_install_ themes_or_extensions_-_Firefox#Corrupt_extension_files
Fx2 - Status Bar (#fx2statusbar)
- FIND bar is too high but must have min/max same or lose words behind. Make the min/max height constant in userChrome.css (see code)
#find-field-container {min-height:18px !important; max-height:18px !important;}Fx2 - Display (#fx2display)
- Displays only HTML code or gibberish (server configuration issue).
Fx2 - Fonts (#fx2fonts)
- Font changes was not working because I used Notepad instead of HTML-Kit to edit an "LF"-only file.
- Website colors are wrong - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
Fx2 - Images (#fx2images)
- permissions.default.image. set to 1 to load all images, prior to Firefox 1.5 was known as permissions.default.image. and prior to Firefox 2.0 was network.image.imageBehavior and had additional options in the Tools,Options,Content tab. Also could get accidentally disabled at: Tools, Web Developer, images, disable images,
[_] external images -- more comments- The option for "Shrink to fit" has been removed in Firefox 2. If you wish to change this from the value you had set in your previous version of Firefox, change the value of browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing the default is True.
- Images or animations do not load - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
- Object has been blocked - MozillaZine Knowledge Base, Zone Alarm
- Zone Alarm problems with Firefox and startup, images, etc. Remove Firefox from ZA then let ZA find the new Firefox application. Also see specific to Map Quest and ZA
Videos won't play (#fx2videos)
- Windows Media Player - MozillaZine Knowledge Base (.WMP), In some cases the plug-in files may be missing, however, and Windows Vista installations do not include the WMP plug-in files.
Problem sites (#fx2sites)
Link Checks, check how items are opened for some of the sites listed here.See additional comments just below the following list.
- Yahoo Email Beta wants to change context menu (it is an unsafe practice to allow sites to change), to allow the change Tools, Options, Content, [x] Enable Java, [Advanced], [x] Allow Scripts to Disable or Replace context menus [2007-04-01]. If works only by disabling Adblock see user error with filter (preferences). Sorry, Yahoo! Mail Beta does not support your browser (dead-link). Latest things on Yahoo mail Yahoo Blog. Yahoo Mail, also see Crash using Yahoo Messenger
Popups allowed: geocities.yahoo.com
You may have to remove all cookies for Yahoo, and turn off JavaScript then choose "classic" or old once in Yahoo, after you have created new cookies, you should be able to use Yahoo and Firefox in the normal manner with JavaScript enabled. You should allow cookies in Yahoo or you will probably have the same problem again later.- Yahoo login, if using Redirect Remover use "add defaults" in the extensions Options to include as an exception http://*.rd.yahoo.*/my/login/drawbridge/signin/
- Google Advanced Search in Fx 2.0.0.4 -- remove Butler from GreaseMonkey scripts (2007-06-01)
Popups allowed: googgle.com, google.ca, groups-beta.google.com, groups.google.com- Hotmail, can't print second page, see Bug 154892 - Splitting Absolutely positioned frames not implemented - Missing second page of content when printing or print previewing this site.
Popups allowed: by4fd.bay4.hotmail.msn.com, by107fd.bay107.hotmail.msn.com, by101fd.bay101.hotmail.msn.com, accountservices.msn.com, accountservices.passport.net- Hotmail and problems with many sites, screen turns white and redirection problems. Will pursue as as cookie problem must use classic (2008-01-31 for about 3 weeks on 2.0.0.11). Google search: "Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete" 2.0.0.11 hotmail
Removed a lot of extensions without success
Solution appears to have been deleting all hotmail.com, live.com,msn.com cookies and allowing same. Immediately after can access hotmail (though very slow) and generated cookies for h.live.com, p.live.com, login.live.com, mail.live.com
Google, addons.mozilla.org, and cookies dialog are also still slow on 2.0.0.11- YouTube, not a problem but it did ask to download/install Flash Player and had been having provlems elsewhere with some movies so maybe things will be better now in 2.0.0.12.
- gmail Can't see email in Firefox 2.0.0.5 nor in Opera (can see in IE) – solved: At the bottom click on "Basic HTML" instead of "standard..." (Grant 2007-07-22); tips/tricks for Gmail: gmail Auto Bcc, Using GMail as an Online Hard Drive
Additional comments concerning use of popups, cookies, passwords all sites:
Many sites require JavaScript and under Advanced the only item I allow is for scripts to raise or lower windows.pop-ups while I do have exceptions (tools, options, contents; exceptions) for when pop-ups are turned off, I generally do not suppress pop-ups, but do rely on other means of controlling unwanted urls including the Adblock extension, and hosts file.
Put another way, any site that serves third party ads in images or pop-ups is unlikely to have your interests at heart and makes a mockery of any privacy policy statement they show on their site. Unfortunately there are far too many such sites to block third party images.
If you have "Redirect Remover" (RDR) extension you will have to make some exceptions, and it is easily enabled/disabled at the status bar. The "Adblock" and "GreaseMonkey" extensions are easily enabled/disabled at the status bar without affecting your entire session by going through tools, addons.
Concerning sites requiring passwords to view material, avoid them if you can. Less than 1% of the sites cause a lot of problems. Unless they hold your money or confidential material, there really isn't much need for most of them, nor for you to use such sites. Be sure to use unique passwords. See private data.
Long time to download (#slow) Pipelining may slow down some sites such that they never appear to download or take a long time to download. A common site that is mentioned is filehippo.com, which was slower but did load; whereas, acdsee.com simply took forever, and was not improved with pipelining off (nefarious site, after it loads, it redownloads, privacy policy also is slow).
Content in Firefox window bounces (#bounces)
Window shakes (Mozillazine KB), Content within Firefox window bounces, jitters, dances, dancing\ due to lack of bookmarks, bookmarks toolbar, or bad theme. (2006-12-26)Calling Out (#callout)
Connections established on startup - Firefox - MozillaZine Knowledge Base, SSL, Live Bookmarks, updates, home page, phishing sites, prefetch linksScript Busy (#scriptbusy)
Something to test after adding/enabling an Extension: Ctrl+A (select all) followed by right-click to bring up context menu. Big problem if instead of context menu you get "A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete [Stop Script] [Continue]". These extensions are a problem: and have been disabled/uninstalled: Line Marker (200607), Quick Sum (0.1), Translate (0.6.0.9), gTranslate (0.3.1). Also as you approach Firefox 2.0.0.12 some extensions that get (not responding) and similar errors.About (#about)
- You can type any of the following onto the location bar for more information about your Firefox:
about:config, about:plugins, about:buildconfig, about:cache, about:, about:credits, about:license, about:mozilla- About protocol links - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
- InfoLister extension, adds about:info, a listing of your extensions, themes, and plug-ins.
- My own infolister listing can be seen here, and my user.js, prefs.js, userChrome.css, and userContent.css can be seen as text file content.
Main References [bookmark with a keyword shortcut to documentation] (#mainreferences)
- About:config entries - MozillaZine Knowledge Base, about:config is a list of preferences that you can change. Several of the references above are listed in this document and expanded elsewhere. [aboutconfig:]
- Firefox Help: Tips & Tricks [FFTIPS:]
- Firefox Menus [ffmenus] ♦
- Firefox - MozillaZine Knowledge Base, Issues and FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) ♦
- Firefox Help: Options Window, has been replaced by this dummied down comic book style (SUMO) reference without tabs options, pick your version of Firefox at the top of the article.
- Options_window [Tabs options] ♦, descriptions for Tools, Options usage [toolsoptions:] link directly to the tabs part, this document is intact despite conversion of appearance (was always on Mozilla.org).
- Mozilla HELP, Tutorials (this page no longer very helpful)
- Profile directory shortcut [profile:] , Profile folder [profilefolder:], Files in Profile (gemal), Migrating settings to a new profile
Also see Major Problems topic near end of this web page.
Research Problems (#research)
The following keyword shortcut can help you find knowledge base articles with solutions to practically every problem you may encounter in Firefox.Install as a bookmark: ( -intitle:talk eliminates docmentation discussions)
Title: :: Mozilla KB search (or KB_: Mozilla KB search) Keyword: :: (or KB:, or KB_:) Location: http://www.google.com/search?num=100 &q=site%3Akb.mozillazine.org+-intitle%3Atalk+%S
Many things can be customized by creating and maintaining userChrome, userContent, or user.js to solve (or possibly create) problems. Read more about Customizing MozillaFind your profile (#profile)
Important !!! Material on hidden files and on finding your profile has been moved to Finding Profile, and Assigning a "profile:" keyword shortcut, and a "chrome:" keyword shortcut.Create a Windows shortcut as well for your profile directory (#quicklaunch)
Important !!! material on “QuickLaunch additions for Firefox Usage on Windows” has been moved to another page.Continued
You can check customizations by typing about:config (also) on the location bar.
Specific Customizations (also see Firefox notes, above, and see Firefox 1.0 Rediscover the Web)
You can copy the following files example-user.js, example-userChrome.css, example-userContent.css and drop the “example-” from the file names.
c:\program files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile\chrome <-copy fromread about in: Firefox Help: Editing Configuration Files (David Tenser), also see Flii's Tips [--brokenlinks--][ archived versions of Flii's Tips phoenix and firebird are now Firefox]
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\NOP.Default\US\chrome
- user.js (#userjs) are your changes and overrides pref.js which is recreated each time. See http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips.html#beh_icons for examples (Tips and Tricks) ♦ of what you can control. user.js is in your profile directory and you have to create it yourself before adding to it.
-- disable the display of bookmark icons and "favicons" (I want them, but some people don't)- Disable blink -- user.js -- Firefox Help: Tips & Tricks
- Enable pipelining (experimental) -- user -- Tips & Tricks, formerly Texturizer.nst, David Tenser ♦
- Make all pop-up windows conform -- user gracefool {broken}
- userChrome.css, restyling the browser's UI, such as buttons and toolbars and menus (elements)
- userContent.css, restyling web pages the browser displays (style)
- Examples of my own configuration files (user.js, userChrome.css, userContent.css) can be found in my code portion of website as text (.txt) files.
- The ADBLOCK project is a major extension of Firefox that everyone (does or should) automatically install so you don't have to do the extra work. But the information in the following may still be of interest in how it and how other things in Firefox work. (use the ADBLOCK extension instead of:
Eliminate 3rd party advertisements -- userContent.css
floppymoose.com, Joe Francis, but other have some embellishments that may be of interest as well:
Firefox help: Blocking Advertisement, Neil Jenkins
gozer.org: Mozilla: Ad Blocking [brokenlink try searching], Mike Hokenson- Customizing Mozilla (mozilla.org), hints about some of the less well documented features in Mozilla which can be customized to suit the user's preference.
- Disable marquee tag -- userContent.css -- Firefox Help: Tips & Tricks ♦
also Change cursor for links that open in new window, Change cursor for JavaScript linksSandbox for link types mouseovers: (mouseover on a link normally shows hand cursor -- exceptions noted below, prefs)
Normal Link, With Target="_New" (red background, cross hair cursor), With Target="_Blank" (red background, cross hair cursor), Email link (example), Redirect to false link (pink background), script (double arrow cursor),
While looking for examples ran across an unrelated site concerning links, and form buttons with rounded corners (Nifty Corners), this one seems to more than the usual examples.
Some things than can be seen and/or documented(printed to a file).Some things to keep watching:
- about:config settings (documentation)
- Don't know of any means of exporting (/printing) a filtered listing
- Adblock
- can be exported and imported as text files
- Bookmarks, is bookmarks.html in your profile, can be imported/exported from Manage Bookmarks (Ctrl+B)
- (see bookmarks page. — would like means of stripping out icons for documentation usage)
- Extensions (list with InfoLister Extension)
- Can create text or HTML file, Mine can be found here (InfoLister_Listing) as an HTML file and used my own template.
- Keyboard shortcuts (personal)
- See the Keyconfig extension (don't know about printing)
- Keyword shortcuts
- Enhanced Bookmark Search (EBS), and Keyword Bar specifically to view keyword shortcuts, also see my documentation on Keyword shortcuts (don't know about printing)
- userChrome.css, userContent, and user.js in chrome, chrome, profile
- these are text files and can be seen/printed (may be in Linux form "LF"-format )
- philwilson.org: How to export Firefox's history to a text file,
http://philwilson.org/blog/2005/01/how-to-export-firefoxs-history-to-text.html- philwilson.org: How to export Firefox's history to a text file
- Mozilla2:Unified Storage - MozillaWiki
What are extensions (#what)
Extensions (documentation): are small add-ons that add new functionality. They can add anything from a toolbar button to a completely new feature.Customizing your Firefox with add-ons, some documentation with loads of pictures for novice users, currently in initial development by Mozilla Support Planning.
Where to get extensions (#where)
Firefox Extensions (addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions), approx89433 extensions listed for Windows, this is the ultimate destination after being tested for fitness. The “More Information” and “Home Page” links normally link to a group page like extension.mozdev.org or to the extension author's own page(s). Has Popular and newest categories.compatible: Whether you look at all of the extensions (1848 Window extensions) or from a search you probably want to look at 100 at a time. On the Extensions page there is a search form, use the form for any search then on the results page there is a "Show Options" to the right of the search form which can be used to specify your own defaults for a search, which you can use to create a search engine...
Create an engine for the searchbar to search for the Extensions by right clicking within the search form (with all default options). In order to accomplish this you will need to install the Add to Search Bar extension.Extension Room (extensionroom.mozdev.org. approx. 225 entries (before Firefox 1.5), where authors provide their approved submissions. Currently shows 120 extensions but not that are shown are available in Firefox 1.5. You can see them there all at once. Topics on the mozdev.org sidebar include: Active Projects, External Projects, Project Categories
The latest versions are often on the author's own web pages: particularly when a new version of Firefox comes out. The authors websites, if available, have been included in the table below.
Install this as a keyword shortcut: ext: search extensions -- addons extensionroom add the ext: shortcut to the properties.
If you can't find a Firefox extension, you might still find a bookmarklet or favelet
bmk: search bookmarklet OR favelet add the bmk: shortcut to the propertiesIf you want to double-check for additional extensions after you have installed extension first from mozilla.org then mozdev.org you might recheck by looking at active projects at mozdev.org, which can be sorted by name or by date. You can also look at the FAQ and other topics from the left side frame for some orientation on projects and extensions from the developers (code writers) perspective.
The table of installed extensions on the right can be created by Listzilla or Infolister►. Descriptions (Title=) can be seen if you hover over the links. The Listzilla listing is not automatically updated; however, an up to date listing of my actual extensions in use can be found in my /Infolister/ Ext. listing, which is included whenever my site is updated..
Late modifications: Just because I disable or eliminate an extension does not mean it was a bad extension. I have very limited RAM memory and too much page swapping, if an extension has lots of features takes a lot of overhead and I only want one feature, it will probably get removed, and may be reinstalled on a bigger machine. removals: Clone Window, Compact Menu, and googlebar (there is a much better one builtin to Firefox). Retaining for now: keeping (/these) for awhile: EditCSS (keeping even though it is in the Developer).
Some ideas of what others feel are important for extensions. May check these again from time to time, but I've installed those I really need, and avoid those that might be somewhat nice but are large. Of 54 currently enabled extension, only 14 of those are over 34KB installation size.
- aplus » My Firefox setup, but I think they are all available in the Extension Room (Mozilla.org)
Installing an Extension (#install_ext)
To allow software to be installed you must have: Tools, options, Web Features (left side in earlier versions) or Content (top) in Firefox 1.5, [x] allow websites to install software. (I think there may be no more need to turn off this option as Firefox 1.0 and later will check that the file extension or download is from “trusted sites” that you can change on the link inserted when you get a conflict and refusal to install.
To protect your computer, Firefox prevented this site (xxxxxxxx.com) from installing software on your computer. The first time you attempt to install an Extension from a site you will get the above warning, to proceed, click on the Edit Option, then inside on Allow, then reselect the extension to be installed, and it should then install. Do not install an extension you are suspicious of, most extensions you will ever use are from the one of the four locations listed earlier.
If you have trouble installing your chosen extensions then read more detailed Mozilla Firefox Extensions installation as described in “An introduction to Mozilla Firefox, part 4”.For URIID at mozdev.org, I had to install the downloaded file by opening c:\download_win2000\uriid.xpi on the Firefox location bar as it would not install by simply clicking on the link.
I specifically will not install the Google Toolbar (extension) as the builtin searchbar is much better and is Customizable. A Race to the Bottom - Privacy Ranking of Internet Service Companies places Google at the bottom of the ranking. (letter to Google on Data Protection Policy (not the worst on openess)
Below is a list of Firefox Extensions I have installed and still use most of them. Most of these extensions are invoked from the Context Menu, see Firefox Right Click menus for the original builtin Firefox Context menus plus some of the additional menus items added by my own selection of Firefox Extensions. Some extensions are installed in the tools menu, and some have optional toolbar buttons.
Multiple profiles: is one way of essentially turning off all extensions so you can test w/o or with only one extension – Firefox Help: How To Manage Profiles, Multiple profiles and profile management is an advanced feature, mainly intended for developers. Unless you are an extension developer or an advanced user, you should probably not be trying to use multiple profiles.
Many of the extensions have additional customizable options, all have disable/enable, more information (about ...), and update, which you can see by right clicking on the extension as found in the listing found with Tools, Addons or on the Find Updates button at the bottom of the Extensions list.
Extensions can be invoked in many different ways so I have tried to identify where you invoke them from, such as from the right-click (context menu), Tools menu, Edit menu, View menu, and even the History menu(
Go menu). Options are usually set in the Extension list (Tools, Addons, select ext, options), but some are in the menus just mentioned.List of Extensions in use (#ext) * * * * * * * *
Problems at http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox Late March 2007 -- Mozilla IT: Continued AMO testing & debugging also see and Mozilla Webdev » Blog Archive » Reviewing, the Sandbox, and “missing” add-ons and Sandbox Review System and Policy progression to pubic area from sandbox. [thread 2007-03-25]Although all addons presumably were restored at addons on 2007-03-26 that is not actually the case so if still missing you can load from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/extensions
If you have an extension installed you can find what the author supplied as homepage via Tools, Addons, and right click on the addon.
Addons_2007 New Format has MAJOR Problems, and in my opinion does not belong in production.
Extensions List ♦ 130 or more Extensions (over 80 currently in use)
indicates NEW to this list of extensions, and contains the date added to this list.
► indicates additional information (Requires JavaScript to be enabled for expansion to occur [try here])
conflict, abbreviation note may be used for definitions or comments (green wavy underbar may not be visible next to a border or underline).If you use Sea Monkey instead of Firefox, you might want to check for interactions with Sea Monkey.
(italics in Extension column usually means I'm not currently using it) — Where size is mentioned it is the download size (zipped file), if not shown at site may be obtained by Extended Link Properties extension, or approximated by dividing installed size by 3.
A complete Listing of Extensions actually in use, is created automatically by the “Infolister” extension each time Firefox is started and copied to website during website updates.This table is http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm#ext_table with brief descriptions and usage notes, including how to invoke once installed, also see http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/infolister_listing.htm#extensionsExtension (#ext) version Author Description Important information about addons.mozilla.org ► Aardvark 2.0
(21KB)Bob Brown Allows cleaning up a page prior to printing it Once you've read the options on the webpage, this is probably the best extension for viewing, examining a section, or printing a difficult to isolate selection of a page. Select text, right click, start Aardvark, W for Wider (several times), I for isolate, or R for remove, F5 to reset. Test this [2]. Uninstall pre 2.0 then install 2.0., did not detect Dec 16, 2006 update. About Site ♦
(disabled)1.5 (11KB) Gina Trapani [1] [2] one-click access to various services that provide information about the site generating a url based on domain/page/selection you are viewing, also has a show all. [Context] Nice to see the improvements since domain only (0.4 pre Feb 28, 2007). Should add Links to this page, and change the archive.org "/*/" to "/*dc_*/" to facilitate comparison. Can all be done with keyword shortcuts but this extension simplifies things for casual users and keeps them in one place. (builtin Keyword shortcuts work fine for me.) Accessibility
(uninstalled)
(dead-link)0.99.1.2283 (Ill.,
/Urbana)beta has scripting errors, but is interesting. Don't need two big menu items added to menus (one menu item of 3 chars would be acceptable) [uninstalled will check again in April 2006] announcements [menus][ toolbar]Adblock ♦ 0.5.3.043
(78KB)The
Adblock
Crew (34)Filters ads from web-pages -- definitely wanted. Sometimes you can get carried away and block too much, in which case you can use Tools, Adblock, Preferences (Ctrl+Shift+P), to override temporarily or to remove items. Refer to the Adblock homepage. Adblock Some suggested additions. [Statusbar][Tools][Options] Ads can be actually blocked rather than just hidden [option Remove ads]. Suppressing ads is a builtin feature of Opera, if that is your main concern. [additional notes] {other extenions: Many are now installing Adblock Plus (a whooping 215KB). An important feature of Adblock is the list of all blockable items, those that are blocked are in red, and will show the rule that blocks it, very important in maintaining your own filters. Add Bookmark Here ² 3.0.20080322
(28KB)(author) Add a menuitem "Add Bookmark Here..." to Bookmarks... Must be done from within a bookmarks folder. (related OpenBook) Addictive Typing Lessons 2.0 (57KB) Tom Kennedy Learn touch typing, or improve your typing. [options] [Menu|tool|task bars]
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